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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 11

2Mourning Dove
1Ruby-throated Hummingbird
4Clapper Rail
5Common Gallinule
2Black-necked Stilt
13Black-bellied Plover
3Killdeer
62Semipalmated Plover
5Hudsonian Whimbrel
13Short-billed Dowitcher
4Long-billed Dowitcher
2Spotted Sandpiper
4Lesser Yellowlegs
4Willet
1Greater Yellowlegs
1Stilt Sandpiper
6Dunlin
1White-rumped Sandpiper
320Semipalmated Sandpiper
4Laughing Gull
1Black Skimmer
1Royal Tern
3Anhinga
26Double-crested Cormorant
16White Ibis
3Roseate Spoonbill
1Yellow-crowned Night Heron
3Little Blue Heron
5Tricolored Heron
11Snowy Egret
9Green Heron
28Great Egret
6Great Blue Heron
2Red-headed Woodpecker
2Red-bellied Woodpecker
1Pileated Woodpecker
5Great Crested Flycatcher
2Blue Jay
2American Crow
4Fish Crow
5Carolina Chickadee
6Tufted Titmouse
2Purple Martin
12Barn Swallow
8Carolina Wren
2Brown Thrasher
2Northern Mockingbird
3House Finch
11Red-winged Blackbird
5Brown-headed Cowbird
7Common Grackle
2Boat-tailed Grackle
11Northern Cardinal
4Painted Bunting

May 10

1Solitary Sandpiper
1Least Bittern
1Downy Woodpecker
1Eastern Kingbird
1Brown-headed Nuthatch
1Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
1Orchard Oriole
3Prothonotary Warbler
1Northern Parula
1Pine Warbler
26Least Sandpiper
9Least Tern
4Wood Stork
1Turkey Vulture
4Western Sandpiper
2Ring-billed Gull
6Brown Pelican
1Bald Eagle
1Orange-crowned Warbler
1Hooded Warbler
2Piping Plover
1American Robin
1Summer Tanager
2Forster's Tern
1Red-shouldered Hawk
1American Redstart
2Wild Turkey
1Yellow-billed Cuckoo
1Chuck-will's-widow
1American Coot
1Swallow-tailed Kite
1White-breasted Nuthatch
4European Starling
1Eastern Towhee
1Common Yellowthroat

May 9

4Sanderling
1Gull-billed Tern
2Belted Kingfisher
1Gray-cheeked Thrush
1Black-and-white Warbler
1Black-crowned Night Heron
1Chimney Swift
1Sandhill Crane
1Wilson's Plover
1Hairy Woodpecker
1Osprey
1Eastern Bluebird
1White-eyed Vireo
1Wood Duck
1Mallard
2Glossy Ibis
1Red-eyed Vireo
1Marsh Wren
1Yellow-breasted Chat
1Baltimore Oriole
1Northern Waterthrush
1Willow Flycatcher
1Saltmarsh Sparrow

May 8

1Eastern Screech-Owl
1Common Nighthawk
1Eastern Wood-Pewee
1Sora
1Blue-winged Warbler
1King Rail
2Pied-billed Grebe
1Yellow-throated Vireo
2Tree Swallow
1Gray Catbird
1Ovenbird
1Swainson's Warbler
1Northern Yellow Warbler
1Blackpoll Warbler
1Black-throated Blue Warbler
1Rose-breasted Grosbeak
1Blue Grosbeak

May 7

2American Bittern
2Prairie Warbler
1Bobolink
1Eastern Whip-poor-will
1Wilson's Phalarope
1Sandwich Tern
1Red-tailed Hawk
1Chestnut-sided Warbler

May 6

1Nelson's Sparrow
5Ruddy Turnstone
1Wood Thrush
1Blue-headed Vireo

May 5

2Bonaparte's Gull
XHouse Sparrow
4Western Cattle-Egret
3Black Vulture
4American Herring Gull
1Cape May Warbler
1Magnolia Warbler
1Acadian Flycatcher
2American White Pelican
1Chipping Sparrow
1American Golden-Plover

May 4

2American Goldfinch