Date: 01/01/2018

Number: 10099

The fifth largest California overwintering site in 2017
This wintering site is known as Santa Anita Creek, Santa Barbara. It was one of 5 sites that had more than 10,000 monarchs during the annual Thanksgiving Count in November, 2017.

This site's Thanksgiving Count data:
November, 2010:
November, 2011:
November, 2012:
November, 2013:
November, 2014:
November, 2015: 150
November, 2016: 4,865
November, 2017: 10,099

Summary of 2017 Thanksgiving Count data:
Total reported: 192,629 monarchs
Total counts: 262 sites
Average: 735.2 monarchs


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

Santa Barbara, CA

Latitude: 34.4 Longitude: -119.7

Observed by:
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