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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.

August 10

4Ruby-throated Hummingbird
7Great Egret
1Great Blue Heron
2Carolina Chickadee
2Tufted Titmouse
4House Finch
6Northern Cardinal
4Painted Bunting
10Mourning Dove
3Laughing Gull
1Royal Tern
1Yellow-crowned Night Heron
1Black-crowned Night Heron
2Green Heron
2Red-headed Woodpecker
1White-eyed Vireo
2Blue Jay
5Barn Swallow
1Northern Mockingbird
2American Oystercatcher
1Spotted Sandpiper
1Solitary Sandpiper
2Forster's Tern
8Wood Stork
2Double-crested Cormorant
4White Ibis
1Tricolored Heron
4Snowy Egret
1Osprey
1Belted Kingfisher
1Red-bellied Woodpecker
1Downy Woodpecker
1Pileated Woodpecker
1Brown-headed Nuthatch
2Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
2Carolina Wren
1Prothonotary Warbler
2Anhinga
2American Crow
2Red-winged Blackbird
1American Coot
2Semipalmated Plover
1Short-billed Dowitcher
4Willet
2Stilt Sandpiper
4Sanderling
1Least Tern
1Pied-billed Grebe
4Brown Pelican
1Black Vulture
1Mississippi Kite
1Red-tailed Hawk
2Eastern Bluebird
4American Robin
1Chipping Sparrow
1Seaside Sparrow
2Common Grackle
1Swainson's Warbler
9Common Gallinule
1Black Skimmer
1Great Crested Flycatcher

August 9

2Black-bellied Plover
1Ring-billed Gull
1Little Blue Heron
1White-breasted Nuthatch
1Common Yellowthroat
4Ruddy Turnstone
1Least Sandpiper
1Lesser Black-backed Gull
3Black Tern
8Common Tern
10Sandwich Tern
2Turkey Vulture
1Clapper Rail
50Semipalmated Sandpiper
3Roseate Spoonbill
1Cooper's Hawk
1Red-shouldered Hawk
1Glossy Ibis
2Bald Eagle
2Chimney Swift
3Killdeer
1Greater Yellowlegs
1Chuck-will's-widow
1Piping Plover
1Western Sandpiper
1Eastern Kingbird
1Red-eyed Vireo
4European Starling
1Black-and-white Warbler

August 8

1Loggerhead Shrike
1Caspian Tern
1Wilson's Plover
1Fish Crow
7American Avocet
1Lesser Yellowlegs
1Purple Martin
1American Goldfinch
1Great Black-backed Gull
2American White Pelican
1Yellow-throated Vireo
1Brown Thrasher
2Brown-headed Cowbird
1Indigo Bunting

August 7

1Eurasian Collared-Dove
1Acadian Flycatcher
1Pine Warbler
2Marbled Godwit
1Swallow-tailed Kite
1American Redstart

August 6

1Yellow-throated Warbler
1Rock Pigeon
6Hudsonian Whimbrel
1Wild Turkey
1Louisiana Waterthrush
2Black-necked Stilt
1Least Bittern

August 5

1Gull-billed Tern

August 4

1Prairie Warbler