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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.

May 1

3Mourning Dove
8Black-bellied Plover
1Killdeer
2Lesser Yellowlegs
12Greater Yellowlegs
5Laughing Gull
1American Herring Gull
2Least Tern
1Forster's Tern
5Anhinga
2Double-crested Cormorant
4Little Blue Heron
5Tricolored Heron
9Snowy Egret
3Green Heron
1Western Cattle-Egret
5Great Egret
3Great Blue Heron
4Turkey Vulture
1Bald Eagle
1Red-headed Woodpecker
3Red-bellied Woodpecker
1Pileated Woodpecker
4Great Crested Flycatcher
2Blue Jay
3American Crow
2Fish Crow
8Tufted Titmouse
2Tree Swallow
7Barn Swallow
1White-breasted Nuthatch
1Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
5Carolina Wren
1Brown Thrasher
4Northern Mockingbird
2Eastern Bluebird
6American Robin
4House Finch
1Eastern Towhee
1Baltimore Oriole
16Red-winged Blackbird
4Brown-headed Cowbird
1Common Grackle
2Pine Warbler
4Northern Cardinal
2Painted Bunting
2Clapper Rail
5Semipalmated Plover
7Whimbrel
10Short-billed Dowitcher
3Long-billed Dowitcher
2Willet
3Western Sandpiper
7Royal Tern
3Black Vulture
6Blue-winged Teal
10Hooded Merganser
1Wild Turkey
2American Coot
6Semipalmated Sandpiper
8Ring-billed Gull
2Pied-billed Grebe
6Wood Stork
6White Ibis
1Mississippi Kite
2Belted Kingfisher
1Downy Woodpecker
1Carolina Chickadee
1Brown-headed Nuthatch
2European Starling
1Saltmarsh Sparrow
1Savannah Sparrow
1Black-and-white Warbler
1Black-throated Blue Warbler
1Scarlet Tanager
1Indigo Bunting
2Canada Goose
2Chimney Swift
1Sora
9Common Gallinule
2Dunlin
6Least Sandpiper
2Black-crowned Night Heron
1Osprey
1Gray Catbird
1Yellow-breasted Chat
1Prothonotary Warbler
5Sanderling
1Eastern Kingbird
1Orchard Oriole
1Northern Parula
3Summer Tanager
1Common Yellowthroat
1Yellow-throated Warbler

April 30

1Virginia Rail
1Hermit Thrush
1Boat-tailed Grackle
6Northern Shoveler
6Spotted Sandpiper
1Red-shouldered Hawk
1Blue-headed Vireo
2Ruby-crowned Kinglet
4Yellow-rumped Warbler
1White-eyed Vireo

April 29

2American Oystercatcher
1Piping Plover
4Wilson's Plover
1Bonaparte's Gull
5Brown Pelican
1Cape May Warbler
1Least Bittern
4Black-necked Stilt
6Wilson's Snipe
4Stilt Sandpiper
1Northern Flicker
1Seaside Sparrow

April 28

14Glossy Ibis
1Peregrine Falcon
1Yellow-throated Vireo
1Chipping Sparrow
1Great Horned Owl
1Red-eyed Vireo
2Wood Duck
1Prairie Warbler

April 27

1Red-breasted Merganser
1Swainson's Warbler
2American Redstart
1Solitary Sandpiper
1Yellow-crowned Night Heron
2Marsh Wren
1Yellow Warbler
4Mallard
1Red Knot
1Common Tern
2Swallow-tailed Kite
2Bank Swallow
2Purple Martin
1Palm Warbler
2Cliff Swallow
1White-throated Sparrow

April 26

1Song Sparrow

April 25

1Gray-headed Swamphen
1Golden-crowned Kinglet