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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.

June 2

6Mourning Dove
1Killdeer
1Laughing Gull
1Royal Tern
7Wood Stork
4Anhinga
2Double-crested Cormorant
5White Ibis
3Glossy Ibis
7Roseate Spoonbill
1Little Blue Heron
1Tricolored Heron
2Snowy Egret
4Green Heron
17Great Egret
4Great Blue Heron
1Downy Woodpecker
5Barn Swallow
6Red-winged Blackbird
3Brown-headed Cowbird
3Northern Cardinal
1Painted Bunting
1Ruby-throated Hummingbird
2American Coot
2Black-necked Stilt
2Spotted Sandpiper
4Sanderling
1Least Sandpiper
2Ring-billed Gull
1Bald Eagle
2Belted Kingfisher
2Blue Jay
1Carolina Chickadee
1Tufted Titmouse
2Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
4Northern Mockingbird
1Yellow-throated Warbler
3Cliff Swallow
1Common Gallinule
1Black-crowned Night Heron
1Swallow-tailed Kite
1Hairy Woodpecker
3American Crow
1Eastern Bluebird
10House Finch
1Common Grackle
1Boat-tailed Grackle
1Purple Gallinule
2Least Tern
1Least Bittern
1Red-shouldered Hawk
3Red-headed Woodpecker
3Red-bellied Woodpecker
4Great Crested Flycatcher
1Fish Crow
1Brown-headed Nuthatch
2Carolina Wren
1Brown Thrasher
1Pine Warbler
1Summer Tanager

June 1

2Clapper Rail
2Willet
2Black Skimmer
2Pied-billed Grebe
1Marsh Wren
1Bachman's Sparrow
1Chipping Sparrow
1Wood Duck
3Chimney Swift
1Yellow-crowned Night Heron
4Turkey Vulture
1Osprey
5Prothonotary Warbler
1Northern Parula
4Black-bellied Plover
3Semipalmated Plover
1Greater Yellowlegs
24Semipalmated Sandpiper
1Eastern Whip-poor-will
1Dunlin
2Gull-billed Tern
1Eastern Kingbird
1White-breasted Nuthatch
1Eastern Towhee
1Black-throated Green Warbler

May 31

1Orchard Oriole
1Common Yellowthroat
5Forster's Tern
1Brown Pelican
1Black Vulture
1Pileated Woodpecker
1Yellow-billed Cuckoo
2American Herring Gull
2Sandwich Tern

May 30

3Canada Goose
1Common Nighthawk
2American Oystercatcher
9Ruddy Turnstone
2Mississippi Kite
1Northern House Wren
1Hudsonian Whimbrel
1Wilson's Phalarope
2Great Black-backed Gull
1Broad-winged Hawk
1White-eyed Vireo
1Orange-crowned Warbler
4Black-bellied Whistling-Duck

May 29

1Yellow-throated Vireo
1Black-and-white Warbler
1Blackpoll Warbler
5Wilson's Plover
1Purple Martin
1Eurasian Collared-Dove
2Chuck-will's-widow
1Bay-breasted Warbler

May 28

1Red-tailed Hawk
1Hooded Warbler
1Chestnut-sided Warbler
4Caspian Tern
1Red-breasted Merganser
17Short-billed Dowitcher
2Tree Swallow
1Red-eyed Vireo
1Gray Catbird
1Northern Rough-winged Swallow
2Blue Grosbeak

May 27

1Cooper's Hawk
1Blue-winged Warbler