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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 4

6Green-winged Teal
4Redhead
6Ring-necked Duck
12Hooded Merganser
2Virginia Rail
1Black-bellied Plover
4Willet
6Greater Yellowlegs
2Dunlin
4Least Sandpiper
2Western Sandpiper
4Ring-billed Gull
2Forster's Tern
1Horned Grebe
2Red-throated Loon
8White Ibis
1Little Blue Heron
6Snowy Egret
8Great Egret
6Great Blue Heron
12American White Pelican
1Bald Eagle
1Eastern Screech-Owl
1Red-bellied Woodpecker
1Northern Flicker
4Blue Jay
2Ruby-crowned Kinglet
2Golden-crowned Kinglet
1Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
2Gray Catbird
1House Finch
1White-crowned Sparrow
1White-throated Sparrow
2Brown-headed Cowbird
2Rusty Blackbird
4Yellow-rumped Warbler
2Yellow-throated Warbler
1Northern Cardinal
1Blue-winged Teal
6Northern Shoveler
5Gadwall
5Lesser Scaup
8Bufflehead
2Pied-billed Grebe
2Common Loon
1Wood Stork
56Double-crested Cormorant
4Brown Pelican
1Osprey
2Belted Kingfisher
3Red-winged Blackbird
5Mallard
1Northern Pintail
1Long-tailed Duck
1Common Goldeneye
1Mourning Dove
1Bonaparte's Gull
2Tricolored Heron
1American Crow
1Tufted Titmouse
1White-breasted Nuthatch
1Brown-headed Nuthatch
1Eastern Towhee
19Common Gallinule
52American Coot
9Black-crowned Night Heron
1Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
1Eastern Phoebe
2Carolina Wren
1Northern Mockingbird
1Hermit Thrush
3American Robin
2Chipping Sparrow
1American Wigeon
1White-winged Scoter
3Black Scoter
2Red-breasted Merganser
4Ruddy Duck
2American Oystercatcher
5Semipalmated Plover
2Ruddy Turnstone
1Sanderling
1Anhinga
1Northern Harrier
1Carolina Chickadee
1Clapper Rail
1Sora
1American Bittern
1Marsh Wren
8Mottled Duck
1Great Black-backed Gull
1Blue-headed Vireo
2Brown Thrasher
4Common Grackle

January 3

50Tree Swallow
1Swamp Sparrow
6Canvasback
2Long-billed Dowitcher
1Wilson's Snipe
1Barred Owl
1Prairie Warbler
1Marbled Godwit
1Green Heron
1Winter Wren
1American Pipit
1Fox Sparrow
1Seaside Sparrow

January 2

1Spotted Sandpiper
1Orange-crowned Warbler
XGreater Scaup
XEastern Bluebird
XPine Warbler
2Laughing Gull
2Turkey Vulture
2Lesser Yellowlegs
2Downy Woodpecker
1Song Sparrow
2Cooper's Hawk

January 1

1Killdeer
1Red Knot
1Boat-tailed Grackle
1Red-shouldered Hawk
14Canada Goose
1Pileated Woodpecker
2Fish Crow
6Northern Gannet
6Short-billed Dowitcher
2Purple Sandpiper
8American Herring Gull
5Royal Tern
1Cedar Waxwing
1Vesper Sparrow
26Savannah Sparrow

December 31

1White-eyed Vireo
1Northern House Wren
2Saltmarsh Sparrow
2Black-and-white Warbler
1Purple Finch

December 30

1Common Yellowthroat
1Common Eider
18Black Skimmer
2Black Vulture
1Red-tailed Hawk