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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.

October 27

1Clapper Rail ✓
2Greater Yellowlegs ✓
2Ruddy Turnstone ✓
15Sanderling ✓
1Dunlin ✓
1Laughing Gull ✓
2Ring-billed Gull ✓
1American Herring Gull ✓
2Great Black-backed Gull ✓
2Caspian Tern ✓
4Forster's Tern ✓
1Common Tern ✓
4Sandwich Tern ✓
20Royal Tern ✓
17Wood Stork ✓
5Double-crested Cormorant ✓
4White Ibis ✓
1Roseate Spoonbill ✓
1Little Blue Heron ✓
8Snowy Egret ✓
5Great Egret ✓
2Great Blue Heron ✓
1Brown Pelican ✓
3Osprey ✓
1Eastern Screech-Owl ✓
2Belted Kingfisher ✓
4Red-bellied Woodpecker ✓
1Downy Woodpecker ✓
2Blue-headed Vireo ✓
3Blue Jay ✓
9Carolina Chickadee ✓
7Tufted Titmouse ✓
3Ruby-crowned Kinglet ✓
8Brown-headed Nuthatch ✓
2Carolina Wren ✓
1Brown Thrasher ✓
1Northern Mockingbird ✓
2White-throated Sparrow ✓
2Saltmarsh Sparrow ✓
1Black-and-white Warbler ✓
22Yellow-rumped Warbler ✓
1Prairie Warbler ✓
4Northern Cardinal ✓
2Mourning Dove ✓
8Semipalmated Plover ✓
3Pied-billed Grebe ✓
1Tricolored Heron ✓
2Black Vulture ✓
2Brown-headed Cowbird ✓
1Pine Warbler ✓
27Common Gallinule ✓
1American Coot ✓
1Killdeer ✓
3Black-crowned Night Heron ✓
1Turkey Vulture ✓
1Red-shouldered Hawk ✓
1Pileated Woodpecker ✓
2Eastern Phoebe ✓
3American Crow ✓
1Barn Swallow ✓
2Hermit Thrush ✓
6House Finch ✓
1Swamp Sparrow ✓
28Red-winged Blackbird ✓
1Least Sandpiper ✓
1Western Sandpiper ✓
1Gray Catbird ✓
1Song Sparrow ✓
2Blue-winged Teal ✓
2Yellow-bellied Sapsucker ✓
20Tree Swallow ✓
1White-breasted Nuthatch ✓
2Blue-gray Gnatcatcher ✓
1Northern House Wren ✓
4Eastern Bluebird ✓
3Palm Warbler ✓

October 26

1Black-bellied Plover ✓
1Bald Eagle ✓
17Black Scoter ✓
5Northern Gannet ✓
2Spotted Sandpiper ✓
2Northern Flicker ✓
4Common Grackle ✓
1Cooper's Hawk ✓
1Merlin ✓

October 25

1Anhinga ✓
1Northern Harrier ✓
1Golden-crowned Kinglet ✓
4Northern Shoveler ✓
2Semipalmated Sandpiper
2Green-winged Teal ✓
1Red-tailed Hawk ✓

October 24

6Prairie Willet ✓
35Boat-tailed Grackle ✓
1Ruddy Duck ✓
1Nelson's Sparrow ✓
1Green Heron ✓
1Fish Crow ✓
1Sora ✓
1Eastern Marsh Wren ✓
1Swainson's Thrush ✓
1Common Yellowthroat ✓

October 23

4Wood Duck ✓
4Gadwall ✓
35American White Pelican ✓
1Peregrine Falcon ✓
1White-eyed Vireo ✓
1Veery
1Cape May Warbler ✓
1Northern Parula ✓
1Painted Bunting ✓
2Bonaparte's Gull ✓

October 22

1American Redstart ✓
3Great Cormorant
2Chipping Sparrow ✓
1Red-breasted Nuthatch
1Black-throated Blue Warbler ✓
1American Robin ✓
1Eastern Towhee ✓

October 21

1Ruby-throated Hummingbird ✓
1Kentucky Warbler ✓
1Wild Turkey ✓
1Least Flycatcher ✓
2Loggerhead Shrike ✓
1Orange-crowned Warbler ✓
1Chestnut-sided Warbler ✓
1Northern Waterthrush ✓