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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 13

1Bufflehead ✓
3Pied-billed Grebe ✓
1Eastern Screech-Owl ✓
1Ruby-crowned Kinglet ✓
1Northern House Wren ✓
1Carolina Wren ✓
1Gray Catbird ✓
2House Finch ✓
1Northern Cardinal ✓
3Sanderling ✓
5Laughing Gull ✓
5Ring-billed Gull ✓
10American Herring Gull ✓
1Common Loon ✓
1Northern Gannet ✓
40Double-crested Cormorant ✓
1Great Egret ✓
25Brown Pelican ✓
1Bald Eagle ✓
1Brown-headed Nuthatch ✓
2Northern Mockingbird ✓
1Eastern Bluebird ✓
2White-throated Sparrow ✓
1Song Sparrow ✓
10Yellow-rumped Warbler ✓
6Blue-winged Teal ✓
1Ruby-throated Hummingbird ✓
2American Coot ✓
1Forster's Tern ✓
6Wood Stork ✓
4White Ibis ✓
2Roseate Spoonbill ✓
4American White Pelican ✓
2Belted Kingfisher ✓
2Blue Jay ✓
2American Crow ✓
1Golden-crowned Kinglet ✓
1White-crowned Sparrow ✓
2Common Grackle ✓
2Boat-tailed Grackle ✓
9Gadwall ✓
3Green-winged Teal ✓
5Mourning Dove ✓
7Greater Yellowlegs ✓
2Little Blue Heron ✓
3Tricolored Heron ✓
3Western Cattle-Egret ✓
1Great Blue Heron ✓
2Osprey ✓
1Red-bellied Woodpecker ✓
1Northern Flicker ✓
1Carolina Chickadee ✓
2Northern Pintail ✓
4Hooded Merganser ✓
3Snowy Egret ✓
1Turkey Vulture ✓
1Red-tailed Hawk ✓
1Hermit Thrush ✓
5Red-winged Blackbird ✓
2Ring-necked Duck ✓
6Prairie Willet ✓
1Dunlin ✓
2Least Sandpiper ✓
1Bonaparte's Gull ✓
1Royal Tern ✓
1Northern Harrier ✓
1Eastern Phoebe ✓
2Fish Crow ✓
1Tufted Titmouse ✓
1Chipping Sparrow ✓
1Swamp Sparrow ✓
1Eastern Towhee ✓
1Merlin ✓
2Brown Creeper ✓

November 12

4Ruddy Duck ✓
4Clapper Rail ✓
2Killdeer ✓
2Wilson's Snipe ✓
1Spotted Sandpiper ✓
1Blue-gray Gnatcatcher ✓
1Brown Thrasher ✓
1Fox Sparrow ✓
2Brown-headed Cowbird ✓
2American Redstart ✓
7Common Gallinule ✓
1American Robin ✓
2Palm Warbler ✓
6Short-billed Dowitcher ✓
4Western Sandpiper ✓
1Green Heron ✓
1Saltmarsh Sparrow ✓

November 11

2Sandwich Tern ✓
1Common Yellowthroat ✓
1Cooper's Hawk ✓
1White-breasted Nuthatch ✓
1Red-shouldered Hawk ✓
2American Goldfinch ✓
1Baltimore Oriole ✓
1Anhinga ✓
9Semipalmated Plover ✓
9Red Knot ✓
1Pileated Woodpecker ✓
1Barn Swallow ✓
2Caspian Tern ✓
4European Starling ✓
1Seaside Sparrow ✓
2Downy Woodpecker ✓
1Blue-headed Vireo ✓
8Tree Swallow ✓

November 10

1Red-breasted Merganser ✓
3Black-bellied Plover ✓
3Ruddy Turnstone ✓
1Sora ✓
5Black-crowned Night Heron ✓
1Rusty Blackbird ✓

November 9

2Wilson's Plover ✓
1Peregrine Falcon ✓
2Northern Shoveler ✓
1Yellow-bellied Sapsucker ✓
1Red-headed Woodpecker ✓
4Cedar Waxwing ✓
1Lark Sparrow ✓
1Savannah Sparrow ✓
2Pine Warbler ✓

November 8

1Piping Plover ✓
2American Oystercatcher ✓
1Parasitic Jaeger ✓
1Lesser Black-backed Gull ✓
1Virginia Rail ✓
2Winter Wren ✓
1Orange-crowned Warbler ✓
1Mallard ✓

November 7

1Western Kingbird ✓