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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 12

1Mourning Dove
2Snowy Egret
1Great Egret
1Belted Kingfisher
1Carolina Wren
3Northern Mockingbird
1Anhinga
1Little Blue Heron
2Tricolored Heron
1Ruby-throated Hummingbird
1Spotted Sandpiper
1Red-headed Woodpecker
1Carolina Chickadee
1House Finch
1Northern Cardinal
2Painted Bunting
2Yellow-crowned Night Heron
1White-eyed Vireo
1American Redstart
7Common Gallinule
5Laughing Gull
1Royal Tern
7White Ibis
1Black-crowned Night Heron
1Green Heron
2Great Blue Heron
1Osprey
1Bald Eagle
1Red-bellied Woodpecker
1Great Crested Flycatcher
2Blue Jay
2American Crow
2Tufted Titmouse
1Purple Martin
1White-breasted Nuthatch
1Brown-headed Nuthatch
2Eastern Bluebird
3Red-winged Blackbird

August 11

2Clapper Rail
8Black-bellied Plover
76Semipalmated Plover
4Piping Plover
1Wilson's Plover
2Hudsonian Whimbrel
1Short-billed Dowitcher
7Willet
6Ruddy Turnstone
5Sanderling
15Least Sandpiper
2Western Sandpiper
2Semipalmated Sandpiper
8Ring-billed Gull
1American Herring Gull
9Black Skimmer
11Black Tern
8Forster's Tern
6Common Tern
5Sandwich Tern
26Brown Pelican
1American Coot
2Pied-billed Grebe
6Wood Stork
1Downy Woodpecker
1Red-eyed Vireo
2Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
4Common Grackle
2American Oystercatcher
1Marbled Godwit
4Glossy Ibis
1Turkey Vulture
4Lesser Yellowlegs
1Roseate Spoonbill
1Barn Swallow
1Wood Thrush
1Pileated Woodpecker
2House Sparrow
1Yellow-billed Cuckoo
1Mississippi Kite
4Brown Thrasher
2American Robin
1Seaside Sparrow
1Northern Parula

August 10

2Yellow-throated Warbler
1Solitary Sandpiper
2Double-crested Cormorant
1Prothonotary Warbler
2Stilt Sandpiper
1Least Tern
1Black Vulture
1Red-tailed Hawk
1Chipping Sparrow
1Swainson's Warbler

August 9

1Common Yellowthroat
1Lesser Black-backed Gull
1Cooper's Hawk
1Red-shouldered Hawk
2Chimney Swift
3Killdeer
1Greater Yellowlegs
1Chuck-will's-widow
1Eastern Kingbird
4European Starling
1Black-and-white Warbler

August 8

1Loggerhead Shrike
1Caspian Tern
1Fish Crow
7American Avocet
1American Goldfinch
1Great Black-backed Gull
2American White Pelican
1Yellow-throated Vireo
2Brown-headed Cowbird
1Indigo Bunting

August 7

1Eurasian Collared-Dove
1Acadian Flycatcher
1Pine Warbler
1Swallow-tailed Kite

August 6

1Rock Pigeon
1Wild Turkey
1Louisiana Waterthrush
2Black-necked Stilt
1Least Bittern