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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 19

5Common Gallinule
1Purple Gallinule
2Anhinga
5Green Heron
1Eastern Wood-Pewee
10Red-winged Blackbird
6Common Grackle
1Painted Bunting
2Canada Goose
1Mourning Dove
1Clapper Rail
1American Coot
2Black-necked Stilt
2Killdeer
XSemipalmated Plover
1Hudsonian Whimbrel
1Lesser Yellowlegs
XSemipalmated Sandpiper
4Laughing Gull
2Least Tern
1Wood Stork
1Double-crested Cormorant
4White Ibis
4Roseate Spoonbill
1Least Bittern
1Yellow-crowned Night Heron
1Little Blue Heron
5Tricolored Heron
5Snowy Egret
5Great Egret
2Great Blue Heron
1Turkey Vulture
1Osprey
1Downy Woodpecker
1Great Crested Flycatcher
1American Crow
1Fish Crow
1Carolina Chickadee
2Tufted Titmouse
3Barn Swallow
1Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
1Brown-headed Cowbird
1Boat-tailed Grackle
1Prothonotary Warbler
1Pine Warbler
5Northern Cardinal
4Black Scoter
1Yellow-billed Cuckoo
2Chuck-will's-widow
1Ruby-throated Hummingbird
4Spotted Sandpiper
4Sanderling
2White-rumped Sandpiper
4Ring-billed Gull
2Forster's Tern
1Pied-billed Grebe
2Glossy Ibis
1Great Horned Owl
1Red-bellied Woodpecker
1Willow Flycatcher
2Blue Jay
6European Starling
2Northern Mockingbird
1Eastern Bluebird
1Seaside Sparrow
1Orchard Oriole
2Wood Duck
1Common Nighthawk
2Chimney Swift
1Black-bellied Plover
1Willet
2Least Sandpiper
3Black-crowned Night Heron
3Red-headed Woodpecker
1Pileated Woodpecker
1Eastern Kingbird
2White-eyed Vireo
1Red-eyed Vireo
2Brown-headed Nuthatch
5Carolina Wren
1Gray Catbird
1Brown Thrasher
5House Finch
1Yellow-breasted Chat
1Northern Parula
1Summer Tanager

May 18

2Greater Yellowlegs
1Yellow-throated Vireo
5Tree Swallow
1American Robin
1Black-and-white Warbler
1Common Yellowthroat
1Blue Grosbeak
2American Oystercatcher
2American Herring Gull
1Broad-winged Hawk
1American Redstart
1Eurasian Collared-Dove
4Solitary Sandpiper
4Western Sandpiper
1Belted Kingfisher
1Wood Thrush
1Savannah Sparrow
1Blue-winged Warbler
4White-breasted Nuthatch

May 17

1Eastern Towhee
4Stilt Sandpiper
2Gull-billed Tern
1Swallow-tailed Kite
3Short-billed Dowitcher
12Wilson's Plover
7Ruddy Turnstone
3Red Knot
5Dunlin
6Black Skimmer
3Caspian Tern
2Sandwich Tern
11Royal Tern
7Brown Pelican
4Purple Martin
1Marsh Wren
1Red-tailed Hawk
1Black-throated Blue Warbler
1Indigo Bunting

May 16

1American Kestrel
1Red-shouldered Hawk
4Wild Turkey

May 15

1Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
2Bald Eagle
1Mallard
3Pectoral Sandpiper
1Magnolia Warbler
1Northern Yellow Warbler

May 13

1Mississippi Kite
XAmerican Bittern
2Black Vulture
3Cedar Waxwing

May 12

1Sora