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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.

January 26

12Hooded Merganser
6Ruddy Duck
2American Coot
4Sanderling
4Ring-billed Gull
2Pied-billed Grebe
8White Ibis
4Snowy Egret
6Great Egret
2Great Blue Heron
12American White Pelican
1Bald Eagle
1Eastern Screech-Owl
1Downy Woodpecker
2Eastern Phoebe
4Blue Jay
2American Crow
4Ruby-crowned Kinglet
2Brown Creeper
1Winter Wren
4European Starling
2Northern Mockingbird
1Song Sparrow
2Red-winged Blackbird
2Common Grackle
4Yellow-rumped Warbler
2Yellow-throated Warbler
4Northern Cardinal
15Gadwall
20Green-winged Teal
11Common Gallinule
7Forster's Tern
1Turkey Vulture
1Belted Kingfisher
1Red-bellied Woodpecker
1Carolina Chickadee
1Tufted Titmouse
3Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
1Carolina Wren
50American Robin
5House Finch
8Northern Shoveler
3Northern Pintail
1Redhead
1Lesser Scaup
30Bufflehead
1Common Goldeneye
4Black-bellied Plover
3Greater Yellowlegs
1Bonaparte's Gull
2Double-crested Cormorant
1Little Blue Heron
1Brown Pelican
1White-breasted Nuthatch
1Brown-headed Nuthatch
45Cedar Waxwing
7White-throated Sparrow
1Swamp Sparrow
1Boat-tailed Grackle
2Pine Warbler
1Black Scoter
2Purple Sandpiper
1Least Sandpiper
2Laughing Gull
10American Herring Gull
4Horned Grebe
2Red-throated Loon
6Common Loon
15Northern Gannet
1Osprey
1Northern Harrier
3Eastern Bluebird
6Savannah Sparrow
1Baltimore Oriole
1Blue-winged Teal
14Ring-necked Duck
1Black-crowned Night Heron
1Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
2Clapper Rail
6Spotted Sandpiper
4Willet
2Tricolored Heron
1Northern Flicker
1Brown-headed Cowbird

January 25

1Semipalmated Plover
6Ruddy Turnstone
15Red Knot
2Wood Stork
6Chipping Sparrow
1Rock Pigeon
2Short-billed Dowitcher
6Western Sandpiper
1Peregrine Falcon

January 24

6Great Black-backed Gull
2Anhinga
2Fish Crow
2Common Yellowthroat
1Killdeer
1Northern House Wren
2Mourning Dove
2Sora
1Pileated Woodpecker
2Golden-crowned Kinglet
2Brown Thrasher
19Seaside Sparrow
2Rusty Blackbird

January 23

1Red-breasted Merganser
2Razorbill
2Gray Catbird
1Barred Owl
1American Goldfinch
2White-crowned Sparrow
1Black-and-white Warbler
10Long-billed Dowitcher
85Dunlin
7Tree Swallow
8Canvasback
1Hudsonian Whimbrel
1Red-tailed Hawk
1Blue-headed Vireo
1King Rail
1Red-shouldered Hawk
3Eastern Towhee

January 22

4Lesser Yellowlegs
3Canada Goose
1Marsh Wren
2Hermit Thrush
2Long-tailed Duck
6Marbled Godwit
2Caspian Tern

January 21

2Royal Tern
6American Wigeon

January 20

1Cooper's Hawk
1White-winged Scoter
1Hairy Woodpecker
1Merlin
1Virginia Rail