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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.

January 27

4Blue-winged Teal
8Northern Shoveler
25Gadwall
30Green-winged Teal
4Ring-necked Duck
4Lesser Scaup
10Bufflehead
6Hooded Merganser
12Ruddy Duck
4Mourning Dove
1Common Gallinule
5Black-bellied Plover
3Greater Yellowlegs
40Dunlin
8Least Sandpiper
7Bonaparte's Gull
2Forster's Tern
11Pied-billed Grebe
3Red-throated Loon
8Double-crested Cormorant
3White Ibis
1Little Blue Heron
1Tricolored Heron
3Snowy Egret
2Great Egret
3Great Blue Heron
12American White Pelican
4Brown Pelican
3Turkey Vulture
1Osprey
1Cooper's Hawk
1Red-shouldered Hawk
2Belted Kingfisher
3Red-bellied Woodpecker
3Blue Jay
2American Crow
2Carolina Chickadee
7Tree Swallow
2Carolina Wren
2Northern Mockingbird
3Cedar Waxwing
2House Finch
2Eastern Towhee
6Red-winged Blackbird
2Common Grackle
15Yellow-rumped Warbler
3Northern Cardinal
1Sora
1American Coot
4Willet
6Ring-billed Gull
1Bald Eagle
1Downy Woodpecker
2Eastern Phoebe
1Tufted Titmouse
2Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
1Nelson's Sparrow
10Sanderling
2Western Sandpiper
1Common Loon
1Eastern Screech-Owl
2Golden-crowned Kinglet
2Brown Thrasher
2White-throated Sparrow

January 26

4Ruby-crowned Kinglet
2Brown Creeper
1Winter Wren
4European Starling
1Song Sparrow
2Yellow-throated Warbler
50American Robin
3Northern Pintail
1Redhead
1Common Goldeneye
1White-breasted Nuthatch
1Brown-headed Nuthatch
1Swamp Sparrow
1Boat-tailed Grackle
2Pine Warbler
1Black Scoter
2Purple Sandpiper
2Laughing Gull
10American Herring Gull
4Horned Grebe
15Northern Gannet
1Northern Harrier
3Eastern Bluebird
6Savannah Sparrow
1Baltimore Oriole
1Black-crowned Night Heron
1Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
2Clapper Rail
6Spotted Sandpiper
1Northern Flicker
1Brown-headed Cowbird

January 25

1Semipalmated Plover
6Ruddy Turnstone
15Red Knot
2Wood Stork
6Chipping Sparrow
1Rock Pigeon
2Short-billed Dowitcher
1Peregrine Falcon

January 24

6Great Black-backed Gull
2Anhinga
2Fish Crow
2Common Yellowthroat
1Killdeer
1Northern House Wren
1Pileated Woodpecker
19Seaside Sparrow
2Rusty Blackbird

January 23

1Red-breasted Merganser
2Razorbill
2Gray Catbird
1Barred Owl
1American Goldfinch
2White-crowned Sparrow
1Black-and-white Warbler
10Long-billed Dowitcher
8Canvasback
1Hudsonian Whimbrel
1Red-tailed Hawk
1Blue-headed Vireo
1King Rail

January 22

4Lesser Yellowlegs
3Canada Goose
1Marsh Wren
2Hermit Thrush
2Long-tailed Duck
6Marbled Godwit
2Caspian Tern

January 21

2Royal Tern
6American Wigeon