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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.

January 18

7American Oystercatcher
1Short-billed Dowitcher
19Ruddy Turnstone
32Sanderling
1Razorbill
1Laughing Gull
1Ring-billed Gull
1American Herring Gull
2Common Loon
3Double-crested Cormorant
1Great Blue Heron
6Brown Pelican
1Osprey
1Eastern Screech-Owl
4Northern Shoveler
34Green-winged Teal
18Bufflehead
28Hooded Merganser
1White Ibis
1Tricolored Heron
1Great Egret
1American White Pelican
1Bald Eagle
25Tree Swallow
1Brown-headed Nuthatch
1Northern Mockingbird
1Sora
1American Coot
6Willet
2Dunlin
2Belted Kingfisher
1Eastern Phoebe
2Blue Jay
2Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
1Gray Catbird
2White-throated Sparrow
3Common Grackle
4Yellow-rumped Warbler
25Gadwall
1Common Goldeneye
20Ruddy Duck
2Mourning Dove
5Semipalmated Plover
3Bonaparte's Gull
1Forster's Tern
3Pied-billed Grebe
2Snowy Egret
2Red-bellied Woodpecker
1Common Yellowthroat
5Northern Cardinal
1Greater Yellowlegs
1Carolina Chickadee
1Tufted Titmouse
1Carolina Wren
6Pine Warbler
6Ring-necked Duck
4American Crow
1Golden-crowned Kinglet
4Red-winged Blackbird

January 17

2Common Gallinule
1Lesser Yellowlegs
1Royal Tern
1Little Blue Heron
1Downy Woodpecker
1Pileated Woodpecker
1Ruby-crowned Kinglet
1House Finch
1White-crowned Sparrow
1White-winged Scoter
3Black-bellied Plover
1Horned Grebe
2Red-throated Loon
2Blue-winged Teal
12Red Knot
6Northern Gannet
2Black-crowned Night Heron
1Turkey Vulture
1Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
1Northern Flicker
1White-eyed Vireo
1White-breasted Nuthatch
2Eastern Bluebird
2American Robin
1American Goldfinch
1Song Sparrow
1Black Scoter
2Red-breasted Merganser
1Long-billed Dowitcher
5Least Sandpiper
8Savannah Sparrow
2Spotted Sandpiper
2Western Sandpiper
1Red-tailed Hawk
1Blue-headed Vireo
2Yellow-throated Warbler
1Brown Thrasher
1Orange-crowned Warbler

January 16

1Tundra Swan
2Killdeer
1Lesser Black-backed Gull
1Brown Creeper
2American Wigeon
2Northern Pintail
1Lesser Scaup
1Northern Harrier
4Cedar Waxwing
2Swamp Sparrow
1Eastern Towhee
1Palm Warbler
1Clapper Rail
1Purple Sandpiper
1Great Black-backed Gull
2Black Skimmer
1Saltmarsh Sparrow

January 15

6Mallard
8Canvasback
1Red-shouldered Hawk
1Redhead
2Hermit Thrush
3Purple Finch
1Sharp-shinned Hawk
1Chipping Sparrow
1Fox Sparrow

January 14

1Loggerhead Shrike
1Rusty Blackbird
2Virginia Rail
3Wilson's Snipe
1Marsh Wren

January 13

1Barred Owl
1Eurasian Collared-Dove

January 12

4Mottled Duck
1Black Vulture
1Peregrine Falcon
1Seaside Sparrow
4Boat-tailed Grackle
1Wood Stork
1Fish Crow
12Brown-headed Cowbird
1Common Eider
1Red-headed Woodpecker
1Northern House Wren