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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.

August 9

4Semipalmated Plover
1Short-billed Dowitcher
1Spotted Sandpiper
1Willet
4Ruddy Turnstone
37Sanderling
1Least Sandpiper
52Laughing Gull
1Ring-billed Gull
1Lesser Black-backed Gull
10Least Tern
3Black Tern
4Common Tern
10Sandwich Tern
54Royal Tern
1Snowy Egret
1Great Egret
30Brown Pelican
2Turkey Vulture
1Carolina Wren
1Northern Mockingbird
1Seaside Sparrow
3Red-winged Blackbird
5Northern Cardinal
2Mourning Dove
1Ruby-throated Hummingbird
1Carolina Chickadee
2Tufted Titmouse
2House Finch
3Painted Bunting
1Stilt Sandpiper
50Semipalmated Sandpiper
1Forster's Tern
13Wood Stork
2Anhinga
4White Ibis
1Glossy Ibis
3Roseate Spoonbill
1Black-crowned Night Heron
5Little Blue Heron
5Tricolored Heron
1Green Heron
1Great Blue Heron
1Osprey
1Cooper's Hawk
2Bald Eagle
1Belted Kingfisher
1Blue Jay
1American Crow
2Barn Swallow
2Chimney Swift
2Clapper Rail
3Killdeer
1Greater Yellowlegs
1Red-headed Woodpecker
1Great Crested Flycatcher
1Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
2Eastern Bluebird
1Chuck-will's-widow
1Piping Plover
1Western Sandpiper
1Mississippi Kite
1Downy Woodpecker
1Eastern Kingbird
1Red-eyed Vireo
1Brown-headed Nuthatch
4European Starling
2Common Grackle
1Black-and-white Warbler

August 8

2American Coot
1Double-crested Cormorant
2Pileated Woodpecker
1Loggerhead Shrike
1Caspian Tern
1American Oystercatcher
2Black-bellied Plover
1Wilson's Plover
23Common Gallinule
2Yellow-crowned Night Heron
1Red-bellied Woodpecker
1Fish Crow
7American Avocet
1Lesser Yellowlegs
1Purple Martin
1American Goldfinch
1Great Black-backed Gull
2American White Pelican
1Red-tailed Hawk
1Yellow-throated Vireo
1White-breasted Nuthatch
1Brown Thrasher
2Brown-headed Cowbird
1Common Yellowthroat
1Indigo Bunting
1White-eyed Vireo
1Prothonotary Warbler

August 7

1Eurasian Collared-Dove
4Pied-billed Grebe
1Black Vulture
1Acadian Flycatcher
1Swainson's Warbler
1Pine Warbler
2Marbled Godwit
1Black Skimmer
1Swallow-tailed Kite
1Chipping Sparrow
1American Redstart

August 6

4American Robin
1Yellow-throated Warbler
1Rock Pigeon
6Hudsonian Whimbrel
1Wild Turkey
1Louisiana Waterthrush
2Black-necked Stilt
1Least Bittern

August 5

1Gull-billed Tern

August 4

1Solitary Sandpiper
1Prairie Warbler

August 3

1Reddish Egret
4Boat-tailed Grackle
2Eastern Whip-poor-will
1Red-shouldered Hawk