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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 10

6Northern Shoveler
9Gadwall
17Green-winged Teal
4Lesser Scaup
11Bufflehead
42Hooded Merganser
2Ruddy Duck
1Mourning Dove
1Sora
1Black-bellied Plover
2Greater Yellowlegs
2American Herring Gull
3Pied-billed Grebe
1Double-crested Cormorant
1Little Blue Heron
1Tricolored Heron
17Snowy Egret
1Great Egret
3Great Blue Heron
2American White Pelican
4Turkey Vulture
1Osprey
1Bald Eagle
4White-winged Scoter
1Virginia Rail
2Semipalmated Plover
2Willet
2Laughing Gull
4Ring-billed Gull
1Horned Grebe
8White Ibis
1Sharp-shinned Hawk
1Red-tailed Hawk
1Red-bellied Woodpecker
2Eastern Phoebe
1Blue Jay
1Carolina Chickadee
1Tufted Titmouse
2White-breasted Nuthatch
2Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
4Northern Mockingbird
1Chipping Sparrow
1White-crowned Sparrow
4Yellow-rumped Warbler
2Northern Cardinal
4Mallard
4American Oystercatcher
3Ruddy Turnstone
32Sanderling
300Dunlin
1Least Sandpiper
1Forster's Tern
3Common Loon
3Northern Gannet
4Brown Pelican
3Savannah Sparrow
1Northern Pintail
15Common Gallinule
25American Coot
3Bonaparte's Gull
1Belted Kingfisher
1Downy Woodpecker
1Blue-headed Vireo
2American Crow
15Tree Swallow
4Ruby-crowned Kinglet
2Brown-headed Nuthatch
1Winter Wren
3Carolina Wren
2Gray Catbird
20American Robin
20Cedar Waxwing
2Song Sparrow
6Swamp Sparrow
5Red-winged Blackbird
1Common Grackle
4Pine Warbler
2Wood Stork
2Black-crowned Night Heron
1Northern Flicker
1Brown Creeper
2Eastern Bluebird
4House Finch
10White-throated Sparrow
1Common Yellowthroat
1Red-throated Loon
5Black Vulture
1Northern Harrier
1Common Goldeneye
1Wilson's Snipe
12Lesser Yellowlegs
2Pileated Woodpecker
1Marsh Wren
1Killdeer
1Red-shouldered Hawk
1Fish Crow
2Clapper Rail
4Short-billed Dowitcher
1Red-headed Woodpecker
2Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

January 9

2Western Sandpiper
1Barred Owl
2Yellow-throated Warbler
6Blue-winged Teal
4Chimney Swift
1King Rail
4Boat-tailed Grackle
1Lesser Black-backed Gull
2Anhinga
1Loggerhead Shrike
2Golden-crowned Kinglet
2European Starling
1House Sparrow
1Black-and-white Warbler

January 8

2Ring-necked Duck
1Cooper's Hawk
1Great Horned Owl
1American Kestrel
1American Pipit
1Royal Tern

January 7

2Spotted Sandpiper
1Eastern Towhee
9Black Scoter
8Red-breasted Merganser
7Red Knot
2Purple Finch
2Hermit Thrush
1American Goldfinch
1Sedge Wren
1Long-tailed Duck
1Peregrine Falcon
1Saltmarsh Sparrow

January 6

2Piping Plover
1Orange-crowned Warbler
1Brown Thrasher

January 5

2Rusty Blackbird
1Redhead
1Surf Scoter
1White-eyed Vireo

January 4

1Eastern Screech-Owl
2Brown-headed Cowbird
1American Wigeon
1American Bittern