Colony Locations (Public)

This table contains publicly-accessible records of locations of tricolored blackbird colonies and aggregations. These may have occurred on either public or private property.

If you have not obtained rights of access to locations on private property, please view colonies from public (e.g., county) roads.

Fields provided are county, accepted name of location, whether the location is a known colony location, geographic coordinates, the confidence in the location coordinates, and the primary and secondary substrates types (the types of vegetation present).

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County Name Colonysort icon Latitude Longitude Location Confidence Primary Substrate Secondary Substrate
San Benito Paicines Reservoir No 36.720100 -121.279500 Certain
Los Angeles Cerritos Regional Park No 33.850090 -118.059780 Certain
Sacramento Angle Road No 38.310600 -121.212800 Certain cattails (Typha spp.)
San Benito Cienega Road No 36.714300 -121.277900 Certain mustard (Brassica spp.)
Merced Highway 152 at Highway 33 No 37.055950 -121.034010 Certain
Sacramento Pear Road Hatchery No 38.431300 -121.188300 Certain Himalayan blackberry (Rubus armeniacus) cattails (Typha spp.)
San Diego Rangeland Road No 33.042558 -116.944914 Certain mallow (Malva sp.)
San Luis Obispo Bitterwater Road No 35.564500 -120.116300 Certain
San Benito Panoche Road at Oliver Road No 36.608790 -120.914590 Certain
Sacramento Amador Avenue No 38.283130 -121.267570 Certain other (note in Comments)
Yuba Loma Rica Road No 39.270300 -121.486200 Certain other (note in Comments)
Merced Rockshar Dairy No 37.185245 -120.433030 Certain willows (Salix spp.) stinging nettle (Urtica dioica)
Yuba Erle Road at Bradshaw Road No 39.100270 -121.458670 Certain
San Benito Union Road No 36.840100 -121.457000 Certain
Butte North Table Mountain WA No 39.606570 -121.542480 Certain other (note in Comments)
Butte Cottonwood Road #2 No 39.553520 -121.618300 Certain other (note in Comments)
Merced Henry Miller Road No 37.106320 -120.789380 Certain other (note in Comments)
Placer Gladding Road No 38.981700 -121.293200 Certain
San Diego Dye Road #1 No Certain
Sacramento East of Sunrise No 38.503000 -121.244000 Certain other (note in Comments)
Siskiyou Lower Klamath NWR-Unit 11B/11C No 41.926720 -121.677940 Certain stinging nettle (Urtica dioica)
San Joaquin Coyote Creek at Elliot Road No 38.242290 -121.172000 Certain
Merced Flying M Dam No 37.377000 -120.275500 Certain other (note in Comments)
Sacramento Sheldon Road at Waterman Road #1 No 38.437800 -121.349600 Certain Himalayan blackberry (Rubus armeniacus)
San Benito Lonoak Road #2 No 36.289060 -120.986010 Certain
Kern Paine Preserve No 35.666700 -119.571400 Certain cattails (Typha spp.)
Kern Tehachapi #4 - Jacks Hole No 35.163601 -118.657997 Certain other (note in Comments)
Merced Butts Road No 37.157500 -121.067400 Certain
Sacramento Small Dairy on Arno Road near McKenzie Road No 38.320200 -121.314000 Certain other (note in Comments)
Santa Clara Highway 130 No 37.369730 -121.488470 Certain
Kings Lemoore NAS No 36.332380 -119.936500 Certain other (note in Comments)
Monterey Lonoak Road #1 No 36.244900 -121.027500 Certain other (note in Comments)
San Joaquin Clements Road at Comstock Road No 38.045580 -121.078000 Certain
Tehama Black Butte Road No 39.917880 -122.279160 Certain
Santa Barbara Mescalitan Island No 34.423000 -119.831000 Certain other (note in Comments)
Yuba Beale AFB-Doolittle Drive No 39.137500 -121.402400 Certain cattails (Typha spp.) willows (Salix spp.)
Butte 7 Mile Lane at Nelson Road No 39.547100 -121.910600 Certain
Yuba Upper Blackwelder Lake No 39.142376 -121.381459 Certain bulrush or tule (Schoenoplectus spp.) willows (Salix spp.)
Kern Red Lake Cattle Pond No 34.937289 -119.426563 Certain cattails (Typha spp.)
Stanislaus Sonora Road #2 No 37.873320 -120.802600 Certain other (note in Comments)
Los Angeles Munz Lake No 34.672700 -118.432600 Certain
Tulare Sierra Dairy No 0.000000 0.000000 Certain bull thistle (Cirsium vulgare)
Colusa Sacramento NWR-Pool 11.3 No 39.372800 -122.152450 Certain cattails (Typha spp.)
Kings Kings Canal No 36.374100 -119.887300 Certain
Tulare Homeland Canal and Avenue 120 No 36.007486 -119.469237 Certain
Merced Merced NWR: Dead Man Slough No 37.199900 -120.616600 Certain
Sacramento Kiefer Boulevard at Grant Line Road No 38.519310 -121.200030 Certain other (note in Comments)
Stanislaus 28 Mile Road No 37.860820 -120.828720 Certain other (note in Comments)
Butte Wilbur Road No 39.473400 -121.650200 Certain other (note in Comments)
Riverside San Jacinto WA: Davis Road No 33.866120 -117.121980 Certain cattails (Typha spp.)
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