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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 30

2Black-bellied Plover
2Semipalmated Plover
2Willet
22Sanderling
1Black Skimmer
3Anhinga
1Tricolored Heron
3Snowy Egret
2Great Egret
1Great Blue Heron
1American Crow
2Red-winged Blackbird
4Brown-headed Cowbird
18Killdeer
1Short-billed Dowitcher
10Least Sandpiper
5Least Tern
3Double-crested Cormorant
1Black-crowned Night Heron
1Great Crested Flycatcher
2Barn Swallow
1Clapper Rail
1Hudsonian Whimbrel
1Lesser Yellowlegs
1Little Blue Heron
1Red-bellied Woodpecker
1Downy Woodpecker
3Tufted Titmouse
2Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
1Carolina Wren
2Northern Mockingbird
1Northern Parula
2Northern Cardinal
2Painted Bunting
2Semipalmated Sandpiper
4Laughing Gull
9Ring-billed Gull
6Forster's Tern
2Sandwich Tern
17Royal Tern
1Brown Pelican
1Merlin
4Red-headed Woodpecker
3Red-breasted Merganser
1American Oystercatcher
2American Herring Gull
1Caspian Tern
2Common Tern
1Northern Gannet
1Mute Swan
6Mallard
2Greater Yellowlegs
4Ruddy Turnstone
2Gull-billed Tern
2Glossy Ibis
3Turkey Vulture
2Osprey
1Bald Eagle
2European Starling
1Brown Thrasher
2House Sparrow
1Common Grackle
4Boat-tailed Grackle
1Wood Duck
1Ring-necked Duck
9Mourning Dove
1Yellow-billed Cuckoo
1Chimney Swift
17Common Gallinule
8American Coot
3Wilson's Plover
8Spotted Sandpiper
1Solitary Sandpiper
1Pied-billed Grebe
1Common Loon
1White Ibis
2Least Bittern
1Yellow-crowned Night Heron
6Green Heron
5Black Vulture
1Mississippi Kite
1Great Horned Owl
1American Kestrel
1Eastern Wood-Pewee
3White-eyed Vireo
1Red-eyed Vireo
6Blue Jay
5Fish Crow
2Carolina Chickadee
3Tree Swallow
2Purple Martin
1Ruby-crowned Kinglet
1White-breasted Nuthatch
1Brown-headed Nuthatch
1Gray Catbird
2Eastern Bluebird
4House Finch
1White-throated Sparrow
1Savannah Sparrow
2Song Sparrow
1Swamp Sparrow
1Bobolink
1Ovenbird
1Black-and-white Warbler
4Prothonotary Warbler
6Common Yellowthroat
1Magnolia Warbler
6Pine Warbler
2Yellow-rumped Warbler
1Prairie Warbler
1Summer Tanager
1Rose-breasted Grosbeak
1Ruby-throated Hummingbird
1Red-tailed Hawk
1Peregrine Falcon
1Blue-headed Vireo
1Wood Thrush
1Orchard Oriole
1Northern Waterthrush
1Black-throated Blue Warbler
2Pileated Woodpecker
2Eastern Kingbird
2Cedar Waxwing
1Seaside Sparrow
1American Redstart
1Belted Kingfisher
1Baltimore Oriole

April 29

9Dunlin
1Marsh Wren
1Red-shouldered Hawk
1Rock Pigeon
1Chuck-will's-widow
1Sora
1Roseate Spoonbill
1American Robin
1Yellow-breasted Chat
2Long-billed Dowitcher
1Northern Harrier

April 28

2Common Nighthawk
2Purple Gallinule
4Canada Goose
4Wilson's Snipe
2Pectoral Sandpiper
1Brown Creeper
1Veery
3Western Cattle-Egret
1Indigo Bunting
1Bonaparte's Gull
1Nelson's Sparrow
2Saltmarsh Sparrow
1Cape May Warbler

April 27

2Stilt Sandpiper
1Piping Plover
1Acadian Flycatcher
1Blue-winged Teal
2Black-necked Stilt
2Wood Stork
2Yellow-throated Warbler
2American Goldfinch
2Western Sandpiper
1Blue Grosbeak
1Virginia Rail
16Black Scoter

April 26

1Hooded Warbler
1Yellow-throated Vireo
2Lesser Scaup
1King Rail
1Lesser Black-backed Gull
1Eastern Towhee

April 25

1Blackburnian Warbler
1Worm-eating Warbler

April 24

4Red Knot
1Scarlet Tanager
1Broad-winged Hawk
1Hermit Thrush