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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 21

4Gadwall ✓
1Wild Turkey ✓
1Mourning Dove ✓
2American Coot ✓
4Willet ✓
2Sanderling ✓
2Forster's Tern ✓
6Wood Stork ✓
1Northern Gannet ✓
1Roseate Spoonbill ✓
2Snowy Egret ✓
4Great Egret ✓
1Osprey ✓
1Eastern Screech-Owl ✓
2Belted Kingfisher ✓
1Least Flycatcher ✓
2Loggerhead Shrike ✓
6Blue Jay ✓
1Carolina Chickadee ✓
2Ruby-crowned Kinglet ✓
2Blue-gray Gnatcatcher ✓
2Carolina Wren ✓
4Northern Mockingbird ✓
1House Finch ✓
1Chipping Sparrow ✓
1Orange-crowned Warbler ✓
1Chestnut-sided Warbler ✓
2Northern Cardinal ✓

October 20

1Ruby-throated Hummingbird ✓
8Semipalmated Plover ✓
4Piping Plover ✓
2Short-billed Dowitcher ✓
4Least Sandpiper ✓
4Laughing Gull ✓
2Pied-billed Grebe ✓
2Yellow-crowned Night Heron ✓
4Brown Pelican ✓
1Red-tailed Hawk ✓
1Downy Woodpecker ✓
2White-eyed Vireo ✓
2Eastern Bluebird ✓
1White-throated Sparrow ✓
4Common Grackle ✓
1American Redstart ✓

October 19

1Ring-billed Gull ✓
4White Ibis ✓
2American Crow ✓
1Tufted Titmouse ✓
1Brown Creeper ✓
2Gray Catbird ✓
1Seaside Sparrow ✓
1Swamp Sparrow ✓
1Red-winged Blackbird ✓
1Common Yellowthroat ✓
1Double-crested Cormorant ✓
1Little Blue Heron ✓
1Tricolored Heron ✓
2Great Blue Heron ✓
11Killdeer ✓
1Northern Flicker ✓
7Yellow-rumped Warbler ✓
1Prairie Warbler ✓
1Clapper Rail ✓
3Black Vulture ✓
1Turkey Vulture ✓
1Northern Harrier ✓
1Bald Eagle ✓
1Red-bellied Woodpecker ✓
10Fish Crow ✓
2Brown-headed Nuthatch ✓
1Cooper's Hawk ✓
3Yellow-bellied Sapsucker ✓
1Merlin ✓
1Eastern Phoebe ✓
1Brown Thrasher ✓
5Palm Warbler ✓
3Pine Warbler ✓
2Painted Bunting ✓
2Ruddy Duck ✓
1Yellow-billed Cuckoo ✓
1Marbled Godwit ✓
1White-rumped Sandpiper ✓
1Western Sandpiper ✓
1Blue-headed Vireo ✓
1Marsh Wren ✓
1American Robin ✓
1Saltmarsh Sparrow ✓
1Cape May Warbler ✓

October 18

1Common Tern ✓
1Red-shouldered Hawk ✓
3Green-winged Teal ✓
10Common Gallinule ✓
1Sharp-shinned Hawk ✓
1Pileated Woodpecker ✓
1Gray-cheeked Thrush ✓
3Boat-tailed Grackle ✓
10Tree Swallow ✓
1Northern House Wren ✓
1Black-and-white Warbler ✓
1Northern Parula ✓
6Ruddy Turnstone ✓
2Dunlin ✓
1Caspian Tern ✓
1Song Sparrow ✓
1Black-bellied Plover ✓
2Greater Yellowlegs ✓
1American Herring Gull ✓
1Sandwich Tern ✓
1Black-crowned Night Heron ✓
3Golden-crowned Kinglet ✓
1Northern Waterthrush ✓
1Blackpoll Warbler ✓
2Blue Grosbeak ✓
1Chuck-will's-widow ✓
1Barred Owl ✓
1Savannah Sparrow ✓

October 17

2Brown-headed Cowbird ✓
1Hooded Warbler ✓
1Black-throated Blue Warbler ✓
1Spotted Sandpiper ✓
1Royal Tern ✓
1Anhinga ✓
7Barn Swallow ✓
2European Starling ✓
1Bay-breasted Warbler ✓
1Blue-winged Teal ✓
4Red Knot ✓
1Peregrine Falcon ✓
1Horned Lark ✓
1White-crowned Sparrow ✓
1Canada Goose ✓
2American Avocet ✓
16Semipalmated Sandpiper
1Hermit Thrush ✓
1Winter Wren ✓
1House Sparrow ✓
1Ovenbird ✓

October 16

1Sedge Wren ✓
1Rock Pigeon ✓
1Indigo Bunting ✓
1Red-headed Woodpecker ✓
2White-breasted Nuthatch ✓
1Swainson's Thrush ✓
1Summer Tanager

October 15

1Magnolia Warbler ✓
1Mute Swan ✓
1Purple Martin
1Long-billed Dowitcher ✓
1Wood Thrush ✓
1Great Horned Owl ✓
1Red-eyed Vireo ✓

October 14

1Yellow-throated Warbler ✓
1King Rail