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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.

May 9

1Common Gallinule
1White Ibis
2Roseate Spoonbill
1Tricolored Heron
1Ruby-throated Hummingbird
2Clapper Rail
1Black-necked Stilt
2Black-bellied Plover
2Spotted Sandpiper
4Sanderling
1Western Sandpiper
2Ring-billed Gull
1Gull-billed Tern
4Double-crested Cormorant
1Great Egret
1Bald Eagle
2Belted Kingfisher
1Downy Woodpecker
2Great Crested Flycatcher
2Carolina Chickadee
2Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
1Carolina Wren
1Northern Mockingbird
1Gray-cheeked Thrush
2Red-winged Blackbird
1Black-and-white Warbler
1American Redstart
2Northern Cardinal
2Painted Bunting
2American Coot
8Semipalmated Plover
7Short-billed Dowitcher
1Solitary Sandpiper
5Lesser Yellowlegs
4Willet
1Greater Yellowlegs
2Least Sandpiper
120Semipalmated Sandpiper
10Laughing Gull
6Anhinga
1Black-crowned Night Heron
3Little Blue Heron
15Snowy Egret
4Green Heron
2Great Blue Heron
3Turkey Vulture
1Red-bellied Woodpecker
3American Crow
3Tufted Titmouse
8Barn Swallow
6Common Grackle
1Prothonotary Warbler
11Mourning Dove
2Hudsonian Whimbrel
7Least Tern
3Brown Thrasher
5House Finch
5Brown-headed Cowbird
3Boat-tailed Grackle
1Chimney Swift
1Sandhill Crane
1Wilson's Plover
1Hairy Woodpecker
1Pine Warbler
1Least Bittern
2Yellow-crowned Night Heron
1White-eyed Vireo
3Brown-headed Nuthatch
2Eastern Bluebird
1Wood Duck
1Mallard
1Yellow-billed Cuckoo
1Killdeer
1Black Skimmer
2Forster's Tern
2Glossy Ibis
2Osprey
1Red-headed Woodpecker
1Red-eyed Vireo
1Blue Jay
1Purple Martin
1Marsh Wren
1European Starling
1Yellow-breasted Chat
1Baltimore Oriole
1Northern Waterthrush
2Common Yellowthroat
1Chuck-will's-widow
2Piping Plover
6Brown Pelican
1Willow Flycatcher
1Eastern Kingbird
1Saltmarsh Sparrow
1Orange-crowned Warbler

May 8

1Eastern Screech-Owl
1Common Nighthawk
1Eastern Wood-Pewee
1Sora
2Stilt Sandpiper
1Swallow-tailed Kite
2Fish Crow
1Blue-winged Warbler
1Summer Tanager
1King Rail
1Dunlin
2Pied-billed Grebe
1Pileated Woodpecker
1Yellow-throated Vireo
2Tree Swallow
1White-breasted Nuthatch
1Gray Catbird
1Ovenbird
1Swainson's Warbler
1Northern Parula
1Northern Yellow Warbler
1Blackpoll Warbler
1Black-throated Blue Warbler
1Rose-breasted Grosbeak
1Blue Grosbeak

May 7

2Royal Tern
2American Bittern
2Prairie Warbler
1Red-shouldered Hawk
1Bobolink
1Eastern Whip-poor-will
1Wilson's Phalarope
1Sandwich Tern
1Red-tailed Hawk
1Chestnut-sided Warbler

May 6

1Nelson's Sparrow
5Ruddy Turnstone
2American Robin
2Wood Stork
1Wood Thrush
1Blue-headed Vireo

May 5

2Bonaparte's Gull
XHouse Sparrow
4Western Cattle-Egret
3Black Vulture
4American Herring Gull
1Cape May Warbler
1Magnolia Warbler
1Acadian Flycatcher
2Orchard Oriole
2American White Pelican
1Chipping Sparrow
1American Golden-Plover

May 4

2American Goldfinch
1Northern Flicker
1Purple Gallinule
1Marbled Godwit
1Blackburnian Warbler
1Cooper's Hawk

May 3

5Black Scoter
1American Oystercatcher
2Caspian Tern
1Tennessee Warbler
1Hermit Thrush