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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 31

1Mourning Dove
1Ruby-throated Hummingbird
1American Coot
2Killdeer
2Willet
1Dunlin
1Least Sandpiper
2Semipalmated Sandpiper
4Wood Stork
1Double-crested Cormorant
2White Ibis
4Roseate Spoonbill
2Snowy Egret
1Turkey Vulture
1Downy Woodpecker
2Blue Jay
1Carolina Chickadee
1Tufted Titmouse
1Brown-headed Nuthatch
2Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
48Northern Mockingbird
1Orchard Oriole
2Brown-headed Cowbird
1Common Yellowthroat
1Pine Warbler
2Painted Bunting
6Common Gallinule
1Purple Gallinule
5Forster's Tern
2Anhinga
1Least Bittern
1Yellow-crowned Night Heron
2Little Blue Heron
5Tricolored Heron
6Green Heron
5Great Egret
1Great Blue Heron
1Red-bellied Woodpecker
1Great Crested Flycatcher
2Fish Crow
7Barn Swallow
4Carolina Wren
2Eastern Bluebird
4House Finch
3Red-winged Blackbird
6Common Grackle
1Boat-tailed Grackle
3Prothonotary Warbler
1Northern Parula
11Northern Cardinal
30Sanderling
1Laughing Gull
1Brown Pelican
2Semipalmated Plover
1Greater Yellowlegs
7Least Tern
1Black Vulture
1Osprey
1Pileated Woodpecker
4American Crow
1Brown Thrasher
1Yellow-billed Cuckoo
1Clapper Rail
4Ring-billed Gull
2American Herring Gull
2Sandwich Tern
1Pied-billed Grebe
2Black-crowned Night Heron

May 30

3Canada Goose
1Common Nighthawk
3Chimney Swift
2American Oystercatcher
9Ruddy Turnstone
8Royal Tern
2Bald Eagle
2Mississippi Kite
1Northern House Wren
1Marsh Wren
2Black-bellied Plover
4Spotted Sandpiper
2Belted Kingfisher
2Red-headed Woodpecker
1Summer Tanager
1Hudsonian Whimbrel
1Wilson's Phalarope
2Great Black-backed Gull
1Broad-winged Hawk
1White-eyed Vireo
1Chipping Sparrow
1Orange-crowned Warbler
4Black-bellied Whistling-Duck

May 29

10Glossy Ibis
1White-breasted Nuthatch
6Black-necked Stilt
1Gull-billed Tern
1Swallow-tailed Kite
1Yellow-throated Vireo
1Black-and-white Warbler
1Blackpoll Warbler
5Wilson's Plover
1Purple Martin
1Wood Duck
1Hairy Woodpecker
1Eurasian Collared-Dove
2Chuck-will's-widow
1Red-shouldered Hawk
1Bay-breasted Warbler

May 28

1Red-tailed Hawk
1Hooded Warbler
1Chestnut-sided Warbler
4Caspian Tern
1Red-breasted Merganser
17Short-billed Dowitcher
3Black Skimmer
2Tree Swallow
1Red-eyed Vireo
1Gray Catbird
1Northern Rough-winged Swallow
2Blue Grosbeak

May 27

1Cooper's Hawk
1Blue-winged Warbler

May 26

1Eastern Kingbird
4American Robin

May 25

2Western Sandpiper
6European Starling
1Seaside Sparrow
2White-rumped Sandpiper
1Lesser Yellowlegs