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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.

May 17

1Mourning Dove
1Ruby-throated Hummingbird
2Spotted Sandpiper
1Double-crested Cormorant
1Tricolored Heron
2Snowy Egret
3Great Egret
1Great Crested Flycatcher
1Blue Jay
1Carolina Chickadee
1Tufted Titmouse
1Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
2Red-winged Blackbird
3Northern Cardinal
1Common Nighthawk
12Black-bellied Plover
2Killdeer
20Semipalmated Plover
12Wilson's Plover
2Hudsonian Whimbrel
10Short-billed Dowitcher
3Lesser Yellowlegs
25Willet
3Greater Yellowlegs
7Ruddy Turnstone
3Red Knot
20Sanderling
5Dunlin
15Least Sandpiper
25Semipalmated Sandpiper
6Laughing Gull
6Black Skimmer
30Least Tern
3Caspian Tern
2Forster's Tern
2Sandwich Tern
11Royal Tern
1Anhinga
2White Ibis
4Roseate Spoonbill
3Great Blue Heron
7Brown Pelican
2Osprey
1Red-bellied Woodpecker
2American Crow
2Fish Crow
6Tree Swallow
4Purple Martin
2Barn Swallow
1Brown-headed Nuthatch
1Marsh Wren
1Carolina Wren
1Brown Thrasher
2Northern Mockingbird
3American Robin
3House Finch
1Orchard Oriole
3Brown-headed Cowbird
7Common Grackle
4Boat-tailed Grackle
1Pine Warbler
2Painted Bunting
3Little Blue Heron
2Green Heron
1Summer Tanager
2Black Scoter
1Eurasian Collared-Dove
1American Coot
2Black-necked Stilt
4Ring-billed Gull
2Gull-billed Tern
2Wood Stork
2Turkey Vulture
1Red-tailed Hawk
1Pileated Woodpecker
1Red-eyed Vireo
2Gray Catbird
1Wood Thrush
1Common Yellowthroat
1Black-throated Blue Warbler
3Canada Goose
2Clapper Rail
1Least Bittern
1Downy Woodpecker
2European Starling
1Yellow-breasted Chat
1Prothonotary Warbler
1Indigo Bunting

May 16

4Common Gallinule
2White-breasted Nuthatch
2Purple Gallinule
1Black-crowned Night Heron
1American Kestrel
1Eastern Kingbird
1Blue-winged Warbler
4Chimney Swift
5Western Sandpiper
1Red-shouldered Hawk
1Eastern Wood-Pewee
3Northern Parula
4Wild Turkey
6Solitary Sandpiper
2Belted Kingfisher
1Red-headed Woodpecker
1Eastern Bluebird

May 15

1Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
2Glossy Ibis
2Bald Eagle
1Yellow-billed Cuckoo
2Stilt Sandpiper
1American Redstart
1White-eyed Vireo
1Mallard
3Pectoral Sandpiper
1Eastern Towhee
1Magnolia Warbler
1Northern Yellow Warbler

May 14

1Yellow-crowned Night Heron

May 13

1Mississippi Kite
XAmerican Bittern
1Swallow-tailed Kite
2Black Vulture
3Cedar Waxwing

May 12

1Sora
1White-rumped Sandpiper
1Seaside Sparrow

May 11

3Chuck-will's-widow
1Cooper's Hawk
1Rose-breasted Grosbeak
1Pied-billed Grebe
1Hooded Warbler
4Long-billed Dowitcher