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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.

April 7

1Mourning Dove
4Clapper Rail
2Black-bellied Plover
5Greater Yellowlegs
4Least Tern
2Anhinga
3Double-crested Cormorant
2Little Blue Heron
3Tricolored Heron
2Snowy Egret
1Great Blue Heron
1Belted Kingfisher
1American Crow
2Fish Crow
2Tufted Titmouse
8Barn Swallow
4Red-winged Blackbird
2Common Grackle
1Northern Cardinal
14Blue-winged Teal
14Common Gallinule
22American Coot
3American Oystercatcher
3Semipalmated Plover
1Willet
11Sanderling
27Laughing Gull
2Forster's Tern
2Common Loon
1White Ibis
9Black-crowned Night Heron
9Great Egret
33Brown Pelican
2Turkey Vulture
1Osprey
1Red-shouldered Hawk
4Red-bellied Woodpecker
1Northern Flicker
3Blue Jay
12Carolina Chickadee
10Tree Swallow
2Brown-headed Nuthatch
2Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
13Carolina Wren
2European Starling
2Gray Catbird
3Brown Thrasher
6Northern Mockingbird
1House Sparrow
6White-throated Sparrow
3Brown-headed Cowbird
1Northern Parula
5Pine Warbler
2Bufflehead
2Piping Plover
4Wilson's Plover
4Royal Tern
4Eastern Bluebird
1House Finch
3Gadwall
8Black Scoter
1King Rail
2Sora
3Killdeer
3Hudsonian Whimbrel
56Short-billed Dowitcher
1Long-billed Dowitcher
5Lesser Yellowlegs
2Ruddy Turnstone
28Dunlin
25Least Sandpiper
8Western Sandpiper
5Bonaparte's Gull
1Ring-billed Gull
8American Herring Gull
1Pied-billed Grebe
2Horned Grebe
10Northern Gannet
1Black Vulture
1Northern Harrier
1Bald Eagle
1Downy Woodpecker
1Pileated Woodpecker
3White-eyed Vireo
1Blue-headed Vireo
1Ruby-crowned Kinglet
56Cedar Waxwing
2Seaside Sparrow
2Savannah Sparrow
2Song Sparrow
4Eastern Towhee
1Yellow-rumped Warbler
2Ruby-throated Hummingbird
1Least Bittern
1Green Heron
1Brown Creeper
1Common Yellowthroat

April 6

1Swamp Sparrow
2Spotted Sandpiper
1Sandwich Tern
2Yellow-crowned Night Heron
1Boat-tailed Grackle
1Prothonotary Warbler
1Chestnut-sided Warbler
1White-breasted Nuthatch
1Eurasian Collared-Dove
1Eastern Whip-poor-will
1Lesser Black-backed Gull
6Wood Stork
1Red-tailed Hawk
1Yellow-throated Vireo
4Chipping Sparrow
1Hooded Warbler
1Yellow-throated Warbler

April 5

1Black-and-white Warbler
2Canada Goose
1Solitary Sandpiper
1Painted Bunting
1Gull-billed Tern
1Red-eyed Vireo
1Virginia Rail
1Stilt Sandpiper
1Glossy Ibis
1Eastern Kingbird
2Rusty Blackbird
1Green-winged Teal
1Red-headed Woodpecker
2Northern House Wren
2American Robin
2American Goldfinch
1Northern Bobwhite
1Red-throated Loon
1Great Crested Flycatcher
1Marsh Wren

April 4

2Purple Martin
1Ovenbird
1Wild Turkey
4Chimney Swift
1Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
1Merlin
2Eastern Phoebe
1Loggerhead Shrike
1Worm-eating Warbler
2Wood Duck
1Pectoral Sandpiper
1Sharp-shinned Hawk
2Field Sparrow
1Prairie Warbler

April 3

1Hermit Thrush
2Red-breasted Merganser

April 2

2Chuck-will's-widow
1Marbled Godwit
1American Bittern
1Broad-winged Hawk
1Peregrine Falcon
1Summer Tanager
4American Avocet
1American Woodcock
1Wilson's Phalarope
2Red Knot
1Caspian Tern

April 1

1Great Black-backed Gull
2Common Tern