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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.

April 26

1Ruby-throated Hummingbird
3Clapper Rail
1Killdeer
8Willet
1Greater Yellowlegs
10Dunlin
7Laughing Gull
1Least Tern
5Anhinga
4Double-crested Cormorant
2Roseate Spoonbill
1Tricolored Heron
1Snowy Egret
1Green Heron
4Great Egret
1Great Blue Heron
3Turkey Vulture
1Osprey
1American Crow
3Carolina Chickadee
1Tufted Titmouse
1Tree Swallow
3Barn Swallow
4Carolina Wren
7Red-winged Blackbird
1Brown-headed Cowbird
1Boat-tailed Grackle
1Pine Warbler
1Northern Cardinal
5Painted Bunting
8Common Gallinule
3Little Blue Heron
1Great Crested Flycatcher
2Fish Crow
1Gray Catbird
1Hooded Warbler
1Northern Parula
2Mourning Dove
2Sora
2Black-necked Stilt
4Short-billed Dowitcher
6Sanderling
2Western Sandpiper
4American Herring Gull
1Forster's Tern
2Glossy Ibis
1Black-crowned Night Heron
6Brown Pelican
1Red-tailed Hawk
1Peregrine Falcon
1Eastern Wood-Pewee
1Yellow-throated Vireo
2Blue Jay
1White-breasted Nuthatch
1Marsh Wren
2Northern Mockingbird
1Saltmarsh Sparrow
1Orchard Oriole
1Indigo Bunting
1Black-bellied Plover
1Hudsonian Whimbrel
2Red-bellied Woodpecker
1Red-eyed Vireo
1Purple Martin
2Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
1House Finch
1Common Grackle
1Prothonotary Warbler
1Common Yellowthroat
2Yellow-rumped Warbler

April 25

2Lesser Yellowlegs
3Semipalmated Sandpiper
1Yellow-crowned Night Heron
1Bald Eagle
1Brown-headed Nuthatch
2American Coot
2Long-billed Dowitcher
1Belted Kingfisher
1Brown Creeper
1Seaside Sparrow
1Savannah Sparrow
1Blackburnian Warbler
6Wood Duck
2American Oystercatcher
67Semipalmated Plover
4Wilson's Plover
1Spotted Sandpiper
1Solitary Sandpiper
43Ruddy Turnstone
25Least Sandpiper
5Ring-billed Gull
8Black Skimmer
1Caspian Tern
2Sandwich Tern
150Royal Tern
2Least Bittern
8Western Cattle-Egret
1Black Vulture
2Downy Woodpecker
2Pileated Woodpecker
1Merlin
3White-eyed Vireo
2Ruby-crowned Kinglet
1Brown Thrasher
2Eastern Bluebird
1American Robin
1Song Sparrow
1Worm-eating Warbler
1Black-and-white Warbler
1Magnolia Warbler

April 24

2White Ibis
1Northern Harrier
1White-throated Sparrow
1Cape May Warbler
1Red-breasted Merganser
4Red Knot
3Bonaparte's Gull
1Yellow-throated Warbler
2Red-headed Woodpecker
1Red-shouldered Hawk
1Scarlet Tanager
1Chuck-will's-widow
4Pied-billed Grebe
1Broad-winged Hawk
1Eastern Kingbird
2European Starling
4Cedar Waxwing
1King Rail
7Northern Gannet
1Hermit Thrush
1Swamp Sparrow

April 23

1Chimney Swift
2Purple Gallinule
4Piping Plover
2Wilson's Snipe
2Gull-billed Tern
1American Kestrel
1Palm Warbler
1Marbled Godwit
1Veery
1Wood Thrush
1Black Scoter
1Blue-headed Vireo
1Northern House Wren
3Eastern Towhee
1Summer Tanager

April 22

1Yellow-billed Cuckoo
1Prairie Warbler
1Chipping Sparrow
2Stilt Sandpiper
1Common Tern
1Northern Bobwhite
1Wilson's Phalarope
1Blue-winged Warbler
1Hairy Woodpecker

April 21

1Common Eider
1Virginia Rail
4Canada Goose
1Common Nighthawk
1American Redstart
1Blue-winged Teal
1Cooper's Hawk

April 20

1Swallow-tailed Kite
2Baltimore Oriole
1American Goldfinch

April 19

1Blue Grosbeak
1House Sparrow