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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.

April 29

2Black-bellied Plover
4Killdeer
1Semipalmated Plover
1Hudsonian Whimbrel
3Short-billed Dowitcher
1Willet
1Greater Yellowlegs
3Sanderling
3Least Sandpiper
7Least Tern
1Forster's Tern
1Common Loon
2Anhinga
2Double-crested Cormorant
3Little Blue Heron
4Tricolored Heron
3Snowy Egret
1Great Egret
1Great Blue Heron
1Fish Crow
1Tufted Titmouse
1Barn Swallow
1Carolina Wren
1Red-winged Blackbird
2Boat-tailed Grackle
1Northern Cardinal
1Painted Bunting
1Canada Goose
3Mourning Dove
9Dunlin
1Laughing Gull
2Green Heron
1Turkey Vulture
1Osprey
1Downy Woodpecker
4American Crow
2Carolina Chickadee
1Tree Swallow
1Brown Thrasher
1Common Grackle
1American Oystercatcher
1Ring-billed Gull
1Sandwich Tern
22Royal Tern
1Great Crested Flycatcher
1Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
1Northern Mockingbird
1Brown-headed Cowbird
10Common Gallinule
2Lesser Yellowlegs
1Red-bellied Woodpecker
1Eastern Bluebird
1Northern Parula
4Pine Warbler
1Ruby-crowned Kinglet
1Common Yellowthroat
1Red-headed Woodpecker
2Blue Jay
1Black-and-white Warbler
1Prothonotary Warbler
2American Coot
1Red-shouldered Hawk
2House Finch
1Yellow-rumped Warbler
1Semipalmated Sandpiper
1Brown Pelican
2White Ibis
1Glossy Ibis
1Black-crowned Night Heron
1Mississippi Kite
1Pileated Woodpecker
3White-eyed Vireo
2Red-eyed Vireo
2Gray Catbird
2American Redstart
2Prairie Warbler
1Clapper Rail
1Solitary Sandpiper
1Least Bittern
2Black Vulture
2Ovenbird
1Rock Pigeon
1Chuck-will's-widow
1Chimney Swift
1Sora
3Spotted Sandpiper
1Roseate Spoonbill
1Yellow-crowned Night Heron
1Bald Eagle
3Brown-headed Nuthatch
1American Robin
1Seaside Sparrow
1Savannah Sparrow
1White-throated Sparrow
1Swamp Sparrow
1Yellow-breasted Chat
1Orchard Oriole
1Rose-breasted Grosbeak
4Wilson's Plover
2Long-billed Dowitcher
18Ruddy Turnstone
19Black Skimmer
1Gull-billed Tern
5Northern Gannet
1Northern Harrier
1Belted Kingfisher
1White-breasted Nuthatch
2Marsh Wren
2Cedar Waxwing
2Song Sparrow

April 28

2Common Nighthawk
2Purple Gallinule
1Caspian Tern
1Pied-billed Grebe
1Peregrine Falcon
1Eastern Kingbird
1Blue-headed Vireo
4European Starling
4Wilson's Snipe
2Pectoral Sandpiper
4American Herring Gull
1Brown Creeper
1Veery
1Baltimore Oriole
1Bobolink
3Western Cattle-Egret
1Indigo Bunting
1Wood Duck
1Red-breasted Merganser
1Bonaparte's Gull
1Red-tailed Hawk
2Purple Martin
1Nelson's Sparrow
2Saltmarsh Sparrow
1Cape May Warbler

April 27

2Stilt Sandpiper
1Black-throated Blue Warbler
1Piping Plover
1Acadian Flycatcher
1Blue-winged Teal
2Black-necked Stilt
2Wood Stork
2Yellow-throated Warbler
1Ruby-throated Hummingbird
2American Goldfinch
2Western Sandpiper
1Blue Grosbeak
1Virginia Rail
16Black Scoter
1Summer Tanager

April 26

1Hooded Warbler
1Eastern Wood-Pewee
1Yellow-throated Vireo
2Lesser Scaup
1King Rail
1Lesser Black-backed Gull
1Eastern Towhee

April 25

1Blackburnian Warbler
1Merlin
1Worm-eating Warbler
1Magnolia Warbler

April 24

4Red Knot
1Scarlet Tanager
1Broad-winged Hawk
1Hermit Thrush

April 23

1American Kestrel
1Palm Warbler
1Marbled Godwit
1Wood Thrush
1Northern House Wren