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Recent reports from Huntington Beach SP

Only the most recent report per species is shown. Some reports may be pending verification.

September 7

4Mourning Dove
2Chimney Swift
3Ruby-throated Hummingbird
8Common Gallinule
10Least Sandpiper
3Laughing Gull
1Black Skimmer
2Caspian Tern
1Wood Stork
1Anhinga
2Black-crowned Night Heron
5Little Blue Heron
1Tricolored Heron
4Snowy Egret
1Great Blue Heron
2Turkey Vulture
3Osprey
1Red-tailed Hawk
2Belted Kingfisher
1Red-headed Woodpecker
4Red-bellied Woodpecker
7Downy Woodpecker
1Great Crested Flycatcher
1Eastern Kingbird
2White-eyed Vireo
1Red-eyed Vireo
1Blue Jay
6American Crow
9Carolina Chickadee
6Tufted Titmouse
2Tree Swallow
4Barn Swallow
3White-breasted Nuthatch
3Brown-headed Nuthatch
7Carolina Wren
3Northern Mockingbird
5Red-winged Blackbird
1Black-and-white Warbler
3Northern Yellow Warbler
5Pine Warbler
1Prairie Warbler
1Summer Tanager
8Northern Cardinal
1Chuck-will's-widow
2Clapper Rail
2American Coot
4Willet
2Sanderling
4Ring-billed Gull
1Forster's Tern
2Pied-billed Grebe
4White Ibis
2Brown Pelican
2Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
4Gray Catbird
2House Finch
1Seaside Sparrow
2Common Grackle
2Painted Bunting

September 6

2Semipalmated Plover
2Short-billed Dowitcher
1Spotted Sandpiper
1Double-crested Cormorant
2Great Egret
1Chipping Sparrow
1Common Nighthawk
1Royal Tern
1Green Heron
2Pileated Woodpecker
1Fish Crow
1Cape May Warbler
2Black-bellied Plover
2Wilson's Plover
1Lesser Yellowlegs
2Semipalmated Sandpiper
4American Herring Gull
1Black Vulture
1Broad-winged Hawk
1Peregrine Falcon
4European Starling
1Yellow-throated Warbler
10Little Egret
1Bald Eagle
1Brown Thrasher

September 5

2Stilt Sandpiper
1Orchard Oriole
1Boat-tailed Grackle
2Palm Warbler
3American Oystercatcher
1Ruddy Turnstone
1Western Sandpiper
1Yellow-crowned Night Heron
1Cooper's Hawk
3Eastern Bluebird
1Eastern Towhee
1Indigo Bunting
1Northern Parula
8Killdeer
1Solitary Sandpiper
2Least Tern
1Least Flycatcher
2Yellow-throated Vireo
1Bobolink
1Blue-winged Warbler
1American Redstart

September 4

1Common Yellowthroat
1Blue Grosbeak
1Mississippi Kite
1Red-shouldered Hawk
7Canada Goose
3Brown-headed Cowbird

September 3

1Least Bittern
1Sandwich Tern
1Northern Waterthrush
1Reddish Egret
2American Robin
1Hooded Warbler

September 2

4Common Tern
1Barred Owl
1Eurasian Collared-Dove
2Piping Plover
1Great Horned Owl
2Northern Flicker
3Purple Martin
1Greater Yellowlegs

September 1

1Marbled Godwit
1Prothonotary Warbler

August 31

1Great Black-backed Gull
2Gull-billed Tern