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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 10

2Mourning Dove
2Ruby-throated Hummingbird
2Clapper Rail
2Virginia Rail
1Black-bellied Plover
6Sanderling
4Least Sandpiper
2Western Sandpiper
4Ring-billed Gull
2White Ibis
1Little Blue Heron
1Tricolored Heron
2Great Egret
2Great Blue Heron
8Brown Pelican
1Northern Harrier
1Bald Eagle
1Northern Flicker
1Great Crested Flycatcher
2Blue Jay
4American Crow
2Carolina Chickadee
1Ruby-crowned Kinglet
1Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
1Carolina Wren
2Brown Thrasher
6American Robin
17House Finch
1Song Sparrow
2Brown-headed Cowbird
1Black-and-white Warbler
1Tennessee Warbler
19Yellow-throated Warbler
2Northern Cardinal

April 9

2Hudsonian Whimbrel
2Greater Yellowlegs
1Caspian Tern
2Snowy Egret
5Black Vulture
3Fish Crow
4Tufted Titmouse
3Barn Swallow
1White-breasted Nuthatch
1Hermit Thrush
5Cedar Waxwing
3Red-winged Blackbird
3Boat-tailed Grackle
1Pine Warbler
1Yellow-billed Cuckoo
2Sora
1American Coot
4Lesser Yellowlegs
40Stilt Sandpiper
20Pied-billed Grebe
1Osprey
1Red-shouldered Hawk
1Downy Woodpecker
4Blue-winged Teal
2Forster's Tern
7Anhinga
1Black-crowned Night Heron
2Green Heron
1Turkey Vulture
1Red-tailed Hawk
2White-eyed Vireo
18Tree Swallow
1Northern Mockingbird
2Eastern Bluebird
3Common Grackle
2Yellow-rumped Warbler
2Canada Goose
5Mallard
11White-throated Sparrow
1Common Nighthawk
8Wilson's Snipe
2Solitary Sandpiper
1Lesser Black-backed Gull
4Least Tern
1Black Tern
2Double-crested Cormorant
1Belted Kingfisher
6European Starling
4Chipping Sparrow
1Blackburnian Warbler
1Scarlet Tanager

April 8

1Bufflehead
2Common Gallinule
9Willet
1Semipalmated Sandpiper
50Laughing Gull
1Eastern Towhee
1Chuck-will's-widow
4Semipalmated Plover
2Marbled Godwit
2Royal Tern
2Red-bellied Woodpecker
4Killdeer
6Short-billed Dowitcher
2American Herring Gull
4Common Tern
2Yellow-crowned Night Heron
1Peregrine Falcon
1Gray Catbird
1Savannah Sparrow
2Prothonotary Warbler
2Rock Pigeon
1Purple Finch

April 7

3American Oystercatcher
2Common Loon
2Brown-headed Nuthatch
1House Sparrow
1Northern Parula
2Piping Plover
4Wilson's Plover
3Gadwall
8Black Scoter
1King Rail
1Long-billed Dowitcher
2Ruddy Turnstone
28Dunlin
5Bonaparte's Gull
2Horned Grebe
10Northern Gannet
1Pileated Woodpecker
1Blue-headed Vireo
2Seaside Sparrow
1Least Bittern
1Brown Creeper
1Common Yellowthroat

April 6

1Swamp Sparrow
2Spotted Sandpiper
1Sandwich Tern
1Chestnut-sided Warbler
1Eurasian Collared-Dove
1Eastern Whip-poor-will
6Wood Stork
1Yellow-throated Vireo
1Hooded Warbler

April 5

1Painted Bunting
1Gull-billed Tern
1Red-eyed Vireo
1Glossy Ibis
1Eastern Kingbird
2Rusty Blackbird
1Green-winged Teal
1Red-headed Woodpecker
2Northern House Wren
2American Goldfinch
1Northern Bobwhite
1Red-throated Loon
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