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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.

May 10

2Mourning Dove
3Common Gallinule
1Solitary Sandpiper
6Anhinga
1Double-crested Cormorant
2Roseate Spoonbill
1Least Bittern
2Tricolored Heron
1Green Heron
9Great Egret
1Red-bellied Woodpecker
1Downy Woodpecker
1Great Crested Flycatcher
1Eastern Kingbird
1Blue Jay
1Carolina Chickadee
1Brown-headed Nuthatch
1Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
1Carolina Wren
1Orchard Oriole
10Red-winged Blackbird
5Common Grackle
3Prothonotary Warbler
1Northern Parula
1Pine Warbler
4Northern Cardinal
1Painted Bunting
2Black-necked Stilt
2Killdeer
8Semipalmated Plover
1Hudsonian Whimbrel
1Spotted Sandpiper
1Lesser Yellowlegs
2Greater Yellowlegs
26Least Sandpiper
9Least Tern
4Wood Stork
9White Ibis
1Little Blue Heron
1Snowy Egret
2Great Blue Heron
1Turkey Vulture
1American Crow
3Brown-headed Cowbird
1Ruby-throated Hummingbird
2Willet
4Western Sandpiper
2Ring-billed Gull
1Royal Tern
6Brown Pelican
1Bald Eagle
2Tufted Titmouse
2Brown Thrasher
1House Finch
1Orange-crowned Warbler
1Hooded Warbler
15Black-bellied Plover
2Piping Plover
1Laughing Gull
2Fish Crow
1American Robin
5Boat-tailed Grackle
1Summer Tanager
1Clapper Rail
40Semipalmated Sandpiper
2Forster's Tern
1Red-shouldered Hawk
6Barn Swallow
1Northern Mockingbird
1American Redstart
2Wild Turkey
1Yellow-billed Cuckoo
1Chuck-will's-widow
1American Coot
2Black Skimmer
1Swallow-tailed Kite
1Red-headed Woodpecker
1White-breasted Nuthatch
4European Starling
1Eastern Towhee
1Common Yellowthroat

May 9

4Sanderling
1Gull-billed Tern
2Belted Kingfisher
1Gray-cheeked Thrush
1Black-and-white Warbler
7Short-billed Dowitcher
1Black-crowned Night Heron
1Chimney Swift
1Sandhill Crane
1Wilson's Plover
1Hairy Woodpecker
2Yellow-crowned Night Heron
1White-eyed Vireo
2Eastern Bluebird
1Wood Duck
1Mallard
2Glossy Ibis
2Osprey
1Red-eyed Vireo
1Purple Martin
1Marsh Wren
1Yellow-breasted Chat
1Baltimore Oriole
1Northern Waterthrush
1Willow Flycatcher
1Saltmarsh Sparrow

May 8

1Eastern Screech-Owl
1Common Nighthawk
1Eastern Wood-Pewee
1Sora
2Stilt Sandpiper
1Blue-winged Warbler
1King Rail
1Dunlin
2Pied-billed Grebe
1Pileated Woodpecker
1Yellow-throated Vireo
2Tree Swallow
1Gray Catbird
1Ovenbird
1Swainson's Warbler
1Northern Yellow Warbler
1Blackpoll Warbler
1Black-throated Blue Warbler
1Rose-breasted Grosbeak
1Blue Grosbeak

May 7

2American Bittern
2Prairie Warbler
1Bobolink
1Eastern Whip-poor-will
1Wilson's Phalarope
1Sandwich Tern
1Red-tailed Hawk
1Chestnut-sided Warbler

May 6

1Nelson's Sparrow
5Ruddy Turnstone
1Wood Thrush
1Blue-headed Vireo

May 5

2Bonaparte's Gull
XHouse Sparrow
4Western Cattle-Egret
3Black Vulture
4American Herring Gull
1Cape May Warbler
1Magnolia Warbler
1Acadian Flycatcher
2American White Pelican
1Chipping Sparrow
1American Golden-Plover

May 4

2American Goldfinch
1Northern Flicker
1Purple Gallinule
1Marbled Godwit
1Blackburnian Warbler
1Cooper's Hawk