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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.

March 27

1Wild Turkey
29Mourning Dove
2Virginia Rail
1American Coot
49Killdeer
1Spotted Sandpiper
29Willet
2Ring-billed Gull
2Forster's Tern
1Anhinga
4White Ibis
6Snowy Egret
2Great Egret
28Great Blue Heron
1Barred Owl
2Eastern Phoebe
1Blue-headed Vireo
2Blue Jay
1Carolina Chickadee
1Brown-headed Nuthatch
1Marsh Wren
2House Finch
2Red-winged Blackbird
2Rusty Blackbird
1Prairie Warbler
2Northern Cardinal
1Ruby-throated Hummingbird
1Clapper Rail
2Short-billed Dowitcher
1Solitary Sandpiper
2Ruddy Turnstone
2Stilt Sandpiper
8Sanderling
1Horned Grebe
1Tricolored Heron
1Bald Eagle
1Red-bellied Woodpecker
2Fish Crow
1Tufted Titmouse
1White-breasted Nuthatch
2Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
1Brown Thrasher
1Hermit Thrush
4Chipping Sparrow
2Savannah Sparrow
6Common Grackle
1Yellow-throated Warbler

March 26

1Chuck-will's-widow
2Western Sandpiper
2Least Tern
2Double-crested Cormorant
1Little Blue Heron
2Belted Kingfisher
2Downy Woodpecker
1Great Crested Flycatcher
1Brown Creeper
4Northern Mockingbird
1Seaside Sparrow
2Brown-headed Cowbird
1Pine Warbler

March 25

1Black-bellied Plover
2Royal Tern
2Pied-billed Grebe
1Common Loon
2Green Heron
1Brown Pelican
1Northern Flicker
4European Starling
2Gray Catbird
1Sora
1Piping Plover
2Wilson's Snipe
4American Herring Gull
1American Bittern
1Cooper's Hawk
1Ruby-crowned Kinglet
2Carolina Wren
6American Robin
1White-throated Sparrow
6Song Sparrow
1Orange-crowned Warbler

March 24

1Long-billed Dowitcher
1Saltmarsh Sparrow
6Bonaparte's Gull
1Red-throated Loon
1Osprey
1Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
1Merlin
1Eastern Kingbird
6Cedar Waxwing
1Palm Warbler

March 23

1Eurasian Collared-Dove
2Least Sandpiper
2Yellow-rumped Warbler
2Common Gallinule
2Greater Yellowlegs
1White-eyed Vireo
1American Crow
35Tree Swallow
1Barn Swallow
2Eastern Bluebird
1Turkey Vulture
1Black-and-white Warbler
8Gadwall
6Laughing Gull
1Black-crowned Night Heron
1Northern House Wren
1Dark-eyed Junco
1Swamp Sparrow
1Eastern Towhee

March 22

3Boat-tailed Grackle
2Pine Siskin
13Semipalmated Plover
25Dunlin
1Northern Parula
3Lesser Yellowlegs
1Northern Harrier
6Bufflehead
1Red-shouldered Hawk
1Pileated Woodpecker
1Ovenbird

March 21

1Hudsonian Whimbrel
1Sandwich Tern
2Blue-winged Teal
1Common Yellowthroat