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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 29

10Northern Shoveler
8Bufflehead
1Mourning Dove
1Clapper Rail
4Willet
2Sanderling
6Least Sandpiper
2Western Sandpiper
4Laughing Gull
2Ring-billed Gull
2Pied-billed Grebe
6Wood Stork
1Little Blue Heron
12Great Egret
4Great Blue Heron
12American White Pelican
4Brown Pelican
1Bald Eagle
1Eastern Screech-Owl
1Downy Woodpecker
2Blue Jay
2Ruby-crowned Kinglet
1Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
2White-throated Sparrow
6Yellow-rumped Warbler
2Northern Cardinal
1Gadwall
4Green-winged Teal
1Ring-necked Duck
24Hooded Merganser
10Greater Yellowlegs
8Double-crested Cormorant
1Snowy Egret
3Osprey
1Pine Warbler
1Common Merganser
3Ruddy Turnstone
2Forster's Tern
1Horned Grebe
5Common Loon
4Savannah Sparrow

December 28

2American Wigeon
17Lesser Scaup
24Ruddy Duck
4Common Gallinule
15American Coot
1Black-bellied Plover
1Short-billed Dowitcher
1Dunlin
4Bonaparte's Gull
1American Herring Gull
5Northern Gannet
5White Ibis
1American Bittern
5Black-crowned Night Heron
1Tricolored Heron
2Turkey Vulture
1Belted Kingfisher
1Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
2Red-bellied Woodpecker
1Blue-headed Vireo
1American Crow
4Carolina Chickadee
5Tufted Titmouse
3Tree Swallow
1Carolina Wren
1Northern Mockingbird
1Eastern Bluebird
1House Finch
1Field Sparrow
25Red-winged Blackbird
2Black-and-white Warbler
1Orange-crowned Warbler
1Long-billed Dowitcher
1Lesser Yellowlegs
6Wilson's Snipe
2White-crowned Sparrow
1Rusty Blackbird
1Eastern Phoebe
18Brown Thrasher

December 27

6Semipalmated Plover
2Golden-crowned Kinglet
1Brown Creeper
2Common Grackle
1Common Yellowthroat
3White-breasted Nuthatch
2Brown-headed Nuthatch
2Gray Catbird
3Chipping Sparrow
2Song Sparrow
2Eastern Towhee
4Blue-winged Teal
1Wild Turkey

December 26

7Canvasback
2Redhead
1Pileated Woodpecker
2Marsh Wren
2Swamp Sparrow

December 25

1Virginia Rail
1American Oystercatcher
1Spotted Sandpiper
1American Kestrel
1Purple Finch

December 24

2Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
8Mallard
2Red-breasted Merganser
2American Woodcock
1Northern Flicker
2Fish Crow
2Brown-headed Cowbird
4Boat-tailed Grackle

December 23

2Killdeer
1Red-throated Loon
XAmerican Robin
2Long-tailed Duck
4Piping Plover