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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.

July 28

1Mourning Dove
1Chimney Swift
1Ruby-throated Hummingbird
11Common Gallinule
4White Ibis
1Least Bittern
3Yellow-crowned Night Heron
27Tricolored Heron
43Snowy Egret
1Green Heron
27Great Egret
1Great Blue Heron
1Great Crested Flycatcher
1Tufted Titmouse
5Barn Swallow
1Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
1Carolina Wren
7Red-winged Blackbird
1Northern Cardinal
3Hudsonian Whimbrel
1Lesser Yellowlegs
2Pectoral Sandpiper
2Laughing Gull
12Least Tern
40Wood Stork
1Anhinga
1Double-crested Cormorant
1Little Blue Heron
1Downy Woodpecker
1American Crow
2Painted Bunting
2Black-bellied Plover
12Spotted Sandpiper
2Willet
2Ruddy Turnstone
9Sanderling
1Dunlin
2Ring-billed Gull
2Caspian Tern
2Forster's Tern
1Common Tern
12Royal Tern
8Brown Pelican
3Osprey
2Carolina Chickadee
1Northern Mockingbird
1American Coot
2Least Sandpiper
2Roseate Spoonbill
1Black-crowned Night Heron
1Mississippi Kite
2Belted Kingfisher
1Eastern Kingbird
2Yellow-throated Vireo
2Blue Jay
4European Starling
2House Finch
6Brown-headed Cowbird
2Boat-tailed Grackle
1American Herring Gull
3Glossy Ibis
1White-eyed Vireo
1Red-eyed Vireo
1Hooded Warbler
1Eurasian Collared-Dove
4Semipalmated Plover
1Turkey Vulture
1Fish Crow
1Eastern Bluebird
3Clapper Rail
2Sandwich Tern
2Bald Eagle
3Common Yellowthroat
2Red-bellied Woodpecker
1White-breasted Nuthatch
2Pied-billed Grebe
2American Goldfinch

July 27

1Yellow-billed Cuckoo
2Orchard Oriole
2Summer Tanager
1American Oystercatcher
1Wilson's Plover
2Eastern Whip-poor-will
4Short-billed Dowitcher
1Gull-billed Tern

July 26

1Reddish Egret
1Purple Martin
1Red-tailed Hawk
1Prairie Warbler
4American Robin
1Yellow-throated Warbler

July 25

1Chuck-will's-widow
2Killdeer
2Loggerhead Shrike
2Brown Thrasher

July 24

2Red-headed Woodpecker
1Black Tern
1Chipping Sparrow
1Mallard
1Eastern Wood-Pewee
1Seaside Sparrow
2Common Grackle
1Pine Warbler
1Common Nighthawk
2Greater Yellowlegs

July 23

1Black Skimmer

July 22

2Semipalmated Sandpiper