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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 31

1Rock Pigeon
1Mourning Dove
2Eastern Whip-poor-will
2Ruby-throated Hummingbird
1Clapper Rail
2Black-bellied Plover
1Piping Plover
4Willet
2Sanderling
2Ring-billed Gull
1Sandwich Tern
2Pied-billed Grebe
8Wood Stork
1Tricolored Heron
1Green Heron
1Osprey
1Belted Kingfisher
1Downy Woodpecker
1Great Crested Flycatcher
2Red-eyed Vireo
4Blue Jay
2American Crow
1Carolina Chickadee
1Tufted Titmouse
2Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
4European Starling
2Eastern Bluebird
4American Robin
2Common Grackle
1American Redstart
2Northern Cardinal
2Painted Bunting
8Common Gallinule
7Laughing Gull
12Black Skimmer
2Caspian Tern
3Black-crowned Night Heron
12Snowy Egret
5Great Egret
1Great Blue Heron
3Red-headed Woodpecker
5Red-bellied Woodpecker
2White-eyed Vireo
3Brown-headed Nuthatch
3Carolina Wren
2Northern Mockingbird
3House Finch
5Red-winged Blackbird
1Black-and-white Warbler
1Northern Parula
2Pine Warbler

August 30

1American Coot
2Least Sandpiper
1Least Tern
1Forster's Tern
8White Ibis
2Least Bittern
1Common Yellowthroat
3Anhinga
1Double-crested Cormorant
2Yellow-crowned Night Heron
1Little Blue Heron
3Bald Eagle
2Barn Swallow
1White-breasted Nuthatch
1Brown-headed Cowbird
2Chuck-will's-widow
2American Herring Gull
1Eastern Kingbird
2Gray Catbird

August 29

2Spotted Sandpiper
1Royal Tern
1Western Cattle-Egret
2Boat-tailed Grackle
1Hooded Warbler
2Western Sandpiper
7Semipalmated Sandpiper
2Pectoral Sandpiper
1Brown Thrasher

August 28

1Purple Gallinule
1Red-shouldered Hawk
1Pileated Woodpecker

August 27

1Turkey Vulture
1Acadian Flycatcher
1Common Tern
1Kentucky Warbler
3Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
1Killdeer

August 26

1Common Nighthawk
11Semipalmated Plover
1Black Tern
1Roseate Spoonbill
1Orchard Oriole
3Brown Pelican
2American Goldfinch
1Marsh Wren
1Eastern Towhee
1Prairie Warbler
2Black-necked Stilt
2Lesser Yellowlegs
1Lesser Black-backed Gull
1Gull-billed Tern
1Cooper's Hawk
1Northern Harrier
1Chimney Swift
2Stilt Sandpiper
1Northern Flicker

August 25

2Glossy Ibis
1Chipping Sparrow
2American Oystercatcher
1Hudsonian Whimbrel
2Short-billed Dowitcher
1Fish Crow
1Seaside Sparrow
1Ovenbird
1Prothonotary Warbler
1Summer Tanager
1Northern Waterthrush

August 24

1Yellow-billed Cuckoo
1Dunlin
1Yellow-throated Vireo