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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 17

8Chimney Swift
3Semipalmated Plover
4Baird's Sandpiper
1Laughing Gull
2Black Skimmer
2Forster's Tern
3Sandwich Tern
3Royal Tern
42Wood Stork
1Anhinga
1White Ibis
1Yellow-crowned Night Heron
1Black-crowned Night Heron
1Tricolored Heron
5Snowy Egret
10Great Egret
1Great Blue Heron
2Osprey
2Blue Jay
1Carolina Wren
1Brown Thrasher
1Northern Mockingbird
14Red-winged Blackbird
2Northern Cardinal
4Clapper Rail
3Black-bellied Plover
4Killdeer
3Lesser Yellowlegs
2Willet
1Least Sandpiper
15Western Sandpiper
1Double-crested Cormorant
2Glossy Ibis
1Red-bellied Woodpecker
2American Crow
3Carolina Chickadee
1White-breasted Nuthatch
1Pine Warbler
2Painted Bunting
1Mourning Dove
2Ruby-throated Hummingbird
1American Coot
2Short-billed Dowitcher
2Spotted Sandpiper
2Ring-billed Gull
4American Herring Gull
2Least Bittern
2Bald Eagle
1Belted Kingfisher
1Eastern Kingbird
1Yellow-throated Vireo
1Tufted Titmouse
1Brown-headed Nuthatch
2Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
1House Finch
1Savannah Sparrow
6Common Grackle
1American Redstart
1Scarlet Tanager
1Indigo Bunting

September 16

2Little Blue Heron
1Black Vulture
1Great Crested Flycatcher
1Red-eyed Vireo
1Blue-winged Warbler
1Black-and-white Warbler
5Ruddy Turnstone
1Cooper's Hawk
5Sanderling
1Great Black-backed Gull
6Brown Pelican
3Turkey Vulture
1Merlin
4Common Gallinule
3Downy Woodpecker
15American Oystercatcher
1Pectoral Sandpiper
4Semipalmated Sandpiper
7Caspian Tern
4Common Tern
1Red-tailed Hawk
1American Kestrel
1Northern Yellow Warbler
1Red-shouldered Hawk
2Eastern Bluebird
1House Sparrow
1Bobolink
3Boat-tailed Grackle
1Northern Harrier
1Cape May Warbler
1Northern Parula
1Prairie Warbler
2Greater Yellowlegs
1Summer Tanager
1Common Nighthawk
2Wilson's Snipe
1Wilson's Phalarope
2Green Heron
1Tennessee Warbler
4Red-headed Woodpecker
2Common Yellowthroat

September 15

1White-eyed Vireo
1American Goldfinch
1Magnolia Warbler

September 14

2Least Tern
1Pileated Woodpecker
1Roseate Spoonbill
1Sora
4Pied-billed Grebe
1Purple Martin
1Gray Catbird
1American Robin
1Chipping Sparrow
1Hudsonian Whimbrel
2Gull-billed Tern
2Eastern Wood-Pewee
1Baltimore Oriole
1Brown-headed Cowbird

September 13

8Barn Swallow
2Piping Plover

September 12

1Virginia Rail
6European Starling
1Swainson's Warbler
1Solitary Sandpiper
2Great Horned Owl

September 11

1Chuck-will's-widow
1Broad-winged Hawk
24Blue-winged Teal
1Hooded Warbler
1Peregrine Falcon
1Chestnut-sided Warbler

September 10

1Seaside Sparrow