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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.

July 16

2Mourning Dove
2Chimney Swift
5American Coot
1American Oystercatcher
2Killdeer
4Spotted Sandpiper
2Laughing Gull
20Wood Stork
2Anhinga
14White Ibis
2Roseate Spoonbill
1Black-crowned Night Heron
3Little Blue Heron
3Tricolored Heron
1Reddish Egret
6Snowy Egret
1Green Heron
3Great Egret
2Great Blue Heron
1American White Pelican
18Brown Pelican
1Turkey Vulture
1Osprey
1Red-bellied Woodpecker
1Downy Woodpecker
2American Crow
1Fish Crow
2Carolina Chickadee
2Tufted Titmouse
5Purple Martin
2Barn Swallow
1White-breasted Nuthatch
2Carolina Wren
1Brown Thrasher
1Northern Mockingbird
1Eastern Bluebird
2American Robin
4House Finch
4Red-winged Blackbird
5Brown-headed Cowbird
4Common Grackle
2Northern Cardinal
2Painted Bunting
1Ruby-throated Hummingbird
2Clapper Rail
4Semipalmated Plover
1Short-billed Dowitcher
4Willet
2Sanderling
1Lesser Black-backed Gull
2Black Skimmer
1Forster's Tern
2Red-shouldered Hawk
1Belted Kingfisher
1White-eyed Vireo
2Blue Jay
1Marsh Wren
1Chipping Sparrow
1Pine Warbler

July 15

2Marbled Godwit
2American Woodcock
1Least Sandpiper
1Great Black-backed Gull
1Gull-billed Tern
2Glossy Ibis
1Red-tailed Hawk
1Great Crested Flycatcher
2Seaside Sparrow
1Swainson's Warbler
13Common Gallinule
10Least Tern
3Caspian Tern
3Common Tern
3Sandwich Tern
1Least Bittern
1Red-headed Woodpecker
1Brown-headed Nuthatch
5Boat-tailed Grackle
1Indigo Bunting
12Rock Pigeon
13Black-bellied Plover
11Wilson's Plover
2Lesser Yellowlegs
7Greater Yellowlegs
9Ruddy Turnstone
2Western Sandpiper
32Royal Tern
2Double-crested Cormorant
4Ring-billed Gull
1Yellow-throated Vireo
1Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
1Eastern Meadowlark
1Common Yellowthroat
1Yellow-throated Warbler
1Semipalmated Sandpiper
2Yellow-crowned Night Heron
1Bald Eagle
1Northern Flicker
1Northern Parula

July 14

1American Herring Gull
1Mississippi Kite
2Eurasian Collared-Dove
1Eastern Whip-poor-will
1Hudsonian Whimbrel
1Pileated Woodpecker
1Hooded Warbler
1Prairie Warbler

July 12

6European Starling
2Orchard Oriole
1Blue Grosbeak

July 11

1Common Nighthawk
4Pied-billed Grebe
1Eastern Kingbird

July 10

2Red Knot
1Prothonotary Warbler
1Black-and-white Warbler

July 9

2Summer Tanager