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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.

September 26

2Clapper Rail ✓
8Common Gallinule ✓
1Forster's Tern ✓
2Double-crested Cormorant ✓
1Yellow-crowned Night Heron ✓
2Little Blue Heron ✓
3Tricolored Heron ✓
2Snowy Egret ✓
7Great Egret ✓
1Turkey Vulture ✓
7Osprey ✓
1Sharp-shinned Hawk ✓
1Northern Harrier ✓
2Bald Eagle ✓
1Red-shouldered Hawk ✓
24Red-bellied Woodpecker ✓
2Downy Woodpecker ✓
1Merlin ✓
1Eastern Phoebe
1White-eyed Vireo ✓
1Blue Jay ✓
1American Crow ✓
1Fish Crow ✓
8Carolina Chickadee ✓
1Tufted Titmouse ✓
3Tree Swallow ✓
1Brown-headed Nuthatch ✓
1Marsh Wren ✓
3Carolina Wren ✓
1Gray Catbird ✓
1Brown Thrasher ✓
1Northern Mockingbird ✓
2House Finch ✓
3Red-winged Blackbird ✓
3Common Yellowthroat ✓
1Palm Warbler ✓
1Pine Warbler ✓
6Northern Cardinal ✓
4Mourning Dove ✓
1Ruby-throated Hummingbird ✓
45Wood Stork ✓
1Anhinga ✓
1Least Bittern ✓
2Black-crowned Night Heron ✓
1Belted Kingfisher ✓
6Red-headed Woodpecker ✓
1Northern Flicker ✓
1Red-eyed Vireo ✓
2White-breasted Nuthatch ✓
1Blue-gray Gnatcatcher ✓
1Brown-headed Cowbird ✓
2Common Grackle ✓
7American Redstart ✓
1Northern Parula ✓
1Rock Pigeon ✓
2American Coot ✓
2Black-bellied Plover ✓
2Semipalmated Plover ✓
1Wilson's Snipe ✓
1Spotted Sandpiper ✓
4Sanderling ✓
1Western Sandpiper ✓
4Ring-billed Gull ✓
2Gull-billed Tern ✓
1Great Blue Heron ✓
1Peregrine Falcon ✓
4Barn Swallow ✓
1Savannah Sparrow ✓
2Painted Bunting ✓
4Chimney Swift ✓
2Killdeer ✓
14White Ibis ✓
1Eastern Bluebird ✓
1Boat-tailed Grackle ✓
4Black-and-white Warbler ✓
4Cape May Warbler
2Black-throated Blue Warbler ✓
3Laughing Gull ✓

September 25

1Yellow-billed Cuckoo ✓
1Short-billed Dowitcher ✓
1Red-tailed Hawk ✓
2Great Crested Flycatcher ✓
1American Goldfinch ✓
1Northern Yellow Warbler ✓
2Marbled Godwit ✓
1Stilt Sandpiper ✓
2Sandwich Tern ✓
4Pied-billed Grebe ✓
4Brown Pelican ✓
1Least Flycatcher ✓
1Yellow-throated Vireo ✓
1Field Sparrow ✓
1Pileated Woodpecker ✓
1Northern Waterthrush ✓
1Golden-winged Warbler ✓
2Prairie Warbler ✓
1Black-throated Green Warbler ✓

September 24

2Willet ✓
1Royal Tern ✓

September 23

2Caspian Tern ✓
1House Sparrow ✓
1Sora ✓
1Piping Plover ✓
1Solitary Sandpiper ✓
1Black Skimmer ✓
1Common Tern ✓
1Green Heron ✓
1Eastern Kingbird ✓
1American Kestrel ✓
1Tennessee Warbler ✓
1Cooper's Hawk ✓
1Hairy Woodpecker
3American Robin ✓
1Common Nighthawk ✓
2Lesser Yellowlegs ✓
1Parasitic Jaeger ✓
2European Starling ✓
1Gray-cheeked Thrush ✓
1Swainson's Thrush ✓
1Magnolia Warbler ✓

September 22

1Wilson's Phalarope ✓
1Semipalmated Sandpiper ✓
1Seaside Sparrow ✓
1Hooded Warbler ✓

September 21

2Lesser Black-backed Gull ✓
2American Bittern ✓

September 20

1Northern Bobwhite ✓
1American Golden-Plover ✓
1Roseate Spoonbill ✓
1Wild Turkey ✓
1Black Tern ✓