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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.

October 7

1Ruby-throated Hummingbird ✓
2American Coot ✓
2Willet ✓
4Sanderling ✓
2Ring-billed Gull ✓
2Forster's Tern ✓
1Double-crested Cormorant ✓
2Black-crowned Night Heron ✓
1Tricolored Heron ✓
2Western Cattle-Egret ✓
4Great Egret ✓
1Great Blue Heron ✓
1Great Crested Flycatcher ✓
1Blue-headed Vireo ✓
4Blue Jay ✓
1Carolina Chickadee ✓
1Tufted Titmouse ✓
2Ruby-crowned Kinglet ✓
1Blue-gray Gnatcatcher ✓
2Northern Mockingbird ✓
1White-crowned Sparrow ✓
2Red-winged Blackbird ✓
1Blue-winged Warbler ✓
1Tennessee Warbler ✓
1Common Yellowthroat ✓
1Northern Parula ✓
2Northern Cardinal ✓
1Painted Bunting ✓
2Blue-winged Teal ✓
16Common Gallinule ✓
5Wood Stork ✓
1Red-bellied Woodpecker ✓
1American Kestrel ✓
1Merlin ✓
2Carolina Wren ✓
3Semipalmated Plover ✓
4Semipalmated Sandpiper ✓
3White Ibis ✓
1Little Blue Heron ✓
6Snowy Egret ✓
1Osprey ✓
1Bald Eagle ✓
1Belted Kingfisher ✓
2Mourning Dove ✓
3House Finch ✓
1Anhinga ✓
1Northern Harrier ✓
1Downy Woodpecker ✓
1Northern Flicker ✓
1Brown Thrasher ✓
12Eastern Bluebird ✓
1Pine Warbler ✓
2Yellow-billed Cuckoo ✓
2Laughing Gull ✓
1Yellow-crowned Night Heron ✓
4Turkey Vulture ✓
1Cooper's Hawk ✓
1Eastern Phoebe ✓
1White-eyed Vireo ✓
5American Crow ✓
11Tree Swallow ✓
1White-breasted Nuthatch ✓
2Brown-headed Nuthatch ✓
2Gray Catbird ✓
1American Redstart ✓
1Blackpoll Warbler ✓
2Prairie Warbler ✓
3Blue Grosbeak ✓
2Indigo Bunting ✓
4Clapper Rail ✓
2Spotted Sandpiper ✓
2Pied-billed Grebe ✓
4Palm Warbler ✓
2Yellow-bellied Sapsucker ✓
1Northern House Wren ✓
3Common Grackle ✓

October 6

4Western Sandpiper ✓
2American Herring Gull ✓
2American White Pelican ✓
1Seaside Sparrow ✓
2Cape May Warbler ✓
1Eastern Kingbird ✓
6Northern Rough-winged Swallow ✓
1Red-eyed Vireo ✓
1Black-and-white Warbler ✓
1Magnolia Warbler ✓
2Black-throated Blue Warbler ✓
1Common Nighthawk ✓
2European Starling ✓
7Least Sandpiper ✓

October 5

30Chimney Swift ✓
3Roseate Spoonbill ✓
5Northern Waterthrush ✓
2Prothonotary Warbler ✓
1Black-bellied Plover ✓
1American Golden-Plover ✓
1Greater Yellowlegs ✓
4Royal Tern ✓
1American Robin ✓
1Killdeer ✓
9Ruddy Turnstone ✓
1Eastern Wood-Pewee ✓
1Green Heron ✓
1Savannah Sparrow ✓
6Brown-headed Cowbird ✓
1Orange-crowned Warbler ✓
1Red-headed Woodpecker ✓
1Caspian Tern ✓
2Wilson's Snipe ✓
2Gull-billed Tern ✓
1American Pipit ✓
1Saltmarsh Sparrow ✓
1Nashville Warbler ✓
1Chestnut-sided Warbler ✓
1Red-shouldered Hawk ✓
1Pileated Woodpecker ✓
1Boat-tailed Grackle ✓

October 4

1Long-billed Dowitcher ✓
1Dunlin ✓
4Black Skimmer ✓
2Barn Swallow ✓
8Brown Pelican ✓
1Kentucky Warbler ✓
1Bay-breasted Warbler ✓

October 3

1Glossy Ibis ✓
2American Oystercatcher ✓
25Short-billed Dowitcher ✓
4Lesser Yellowlegs ✓
1Chuck-will's-widow ✓
2Piping Plover ✓
2Sandwich Tern ✓
1Yellow-throated Vireo ✓
1Hooded Warbler ✓
1Lesser Black-backed Gull ✓
1Peregrine Falcon ✓

October 2

1Sedge Wren ✓
1Black Vulture ✓
1Reddish Egret ✓
1Cliff Swallow ✓
1Eurasian Collared-Dove ✓
1Barred Owl ✓
2Loggerhead Shrike ✓
1Brown Creeper ✓
1American Goldfinch ✓

October 1

1Broad-winged Hawk ✓
2Cedar Waxwing ✓
1Nelson's Sparrow ✓