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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 17

6Sandhill Crane
4Northern Shoveler
4Redhead
7Ring-necked Duck
8Lesser Scaup
8Bufflehead
6Hooded Merganser
29Ruddy Duck
4Mourning Dove
4Lesser Yellowlegs
6Least Sandpiper
2Bonaparte's Gull
8Ring-billed Gull
2Pied-billed Grebe
8White Ibis
6Snowy Egret
10Great Egret
12American White Pelican
1Osprey
1Eastern Screech-Owl
4Blue Jay
1Carolina Chickadee
1Tufted Titmouse
4Ruby-crowned Kinglet
2Brown Creeper
4Northern Mockingbird
1Chipping Sparrow
1White-crowned Sparrow
1Seaside Sparrow
1Song Sparrow
1Brown-headed Cowbird
4Yellow-rumped Warbler
2Northern Cardinal
XBlue-winged Teal
XGadwall
XGreen-winged Teal
XVirginia Rail
XAmerican Coot
XForster's Tern
XRoyal Tern
XDouble-crested Cormorant
XBlack-crowned Night Heron
XGreat Blue Heron
XBrown Pelican
XBlack Vulture
XRed-shouldered Hawk
XBelted Kingfisher
XDowny Woodpecker
XAmerican Crow
XCarolina Wren
XWhite-throated Sparrow
XRed-winged Blackbird

December 16

2American Wigeon
2Semipalmated Plover
1Willet
340Dunlin
9Western Sandpiper
1Wood Stork
1Little Blue Heron
2Tricolored Heron
1Pileated Woodpecker
1Merlin
1Clapper Rail
1Sora
6Common Gallinule
8Greater Yellowlegs
2Turkey Vulture
1Bald Eagle
2Red-bellied Woodpecker
2Eastern Phoebe
5Marsh Wren
2House Finch
1American Goldfinch

December 15

2Canvasback
1Brown-headed Nuthatch
34Tundra Swan
1Mallard
XBlack-bellied Plover
18Killdeer
2Short-billed Dowitcher
2Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
3Northern Flicker
2White-breasted Nuthatch
2Gray Catbird
8Eastern Bluebird
1Eastern Towhee
1Pine Warbler

December 14

1Red-tailed Hawk
2Northern Pintail
7Black Scoter
5Red-breasted Merganser
1Sanderling
42Laughing Gull
11American Herring Gull
1Great Black-backed Gull
32Black Skimmer
1Horned Grebe
2Red-throated Loon
6Common Loon
100Northern Gannet
1Anhinga
1Northern Harrier
1American Kestrel
1Savannah Sparrow
35Tree Swallow
1Northern House Wren

December 13

1Green Heron
1Hairy Woodpecker
1Swamp Sparrow
1Black-and-white Warbler
2Canada Goose
1Spotted Sandpiper
2Ruddy Turnstone
1American Pipit
7Red Knot
1White-eyed Vireo
2Golden-crowned Kinglet
2Hermit Thrush
3American Robin
5Common Grackle
2Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
4European Starling
1Cooper's Hawk
1Brown Thrasher

December 12

4American Woodcock
1Yellow-crowned Night Heron
1Common Yellowthroat
2Yellow-throated Warbler
1Blue-headed Vireo
1Saltmarsh Sparrow