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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 8

2Black-bellied Plover ✓
2Prairie Willet ✓
1Ruddy Turnstone ✓
8Sanderling ✓
5Laughing Gull ✓
16Ring-billed Gull ✓
28Double-crested Cormorant ✓
1Great Blue Heron ✓
1Brown Pelican ✓
1Golden-crowned Kinglet ✓
1Northern House Wren ✓
2White-throated Sparrow ✓
3Song Sparrow ✓
3Swamp Sparrow ✓
5Yellow-rumped Warbler ✓
2Ruddy Duck ✓
1Mourning Dove ✓
4Killdeer ✓
2Short-billed Dowitcher ✓
1Pied-billed Grebe ✓
6Wood Stork ✓
6White Ibis ✓
2Roseate Spoonbill ✓
4Great Egret ✓
2American White Pelican ✓
1Eastern Screech-Owl ✓
2Belted Kingfisher ✓
2Eastern Phoebe ✓
1American Crow ✓
1Carolina Chickadee ✓
1Tufted Titmouse ✓
4Ruby-crowned Kinglet ✓
1Blue-gray Gnatcatcher ✓
2House Finch ✓
2American Redstart ✓
15Semipalmated Plover ✓
1Piping Plover ✓
73Dunlin ✓
5Western Sandpiper ✓
20Forster's Tern ✓
1Sandwich Tern ✓
5Royal Tern ✓
1Snowy Egret ✓
1Osprey ✓
1Bald Eagle ✓
1Fish Crow ✓
1Hermit Thrush ✓
1Little Blue Heron ✓
4Turkey Vulture ✓
1White-breasted Nuthatch ✓
1Boat-tailed Grackle ✓
1Northern Cardinal ✓
2American Oystercatcher ✓
1Parasitic Jaeger ✓
4American Herring Gull ✓
1Lesser Black-backed Gull ✓
1Caspian Tern ✓
1Cooper's Hawk ✓
2Northern Mockingbird ✓
2Clapper Rail ✓
32Common Gallinule ✓
1American Coot ✓
1Black-crowned Night Heron ✓
2Red-bellied Woodpecker ✓
1Downy Woodpecker ✓
2Northern Flicker ✓
1Blue-headed Vireo ✓
4Blue Jay ✓
2Carolina Wren ✓
1Gray Catbird ✓
1Savannah Sparrow ✓
14Red-winged Blackbird ✓
1Hooded Merganser ✓
2Brown-headed Nuthatch ✓
1Eastern Towhee ✓
1Virginia Rail ✓
1Yellow-bellied Sapsucker ✓
2Brown Creeper ✓
2Winter Wren ✓
2Cedar Waxwing ✓
5Common Grackle ✓
1Orange-crowned Warbler ✓
14Blue-winged Teal ✓
1Mallard ✓
1Ruby-throated Hummingbird ✓
6Greater Yellowlegs ✓
5Tricolored Heron ✓
15Tree Swallow ✓
1Brown Thrasher ✓
6Eastern Bluebird ✓
3Pine Warbler ✓
4Least Sandpiper ✓
25Green-winged Teal ✓
1Northern Harrier ✓
1Pileated Woodpecker ✓

November 7

1Palm Warbler ✓
2Northern Gannet ✓
1Western Kingbird
2Wilson's Plover ✓
2Gadwall ✓
1White-crowned Sparrow ✓
1Spotted Sandpiper ✓
1Sora ✓
3Red-shouldered Hawk ✓
1Seaside Sparrow ✓
1Common Yellowthroat ✓

November 6

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

November 5

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

November 4

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

November 3

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

November 2

1Black-throated Blue Warbler ✓
1Surf Scoter ✓
1Green Heron ✓