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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.

August 13

2Ruby-throated Hummingbird
1Carolina Chickadee
1Eastern Bluebird
1House Finch
1Northern Cardinal
1Painted Bunting
25Mourning Dove
1Clapper Rail
14American Oystercatcher
24Black-bellied Plover
160Semipalmated Plover
5Wilson's Plover
6Hudsonian Whimbrel
7Short-billed Dowitcher
2Long-billed Dowitcher
9Spotted Sandpiper
2Lesser Yellowlegs
65Willet
14Greater Yellowlegs
17Ruddy Turnstone
22Sanderling
13Least Sandpiper
1Pectoral Sandpiper
3Western Sandpiper
6Semipalmated Sandpiper
45Laughing Gull
3Great Black-backed Gull
2Black Skimmer
8Least Tern
5Gull-billed Tern
3Caspian Tern
4Black Tern
23Forster's Tern
6Common Tern
4Sandwich Tern
37Royal Tern
9Glossy Ibis
7Snowy Egret
1Green Heron
9Great Egret
2Great Blue Heron
18Brown Pelican
2Osprey
45Barn Swallow
2Red-winged Blackbird
2Chimney Swift
21Wood Stork
3Little Blue Heron
3Tricolored Heron
1Red-bellied Woodpecker
2Great Crested Flycatcher
1White-eyed Vireo
2Blue Jay
3Carolina Wren
5Northern Mockingbird

August 12

8Common Gallinule
1Downy Woodpecker
2Anhinga
1Turkey Vulture
1Belted Kingfisher
1Bald Eagle
2Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
1Red-headed Woodpecker
2Yellow-crowned Night Heron
1American Redstart
1White Ibis
2Roseate Spoonbill
1Brown-headed Nuthatch
3Piping Plover
1Black-crowned Night Heron
2American Crow
2Tufted Titmouse
1Purple Martin
1White-breasted Nuthatch

August 11

8Ring-billed Gull
1American Herring Gull
1American Coot
2Pied-billed Grebe
1Red-eyed Vireo
4Common Grackle
1Marbled Godwit
1Wood Thrush
1Pileated Woodpecker
2House Sparrow
1Yellow-billed Cuckoo
1Mississippi Kite
4Brown Thrasher
2American Robin
1Seaside Sparrow
1Northern Parula

August 10

2Yellow-throated Warbler
1Solitary Sandpiper
2Double-crested Cormorant
1Prothonotary Warbler
2Stilt Sandpiper
1Black Vulture
1Red-tailed Hawk
1Chipping Sparrow
1Swainson's Warbler

August 9

1Common Yellowthroat
1Lesser Black-backed Gull
1Cooper's Hawk
1Red-shouldered Hawk
3Killdeer
1Chuck-will's-widow
1Eastern Kingbird
4European Starling
1Black-and-white Warbler

August 8

1Loggerhead Shrike
1Fish Crow
7American Avocet
1American Goldfinch
2American White Pelican
1Yellow-throated Vireo
2Brown-headed Cowbird
1Indigo Bunting

August 7

1Eurasian Collared-Dove
1Acadian Flycatcher
1Pine Warbler
1Swallow-tailed Kite