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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 3

1Sandwich Tern
1Anhinga
4Little Blue Heron
2Great Egret
1Turkey Vulture
1Osprey
2Belted Kingfisher
1Blue Jay
3Carolina Chickadee
2Carolina Wren
1House Finch
1Northern Waterthrush
2Northern Cardinal
2Painted Bunting
1Ruby-throated Hummingbird
18Semipalmated Sandpiper
4Laughing Gull
3White Ibis
1Tricolored Heron
9Snowy Egret
1Red-headed Woodpecker
2American Oystercatcher
5Black-bellied Plover
45Semipalmated Plover
6Short-billed Dowitcher
4Willet
41Black Skimmer
7Forster's Tern
12Wood Stork
1Reddish Egret
1Bald Eagle
1Pileated Woodpecker
1Chimney Swift
2Sanderling
2Ring-billed Gull
2Pied-billed Grebe
2Great Blue Heron
2Brown Pelican
2Downy Woodpecker
1Least Flycatcher
1White-breasted Nuthatch
2Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
4European Starling
2Gray Catbird
4Northern Mockingbird
2American Robin
1Seaside Sparrow
1Black-and-white Warbler
1Hooded Warbler
1Summer Tanager
9Mourning Dove
5Common Gallinule
1Least Tern
2Green Heron
1Cooper's Hawk
3Red-bellied Woodpecker
1Great Crested Flycatcher
1Eastern Kingbird
2White-eyed Vireo
3American Crow
5Tufted Titmouse
3Brown-headed Nuthatch
4Eastern Bluebird
2Pine Warbler

September 2

6American Herring Gull
4Common Tern
62Royal Tern
1Double-crested Cormorant
1American Coot
1Stilt Sandpiper
1Barred Owl
1Yellow-throated Vireo
2Red-winged Blackbird
1American Redstart
1Eurasian Collared-Dove
2Chuck-will's-widow
6Killdeer
2Piping Plover
4Spotted Sandpiper
1Black Vulture
1Mississippi Kite
1Great Horned Owl
2Northern Flicker
1Red-eyed Vireo
4Barn Swallow
1Chipping Sparrow
4Boat-tailed Grackle
1Cape May Warbler
1Clapper Rail
2Yellow-crowned Night Heron
5Black-crowned Night Heron
3Purple Martin
1Brown Thrasher
1Greater Yellowlegs

September 1

1Marbled Godwit
1Fish Crow
2Brown-headed Cowbird
1Common Grackle
1Prothonotary Warbler

August 31

6Common Nighthawk
1Great Black-backed Gull
2Gull-billed Tern
2Caspian Tern
1Ruddy Turnstone
1Tree Swallow
1Rock Pigeon
2Eastern Whip-poor-will
4Hudsonian Whimbrel
1Northern Parula

August 30

2Least Sandpiper
2Least Bittern
1Common Yellowthroat

August 29

1Western Cattle-Egret
2Western Sandpiper
2Pectoral Sandpiper

August 28

1Purple Gallinule
1Red-shouldered Hawk

August 27

1Acadian Flycatcher