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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.

May 13

2Mourning Dove
2Clapper Rail
3Common Gallinule
7Semipalmated Plover
14Least Sandpiper
8Semipalmated Sandpiper
1Wood Stork
1Anhinga
1Double-crested Cormorant
12White Ibis
1Little Blue Heron
1Tricolored Heron
1Snowy Egret
4Great Egret
1Great Blue Heron
1Turkey Vulture
1Great Crested Flycatcher
1Carolina Chickadee
3Barn Swallow
1Carolina Wren
6Red-winged Blackbird
4Brown-headed Cowbird
3Common Grackle
1Pine Warbler
2Northern Cardinal
1Painted Bunting
1Black-necked Stilt
2Killdeer
1Spotted Sandpiper
4Greater Yellowlegs
XLaughing Gull
2Roseate Spoonbill
1Green Heron
XRed-bellied Woodpecker
1Blue Jay
3American Crow
XTufted Titmouse
XBrown Thrasher
2Boat-tailed Grackle
XProthonotary Warbler
XNorthern Parula
3Chimney Swift
6Black-bellied Plover
3Hudsonian Whimbrel
10Short-billed Dowitcher
2Lesser Yellowlegs
8Willet
5Sanderling
1Royal Tern
1Yellow-crowned Night Heron
1Brown Pelican
2Black Vulture
1Red-tailed Hawk
1Red-headed Woodpecker
1Downy Woodpecker
3Fish Crow
2Brown-headed Nuthatch
1Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
1Northern Mockingbird
2Eastern Bluebird
3Cedar Waxwing
3House Finch
1Common Yellowthroat

May 12

1Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
1Ruby-throated Hummingbird
1Sora
5Least Tern
2Least Bittern
1Bald Eagle
1Pileated Woodpecker
1White-rumped Sandpiper
3Osprey
1Seaside Sparrow

May 11

1Common Nighthawk
3Chuck-will's-widow
1Cooper's Hawk
1Orchard Oriole
1Solitary Sandpiper
1White-breasted Nuthatch
1Rose-breasted Grosbeak
1American Coot
3White-eyed Vireo
1Yellow-billed Cuckoo
4Western Sandpiper
2Ring-billed Gull
1Black Skimmer
1Gull-billed Tern
2Sandwich Tern
1Pied-billed Grebe
1Marsh Wren
1Gray Catbird
1Hooded Warbler
4Long-billed Dowitcher
1Stilt Sandpiper
6Dunlin
2Purple Martin
1Wild Turkey
1Eurasian Collared-Dove
1Glossy Ibis

May 10

1Eastern Kingbird
1Orange-crowned Warbler
2Piping Plover
1American Robin
1Summer Tanager
2Forster's Tern
1Red-shouldered Hawk
1American Redstart
1Swallow-tailed Kite
4European Starling
1Eastern Towhee

May 9

2Belted Kingfisher
1Gray-cheeked Thrush
1Black-and-white Warbler
1Black-crowned Night Heron
1Sandhill Crane
1Wilson's Plover
1Hairy Woodpecker
1Wood Duck
1Mallard
1Red-eyed Vireo
1Yellow-breasted Chat
1Baltimore Oriole
1Northern Waterthrush
1Willow Flycatcher
1Saltmarsh Sparrow

May 8

1Eastern Screech-Owl
1Eastern Wood-Pewee
1Blue-winged Warbler
1King Rail
1Yellow-throated Vireo
2Tree Swallow
1Ovenbird
1Swainson's Warbler
1Northern Yellow Warbler
1Blackpoll Warbler
1Black-throated Blue Warbler
1Blue Grosbeak

May 7

2American Bittern
2Prairie Warbler
1Bobolink
1Eastern Whip-poor-will
1Wilson's Phalarope
1Chestnut-sided Warbler

May 6

1Nelson's Sparrow
5Ruddy Turnstone