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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 20

1Mourning Dove
2Ruby-throated Hummingbird
1American Coot
2Black-necked Stilt
1Spotted Sandpiper
1Solitary Sandpiper
2Sanderling
2Western Sandpiper
6Ring-billed Gull
4Gull-billed Tern
2Pied-billed Grebe
1Glossy Ibis
1Little Blue Heron
2Brown Pelican
1Osprey
1Red-shouldered Hawk
1Eastern Kingbird
2Fish Crow
1Carolina Chickadee
19Brown-headed Nuthatch
1Gray-cheeked Thrush
1American Robin
1Savannah Sparrow
4Red-winged Blackbird
2Boat-tailed Grackle
1Common Yellowthroat
1American Redstart
2Painted Bunting
4Common Gallinule
20Piping Plover
5Double-crested Cormorant
1Green Heron
7Great Egret
3Great Blue Heron
1Orchard Oriole
6Common Grackle
1Northern Cardinal
3Black-bellied Plover
XSemipalmated Plover
XSemipalmated Sandpiper
1Royal Tern
2Anhinga
6Tricolored Heron
3Snowy Egret
1Great Crested Flycatcher
1White-eyed Vireo
1Marsh Wren
2Roseate Spoonbill
1Killdeer
1Turkey Vulture
1Bald Eagle
1American Crow
6Barn Swallow
2Carolina Wren

May 19

1Purple Gallinule
1Eastern Wood-Pewee
1Chimney Swift
1Clapper Rail
1Short-billed Dowitcher
2White Ibis
1Belted Kingfisher
1Tufted Titmouse
2European Starling
1Chipping Sparrow
2Indigo Bunting
1Wood Stork
1Black-crowned Night Heron
2Red-bellied Woodpecker
2Blue Jay
3Tree Swallow
3Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
1Northern Mockingbird
5House Finch
1Brown-headed Cowbird
2Prothonotary Warbler
1Pine Warbler
1Summer Tanager
2Canada Goose
1Hudsonian Whimbrel
1Lesser Yellowlegs
4Laughing Gull
2Least Tern
1Least Bittern
1Yellow-crowned Night Heron
1Downy Woodpecker
4Black Scoter
1Yellow-billed Cuckoo
2Chuck-will's-widow
2White-rumped Sandpiper
2Forster's Tern
1Great Horned Owl
1Willow Flycatcher
1Eastern Bluebird
1Seaside Sparrow
2Wood Duck
1Common Nighthawk
1Willet
2Least Sandpiper
3Red-headed Woodpecker
1Pileated Woodpecker
1Red-eyed Vireo
1Gray Catbird
1Brown Thrasher
1Yellow-breasted Chat
1Northern Parula

May 18

2Greater Yellowlegs
1Yellow-throated Vireo
1Black-and-white Warbler
1Blue Grosbeak
2American Oystercatcher
2American Herring Gull
1Broad-winged Hawk
1Swallow-tailed Kite
1Eurasian Collared-Dove
1Wood Thrush
1Blue-winged Warbler
4White-breasted Nuthatch

May 17

1Eastern Towhee
4Stilt Sandpiper
12Wilson's Plover
7Ruddy Turnstone
3Red Knot
5Dunlin
6Black Skimmer
3Caspian Tern
2Sandwich Tern
4Purple Martin
1Red-tailed Hawk
1Black-throated Blue Warbler

May 16

1American Kestrel
4Wild Turkey

May 15

1Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
1Mallard
3Pectoral Sandpiper
1Magnolia Warbler
1Northern Yellow Warbler