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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.

February 13

2Ring-necked Duck
4Hooded Merganser
2Ruddy Duck
1Mourning Dove
2Black-bellied Plover
1Spotted Sandpiper
4Lesser Yellowlegs
2Least Sandpiper
2Ring-billed Gull
2Common Loon
1Wood Stork
2Little Blue Heron
1Snowy Egret
2Great Egret
1Red-shouldered Hawk
1Red-tailed Hawk
1Eastern Phoebe
4Blue Jay
2Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
2American Robin
2Yellow-rumped Warbler
6Northern Cardinal
1Killdeer
3White Ibis
5Great Blue Heron
1Osprey
6Red-winged Blackbird
11Northern Shoveler
29Gadwall
2American Wigeon
1Mallard
68Green-winged Teal
3Lesser Scaup
1Surf Scoter
1White-winged Scoter
11Black Scoter
2Long-tailed Duck
19Bufflehead
4Red-breasted Merganser
10Common Gallinule
45American Coot
7Willet
1Greater Yellowlegs
10Ruddy Turnstone
14Sanderling
1Purple Sandpiper
12Bonaparte's Gull
40Laughing Gull
1Lesser Black-backed Gull
16Forster's Tern
9Royal Tern
7Pied-billed Grebe
2Horned Grebe
18Red-throated Loon
2Northern Gannet
35Double-crested Cormorant
3Black-crowned Night Heron
1Tricolored Heron
11American White Pelican
125Brown Pelican
2Turkey Vulture
1Bald Eagle
1Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
1Red-bellied Woodpecker
1Downy Woodpecker
1Northern Flicker
6American Crow
4Carolina Chickadee
3Tufted Titmouse
2Ruby-crowned Kinglet
1White-breasted Nuthatch
3Brown-headed Nuthatch
1Brown Creeper
2Carolina Wren
2Gray Catbird
1Brown Thrasher
3Northern Mockingbird
1Eastern Bluebird
3Hermit Thrush
5House Finch
2White-throated Sparrow
2Swamp Sparrow
1Eastern Towhee
3Pine Warbler
1Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
1Tundra Swan
2Mottled Duck
2Clapper Rail
2Wilson's Plover
1Hudsonian Whimbrel
2American Bittern
2Black Vulture
6European Starling
1Savannah Sparrow
4Common Grackle

February 12

1Common Goldeneye
6Dunlin
3American Herring Gull
1Rock Pigeon
2Short-billed Dowitcher
1American Woodcock
2Belted Kingfisher
2White-eyed Vireo
2Fish Crow
1Nelson's Sparrow
1Rusty Blackbird

February 11

3Tree Swallow
1Wilson's Snipe
24Cedar Waxwing
1Orange-crowned Warbler
1Chipping Sparrow

February 10

1White-crowned Sparrow
1Seaside Sparrow
1Black-and-white Warbler
1Loggerhead Shrike
6Semipalmated Plover
1Barred Owl
1Song Sparrow

February 9

1Redhead
1Sora
4Anhinga
1Long-billed Dowitcher
2Boat-tailed Grackle

February 8

1Virginia Rail
18Western Sandpiper
1Red-headed Woodpecker
1Blue-headed Vireo

February 7

2Blue-winged Teal
1American Pipit