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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 15

3Canada Goose
1Mallard
7Mourning Dove
3Chimney Swift
2Clapper Rail
1Common Gallinule
1Black-necked Stilt
8Killdeer
30Semipalmated Plover
2Hudsonian Whimbrel
1Short-billed Dowitcher
1Willet
4Greater Yellowlegs
30Least Sandpiper
3Pectoral Sandpiper
7Semipalmated Sandpiper
1Least Tern
2Anhinga
3Double-crested Cormorant
14White Ibis
2Roseate Spoonbill
1Least Bittern
4Little Blue Heron
1Tricolored Heron
7Snowy Egret
27Great Egret
1Great Blue Heron
3Brown Pelican
1Osprey
1Red-headed Woodpecker
4Red-bellied Woodpecker
1Pileated Woodpecker
1Eastern Wood-Pewee
3Great Crested Flycatcher
1Eastern Kingbird
2Blue Jay
5American Crow
1Fish Crow
4Carolina Chickadee
5Tufted Titmouse
2Barn Swallow
1Brown-headed Nuthatch
1Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
5Carolina Wren
3Brown Thrasher
3Northern Mockingbird
4Eastern Bluebird
2American Robin
8House Finch
1Eastern Towhee
1Yellow-breasted Chat
1Orchard Oriole
10Red-winged Blackbird
4Brown-headed Cowbird
1Common Grackle
3Boat-tailed Grackle
1Common Yellowthroat
1American Redstart
1Northern Parula
1Magnolia Warbler
1Northern Yellow Warbler
4Pine Warbler
8Northern Cardinal
3Painted Bunting

May 14

1Spotted Sandpiper
2Ruby-throated Hummingbird
1White-breasted Nuthatch
1Dunlin
2Laughing Gull
1Forster's Tern
1Royal Tern
2Green Heron
1Downy Woodpecker
5Black-bellied Plover
1Yellow-crowned Night Heron
4Turkey Vulture
1Red-eyed Vireo

May 13

1White-eyed Vireo
XProthonotary Warbler
1Wood Stork
1Mississippi Kite
2Wilson's Plover
1Ruddy Turnstone
20Sanderling
2Sandwich Tern
1American Coot
XAmerican Bittern
1Swallow-tailed Kite
1Bald Eagle
1Glossy Ibis
1Lesser Yellowlegs
2Black Vulture
1Red-tailed Hawk
3Cedar Waxwing

May 12

1Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
1Sora
1White-rumped Sandpiper
1Seaside Sparrow

May 11

1Common Nighthawk
3Chuck-will's-widow
1Cooper's Hawk
1Solitary Sandpiper
1Rose-breasted Grosbeak
1Yellow-billed Cuckoo
4Western Sandpiper
2Ring-billed Gull
1Black Skimmer
1Gull-billed Tern
1Pied-billed Grebe
1Marsh Wren
1Gray Catbird
1Hooded Warbler
4Long-billed Dowitcher
1Stilt Sandpiper
2Purple Martin
1Wild Turkey
1Eurasian Collared-Dove

May 10

1Orange-crowned Warbler
2Piping Plover
1Summer Tanager
1Red-shouldered Hawk
4European Starling

May 9

2Belted Kingfisher
1Gray-cheeked Thrush
1Black-and-white Warbler
1Black-crowned Night Heron
1Sandhill Crane
1Hairy Woodpecker
1Wood Duck
1Baltimore Oriole
1Northern Waterthrush
1Willow Flycatcher
1Saltmarsh Sparrow

May 8

1Eastern Screech-Owl
1Blue-winged Warbler