Date: 01/01/2017

Number: 1

The largest California overwintering site in 2016

This wintering site is known as Private Property near Big Sur. It was one of 6 sites that had more than 10,000 monarchs during the annual Thanksgiving Count in November, 2016.

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
November, 2015: 5,202
November, 2016: 39,753

Summary of 2016 Thanksgiving Count data:
Total reported: 298,464 monarchs
Total counts: 253 sites
Average: 1,197.7 monarchs

Western Monarch Thanksgiving Count Data from 1997–2016. Monroe, M., E. Pelton, S. McKnight, C. Fallon, D. Frey, and S. Stevens. 2017.

Big Sur, CA

Latitude: 36.2 Longitude: -121.6

Observed by:
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