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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.

August 25

2Ruby-throated Hummingbird
1Clapper Rail
1Black-bellied Plover
2Willet
2Sanderling
1American Herring Gull
1Forster's Tern
12Wood Stork
4White Ibis
12Snowy Egret
4Great Egret
2Great Blue Heron
1Osprey
1Belted Kingfisher
2Red-bellied Woodpecker
1Great Crested Flycatcher
1Carolina Chickadee
1Tufted Titmouse
1Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
4Northern Mockingbird
1Chipping Sparrow
2Red-winged Blackbird
2Common Grackle
1American Redstart
1Pine Warbler
2Painted Bunting
2American Oystercatcher
34Semipalmated Plover
1Hudsonian Whimbrel
2Short-billed Dowitcher
1Stilt Sandpiper
2Least Sandpiper
19Semipalmated Sandpiper
22Laughing Gull
1Ring-billed Gull
4Black Skimmer
10Caspian Tern
2Common Tern
10Sandwich Tern
5Royal Tern
3Double-crested Cormorant
1Fish Crow
1Seaside Sparrow
5Mourning Dove
5Common Gallinule
1Gull-billed Tern
3Anhinga
4Black-crowned Night Heron
4Tricolored Heron
4Green Heron
2Downy Woodpecker
2Pileated Woodpecker
3Red-eyed Vireo
1Blue Jay
3American Crow
35Barn Swallow
3White-breasted Nuthatch
1Brown-headed Nuthatch
7Carolina Wren
1House Finch
1Ovenbird
1Prothonotary Warbler
1Northern Parula
1Summer Tanager
13Northern Cardinal
2Red-headed Woodpecker
2White-eyed Vireo
3Eastern Bluebird
1Northern Waterthrush
2Common Yellowthroat

August 24

1Yellow-billed Cuckoo
1American Coot
4Spotted Sandpiper
1Dunlin
2Least Bittern
1Yellow-throated Vireo
2Gray Catbird
1Western Cattle-Egret
1Mississippi Kite
1Little Blue Heron
2Purple Martin

August 23

3Rock Pigeon
1Solitary Sandpiper
1Greater Yellowlegs
2Ruddy Turnstone
2Yellow-crowned Night Heron
5Brown Pelican
5Turkey Vulture
2Tree Swallow
2Boat-tailed Grackle
2Piping Plover
1Western Sandpiper
1Least Tern
1Northern Flicker
1American Goldfinch
1Orchard Oriole
4Brown-headed Cowbird
5Killdeer
3Worm-eating Warbler
1Northern Yellow Warbler
1Brown Thrasher

August 22

1Blue Grosbeak
1Eurasian Collared-Dove
4Chimney Swift
1Purple Gallinule
1Black Vulture
6European Starling
1Glossy Ibis
1Louisiana Waterthrush

August 21

2Hooded Warbler
2Chuck-will's-widow
2Lesser Yellowlegs
1Blue-winged Warbler

August 20

1Swallow-tailed Kite
1Marbled Godwit
1Pectoral Sandpiper

August 19

1Bald Eagle
1Eastern Whip-poor-will
1Pied-billed Grebe
1Black-and-white Warbler
1Black Tern
8Black-necked Stilt
1Prairie Warbler