Motacilla alba lugens

This White Wagtail, the third record for Santa Cruz Co., was found by Sharon Hull on November 14 at Corcoran Lagoon near the city of Santa Cruz. It was seen the next morning 35 miles north in San Mateo Co., then disappeared for a week. It was refound at Corcoran Lagoon on November 22, and remained in the Santa Cruz area until at least late January 2021, splitting its time between Corcoran Lagoon, the San Lorenzo River mouth, and Cowell Beach. It was identified by Alex Rinkert as the Black-backed subspecies, which breeds in southeast Russia to northern Korea and Japan, and normally winters from Myanmar to southeast China.