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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.

October 5

35Chimney Swift ✓
11Common Gallinule ✓
2American Coot ✓
3Double-crested Cormorant ✓
4Great Egret ✓
5American Crow ✓
6Carolina Chickadee ✓
2White-breasted Nuthatch ✓
2Carolina Wren ✓
5Northern Waterthrush ✓
2Prothonotary Warbler ✓
7American Redstart ✓
4Pine Warbler ✓
23Northern Cardinal ✓
2Mourning Dove ✓
1Black-bellied Plover ✓
1American Golden-Plover ✓
1Greater Yellowlegs ✓
1Forster's Tern ✓
4Royal Tern ✓
21Wood Stork ✓
1Yellow-crowned Night Heron ✓
1Little Blue Heron ✓
2Great Blue Heron ✓
1Osprey ✓
2Red-bellied Woodpecker ✓
1Downy Woodpecker ✓
3Blue Jay ✓
2Gray Catbird ✓
1American Robin ✓
7House Finch ✓
7Red-winged Blackbird ✓
1Common Yellowthroat ✓
1Killdeer ✓
9Ruddy Turnstone ✓
11Sanderling ✓
2Snowy Egret ✓
1Belted Kingfisher ✓
1Northern Flicker ✓
1Eastern Wood-Pewee ✓
4Northern Mockingbird ✓
10Eastern Bluebird ✓
8Palm Warbler ✓
2Ruby-throated Hummingbird ✓
1Clapper Rail ✓
2Spotted Sandpiper ✓
4Willet ✓
4White Ibis ✓
1Green Heron ✓
1Eastern Phoebe ✓
1Blue-gray Gnatcatcher ✓
1White-crowned Sparrow ✓
1Savannah Sparrow ✓
6Brown-headed Cowbird ✓
1Orange-crowned Warbler ✓
1Painted Bunting ✓
1Yellow-billed Cuckoo ✓
12Sandwich Tern ✓
3Roseate Spoonbill ✓
1Red-headed Woodpecker ✓
1Tufted Titmouse ✓
1Caspian Tern ✓
1Brown-headed Nuthatch ✓
1Common Nighthawk ✓
2Wilson's Snipe ✓
2Gull-billed Tern ✓
1Great Crested Flycatcher ✓
1Eastern Kingbird ✓
2Ruby-crowned Kinglet ✓
1American Pipit ✓
1Saltmarsh Sparrow ✓
2Common Grackle ✓
1Black-and-white Warbler ✓
1Nashville Warbler ✓
1Chestnut-sided Warbler ✓
1Prairie Warbler ✓
2Blue Grosbeak ✓
11Blue-winged Teal ✓
2Laughing Gull ✓
2Black-crowned Night Heron ✓
1Tricolored Heron ✓
1Red-shouldered Hawk ✓
1Pileated Woodpecker ✓
1Brown Thrasher ✓
1Boat-tailed Grackle ✓

October 4

1Long-billed Dowitcher ✓
1Dunlin ✓
4Least Sandpiper ✓
4Black Skimmer ✓
2Pied-billed Grebe ✓
1White-eyed Vireo ✓
2Barn Swallow ✓
1Anhinga ✓
8Brown Pelican ✓
1Bald Eagle ✓
15Tree Swallow ✓
1Kentucky Warbler ✓
4Cape May Warbler
1Bay-breasted Warbler ✓

October 3

1Glossy Ibis ✓
2American Oystercatcher ✓
75Semipalmated Plover ✓
25Short-billed Dowitcher ✓
4Lesser Yellowlegs ✓
2Western Sandpiper ✓
1Chuck-will's-widow ✓
2Piping Plover ✓
1Merlin ✓
1Yellow-throated Vireo ✓
1Hooded Warbler ✓
5Ring-billed Gull ✓
5American Herring Gull ✓
1Lesser Black-backed Gull ✓
1Peregrine Falcon ✓

October 2

1Northern Harrier ✓
1Sedge Wren ✓
1Black Vulture ✓
1Reddish Egret ✓
1Cliff Swallow ✓
1Seaside Sparrow ✓
1Eurasian Collared-Dove ✓
1Barred Owl ✓
1Yellow-bellied Sapsucker ✓
2Loggerhead Shrike ✓
1Brown Creeper ✓
1American Goldfinch ✓

October 1

2Semipalmated Sandpiper ✓
2Turkey Vulture ✓
1Magnolia Warbler ✓
2Indigo Bunting ✓
1Broad-winged Hawk ✓
1American Kestrel ✓
2Cedar Waxwing ✓
1Nelson's Sparrow ✓

September 30

2American Woodcock ✓
1Solitary Sandpiper ✓
1Red-tailed Hawk ✓
1Blue-winged Warbler ✓
1Scarlet Tanager ✓
1Hairy Woodpecker

September 29

4Red-eyed Vireo ✓
2Black-throated Green Warbler ✓
2Mute Swan ✓
1Cooper's Hawk ✓
1Summer Tanager ✓