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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.

December 31

8Northern Shoveler
6Gadwall
4Redhead
8Ring-necked Duck
6Bufflehead
10Hooded Merganser
4Willet
6Greater Yellowlegs
4Least Sandpiper
2Western Sandpiper
6Ring-billed Gull
2Forster's Tern
8White Ibis
6Snowy Egret
10Great Egret
4Great Blue Heron
12American White Pelican
1Bald Eagle
1Barred Owl
1Carolina Chickadee
1Tufted Titmouse
4Ruby-crowned Kinglet
2House Finch
1White-crowned Sparrow
1Song Sparrow
4Red-winged Blackbird
4Yellow-rumped Warbler
2Yellow-throated Warbler
2Northern Pintail
7Green-winged Teal
30Lesser Scaup
1Black Scoter
1Red-breasted Merganser
2Ruddy Duck
1Clapper Rail
3Common Gallinule
20American Coot
2Black-bellied Plover
1Killdeer
5Sanderling
1Royal Tern
3Pied-billed Grebe
2Horned Grebe
1Red-throated Loon
6Common Loon
30Double-crested Cormorant
3Little Blue Heron
4Tricolored Heron
40Brown Pelican
1Turkey Vulture
3Osprey
1Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
1Downy Woodpecker
2Eastern Phoebe
1Blue-headed Vireo
1Blue Jay
2American Crow
3Tree Swallow
1White-breasted Nuthatch
1Brown-headed Nuthatch
1Northern House Wren
1Carolina Wren
1Gray Catbird
1Northern Mockingbird
1American Robin
4White-throated Sparrow
2Saltmarsh Sparrow
2Black-and-white Warbler
1Northern Cardinal
XBlue-winged Teal
1Common Goldeneye
1Mourning Dove
1Spotted Sandpiper
XLesser Yellowlegs
XRuddy Turnstone
6Red Knot
XDunlin
2Bonaparte's Gull
XLaughing Gull
3Wood Stork
XNorthern Gannet
XBlack-crowned Night Heron
1Belted Kingfisher
XRed-bellied Woodpecker
1Pileated Woodpecker
1Northern Flicker
2Eastern Bluebird
2Hermit Thrush
1Purple Finch

December 30

2Semipalmated Plover
1Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
19Savannah Sparrow
1Common Yellowthroat
2American Wigeon
1Common Eider
18Black Skimmer
2Black Vulture
6Short-billed Dowitcher
1Red-tailed Hawk
2American Herring Gull
1Orange-crowned Warbler
1Pine Warbler
4Mallard
2Virginia Rail
1Green Heron
1White-eyed Vireo
2Fish Crow
1Marsh Wren
1Chipping Sparrow
1Rusty Blackbird
1Boat-tailed Grackle

December 29

1Eastern Screech-Owl
1Common Merganser

December 28

1American Bittern
1Field Sparrow
1Long-billed Dowitcher
6Wilson's Snipe
18Brown Thrasher

December 27

2Golden-crowned Kinglet
1Brown Creeper
2Common Grackle
2Eastern Towhee
1Wild Turkey

December 26

7Canvasback
2Swamp Sparrow

December 25

1American Oystercatcher
1American Kestrel