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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 29

6Mourning Dove
1Red-bellied Woodpecker
2Downy Woodpecker
4Carolina Chickadee
1Tufted Titmouse
2Ruby-crowned Kinglet
1Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
1Carolina Wren
5House Finch
1American Goldfinch
2White-throated Sparrow
1Black-and-white Warbler
2Pine Warbler
20Gadwall
2Lesser Scaup
5Bufflehead
20Hooded Merganser
5Ruddy Duck
1Black-bellied Plover
1Greater Yellowlegs
20Dunlin
50Western Sandpiper
10Ring-billed Gull
5Forster's Tern
2Pied-billed Grebe
5Wood Stork
20Double-crested Cormorant
7White Ibis
1Little Blue Heron
1Tricolored Heron
1Snowy Egret
10Great Egret
7Great Blue Heron
23American White Pelican
1Bald Eagle
1Eastern Phoebe
1Yellow-rumped Warbler
1Red-breasted Merganser
XCommon Gallinule
10American Coot
25Least Sandpiper
XBonaparte's Gull
1Roseate Spoonbill
7Black-crowned Night Heron
1Osprey
1Cooper's Hawk
2Belted Kingfisher
1Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
1American Crow
3Barn Swallow
2White-breasted Nuthatch
1Gray Catbird
2Swamp Sparrow
1Common Yellowthroat

November 28

1Red-tailed Hawk
10Tree Swallow
4White-winged Scoter
25Black Scoter
1Lesser Yellowlegs
4Willet
25Ruddy Turnstone
15Red Knot
20Sanderling
6Laughing Gull
15American Herring Gull
1Lesser Black-backed Gull
300Black Skimmer
1Sandwich Tern
1Royal Tern
3Common Loon
30Northern Gannet
8Brown Pelican
1Turkey Vulture
1Brown-headed Nuthatch
1Saltmarsh Sparrow
2Northern Cardinal
1Wilson's Snipe
1Northern Flicker
3Golden-crowned Kinglet
2Northern Mockingbird
1Purple Finch
2Song Sparrow
1Redhead
1Blue Jay
2Blue-winged Teal
50Green-winged Teal
2Clapper Rail
2Killdeer
2Pileated Woodpecker
1Blue-headed Vireo
3Cave Swallow
1Marsh Wren
1Brown Thrasher
2Eastern Bluebird
2Hermit Thrush
2American Robin
10Red-winged Blackbird
3Common Grackle

November 27

6Canada Goose
2Mallard
3Surf Scoter
2Short-billed Dowitcher
2Great Horned Owl
1Barred Owl
2Red-headed Woodpecker
6Fish Crow
1Chipping Sparrow

November 26

1Boat-tailed Grackle
2Northern Shoveler
2Ring-necked Duck
1Greater Scaup
2Spotted Sandpiper

November 25

1Piping Plover
12Long-billed Dowitcher
1Red-shouldered Hawk
1Brown Creeper
1Winter Wren
1Rusty Blackbird

November 24

1Peregrine Falcon
3Sora
1Prairie Warbler
1Northern Harrier
1American Pipit

November 23

1American Oystercatcher
9Semipalmated Plover
1Northern House Wren
1Eastern Towhee

November 22

1American Wigeon