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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.

December 28

5Northern Shoveler
18Gadwall
2American Wigeon
15Green-winged Teal
2Ring-necked Duck
17Lesser Scaup
15Bufflehead
10Hooded Merganser
24Ruddy Duck
1Mourning Dove
4Common Gallinule
15American Coot
1Black-bellied Plover
1Short-billed Dowitcher
2Willet
10Greater Yellowlegs
1Dunlin
4Bonaparte's Gull
50Laughing Gull
5Ring-billed Gull
1American Herring Gull
2Forster's Tern
2Pied-billed Grebe
1Wood Stork
5Northern Gannet
35Double-crested Cormorant
5White Ibis
1American Bittern
5Black-crowned Night Heron
1Tricolored Heron
6Snowy Egret
8Great Egret
2Great Blue Heron
6American White Pelican
5Brown Pelican
2Turkey Vulture
2Osprey
1Bald Eagle
1Belted Kingfisher
1Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
2Red-bellied Woodpecker
1Blue-headed Vireo
3Blue Jay
1American Crow
4Carolina Chickadee
5Tufted Titmouse
3Tree Swallow
2Ruby-crowned Kinglet
1Carolina Wren
1Northern Mockingbird
1Eastern Bluebird
1House Finch
1Field Sparrow
1White-throated Sparrow
25Red-winged Blackbird
2Black-and-white Warbler
1Orange-crowned Warbler
10Yellow-rumped Warbler
1Northern Cardinal
1Long-billed Dowitcher
1Lesser Yellowlegs
5Ruddy Turnstone
10Least Sandpiper
2Little Blue Heron
6Wilson's Snipe
1Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
2White-crowned Sparrow
1Rusty Blackbird
2Clapper Rail
1Eastern Phoebe
18Brown Thrasher

December 27

6Semipalmated Plover
2Golden-crowned Kinglet
1Brown Creeper
2Common Grackle
1Common Yellowthroat
1Downy Woodpecker
3White-breasted Nuthatch
2Brown-headed Nuthatch
2Gray Catbird
3Chipping Sparrow
2Song Sparrow
2Eastern Towhee
4Blue-winged Teal
1Wild Turkey
2Western Sandpiper

December 26

7Canvasback
2Redhead
1Savannah Sparrow
1Pileated Woodpecker
2Marsh Wren
2Swamp Sparrow
1Pine Warbler

December 25

1Virginia Rail
1American Oystercatcher
1Spotted Sandpiper
1Horned Grebe
1American Kestrel
1Purple Finch

December 24

2Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
8Mallard
2Red-breasted Merganser
2American Woodcock
1Northern Flicker
2Fish Crow
2Brown-headed Cowbird
4Boat-tailed Grackle

December 23

2Killdeer
1Red-throated Loon
XAmerican Robin
2Long-tailed Duck
4Piping Plover

December 22

1Eastern Screech-Owl
1Winter Wren
1Prairie Warbler