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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 6

2Mourning Dove
5Clapper Rail
2Killdeer
5Greater Yellowlegs
1Forster's Tern
1Anhinga
13Black-crowned Night Heron
7Little Blue Heron
5Tricolored Heron
2Snowy Egret
1Green Heron
8Great Egret
3Great Blue Heron
1Brown Pelican
1Fish Crow
1Tufted Titmouse
2Carolina Wren
1Gray Catbird
1Swamp Sparrow
5Red-winged Blackbird
5Common Grackle
10Northern Cardinal
2American Coot
2Spotted Sandpiper
2Sanderling
4Least Sandpiper
4Western Sandpiper
1American Herring Gull
1Sandwich Tern
4Double-crested Cormorant
2Yellow-crowned Night Heron
1Black Vulture
1Red-bellied Woodpecker
1Blue-headed Vireo
2Blue Jay
1Carolina Chickadee
1Brown-headed Nuthatch
1Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
1Brown Thrasher
1White-throated Sparrow
1Song Sparrow
1Boat-tailed Grackle
1Prothonotary Warbler
1Chestnut-sided Warbler
4Sora
17Common Gallinule
1White Ibis
1Pileated Woodpecker
4Northern Parula
2Pine Warbler
18Laughing Gull
2Turkey Vulture
2Osprey
2American Crow
5Tree Swallow
7Barn Swallow
1White-breasted Nuthatch
2Northern Mockingbird
2Eastern Bluebird
24Cedar Waxwing
3House Finch
1Eurasian Collared-Dove
1Eastern Whip-poor-will
4Black-bellied Plover
4Piping Plover
1Lesser Black-backed Gull
2Pied-billed Grebe
6Wood Stork
1Northern Gannet
2Least Bittern
1Red-tailed Hawk
1Yellow-throated Vireo
1Ruby-crowned Kinglet
4Chipping Sparrow
1Hooded Warbler
1Yellow-throated Warbler

April 5

1Downy Woodpecker
2Brown-headed Cowbird
1Black-and-white Warbler
2Canada Goose
1King Rail
3Semipalmated Plover
1Solitary Sandpiper
8Lesser Yellowlegs
2Willet
1Red-shouldered Hawk
1Painted Bunting
2Blue-winged Teal
1Bufflehead
28Short-billed Dowitcher
4Long-billed Dowitcher
2Dunlin
1Least Tern
1Gull-billed Tern
1White-eyed Vireo
1Red-eyed Vireo
1Virginia Rail
1Stilt Sandpiper
1Ring-billed Gull
1Glossy Ibis
1Bald Eagle
1Eastern Kingbird
2Rusty Blackbird
1Common Yellowthroat
4Gadwall
1Green-winged Teal
9Black Scoter
2American Oystercatcher
2Wilson's Plover
4Royal Tern
1Common Loon
1Red-headed Woodpecker
2Northern House Wren
2American Robin
2American Goldfinch
3Eastern Towhee
8Yellow-rumped Warbler
1Northern Bobwhite
1Red-throated Loon
1Northern Harrier
2Belted Kingfisher
1Great Crested Flycatcher
1Marsh Wren
1Seaside Sparrow

April 4

2Purple Martin
6European Starling
1Ovenbird
1Wild Turkey
4Chimney Swift
1Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
1Merlin
2Eastern Phoebe
1Loggerhead Shrike
1Worm-eating Warbler
2Wood Duck
1Pectoral Sandpiper
19Bonaparte's Gull
1Sharp-shinned Hawk
1Brown Creeper
2Field Sparrow
1Prairie Warbler

April 3

2Horned Grebe
1Hermit Thrush
2Red-breasted Merganser
1Savannah Sparrow

April 2

2Chuck-will's-widow
1Marbled Godwit
1American Bittern
1Broad-winged Hawk
1Peregrine Falcon
1Summer Tanager
1Northern Flicker
4American Avocet
1American Woodcock
1Wilson's Phalarope
2Red Knot
1Caspian Tern

April 1

1Ruby-throated Hummingbird
1Great Black-backed Gull
2Common Tern
4Wilson's Snipe
2Black Skimmer
1Black Tern
1Saltmarsh Sparrow