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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 15

4Mourning Dove
2Clapper Rail
5Willet
3Greater Yellowlegs
1Least Sandpiper
1Laughing Gull
4Anhinga
17Double-crested Cormorant
1Little Blue Heron
1Tricolored Heron
2Snowy Egret
4Great Egret
1Bald Eagle
1Red-bellied Woodpecker
1Pileated Woodpecker
2Great Crested Flycatcher
1American Crow
1Fish Crow
3Carolina Chickadee
3Tufted Titmouse
1Barn Swallow
1White-breasted Nuthatch
2Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
1Carolina Wren
1House Finch
1White-throated Sparrow
45Red-winged Blackbird
2Brown-headed Cowbird
1Common Grackle
1Yellow-rumped Warbler
4Northern Cardinal
1Painted Bunting
2Blue-winged Teal
2Bufflehead
2Sora
16Common Gallinule
11American Coot
2Lesser Yellowlegs
1Pied-billed Grebe
1Glossy Ibis
2Roseate Spoonbill
1Black-crowned Night Heron
4Green Heron
2Great Blue Heron
4Turkey Vulture
1Osprey
1Cooper's Hawk
1Red-shouldered Hawk
1Red-eyed Vireo
2Ruby-crowned Kinglet
1Eastern Bluebird
1Song Sparrow
2Swamp Sparrow
1Prothonotary Warbler
3Pine Warbler
1Blue Grosbeak
1White-eyed Vireo
1Blue-headed Vireo
1Boat-tailed Grackle
1Black-and-white Warbler
2Black-bellied Plover
2Killdeer
2Short-billed Dowitcher
3Spotted Sandpiper
1Yellow-crowned Night Heron
2Red-headed Woodpecker
1Downy Woodpecker
1Hairy Woodpecker
1Blue Jay
5Tree Swallow
2Brown-headed Nuthatch
1Northern House Wren
1Marsh Wren
2Gray Catbird
4Northern Mockingbird
2Hermit Thrush
20Cedar Waxwing
1American Goldfinch
1Northern Parula
2Summer Tanager
2Virginia Rail
1Purple Gallinule
4Long-billed Dowitcher
4Sanderling
2Ring-billed Gull
1Lesser Black-backed Gull
1Black Tern
1Sandwich Tern
2White Ibis
4Brown Pelican
1Swallow-tailed Kite
2Belted Kingfisher
1Blue-winged Warbler
4Gadwall
80Black Scoter
1King Rail
1American Oystercatcher
5Semipalmated Plover
3Piping Plover
4Wilson's Plover
12Ruddy Turnstone
5Dunlin
2Western Sandpiper
6Bonaparte's Gull
1American Herring Gull
68Least Tern
22Forster's Tern
44Royal Tern
3American Flamingo
1Common Loon
1Northern Gannet
1Red-tailed Hawk
1Brown Thrasher
3Eastern Towhee
1Yellow-throated Warbler
4Stilt Sandpiper
1Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
1Northern Flicker
1Savannah Sparrow
1Common Yellowthroat

April 14

1Black-throated Blue Warbler
1Eastern Whip-poor-will
20Chimney Swift
2Solitary Sandpiper
4Wood Stork
1Peregrine Falcon
6European Starling
10Black Vulture
1Seaside Sparrow

April 13

1Eurasian Collared-Dove
1Least Bittern
1Northern Harrier
1Wood Thrush
1Palm Warbler
1Purple Martin
1House Sparrow
1Chipping Sparrow
1Yellow-billed Cuckoo
2Marbled Godwit
1Eastern Wood-Pewee
1Orange-crowned Warbler
1Red-throated Loon

April 12

1Yellow-throated Vireo
1Green-winged Teal
5Canada Goose
1American Robin
3Red-breasted Merganser

April 11

8Common Tern
1Brown Creeper
1Chestnut-sided Warbler
7Hudsonian Whimbrel
1Caspian Tern
4Gull-billed Tern
1Eastern Kingbird
2Saltmarsh Sparrow

April 10

4Wilson's Snipe
4Semipalmated Sandpiper
2Ruby-throated Hummingbird
1Tennessee Warbler
1Western Cattle-Egret
1Nelson's Sparrow