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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.

August 26

1Mourning Dove
20Semipalmated Plover
2Least Sandpiper
50Western Sandpiper
1Black Skimmer
15Wood Stork
2Anhinga
15White Ibis
1Roseate Spoonbill
3Black-crowned Night Heron
2Little Blue Heron
2Tricolored Heron
40Snowy Egret
1Green Heron
10Great Egret
4Osprey
1Bald Eagle
1Carolina Chickadee
2Tufted Titmouse
1Barn Swallow
2Northern Cardinal
1Painted Bunting
2Clapper Rail
2Black-bellied Plover
4Sanderling
2Forster's Tern
1Turkey Vulture
2Belted Kingfisher
1Eastern Kingbird
2Blue Jay
2Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
2Northern Mockingbird
1Orchard Oriole
1Pine Warbler
1Willet
6Laughing Gull
4Common Tern
50Royal Tern
2Double-crested Cormorant
1Great Blue Heron
3Brown Pelican
2American Goldfinch
1Ruby-throated Hummingbird
4Common Gallinule
2Purple Gallinule
1Least Bittern
2Red-headed Woodpecker
1Red-bellied Woodpecker
2Downy Woodpecker
1White-eyed Vireo
2American Crow
1White-breasted Nuthatch
1Marsh Wren
2Carolina Wren
1Gray Catbird
3American Robin
1Eastern Towhee
1Prairie Warbler
3Yellow-crowned Night Heron
2Black-necked Stilt
2Lesser Yellowlegs
1Semipalmated Sandpiper
2Ring-billed Gull
2American Herring Gull
1Lesser Black-backed Gull
2Least Tern
1Gull-billed Tern
1Caspian Tern
2Sandwich Tern
1Cooper's Hawk
1Northern Harrier
1Pileated Woodpecker
1Chimney Swift
1American Coot
2Killdeer
2Spotted Sandpiper
2Stilt Sandpiper
1Northern Flicker
2Great Crested Flycatcher
4Common Grackle
1Common Yellowthroat
1Merlin
3Eastern Bluebird
2Red-winged Blackbird

August 25

2Glossy Ibis
1Chipping Sparrow
1American Redstart
2American Oystercatcher
1Hudsonian Whimbrel
2Short-billed Dowitcher
1Fish Crow
1Seaside Sparrow
3Red-eyed Vireo
1Brown-headed Nuthatch
1House Finch
1Ovenbird
1Prothonotary Warbler
1Northern Parula
1Summer Tanager
1Northern Waterthrush

August 24

1Yellow-billed Cuckoo
1Dunlin
1Yellow-throated Vireo
1Western Cattle-Egret
1Mississippi Kite
2Purple Martin

August 23

2Northern Bobwhite
3Rock Pigeon
1Solitary Sandpiper
1Greater Yellowlegs
2Ruddy Turnstone
2Tree Swallow
2Boat-tailed Grackle
2Piping Plover
4Brown-headed Cowbird
3Worm-eating Warbler
1Northern Yellow Warbler
1Brown Thrasher

August 22

1Blue Grosbeak
1Eurasian Collared-Dove
1Black Vulture
6European Starling
1Louisiana Waterthrush

August 21

2Hooded Warbler
2Chuck-will's-widow
1Blue-winged Warbler

August 20

1Swallow-tailed Kite
1Marbled Godwit
1Pectoral Sandpiper