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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 21

4Canada Goose
1Mourning Dove
10Common Gallinule
6American Coot
1Black-bellied Plover
12Killdeer
1Solitary Sandpiper
1Willet
2Greater Yellowlegs
6Sanderling
2Dunlin
2Laughing Gull
18Anhinga
2Double-crested Cormorant
2Roseate Spoonbill
2Little Blue Heron
1Tricolored Heron
4Green Heron
12Great Egret
3Brown Pelican
1Osprey
2Bald Eagle
1Red-bellied Woodpecker
1Downy Woodpecker
3Great Crested Flycatcher
1Blue Jay
2American Crow
3Fish Crow
3Carolina Chickadee
1Tufted Titmouse
1Brown-headed Nuthatch
2Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
2Carolina Wren
2Northern Mockingbird
2Cedar Waxwing
2House Finch
2White-throated Sparrow
2Orchard Oriole
5Red-winged Blackbird
1Brown-headed Cowbird
2Common Grackle
2Prothonotary Warbler
2Pine Warbler
5Northern Cardinal
1Painted Bunting
1Common Nighthawk
2Purple Gallinule
2Piping Plover
1Long-billed Dowitcher
2Spotted Sandpiper
1Least Sandpiper
2Ring-billed Gull
1Least Tern
1Pied-billed Grebe
1Least Bittern
2Great Blue Heron
1Red-tailed Hawk
1Pileated Woodpecker
8Barn Swallow
1Ruby-crowned Kinglet
1Brown Creeper
4European Starling
1Gray Catbird
20Eastern Bluebird
1Song Sparrow
2Boat-tailed Grackle
1Hooded Warbler
1American Redstart
1Blue-winged Teal
2Red-breasted Merganser
1Chuck-will's-widow
2Sora
1Black-necked Stilt
1American Oystercatcher
79Semipalmated Plover
1Wilson's Plover
1Hudsonian Whimbrel
31Short-billed Dowitcher
5Lesser Yellowlegs
7Ruddy Turnstone
2American Herring Gull
6Forster's Tern
90Royal Tern
14Northern Gannet
8White Ibis
10Glossy Ibis
8Black-crowned Night Heron
6Snowy Egret
3Black Vulture
16Turkey Vulture
1Cooper's Hawk
1Red-headed Woodpecker
2White-eyed Vireo
11Tree Swallow
1Purple Martin
1Northern House Wren
3Marsh Wren
2Brown Thrasher
1American Robin
1Swamp Sparrow
2Eastern Towhee
1Black-and-white Warbler
1Northern Parula
3Yellow-rumped Warbler

April 20

2Sandwich Tern
4Savannah Sparrow
4Chimney Swift
2Clapper Rail
2Virginia Rail
2Gull-billed Tern
1Common Tern
1Swallow-tailed Kite
2Baltimore Oriole
1Belted Kingfisher
2White-breasted Nuthatch
1Hermit Thrush
1American Goldfinch
1Common Yellowthroat
1Yellow-crowned Night Heron
1Western Cattle-Egret
1Red-shouldered Hawk
1Ruby-throated Hummingbird
1Eastern Kingbird

April 19

1Blue Grosbeak
1House Sparrow
1Hairy Woodpecker
1Yellow-throated Warbler
2Wilson's Snipe
1Yellow-throated Vireo
1Wild Turkey
1Red-eyed Vireo
1Northern Yellow Warbler
1Marbled Godwit
12Caspian Tern
1Northern Rough-winged Swallow
1Nelson's Sparrow
1Yellow-breasted Chat
6Western Sandpiper
1Rock Pigeon
2American Woodcock
1Semipalmated Sandpiper
2American White Pelican
1Blue-headed Vireo
1Blue-winged Warbler
1Merlin
5Black Skimmer
5Seaside Sparrow
3Saltmarsh Sparrow

April 18

1Cape May Warbler
4Stilt Sandpiper
1Peregrine Falcon
1Wood Thrush
1Mallard
1Palm Warbler
1Wood Stork
1Scarlet Tanager
1Sharp-shinned Hawk
2Black Scoter
1American Golden-Plover
2Wood Duck
14Bonaparte's Gull

April 17

1Bank Swallow
3Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
2Horned Lark
1Northern Harrier
2Lesser Black-backed Gull
2Chipping Sparrow
1Indigo Bunting

April 16

3American Avocet
2Bufflehead
1Yellow-billed Cuckoo
1Northern Waterthrush
1Tennessee Warbler
1King Rail
1Common Loon
1Field Sparrow

April 15

2White-winged Scoter
2Summer Tanager
1Black Tern
4Gadwall
3American Flamingo
1Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
1Northern Flicker

April 14

1Black-throated Blue Warbler