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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.

November 9

2Clapper Rail ✓
2American Coot ✓
4Short-billed Dowitcher ✓
2Sanderling ✓
2Dunlin ✓
4Ring-billed Gull ✓
2Forster's Tern ✓
4Wood Stork ✓
6White Ibis ✓
2Little Blue Heron ✓
4Great Egret ✓
4American White Pelican ✓
1Northern Harrier ✓
1Downy Woodpecker ✓
1Eastern Phoebe ✓
4Blue Jay ✓
1Carolina Chickadee ✓
1Tufted Titmouse ✓
2Ruby-crowned Kinglet ✓
2Golden-crowned Kinglet ✓
4European Starling ✓
2Brown Thrasher ✓
2House Finch ✓
2White-throated Sparrow ✓
4Red-winged Blackbird ✓
2Common Grackle ✓
4Yellow-rumped Warbler ✓
2Northern Cardinal ✓
3Semipalmated Plover ✓
2Prairie Willet ✓
1Ruddy Turnstone ✓
3Laughing Gull ✓
2Caspian Tern ✓
4Double-crested Cormorant ✓
1Tricolored Heron ✓
2Great Blue Heron ✓
10Brown Pelican ✓
2Wilson's Plover ✓
3Least Sandpiper ✓
2Osprey ✓
1Bald Eagle ✓
1Tree Swallow ✓
1Sora ✓
7Pied-billed Grebe ✓
2Roseate Spoonbill ✓
1Belted Kingfisher ✓
1Northern Flicker ✓
1Peregrine Falcon ✓
2American Crow ✓
4Mourning Dove ✓
2Western Sandpiper ✓
2Snowy Egret ✓
6Turkey Vulture ✓
1Eastern Screech-Owl ✓
1Carolina Wren ✓
1Greater Yellowlegs ✓
1Fish Crow ✓
13Common Gallinule ✓
3Black-crowned Night Heron ✓
1Yellow-bellied Sapsucker ✓
1Red-bellied Woodpecker ✓
1White-breasted Nuthatch ✓
1Gray Catbird ✓
1Song Sparrow ✓
2Swamp Sparrow ✓
1Northern Mockingbird ✓
2Royal Tern ✓
1Red-shouldered Hawk ✓
11Eastern Bluebird ✓
1American Robin ✓
4Ruddy Duck ✓
2Black-bellied Plover ✓
1Blue-headed Vireo ✓
1Brown Creeper ✓
2Blue-gray Gnatcatcher ✓
1White-crowned Sparrow ✓
1Saltmarsh Sparrow ✓
1Hermit Thrush ✓

November 8

1Northern House Wren ✓
4Killdeer ✓
2American Redstart ✓
1Piping Plover ✓
1Sandwich Tern ✓
1Boat-tailed Grackle ✓
2American Oystercatcher ✓
1Parasitic Jaeger ✓
4American Herring Gull ✓
1Lesser Black-backed Gull ✓
1Cooper's Hawk ✓
1Savannah Sparrow ✓
1Hooded Merganser ✓
2Brown-headed Nuthatch ✓
1Eastern Towhee ✓
1Virginia Rail ✓
2Winter Wren ✓
2Cedar Waxwing ✓
1Orange-crowned Warbler ✓
14Blue-winged Teal ✓
1Mallard ✓
1Ruby-throated Hummingbird ✓
3Pine Warbler ✓
25Green-winged Teal ✓
1Pileated Woodpecker ✓

November 7

1Palm Warbler ✓
2Northern Gannet ✓
1Western Kingbird
2Gadwall ✓
1Spotted Sandpiper ✓
1Seaside Sparrow ✓
1Common Yellowthroat ✓

November 6

1Lesser Yellowlegs ✓
1Chipping Sparrow ✓
1Prairie Warbler ✓
1Merlin ✓
1Anhinga ✓
1Nelson's Sparrow ✓

November 5

350Black Skimmer ✓
2Bonaparte's Gull ✓
1American Goldfinch ✓
1Northern Waterthrush
4Red Knot ✓
1Long-billed Dowitcher ✓
1Sedge Wren ✓
1American Pipit ✓
1Rusty Blackbird ✓

November 4

1White-eyed Vireo ✓
1Brown-headed Cowbird ✓
1Black Vulture ✓
1Field Sparrow ✓
1Black-and-white Warbler ✓

November 3

1Great Horned Owl ✓
11Black Scoter ✓
2Loggerhead Shrike ✓
8Canada Goose ✓