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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.

December 9

12Blue-winged Teal
10Northern Shoveler
6Gadwall
4American Wigeon
8Mallard
12Green-winged Teal
14Ring-necked Duck
14Bufflehead
16Hooded Merganser
10Ruddy Duck
6American Coot
2Willet
8Least Sandpiper
10Western Sandpiper
2Ring-billed Gull
8Wood Stork
8White Ibis
6Snowy Egret
12Great Egret
2Great Blue Heron
12American White Pelican
6Brown Pelican
1Osprey
1Barred Owl
1Eastern Phoebe
4Blue Jay
1Carolina Chickadee
1Tufted Titmouse
4Ruby-crowned Kinglet
2Brown Creeper
2Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
2Northern Mockingbird
1Chipping Sparrow
1White-crowned Sparrow
6Yellow-rumped Warbler
2Northern Cardinal
5Lesser Scaup
3Mourning Dove
16Common Gallinule
6Greater Yellowlegs
14Dunlin
12Forster's Tern
8Pied-billed Grebe
15Double-crested Cormorant
2Little Blue Heron
5Tricolored Heron
1Bald Eagle
2Belted Kingfisher
2Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
3Red-bellied Woodpecker
1Downy Woodpecker
6American Crow
2Marsh Wren
3Carolina Wren
4House Finch
4Eastern Meadowlark
2Brown-headed Cowbird
3Boat-tailed Grackle
4Canvasback
4Lesser Yellowlegs
6Common Loon
1Peregrine Falcon
2Golden-crowned Kinglet
1Brown Thrasher
2White-throated Sparrow
1Rusty Blackbird
2Yellow-throated Warbler

December 8

4Mottled Duck
4Black-crowned Night Heron
1Northern Flicker
1Winter Wren
1Saltmarsh Sparrow
1Song Sparrow
4Red-winged Blackbird
1Pine Warbler

December 7

3Northern Pintail
8Redhead
5Laughing Gull
5Turkey Vulture
26Tree Swallow
1Gray Catbird
1Eastern Bluebird
3Sanderling
12Northern Gannet

December 4

1Virginia Rail
1Sora
1Killdeer
1Red-throated Loon
1Anhinga
1Cooper's Hawk
1Red-shouldered Hawk
1Eastern Screech-Owl
1White-eyed Vireo
1Blue-headed Vireo
14Common Grackle
1King Rail
1Black-bellied Plover
1Wilson's Snipe
1American Robin
1Ruddy Turnstone
1Great Horned Owl
1White-breasted Nuthatch
1Brown-headed Nuthatch
1American Pipit
1American Goldfinch
1Dark-eyed Junco

December 3

1Red-breasted Merganser
1Clapper Rail
8Semipalmated Plover
6Red Knot
1Bonaparte's Gull
8American Herring Gull
1Great Black-backed Gull
1Royal Tern
1Northern Harrier
1Red-tailed Hawk
1American Kestrel
2Barn Swallow
1Northern House Wren
1Hermit Thrush
3Cedar Waxwing
2Purple Finch
7Savannah Sparrow
1Swamp Sparrow
1Eastern Towhee
1Orange-crowned Warbler
2Prairie Warbler