Date: 01/01/2016

Number: 13492

The second largest California overwintering site in 2015
This wintering site is known as Morro Bay Golf Course, Morro Bay. It was one of 6 sites that had more than 10,000 monarchs during the annual Thanksgiving Count in November, 2015.

This site's Thanksgiving Count data:
November, 2010: 7,292
November, 2011: 9,494
November, 2012: 10,976
November, 2013: 16,244
November, 2014: 15,890
November, 2015: 13,492

Summary of 2015 Thanksgiving Count data:
Total reported: 271,924 monarchs
Total counts: 187 sites
Average: 1,454.1 monarchs

Data collected by volunteers for the 2015 Western Monarch Thanksgiving Counts. Database created by Dennis Frey (Cal Poly), Shawna Stevens (Cal Poly), Mia Monroe (Muir Woods NPS), Candace Fallon (The Xerces Society) and E.Pelton.

Morro Bay, CA

Latitude: 35.4 Longitude: -120.8

Observed by:
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