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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.

September 1

9Mourning Dove
1Clapper Rail
4Common Gallinule
4Laughing Gull
1Ring-billed Gull
3Black Skimmer
4Anhinga
2Green Heron
15Great Egret
1Great Blue Heron
1Osprey
3Red-headed Woodpecker
3Red-bellied Woodpecker
2Downy Woodpecker
1Pileated Woodpecker
1Great Crested Flycatcher
4Blue Jay
3American Crow
3Tufted Titmouse
2White-breasted Nuthatch
6Carolina Wren
2Brown Thrasher
5Northern Mockingbird
3Eastern Bluebird
2House Finch
5Red-winged Blackbird
1Common Grackle
1Prothonotary Warbler
7Northern Cardinal

August 31

1White Ibis
10Snowy Egret
6Common Nighthawk
1Semipalmated Plover
19Sanderling
10American Herring Gull
1Great Black-backed Gull
2Least Tern
2Caspian Tern
4Forster's Tern
2Common Tern
11Sandwich Tern
63Royal Tern
9Turkey Vulture
1Bald Eagle
1Ruby-throated Hummingbird
4American Oystercatcher
4Killdeer
2Spotted Sandpiper
2Willet
1Gull-billed Tern
2Little Blue Heron
1Black Vulture
1Eastern Kingbird
1Carolina Chickadee
2Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
2Gray Catbird
1Seaside Sparrow
2Painted Bunting
1Ruddy Turnstone
2Double-crested Cormorant
6Brown Pelican
XWood Stork
XYellow-crowned Night Heron
XTricolored Heron
XNorthern Flicker
XWhite-eyed Vireo
XPine Warbler
1Black-crowned Night Heron
1Cooper's Hawk
1Belted Kingfisher
1Tree Swallow
1Brown-headed Nuthatch
1Rock Pigeon
2Eastern Whip-poor-will
2Black-bellied Plover
1Piping Plover
2Pied-billed Grebe
2Red-eyed Vireo
4European Starling
4American Robin
1American Redstart
14Chimney Swift
4Hudsonian Whimbrel
4Barn Swallow
1Northern Parula
2Summer Tanager
1Black-and-white Warbler

August 30

1American Coot
2Least Sandpiper
2Least Bittern
1Common Yellowthroat
1Brown-headed Cowbird
2Chuck-will's-widow

August 29

1Western Cattle-Egret
2Boat-tailed Grackle
1Hooded Warbler
2Western Sandpiper
7Semipalmated Sandpiper
2Pectoral Sandpiper

August 28

1Purple Gallinule
1Red-shouldered Hawk

August 27

1Acadian Flycatcher
1Kentucky Warbler
3Black-bellied Whistling-Duck

August 26

1Black Tern
1Roseate Spoonbill
1Orchard Oriole
2American Goldfinch
1Marsh Wren
1Eastern Towhee
1Prairie Warbler
2Black-necked Stilt
2Lesser Yellowlegs
1Lesser Black-backed Gull
1Northern Harrier
2Stilt Sandpiper

August 25

2Glossy Ibis
1Chipping Sparrow