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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.

November 6

28Wood Stork ✓
3Snowy Egret ✓
12Great Egret ✓
4Great Blue Heron ✓
4Double-crested Cormorant ✓
1Belted Kingfisher ✓
2Yellow-bellied Sapsucker ✓
1Red-bellied Woodpecker ✓
1Downy Woodpecker ✓
1Pileated Woodpecker ✓
2Blue-headed Vireo ✓
3Blue Jay ✓
1American Crow ✓
3Carolina Chickadee ✓
3Tufted Titmouse ✓
2Ruby-crowned Kinglet ✓
1White-breasted Nuthatch ✓
1Brown-headed Nuthatch ✓
2Carolina Wren ✓
1Northern Mockingbird ✓
2Eastern Bluebird ✓
1White-throated Sparrow ✓
1Pine Warbler ✓
1Yellow-rumped Warbler ✓
1Northern Cardinal ✓
1Mourning Dove ✓
1Spotted Sandpiper ✓
1Laughing Gull ✓
2Forster's Tern ✓
1Pied-billed Grebe ✓
1White Ibis ✓
2Roseate Spoonbill ✓
1Little Blue Heron ✓
2Tricolored Heron ✓
12Brown Pelican ✓
1Northern Flicker ✓
1Eastern Phoebe ✓
1Fish Crow ✓
1Gray Catbird ✓
1House Finch ✓
3Red-winged Blackbird ✓
1Common Grackle ✓
1Virginia Rail ✓
1Sora ✓
20Common Gallinule ✓
2American Coot ✓
1Black-crowned Night Heron ✓
1Red-shouldered Hawk ✓
1Merlin ✓
2Tree Swallow ✓
1Northern House Wren ✓
1Swamp Sparrow ✓
1Eastern Towhee ✓
1Common Yellowthroat ✓
4Ruddy Duck ✓
2Sanderling ✓
4American Herring Gull ✓
1Anhinga ✓
1Bald Eagle ✓
1Blue-gray Gnatcatcher ✓
1Savannah Sparrow ✓
1Peregrine Falcon ✓
1Nelson's Sparrow ✓
2Song Sparrow ✓

November 5

71Ruddy Turnstone ✓
1Least Sandpiper ✓
4Ring-billed Gull ✓
350Black Skimmer ✓
50Royal Tern ✓
1Northern Gannet ✓
1Green-winged Teal ✓
1Killdeer ✓
1Clapper Rail ✓
1Short-billed Dowitcher ✓
2Western Sandpiper ✓
2Bonaparte's Gull ✓
1Brown Creeper ✓
1Palm Warbler ✓
1Prairie Warbler ✓
3Blue-winged Teal ✓
2Golden-crowned Kinglet ✓
1Osprey ✓
1American Goldfinch ✓
3Black-bellied Plover ✓
26Semipalmated Plover ✓
1Lesser Yellowlegs ✓
4Prairie Willet ✓
2Greater Yellowlegs ✓
37Dunlin ✓
8Caspian Tern ✓
4Sandwich Tern ✓
1Hermit Thrush ✓
1Turkey Vulture ✓
1Northern Waterthrush
4Red Knot ✓
1Ruby-throated Hummingbird ✓
1Long-billed Dowitcher ✓
1Cooper's Hawk ✓
1Sedge Wren ✓
2European Starling ✓
1American Pipit ✓
1Saltmarsh Sparrow ✓
1Rusty Blackbird ✓
1Brown Thrasher ✓

November 4

1White-eyed Vireo ✓
1White-crowned Sparrow ✓
1Brown-headed Cowbird ✓
2American Redstart ✓
1Winter Wren ✓
1Hooded Merganser ✓
1American Oystercatcher ✓
1Black Vulture ✓
1Field Sparrow ✓
1Seaside Sparrow ✓
1Black-and-white Warbler ✓
1American Robin ✓
17Boat-tailed Grackle ✓

November 3

1Great Horned Owl ✓
11Black Scoter ✓
2Loggerhead Shrike ✓
8Canada Goose ✓

November 2

1Black-throated Blue Warbler ✓
1Lesser Black-backed Gull ✓
1Northern Harrier ✓
1Surf Scoter ✓
2Gadwall ✓
1Green Heron ✓

November 1

2Wild Turkey ✓
1Purple Finch ✓
1Chuck-will's-widow ✓
1Lesser Scaup ✓
2Great Black-backed Gull ✓
1Common Loon ✓
1Chipping Sparrow ✓

October 31

1Hairy Woodpecker
1Cape May Warbler ✓
2Painted Bunting ✓
2Eurasian Collared-Dove ✓
1Eastern Marsh Wren ✓
1Orange-crowned Warbler ✓
1Blackpoll Warbler ✓

October 30

1Red-tailed Hawk ✓