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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 18

1Sanderling
1Yellow-crowned Night Heron
1Killdeer
15Least Sandpiper
5Little Blue Heron
1Red-bellied Woodpecker
2Great Crested Flycatcher
1American Crow
1Carolina Wren
4Red-winged Blackbird
1Boat-tailed Grackle
1Northern Parula
1Pine Warbler
4Northern Cardinal
1Clapper Rail
17Semipalmated Plover
2Greater Yellowlegs
XSemipalmated Sandpiper
4Least Tern
6Anhinga
1Double-crested Cormorant
4Roseate Spoonbill
1Tricolored Heron
5Snowy Egret
5Great Egret
3Great Blue Heron
1Tufted Titmouse
2Barn Swallow
1Brown Thrasher
5Brown-headed Cowbird
2Painted Bunting
6Canada Goose
1Eurasian Collared-Dove
2Ruby-throated Hummingbird
2American Oystercatcher
1Black-bellied Plover
2Spotted Sandpiper
4Solitary Sandpiper
1Lesser Yellowlegs
2White-rumped Sandpiper
4Western Sandpiper
2Ring-billed Gull
1Pied-billed Grebe
2White Ibis
1Belted Kingfisher
1Carolina Chickadee
1Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
2Northern Mockingbird
1Wood Thrush
1Savannah Sparrow
1Blue-winged Warbler
1Common Yellowthroat
1Summer Tanager
4Mourning Dove
8Common Gallinule
2Wood Stork
3Green Heron
1Red-headed Woodpecker
2White-eyed Vireo
2Blue Jay
2Fish Crow
4White-breasted Nuthatch
3Brown-headed Nuthatch
3House Finch
1Orchard Oriole
4Common Grackle

May 17

1Common Nighthawk
1Eastern Towhee
4Stilt Sandpiper
2Gull-billed Tern
1Black-crowned Night Heron
1Osprey
1Swallow-tailed Kite
1Downy Woodpecker
4American Robin
3Short-billed Dowitcher
3Laughing Gull
12Wilson's Plover
2Hudsonian Whimbrel
25Willet
7Ruddy Turnstone
3Red Knot
5Dunlin
6Black Skimmer
3Caspian Tern
2Forster's Tern
2Sandwich Tern
11Royal Tern
7Brown Pelican
6Tree Swallow
4Purple Martin
1Marsh Wren
2Black Scoter
1American Coot
2Black-necked Stilt
2Turkey Vulture
1Red-tailed Hawk
1Pileated Woodpecker
1Red-eyed Vireo
2Gray Catbird
1Black-throated Blue Warbler
1Least Bittern
2European Starling
1Yellow-breasted Chat
1Prothonotary Warbler
1Indigo Bunting

May 16

2Purple Gallinule
1American Kestrel
1Eastern Kingbird
4Chimney Swift
1Red-shouldered Hawk
1Eastern Wood-Pewee
4Wild Turkey
1Eastern Bluebird

May 15

1Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
2Glossy Ibis
2Bald Eagle
1Yellow-billed Cuckoo
1American Redstart
1Mallard
3Pectoral Sandpiper
1Magnolia Warbler
1Northern Yellow Warbler

May 13

1Mississippi Kite
XAmerican Bittern
2Black Vulture
3Cedar Waxwing

May 12

1Sora
1Seaside Sparrow

May 11

3Chuck-will's-widow
1Cooper's Hawk