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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 22

9Northern Shoveler
6Gadwall
7Green-winged Teal
8Ring-necked Duck
6Lesser Scaup
2Bufflehead
6Hooded Merganser
2Ruddy Duck
10Greater Yellowlegs
11Pied-billed Grebe
9Double-crested Cormorant
17White Ibis
1Little Blue Heron
1Tricolored Heron
3Snowy Egret
5Great Egret
6Great Blue Heron
6American White Pelican
2Osprey
4Northern Pintail
6Canvasback
1Mourning Dove
4Semipalmated Plover
10Lesser Yellowlegs
6Least Sandpiper
4Western Sandpiper
6Ring-billed Gull
1Bald Eagle
1Belted Kingfisher
2Eastern Phoebe
2Blue Jay
1Carolina Chickadee
6Ruby-crowned Kinglet
2Brown Creeper
1Carolina Wren
2White-crowned Sparrow
2White-throated Sparrow
4Common Grackle
1Common Yellowthroat
6Yellow-rumped Warbler
2Northern Cardinal

December 21

4Mallard
8Redhead
4Dunlin
4Bonaparte's Gull
6Wood Stork
1Tufted Titmouse
2Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
6Northern Mockingbird
2House Finch
4Brown-headed Cowbird
1Black-and-white Warbler

December 20

6Blue-winged Teal
1Sanderling
6Laughing Gull
1Turkey Vulture
1Eastern Screech-Owl
10Tree Swallow
1Song Sparrow
3Common Gallinule
24American Coot
1Virginia Rail
2American Crow
1Hermit Thrush
2American Robin
1American Wigeon
1Clapper Rail
1Willet
1Forster's Tern
6Black-crowned Night Heron
3Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
2Red-bellied Woodpecker
5Downy Woodpecker
1Northern Flicker
3White-breasted Nuthatch
1Brown-headed Nuthatch
1Gray Catbird
1Brown Thrasher
2Eastern Bluebird
9Cedar Waxwing
1Eastern Towhee
XRed-winged Blackbird
2Pine Warbler
1Brown Pelican
1Chipping Sparrow
2Saltmarsh Sparrow
1Palm Warbler
1Killdeer
XCommon Loon

December 19

1Greater Scaup
6Wood Duck
16Canada Goose

December 18

1Barred Owl
2Golden-crowned Kinglet
2Rusty Blackbird
2Wilson's Snipe
1Spotted Sandpiper
4Swamp Sparrow
4Mottled Duck
4Piping Plover
4Long-billed Dowitcher

December 17

6Sandhill Crane
1Seaside Sparrow
XRoyal Tern
XAnhinga
XBlack Vulture
XRed-shouldered Hawk

December 16

1Pileated Woodpecker
1Merlin
1Horned Grebe
1Sora
5Marsh Wren
1American Goldfinch