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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.

June 1

1Mourning Dove
1Ruby-throated Hummingbird
2Clapper Rail
2Willet
1Least Sandpiper
4Ring-billed Gull
2Black Skimmer
2Pied-billed Grebe
4Wood Stork
4Roseate Spoonbill
2Little Blue Heron
4Snowy Egret
2Great Egret
1Great Blue Heron
1Bald Eagle
1Downy Woodpecker
1Carolina Chickadee
1Tufted Titmouse
2Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
1Marsh Wren
2Northern Mockingbird
1Bachman's Sparrow
1Chipping Sparrow
4Red-winged Blackbird
2Brown-headed Cowbird
2Summer Tanager
4Northern Cardinal
2Painted Bunting
1Wood Duck
3Chimney Swift
6Common Gallinule
2Killdeer
4Laughing Gull
4Least Tern
3Anhinga
18White Ibis
1Glossy Ibis
1Least Bittern
1Yellow-crowned Night Heron
1Black-crowned Night Heron
5Green Heron
4Turkey Vulture
1Osprey
1Red-headed Woodpecker
3Red-bellied Woodpecker
1Great Crested Flycatcher
2Blue Jay
1American Crow
11Barn Swallow
5Carolina Wren
2Brown Thrasher
2Eastern Bluebird
7House Finch
16Common Grackle
7Boat-tailed Grackle
5Prothonotary Warbler
1Northern Parula
2Pine Warbler
4Black-bellied Plover
3Semipalmated Plover
1Greater Yellowlegs
24Semipalmated Sandpiper
1Double-crested Cormorant
7Tricolored Heron
1Eastern Whip-poor-will
2Black-necked Stilt
2Spotted Sandpiper
1Sanderling
1Dunlin
2Gull-billed Tern
2Belted Kingfisher
1Eastern Kingbird
1White-breasted Nuthatch
1Eastern Towhee
1Black-throated Green Warbler

May 31

1American Coot
1Brown-headed Nuthatch
1Orchard Oriole
1Common Yellowthroat
1Purple Gallinule
5Forster's Tern
2Fish Crow
1Brown Pelican
1Black Vulture
1Pileated Woodpecker
1Yellow-billed Cuckoo
2American Herring Gull
2Sandwich Tern

May 30

3Canada Goose
1Common Nighthawk
2American Oystercatcher
9Ruddy Turnstone
8Royal Tern
2Mississippi Kite
1Northern House Wren
1Hudsonian Whimbrel
1Wilson's Phalarope
2Great Black-backed Gull
1Broad-winged Hawk
1White-eyed Vireo
1Orange-crowned Warbler
4Black-bellied Whistling-Duck

May 29

1Swallow-tailed Kite
1Yellow-throated Vireo
1Black-and-white Warbler
1Blackpoll Warbler
5Wilson's Plover
1Purple Martin
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
2Tree Swallow
1Red-eyed Vireo
1Gray Catbird
1Northern Rough-winged Swallow
2Blue Grosbeak

May 27

1Cooper's Hawk
1Blue-winged Warbler

May 26

4American Robin