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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.

November 10

1Red-breasted Merganser ✓
1Mourning Dove ✓
3Black-bellied Plover ✓
8Short-billed Dowitcher ✓
3Ruddy Turnstone ✓
4Red Knot ✓
27Sanderling ✓
125Dunlin ✓
7Western Sandpiper ✓
19Laughing Gull ✓
2Ring-billed Gull ✓
3American Herring Gull ✓
35Forster's Tern ✓
12Sandwich Tern
23Royal Tern ✓
13Double-crested Cormorant ✓
1Great Egret ✓
1Great Blue Heron ✓
4Brown Pelican ✓
4Osprey ✓
1Bald Eagle ✓
6Red-winged Blackbird ✓
10Pied-billed Grebe ✓
50Wood Stork ✓
5Anhinga ✓
1Roseate Spoonbill ✓
1Little Blue Heron ✓
5Snowy Egret ✓
6American White Pelican ✓
1Belted Kingfisher ✓
1Hermit Thrush ✓
4Gadwall ✓
1Hooded Merganser ✓
6American Coot ✓
2Spotted Sandpiper ✓
2Prairie Willet ✓
7Greater Yellowlegs ✓
5Least Sandpiper ✓
15White Ibis ✓
7Tricolored Heron ✓
2Downy Woodpecker ✓
2Blue Jay ✓
1Northern House Wren ✓
1Northern Mockingbird ✓
10Yellow-rumped Warbler ✓
1Red-bellied Woodpecker ✓
2Eastern Phoebe ✓
4American Crow ✓
2Ruby-crowned Kinglet ✓
1White-breasted Nuthatch ✓
2Brown Thrasher ✓
2House Finch ✓
1White-crowned Sparrow ✓
1Seaside Sparrow ✓
1Rusty Blackbird ✓
1Common Grackle ✓
2American Redstart ✓
4Northern Cardinal ✓
11Semipalmated Plover ✓
2Green Heron ✓
1Turkey Vulture ✓
1Blue-headed Vireo ✓
4Carolina Chickadee ✓
7Tree Swallow ✓
4Eastern Bluebird ✓
3American Robin ✓
1Eastern Towhee ✓

November 9

2Clapper Rail ✓
1Northern Harrier ✓
1Tufted Titmouse ✓
2Golden-crowned Kinglet ✓
4European Starling ✓
2White-throated Sparrow ✓
2Caspian Tern ✓
2Wilson's Plover ✓
1Sora ✓
1Northern Flicker ✓
1Peregrine Falcon ✓
1Eastern Screech-Owl ✓
1Carolina Wren ✓
2Northern Shoveler ✓
1Barn Swallow ✓
1Fish Crow ✓
13Common Gallinule ✓
3Black-crowned Night Heron ✓
1Yellow-bellied Sapsucker ✓
1Gray Catbird ✓
1Song Sparrow ✓
2Swamp Sparrow ✓
2Northern Gannet ✓
1Cooper's Hawk ✓
1Red-shouldered Hawk ✓
1Red-headed Woodpecker ✓
2Pileated Woodpecker ✓
2Brown-headed Nuthatch ✓
4Cedar Waxwing ✓
5American Goldfinch ✓
2Chipping Sparrow ✓
1Lark Sparrow
1Savannah Sparrow ✓
2Boat-tailed Grackle ✓
2Palm Warbler ✓
2Pine Warbler ✓
3Prairie Warbler
4Ruddy Duck ✓
1Brown Creeper ✓
2Blue-gray Gnatcatcher ✓
1Saltmarsh Sparrow ✓

November 8

4Killdeer ✓
1Piping Plover ✓
2American Oystercatcher ✓
1Parasitic Jaeger ✓
1Lesser Black-backed Gull ✓
1Virginia Rail ✓
2Winter Wren ✓
1Orange-crowned Warbler ✓
14Blue-winged Teal ✓
1Mallard ✓
1Ruby-throated Hummingbird ✓
25Green-winged Teal ✓

November 7

1Western Kingbird
1Common Yellowthroat ✓

November 6

1Lesser Yellowlegs ✓
1Merlin ✓
1Nelson's Sparrow ✓

November 5

350Black Skimmer ✓
2Bonaparte's Gull ✓
1Northern Waterthrush
1Long-billed Dowitcher ✓
1Sedge Wren ✓
1American Pipit ✓

November 4

1White-eyed Vireo ✓
1Brown-headed Cowbird ✓
1Black Vulture ✓
1Field Sparrow ✓
1Black-and-white Warbler ✓