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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.

January 29

6Ring-necked Duck
6Bufflehead
8Hooded Merganser
6Ruddy Duck
2Mourning Dove
1American Coot
6Greater Yellowlegs
2Bonaparte's Gull
8Ring-billed Gull
6White Ibis
4Little Blue Heron
6Great Egret
2Great Blue Heron
1Bald Eagle
1Eastern Screech-Owl
1Belted Kingfisher
2Eastern Phoebe
1Blue Jay
1Carolina Chickadee
1Tufted Titmouse
2Ruby-crowned Kinglet
1Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
1Carolina Wren
6Northern Mockingbird
1Seaside Sparrow
1Brown-headed Cowbird
4Yellow-rumped Warbler
2Northern Cardinal
8Northern Shoveler
38Gadwall
1Mallard
25Green-winged Teal
5Lesser Scaup
16Common Gallinule
1Laughing Gull
1Forster's Tern
7Pied-billed Grebe
1Black-crowned Night Heron
1Tricolored Heron
2Snowy Egret
4American White Pelican
1Brown Pelican
2Downy Woodpecker
5American Crow
18American Robin
42Cedar Waxwing
2House Finch
13White-throated Sparrow
1Swamp Sparrow
70Red-winged Blackbird
1Black-and-white Warbler
2Pine Warbler

January 28

6Blue-winged Teal
2Sanderling
6Double-crested Cormorant
1Turkey Vulture
2Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
1Red-bellied Woodpecker
1Blue-headed Vireo
1White-breasted Nuthatch
1Brown-headed Nuthatch
1Gray Catbird
1Song Sparrow
1Eurasian Collared-Dove
1Sora
2Spotted Sandpiper
4Willet
2Least Sandpiper
1Common Loon
1White-eyed Vireo
1Brown Creeper
1Clapper Rail
4Anhinga
1Savannah Sparrow
4Common Grackle

January 27

5Black-bellied Plover
40Dunlin
3Red-throated Loon
1Osprey
1Cooper's Hawk
1Red-shouldered Hawk
7Tree Swallow
2Eastern Towhee
1Nelson's Sparrow
2Western Sandpiper
2Golden-crowned Kinglet
2Brown Thrasher

January 26

1Winter Wren
4European Starling
2Yellow-throated Warbler
3Northern Pintail
1Redhead
1Common Goldeneye
1Boat-tailed Grackle
1Black Scoter
2Purple Sandpiper
10American Herring Gull
4Horned Grebe
15Northern Gannet
1Northern Harrier
3Eastern Bluebird
1Baltimore Oriole
1Northern Flicker

January 25

1Semipalmated Plover
6Ruddy Turnstone
15Red Knot
2Wood Stork
6Chipping Sparrow
1Rock Pigeon
2Short-billed Dowitcher
1Peregrine Falcon

January 24

6Great Black-backed Gull
2Fish Crow
2Common Yellowthroat
1Killdeer
1Northern House Wren
1Pileated Woodpecker
2Rusty Blackbird

January 23

1Red-breasted Merganser
2Razorbill
1Barred Owl
1American Goldfinch
2White-crowned Sparrow
10Long-billed Dowitcher
8Canvasback
1Hudsonian Whimbrel
1Red-tailed Hawk
1King Rail