Date: 01/01/2015

Number: 32914

The largest California overwintering site in 2014

This wintering site is known as Private Property near Big Sur. It was one of 4 sites that had more than 10,000 monarchs during the annual Thanksgiving Count in November, 2014.

This site's Thanksgiving Count data:

November, 2010: 2,076

November, 2011: 9,821

November, 2012: 15,671

November, 2013: 21,329

November, 2014: 32,914

Summary of 2014 Thanksgiving Count data:
Total reported: 234,731 monarchs

Total counts: 185 sites

Average: 1,268.8 monarchs

Data collected by volunteers for the 2014 The Xerces Society Western Monarch Thanksgiving Counts. Database created by Dennis Frey (Cal Poly), Shawna Stevens (Cal Poly), and Mia Monroe (Muir Woods NPS)

Big Sur, CA

Latitude: 36.2 Longitude: -121.6

Observed by:
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