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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 9

4Mourning Dove
1Common Nighthawk
1Ruby-throated Hummingbird
2Sora
4American Coot
8Wilson's Snipe
2Solitary Sandpiper
6Greater Yellowlegs
4Stilt Sandpiper
8Least Sandpiper
2Ring-billed Gull
1Lesser Black-backed Gull
4Least Tern
1Black Tern
2Pied-billed Grebe
2Double-crested Cormorant
1Little Blue Heron
2Tricolored Heron
4Great Egret
1Osprey
1Belted Kingfisher
1Downy Woodpecker
1Carolina Chickadee
1Tufted Titmouse
1Ruby-crowned Kinglet
1Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
6European Starling
2Eastern Bluebird
4American Robin
4Chipping Sparrow
2Red-winged Blackbird
4Common Grackle
1Blackburnian Warbler
1Scarlet Tanager

April 8

2Blue-winged Teal
1Bufflehead
2Common Gallinule
7Hudsonian Whimbrel
9Willet
2Sanderling
1Semipalmated Sandpiper
50Laughing Gull
1Caspian Tern
1Forster's Tern
5Anhinga
16Snowy Egret
2Green Heron
2Great Blue Heron
15Brown Pelican
2Turkey Vulture
1Bald Eagle
1American Crow
2Fish Crow
3Carolina Wren
2Northern Mockingbird
1Hermit Thrush
1Eastern Towhee
2Northern Cardinal
1Chuck-will's-widow
4Semipalmated Plover
2Marbled Godwit
2Royal Tern
4White Ibis
1Great Crested Flycatcher
1White-eyed Vireo
2White-breasted Nuthatch
2Yellow-throated Warbler
3Black-bellied Plover
5Barn Swallow
4Boat-tailed Grackle
2Red-bellied Woodpecker
2Pine Warbler
1Yellow-billed Cuckoo
1Clapper Rail
4Killdeer
6Short-billed Dowitcher
6Lesser Yellowlegs
2American Herring Gull
4Common Tern
2Yellow-crowned Night Heron
1Peregrine Falcon
2Blue Jay
1Gray Catbird
1Savannah Sparrow
2Prothonotary Warbler

April 7

1Brown Thrasher
3American Oystercatcher
2Common Loon
9Black-crowned Night Heron
1Red-shouldered Hawk
1Northern Flicker
10Tree Swallow
2Brown-headed Nuthatch
1House Sparrow
6White-throated Sparrow
3Brown-headed Cowbird
1Northern Parula
2Piping Plover
4Wilson's Plover
1House Finch
3Gadwall
8Black Scoter
1King Rail
1Long-billed Dowitcher
2Ruddy Turnstone
28Dunlin
8Western Sandpiper
5Bonaparte's Gull
2Horned Grebe
10Northern Gannet
1Black Vulture
1Northern Harrier
1Pileated Woodpecker
1Blue-headed Vireo
56Cedar Waxwing
2Seaside Sparrow
2Song Sparrow
1Yellow-rumped Warbler
1Least Bittern
1Brown Creeper
1Common Yellowthroat

April 6

1Swamp Sparrow
2Spotted Sandpiper
1Sandwich Tern
1Chestnut-sided Warbler
1Eurasian Collared-Dove
1Eastern Whip-poor-will
6Wood Stork
1Red-tailed Hawk
1Yellow-throated Vireo
1Hooded Warbler

April 5

1Black-and-white Warbler
2Canada Goose
1Painted Bunting
1Gull-billed Tern
1Red-eyed Vireo
1Virginia Rail
1Glossy Ibis
1Eastern Kingbird
2Rusty Blackbird
1Green-winged Teal
1Red-headed Woodpecker
2Northern House Wren
2American Goldfinch
1Northern Bobwhite
1Red-throated Loon
1Marsh Wren

April 4

2Purple Martin
1Ovenbird
1Wild Turkey
4Chimney Swift
1Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
1Merlin
2Eastern Phoebe
1Loggerhead Shrike
1Worm-eating Warbler
2Wood Duck
1Pectoral Sandpiper
1Sharp-shinned Hawk
2Field Sparrow
1Prairie Warbler

April 3

2Red-breasted Merganser

April 2

1American Bittern
1Broad-winged Hawk
1Summer Tanager