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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.

February 19

4Green-winged Teal
11Lesser Scaup
3Bufflehead
3Hooded Merganser
2Mourning Dove
3Black-bellied Plover
2Killdeer
1American Herring Gull
1Pied-billed Grebe
8Double-crested Cormorant
4White Ibis
2Little Blue Heron
2Tricolored Heron
3Snowy Egret
3Great Egret
3Great Blue Heron
4American White Pelican
15Brown Pelican
4Carolina Chickadee
1Tufted Titmouse
2White-breasted Nuthatch
3Brown-headed Nuthatch
5Eastern Bluebird
1American Robin
6House Finch
10White-throated Sparrow
16Red-winged Blackbird
5Pine Warbler
2Northern Cardinal
4Common Gallinule
8American Coot
2Red-bellied Woodpecker
1Downy Woodpecker
2Blue Jay
2American Crow
1Ruby-crowned Kinglet
4Northern Mockingbird
4Purple Finch
100Yellow-rumped Warbler
6Ring-necked Duck
8Ruddy Duck
4Willet
6Sanderling
2Ring-billed Gull
1Forster's Tern
4Common Loon
2Turkey Vulture
2Loggerhead Shrike
1Carolina Wren
4Cedar Waxwing

February 18

2Lesser Yellowlegs
3Greater Yellowlegs
4Long-billed Dowitcher
2Dunlin
1Red-throated Loon
1Bald Eagle
1Blue-headed Vireo
4Fish Crow
1Seaside Sparrow
4Bonaparte's Gull
1Osprey
30Tree Swallow
6Gadwall
1Black Vulture
1Boat-tailed Grackle
3Black-crowned Night Heron
1Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
22Chipping Sparrow
1Song Sparrow
2Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
4Blue-winged Teal
6Mallard
2Clapper Rail
4Piping Plover
2Short-billed Dowitcher
2Royal Tern
1Northern Gannet
1Belted Kingfisher
1Eastern Phoebe
1Nelson's Sparrow

February 17

4Northern Shoveler
4Semipalmated Plover
2Least Sandpiper
1Barred Owl
1Northern Flicker
1Marsh Wren
2Canada Goose
1Wood Duck
1Redhead
1Red-shouldered Hawk
3Pileated Woodpecker
2Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
2Brown Thrasher
2Swamp Sparrow
1Eastern Towhee
10Common Grackle
2Common Yellowthroat
2Spotted Sandpiper
1Saltmarsh Sparrow

February 16

1Horned Grebe
1Red-headed Woodpecker
1Gray Catbird
2Brown-headed Cowbird
1Red-tailed Hawk
1American Goldfinch
1Cooper's Hawk
1Fox Sparrow
1Surf Scoter
1White-winged Scoter
4Black Scoter
2American Oystercatcher
11Ruddy Turnstone
1Parasitic Jaeger
42Laughing Gull
1American Kestrel
2Savannah Sparrow
1Common Goldeneye
4Wilson's Snipe
2Red Knot
2Vesper Sparrow
1American Woodcock
1Hermit Thrush

February 15

1Golden-crowned Kinglet
6European Starling
1Brown Creeper
1Prairie Warbler
2Eurasian Collared-Dove
2Purple Sandpiper
4Western Sandpiper
4Glossy Ibis
1Northern House Wren

February 14

1Great Black-backed Gull
2Peregrine Falcon
2White-crowned Sparrow
4Mottled Duck
6Canvasback
2Wilson's Plover
1Wood Stork
1Dark-eyed Junco
1Rusty Blackbird

February 13

2American Wigeon
2Long-tailed Duck
4Red-breasted Merganser
1Lesser Black-backed Gull
1Tundra Swan
1Hudsonian Whimbrel
2American Bittern