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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 8

9Northern Shoveler
7Gadwall
1Northern Pintail
14Green-winged Teal
4Lesser Scaup
9Bufflehead
10Hooded Merganser
1Ruddy Duck
1Mourning Dove
8Sanderling
2Ring-billed Gull
2Pied-billed Grebe
2Double-crested Cormorant
2White Ibis
1Little Blue Heron
1Tricolored Heron
1Snowy Egret
1Great Egret
2Great Blue Heron
6American White Pelican
1Osprey
1Bald Eagle
1Carolina Chickadee
25Red-winged Blackbird
2Ring-necked Duck
1Sora
2Semipalmated Plover
1Belted Kingfisher
1American Crow
2Gray Catbird
1Northern Mockingbird
3Tufted Titmouse
4White-breasted Nuthatch
2Brown-headed Nuthatch
3Carolina Wren
3Eastern Bluebird
6House Finch
4White-throated Sparrow
3Pine Warbler
1Yellow-rumped Warbler
2Northern Cardinal
1Black-bellied Plover
6Greater Yellowlegs
4Forster's Tern
1Wood Stork
2Turkey Vulture
2Wilson's Snipe
2Willet
1Ruddy Turnstone
4Dunlin
1Horned Grebe
3Common Loon
1American Kestrel
6Blue-winged Teal
4Least Sandpiper
1Red-tailed Hawk
2Eastern Phoebe
2Blue Jay
2Ruby-crowned Kinglet
1Brown Creeper
2Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
1American Pipit
1White-crowned Sparrow
14Common Gallinule
22American Coot
1Bonaparte's Gull
10Black-crowned Night Heron
4Brown Pelican
2Red-bellied Woodpecker
1Downy Woodpecker
12Tree Swallow
1Marsh Wren
3Song Sparrow
4Common Grackle

January 7

2Spotted Sandpiper
1Red-headed Woodpecker
2Boat-tailed Grackle
1Red-throated Loon
1Eastern Towhee
1Virginia Rail
3Swamp Sparrow
9Black Scoter
8Red-breasted Merganser
3Killdeer
40Short-billed Dowitcher
7Red Knot
16Western Sandpiper
3American Herring Gull
2Northern Gannet
16Savannah Sparrow
1Anhinga
1Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
1Northern Flicker
2Purple Finch
1Black-and-white Warbler
1Royal Tern
1Red-shouldered Hawk
1Pileated Woodpecker
2Hermit Thrush
1American Robin
1Cedar Waxwing
1American Goldfinch
1Common Goldeneye
1Sedge Wren
1Long-tailed Duck
1Barred Owl
1Peregrine Falcon
1Golden-crowned Kinglet
2European Starling
1Saltmarsh Sparrow
2Mallard
1Blue-headed Vireo

January 6

2Piping Plover
1Northern Harrier
1Winter Wren
1Clapper Rail
1Fish Crow
1Orange-crowned Warbler
6Laughing Gull
1Sharp-shinned Hawk
1Loggerhead Shrike
1Brown Thrasher
2Common Yellowthroat

January 5

2Rusty Blackbird
2Yellow-throated Warbler
1Redhead
1Surf Scoter
2Black Vulture
1Lesser Black-backed Gull
1White-eyed Vireo

January 4

1Eastern Screech-Owl
2Brown-headed Cowbird
2Chipping Sparrow
1American Wigeon
1White-winged Scoter
2American Oystercatcher
1American Bittern
8Mottled Duck
1Great Black-backed Gull

January 3

6Canvasback
2Long-billed Dowitcher
1Prairie Warbler
1Marbled Godwit
1Green Heron
1Fox Sparrow
1Seaside Sparrow

January 2

XGreater Scaup
2Lesser Yellowlegs
2Cooper's Hawk