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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.

July 19

3Black-bellied Plover
12Semipalmated Plover
1Short-billed Dowitcher
3Willet
4Sanderling
16Least Sandpiper
3Least Tern
2Anhinga
1Least Bittern
4Little Blue Heron
4Snowy Egret
2Great Blue Heron
2Bald Eagle
8White Ibis
4Mourning Dove
25Wood Stork
1Yellow-crowned Night Heron
1Green Heron
3Great Egret
2Carolina Chickadee
3Carolina Wren
6Red-winged Blackbird
4Northern Cardinal
1Indigo Bunting
1Painted Bunting
2Ruby-throated Hummingbird
1American Coot
2American Herring Gull
2Black-crowned Night Heron
4Brown Pelican
1Osprey
1Mississippi Kite
2Belted Kingfisher
2Red-headed Woodpecker
1Great Crested Flycatcher
4Blue Jay
2Fish Crow
1Tufted Titmouse
6Purple Martin
2Barn Swallow
2Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
4Eastern Bluebird
2House Finch
1Prothonotary Warbler
4Tricolored Heron
7Chimney Swift
8Common Gallinule
4Killdeer
1Red-bellied Woodpecker
3American Crow

July 18

XYellow-billed Cuckoo
2Roseate Spoonbill
3Wilson's Plover
1Hudsonian Whimbrel
XSpotted Sandpiper
2Ruddy Turnstone
2Laughing Gull
1Black Tern
4Common Tern
5Royal Tern
1Boat-tailed Grackle
1Chuck-will's-widow
2Clapper Rail
1Turkey Vulture
4Brown Thrasher
1Black-and-white Warbler

July 17

2Lesser Yellowlegs
2Forster's Tern
1Downy Woodpecker
1Marsh Wren
6American Robin
2Chipping Sparrow
1Common Yellowthroat
1Pine Warbler
2Summer Tanager
1White-eyed Vireo
1White-breasted Nuthatch
1Northern Mockingbird
4Common Grackle
1Eastern Whip-poor-will
4Pied-billed Grebe
2Double-crested Cormorant
1Red-tailed Hawk
2Red-eyed Vireo
1Brown-headed Nuthatch

July 16

1Common Nighthawk
2Western Sandpiper
5Semipalmated Sandpiper
1American Oystercatcher
1Reddish Egret
1American White Pelican
5Brown-headed Cowbird
1Lesser Black-backed Gull
2Black Skimmer
2Red-shouldered Hawk

July 15

2Marbled Godwit
2American Woodcock
1Great Black-backed Gull
1Gull-billed Tern
2Glossy Ibis
2Seaside Sparrow
1Swainson's Warbler
3Caspian Tern
3Sandwich Tern
12Rock Pigeon
7Greater Yellowlegs
4Ring-billed Gull
1Yellow-throated Vireo
1Eastern Meadowlark
1Yellow-throated Warbler
1Northern Flicker
1Northern Parula

July 14

2Eurasian Collared-Dove
1Pileated Woodpecker
1Hooded Warbler
1Prairie Warbler