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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.

March 22

6Bufflehead
1Mourning Dove
2Clapper Rail
2Sora
4Semipalmated Plover
2Short-billed Dowitcher
1Spotted Sandpiper
6Sanderling
2Ring-billed Gull
6American Herring Gull
1Pied-billed Grebe
1Common Loon
4Double-crested Cormorant
1American Bittern
6Snowy Egret
1Green Heron
4Great Blue Heron
1Osprey
1Cooper's Hawk
1Red-shouldered Hawk
1Downy Woodpecker
1Pileated Woodpecker
2Eastern Phoebe
6Blue Jay
2American Crow
1Tufted Titmouse
1Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
1Carolina Wren
2Gray Catbird
1Pine Siskin
2Red-winged Blackbird
1Ovenbird
1Pine Warbler
2Northern Cardinal

March 21

1American Coot
4Willet
1Sandwich Tern
6White Ibis
2Belted Kingfisher
2White-eyed Vireo
1Brown Creeper
2House Finch
2Yellow-rumped Warbler
3Common Gallinule
4Greater Yellowlegs
3Anhinga
1Little Blue Heron
2Tricolored Heron
3Great Egret
1Brown Pelican
2Bald Eagle
1Red-bellied Woodpecker
1Northern Mockingbird
1Common Grackle
8Gadwall
3Green-winged Teal
1Killdeer
3Dunlin
1Laughing Gull
6Forster's Tern
1Blue-headed Vireo
1Carolina Chickadee
4Tree Swallow
2Ruby-crowned Kinglet
8Cedar Waxwing
3White-throated Sparrow
1Seaside Sparrow
2European Starling
1Eastern Bluebird
1Song Sparrow
1Rusty Blackbird
1Yellow-throated Warbler

March 20

1Brown-headed Nuthatch
4Ruddy Duck
1Ruby-throated Hummingbird
1Virginia Rail
4Piping Plover
2Wilson's Snipe
1Horned Grebe
1Northern Harrier
2Fish Crow
1Sedge Wren
6Chipping Sparrow
1Common Yellowthroat
98Black-bellied Plover
3Wilson's Plover
1Lesser Yellowlegs
5Ruddy Turnstone
4Least Sandpiper
24Western Sandpiper
7Bonaparte's Gull
2Royal Tern
1Red-throated Loon
2Savannah Sparrow
1Hooded Merganser
1Boat-tailed Grackle
1Chuck-will's-widow
2Lesser Black-backed Gull
2Yellow-crowned Night Heron
1Baltimore Oriole

March 19

4Turkey Vulture
1Northern Rough-winged Swallow
1Hermit Thrush
1Northern Bobwhite
2Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
1Field Sparrow
1Saltmarsh Sparrow
1Northern Parula
1Eurasian Collared-Dove
1American Woodcock
4Wood Stork
1Eastern Kingbird
1White-breasted Nuthatch
1Marsh Wren
1Black-and-white Warbler

March 18

2Brown-headed Cowbird
1Purple Sandpiper
2Black-crowned Night Heron
1Golden-crowned Kinglet

March 17

2American White Pelican
1Peregrine Falcon
1Palm Warbler
2American Avocet
1Brown Thrasher
8American Robin
5Blue-winged Teal
2Mallard
1Swamp Sparrow
1Eastern Towhee

March 16

2American Pipit
1Dark-eyed Junco
1Parasitic Jaeger
1Barred Owl
1American Kestrel
1American Goldfinch

March 15

1Marbled Godwit
1Nelson's Sparrow
1Orchard Oriole
1Red-tailed Hawk