Date: 01/01/2016

Number: 12000

The fourth largest California overwintering site in 2015
This wintering site is known as Lighthouse Field, Santa Cruz. 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: 4,000
November, 2011: 18,100
November, 2012: 3,200
November, 2013: 4,500
November, 2014: 7,000
November, 2015: 12,000

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.

Santa Cruz, CA

Latitude: 37.1 Longitude: -122.2

Observed by:
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