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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.

November 3

1Mourning Dove ✓
1American Coot ✓
2Sanderling ✓
1Bonaparte's Gull ✓
4American Herring Gull ✓
2Forster's Tern ✓
1Pied-billed Grebe ✓
6Wood Stork ✓
1Tricolored Heron ✓
1Great Egret ✓
2Black Vulture ✓
2Belted Kingfisher ✓
2Loggerhead Shrike ✓
4Blue Jay ✓
1Carolina Chickadee ✓
4Ruby-crowned Kinglet ✓
2Brown Creeper ✓
2Northern Mockingbird ✓
1Eastern Bluebird ✓
1Seaside Sparrow ✓
2Red-winged Blackbird ✓
2Common Grackle ✓
1American Redstart ✓
2Northern Cardinal ✓
3Clapper Rail ✓
2Ring-billed Gull ✓
6Royal Tern ✓
22Double-crested Cormorant ✓
1Little Blue Heron ✓
2Snowy Egret ✓
5Great Blue Heron ✓
7Brown Pelican ✓
1Turkey Vulture ✓
2Red-bellied Woodpecker ✓
1Downy Woodpecker ✓
4American Crow ✓
48Fish Crow ✓
1Tufted Titmouse ✓
6Tree Swallow ✓
1Northern House Wren ✓
1Carolina Wren ✓
3House Finch ✓
2White-throated Sparrow ✓
2Swamp Sparrow ✓
4Boat-tailed Grackle ✓
14Yellow-rumped Warbler ✓
8Canada Goose ✓
14Common Gallinule ✓
8Laughing Gull ✓
1Osprey ✓
1Northern Flicker ✓
1Merlin ✓
1Eastern Phoebe ✓
3Brown-headed Nuthatch ✓
2Gray Catbird ✓
1Pine Warbler ✓
1Prairie Warbler ✓

November 2

1Ruby-throated Hummingbird ✓
2Short-billed Dowitcher ✓
1Blue-gray Gnatcatcher ✓
1White-crowned Sparrow ✓
1Song Sparrow ✓
1Black-and-white Warbler ✓
1Black-throated Blue Warbler ✓
1Hooded Merganser ✓
1Ruddy Duck ✓
2Black-bellied Plover ✓
9Northern Gannet ✓
11White Ibis ✓
1American Oystercatcher ✓
25Semipalmated Plover ✓
11Prairie Willet ✓
9Greater Yellowlegs ✓
1Ruddy Turnstone ✓
205Dunlin ✓
5Western Sandpiper ✓
1Lesser Black-backed Gull ✓
9Caspian Tern ✓
1Northern Harrier ✓
1Eastern Towhee ✓
1Palm Warbler ✓
1Surf Scoter ✓
1Red-shouldered Hawk ✓
1Blue-headed Vireo ✓
3Hermit Thrush ✓
2Gadwall ✓
1Green Heron ✓
2Bald Eagle ✓

November 1

2Wild Turkey ✓
1Spotted Sandpiper ✓
1Roseate Spoonbill ✓
1Peregrine Falcon ✓
1Purple Finch ✓
1Red Knot ✓
1White-breasted Nuthatch ✓
1Chuck-will's-widow ✓
1Virginia Rail ✓
1Lesser Scaup ✓
70Black Scoter ✓
2Least Sandpiper ✓
2Great Black-backed Gull ✓
6Sandwich Tern ✓
1Common Loon ✓
1Chipping Sparrow ✓

October 31

1Snow Goose ✓
1Golden-crowned Kinglet ✓
1Hairy Woodpecker
10Green-winged Teal ✓
1Killdeer ✓
3Lesser Yellowlegs ✓
1Cooper's Hawk ✓
1Yellow-bellied Sapsucker ✓
1Nelson's Sparrow ✓
1Cape May Warbler ✓
2Painted Bunting ✓
2Eurasian Collared-Dove ✓
1Eastern Marsh Wren ✓
1Common Yellowthroat ✓
3Pileated Woodpecker ✓
1Winter Wren ✓
2American Robin ✓
1Orange-crowned Warbler ✓
1Blackpoll Warbler ✓

October 30

1Red-tailed Hawk ✓
2European Starling ✓
1Savannah Sparrow ✓
2Brown-headed Cowbird ✓
1Anhinga ✓
1Red-eyed Vireo ✓
1Brown Thrasher ✓

October 29

1Saltmarsh Sparrow ✓
1Bay-breasted Warbler ✓
2Red-breasted Merganser ✓
1Common Tern ✓
1Northern Parula ✓
3Blue-winged Teal ✓
1Black-crowned Night Heron ✓

October 28

1Eastern Screech-Owl ✓
4American Pipit ✓