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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 29

4Mourning Dove
4Willet
1Greater Yellowlegs
21Sanderling
4Laughing Gull
1Least Tern
2Royal Tern
17Double-crested Cormorant
1Tricolored Heron
2Snowy Egret
6Brown Pelican
3Great Crested Flycatcher
1Blue Jay
2American Crow
8Tufted Titmouse
7Carolina Wren
2Northern Mockingbird
1White-throated Sparrow
3Red-winged Blackbird
1Black-and-white Warbler
1Prothonotary Warbler
2Pine Warbler
6Northern Cardinal
3Clapper Rail
4Sora
15Common Gallinule
1American Coot
2Spotted Sandpiper
3Solitary Sandpiper
6Lesser Yellowlegs
16Least Sandpiper
1Forster's Tern
13Anhinga
5White Ibis
1Yellow-crowned Night Heron
1Black-crowned Night Heron
5Little Blue Heron
1Green Heron
7Great Egret
1Great Blue Heron
1Red-bellied Woodpecker
1Pileated Woodpecker
1Red-eyed Vireo
1Fish Crow
7Carolina Chickadee
20Barn Swallow
1Ruby-crowned Kinglet
2Brown-headed Nuthatch
2Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
2Gray Catbird
1Swamp Sparrow
1Yellow-breasted Chat
1Orchard Oriole
6Brown-headed Cowbird
5Common Grackle
2Boat-tailed Grackle
2Common Yellowthroat
1American Redstart
1Rose-breasted Grosbeak
3Painted Bunting

April 28

1Chuck-will's-widow
2Common Nighthawk
1Glossy Ibis
1Least Bittern
1Eastern Bluebird
1Yellow-rumped Warbler
45Chimney Swift
2Purple Gallinule
1Semipalmated Plover
4Short-billed Dowitcher
2Dunlin
2Ring-billed Gull
1Caspian Tern
1Pied-billed Grebe
1Bald Eagle
1Downy Woodpecker
1Peregrine Falcon
1Eastern Kingbird
1Blue-headed Vireo
1White-breasted Nuthatch
1Marsh Wren
4European Starling
4American Robin
2House Finch
1Seaside Sparrow
2Brown Thrasher
25Black-bellied Plover
4Black Skimmer
2American Oystercatcher
1Wilson's Plover
1Hudsonian Whimbrel
1Ruddy Turnstone
4Canada Goose
4Wilson's Snipe
2Pectoral Sandpiper
4Semipalmated Sandpiper
4American Herring Gull
1Belted Kingfisher
1Red-headed Woodpecker
1White-eyed Vireo
3Tree Swallow
1Brown Creeper
1Veery
1Baltimore Oriole
1Bobolink
3Western Cattle-Egret
1Indigo Bunting
1Wood Duck
1Red-breasted Merganser
5Killdeer
1Long-billed Dowitcher
1Bonaparte's Gull
4Sandwich Tern
1Common Loon
3Northern Gannet
2Black Vulture
11Turkey Vulture
2Mississippi Kite
1Red-tailed Hawk
2Purple Martin
1Nelson's Sparrow
2Saltmarsh Sparrow
1Song Sparrow
1Cape May Warbler
1Northern Parula

April 27

2Stilt Sandpiper
1Black-throated Blue Warbler
1Osprey
1Piping Plover
1Acadian Flycatcher
1Ovenbird
1Blue-winged Teal
2Black-necked Stilt
2Wood Stork
2Yellow-throated Warbler
1Ruby-throated Hummingbird
2Roseate Spoonbill
2American Goldfinch
2Western Sandpiper
2Gull-billed Tern
1Blue Grosbeak
1Virginia Rail
16Black Scoter
1Savannah Sparrow
1Summer Tanager

April 26

1Hooded Warbler
1Eastern Wood-Pewee
1Yellow-throated Vireo
2Lesser Scaup
1King Rail
1Lesser Black-backed Gull
1Red-shouldered Hawk
1Eastern Towhee

April 25

1Blackburnian Warbler
1Merlin
1Worm-eating Warbler
1Magnolia Warbler

April 24

1Northern Harrier
4Red Knot
1Scarlet Tanager
1Broad-winged Hawk
4Cedar Waxwing
1Hermit Thrush

April 23

1American Kestrel
1Palm Warbler
1Marbled Godwit
1Wood Thrush
1Northern House Wren

April 22

1Yellow-billed Cuckoo
1Prairie Warbler
1Chipping Sparrow
1Common Tern