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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 13

1Eurasian Collared-Dove
2Virginia Rail
2Black-bellied Plover
6Sanderling
2Ring-billed Gull
2Forster's Tern
1Pied-billed Grebe
1Least Bittern
6Snowy Egret
4Great Egret
1Great Blue Heron
1Osprey
1Northern Harrier
1Red-bellied Woodpecker
1Great Crested Flycatcher
2Blue Jay
1Carolina Chickadee
1Tufted Titmouse
1Carolina Wren
2Gray Catbird
1Hermit Thrush
1Wood Thrush
1Song Sparrow
1Common Yellowthroat
1Palm Warbler
2Northern Cardinal
2Blue-winged Teal
2Bufflehead
3Mourning Dove
1Clapper Rail
1Sora
19Common Gallinule
9American Coot
3Killdeer
1Semipalmated Plover
4Willet
3Greater Yellowlegs
2Least Sandpiper
18Anhinga
1Black-crowned Night Heron
2Tricolored Heron
4Green Heron
2Brown Pelican
2Red-headed Woodpecker
3Downy Woodpecker
1Pileated Woodpecker
2American Crow
11Tree Swallow
1Purple Martin
1Barn Swallow
1Ruby-crowned Kinglet
1White-breasted Nuthatch
3Brown-headed Nuthatch
2Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
1Marsh Wren
2European Starling
1Brown Thrasher
4Northern Mockingbird
1Eastern Bluebird
12Cedar Waxwing
1House Sparrow
3House Finch
1Chipping Sparrow
3White-throated Sparrow
1Swamp Sparrow
2Eastern Towhee
8Red-winged Blackbird
3Brown-headed Cowbird
10Common Grackle
2Black-and-white Warbler
2Prothonotary Warbler
6Pine Warbler
2Yellow-rumped Warbler
1Painted Bunting
1Yellow-billed Cuckoo
2Eastern Whip-poor-will
8Chimney Swift
2Marbled Godwit
4Long-billed Dowitcher
1Dunlin
4American Herring Gull
2Lesser Black-backed Gull
2Double-crested Cormorant
1Little Blue Heron
2Belted Kingfisher
1Eastern Wood-Pewee
1Blue-headed Vireo
1Orange-crowned Warbler
4Gadwall
234Black Scoter
2American Oystercatcher
7Piping Plover
4Wilson's Plover
117Short-billed Dowitcher
2Lesser Yellowlegs
24Ruddy Turnstone
4Western Sandpiper
3Bonaparte's Gull
44Laughing Gull
63Least Tern
2Sandwich Tern
34Royal Tern
1Red-throated Loon
1Northern Gannet
7Turkey Vulture
2Bald Eagle
2Hairy Woodpecker
1White-eyed Vireo
2Fish Crow
7Seaside Sparrow
2Savannah Sparrow
3Boat-tailed Grackle

April 12

2Stilt Sandpiper
2White Ibis
1Peregrine Falcon
1Yellow-throated Vireo
1Yellow-throated Warbler
2Glossy Ibis
1Red-shouldered Hawk
1Northern Parula
1Green-winged Teal
5Canada Goose
1American Robin
3Red-breasted Merganser
1Common Loon
1Black Vulture

April 11

8Common Tern
1Northern Flicker
1Brown Creeper
1Chestnut-sided Warbler
7Hudsonian Whimbrel
1Spotted Sandpiper
1Caspian Tern
1Northern House Wren
4Gull-billed Tern
1Eastern Kingbird
2Saltmarsh Sparrow

April 10

4Wilson's Snipe
4Semipalmated Sandpiper
1Red-eyed Vireo
1Blue-winged Warbler
2Ruby-throated Hummingbird
1Tennessee Warbler
1Western Cattle-Egret
1Nelson's Sparrow

April 9

1Red-tailed Hawk
5Mallard
1Common Nighthawk
2Solitary Sandpiper
1Black Tern
1Blackburnian Warbler
1Scarlet Tanager

April 8

1Chuck-will's-widow
2Yellow-crowned Night Heron
2Rock Pigeon
1Purple Finch

April 7

1King Rail
2Horned Grebe