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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.

April 20

2Mourning Dove
1Chuck-will's-widow
4Chimney Swift
2Clapper Rail
2Virginia Rail
2Black-bellied Plover
4Killdeer
2Semipalmated Plover
6Lesser Yellowlegs
2Willet
6Sanderling
2Least Sandpiper
4American Herring Gull
2Gull-billed Tern
1Common Tern
4Anhinga
2Black-crowned Night Heron
1Little Blue Heron
1Green Heron
2Great Egret
1Swallow-tailed Kite
1Bald Eagle
1Downy Woodpecker
4American Crow
1Tufted Titmouse
1Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
1Carolina Wren
1Gray Catbird
2Eastern Bluebird
1Song Sparrow
2Baltimore Oriole
4Red-winged Blackbird
1Black-and-white Warbler
1Painted Bunting
3Canada Goose
1Sora
9Common Gallinule
7American Coot
3Short-billed Dowitcher
3Greater Yellowlegs
20Laughing Gull
53Double-crested Cormorant
3Tricolored Heron
5Snowy Egret
1Great Blue Heron
1Osprey
1Belted Kingfisher
2Red-bellied Woodpecker
1Pileated Woodpecker
1Great Crested Flycatcher
1White-eyed Vireo
1Blue Jay
1Fish Crow
4Carolina Chickadee
12Tree Swallow
8Barn Swallow
2White-breasted Nuthatch
1Brown-headed Nuthatch
2Northern Mockingbird
1Hermit Thrush
1American Robin
6Cedar Waxwing
6House Finch
1American Goldfinch
3White-throated Sparrow
2Swamp Sparrow
1Orchard Oriole
2Brown-headed Cowbird
4Common Grackle
8Boat-tailed Grackle
2Prothonotary Warbler
1Common Yellowthroat
4Pine Warbler
4Yellow-rumped Warbler
6Northern Cardinal
2Red-breasted Merganser
1Black-necked Stilt
1American Oystercatcher
1Piping Plover
2Wilson's Plover
1Hudsonian Whimbrel
4Spotted Sandpiper
1Ruddy Turnstone
11Dunlin
15Ring-billed Gull
42Least Tern
11Forster's Tern
3Sandwich Tern
120Royal Tern
69Northern Gannet
1White Ibis
6Glossy Ibis
1Yellow-crowned Night Heron
1Western Cattle-Egret
78Brown Pelican
4Black Vulture
6Turkey Vulture
1Red-shouldered Hawk
3Red-headed Woodpecker
2Ruby-crowned Kinglet
1Northern House Wren
1Marsh Wren
1Eastern Towhee

April 19

1Roseate Spoonbill
2Least Bittern
1Hairy Woodpecker
1Yellow-throated Warbler
2Wilson's Snipe
1Pied-billed Grebe
1Yellow-throated Vireo
6European Starling
1Savannah Sparrow
1Brown Thrasher
1Ruby-throated Hummingbird
1Red-eyed Vireo
1Purple Martin
1Northern Yellow Warbler
6Western Sandpiper
1Rock Pigeon
2American Woodcock
1Semipalmated Sandpiper
2American White Pelican
1Blue-headed Vireo
1Blue-winged Warbler
1Common Nighthawk
7Long-billed Dowitcher
5Black Skimmer
5Seaside Sparrow
3Saltmarsh Sparrow
2Northern Parula

April 18

4Stilt Sandpiper
1Peregrine Falcon
1Wood Thrush
1Wood Stork
1Brown Creeper
1Scarlet Tanager
1Sharp-shinned Hawk
2Wood Duck
2Blue-winged Teal
14Bonaparte's Gull

April 17

3House Sparrow
3Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
5Black Scoter
2Horned Lark
1Cape May Warbler
1Eastern Kingbird
1American Golden-Plover
2Lesser Black-backed Gull
2Chipping Sparrow
1Nelson's Sparrow

April 16

2Bufflehead
1Yellow-billed Cuckoo
1Northern Waterthrush
1Tennessee Warbler
3Wild Turkey
1King Rail
1Common Loon
1Cooper's Hawk
2Red-tailed Hawk
1Blue Grosbeak
1Field Sparrow

April 15

2Summer Tanager
1Purple Gallinule
1Black Tern
4Gadwall
3American Flamingo
1Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
1Northern Flicker

April 14

1Black-throated Blue Warbler
1Eastern Whip-poor-will
2Solitary Sandpiper