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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.

November 5

1Great Egret ✓
1Belted Kingfisher ✓
1Blue Jay ✓
2American Crow ✓
2Carolina Chickadee ✓
1Ruby-crowned Kinglet ✓
2Golden-crowned Kinglet ✓
1Carolina Wren ✓
2White-throated Sparrow ✓
1Swamp Sparrow ✓
16Yellow-rumped Warbler ✓
3Northern Cardinal ✓
2Clapper Rail ✓
5Laughing Gull ✓
3Wood Stork ✓
1Osprey ✓
1Bald Eagle ✓
1Downy Woodpecker ✓
2Tufted Titmouse ✓
1Northern House Wren ✓
6Eastern Bluebird ✓
6House Finch ✓
1American Goldfinch ✓
1Pine Warbler ✓
3Black-bellied Plover ✓
26Semipalmated Plover ✓
1Short-billed Dowitcher ✓
1Lesser Yellowlegs ✓
4Prairie Willet ✓
2Greater Yellowlegs ✓
37Dunlin ✓
1Western Sandpiper ✓
2Ring-billed Gull ✓
580Black Skimmer ✓
8Caspian Tern ✓
45Forster's Tern ✓
4Sandwich Tern ✓
3Royal Tern ✓
2Little Blue Heron ✓
2Tricolored Heron ✓
4Great Blue Heron ✓
14Brown Pelican ✓
1Sora ✓
2Pied-billed Grebe ✓
1Red-shouldered Hawk ✓
1Pileated Woodpecker ✓
1Eastern Phoebe ✓
1Gray Catbird ✓
17Common Grackle ✓
1Northern Mockingbird ✓
1Red-winged Blackbird ✓
3Double-crested Cormorant ✓
2Snowy Egret ✓
2Red-bellied Woodpecker ✓
1Hermit Thrush ✓
5Blue-winged Teal ✓
2Mourning Dove ✓
42Common Gallinule ✓
3American Coot ✓
1Killdeer ✓
1Roseate Spoonbill ✓
4Black-crowned Night Heron ✓
1Turkey Vulture ✓
1Yellow-bellied Sapsucker ✓
1Merlin ✓
11Tree Swallow ✓
1Northern Waterthrush
1Ruby-throated Hummingbird ✓
1Long-billed Dowitcher ✓
4American Herring Gull ✓
6White Ibis ✓
1Cooper's Hawk ✓
2Blue-headed Vireo ✓
1Brown Creeper ✓
1Sedge Wren ✓
2European Starling ✓
1American Pipit ✓
1Saltmarsh Sparrow ✓
1Rusty Blackbird ✓
1Common Yellowthroat ✓
1Red Knot ✓
1Northern Flicker ✓
1Brown Thrasher ✓

November 4

2Spotted Sandpiper ✓
4Sanderling ✓
1Least Sandpiper ✓
1Anhinga ✓
1White-eyed Vireo ✓
1White-crowned Sparrow ✓
1Nelson's Sparrow ✓
1Brown-headed Cowbird ✓
2American Redstart ✓
1Prairie Warbler ✓
1Winter Wren ✓
1Hooded Merganser ✓
1American Oystercatcher ✓
15Ruddy Turnstone ✓
1Black Vulture ✓
2Blue-gray Gnatcatcher ✓
1Field Sparrow ✓
1Seaside Sparrow ✓
1Savannah Sparrow ✓
1Black-and-white Warbler ✓
1American Robin ✓
1Song Sparrow ✓
3Brown-headed Nuthatch ✓
7Fish Crow ✓
17Boat-tailed Grackle ✓

November 3

1Great Horned Owl ✓
11Black Scoter ✓
5Northern Gannet ✓
1Eastern Towhee ✓
1Bonaparte's Gull ✓
2Loggerhead Shrike ✓
8Canada Goose ✓

November 2

1Black-throated Blue Warbler ✓
1Ruddy Duck ✓
1Lesser Black-backed Gull ✓
1Northern Harrier ✓
1Palm Warbler ✓
1Surf Scoter ✓
2Gadwall ✓
1Green Heron ✓

November 1

2Wild Turkey ✓
1Peregrine Falcon ✓
1Purple Finch ✓
1White-breasted Nuthatch ✓
1Chuck-will's-widow ✓
1Virginia Rail ✓
1Lesser Scaup ✓
2Great Black-backed Gull ✓
1Common Loon ✓
1Chipping Sparrow ✓

October 31

1Snow Goose ✓
1Hairy Woodpecker
10Green-winged Teal ✓
1Cape May Warbler ✓
2Painted Bunting ✓
2Eurasian Collared-Dove ✓
1Eastern Marsh Wren ✓
1Orange-crowned Warbler ✓
1Blackpoll Warbler ✓

October 30

1Red-tailed Hawk ✓
1Red-eyed Vireo ✓

October 29

1Bay-breasted Warbler ✓