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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.

March 14

1Mourning Dove
1Greater Yellowlegs
2Forster's Tern
3Pied-billed Grebe
1Common Loon
3Double-crested Cormorant
2Snowy Egret
4Great Egret
1Great Blue Heron
3Brown Pelican
1Bald Eagle
1Red-bellied Woodpecker
2Blue Jay
3Carolina Chickadee
1Tufted Titmouse
2Brown-headed Nuthatch
4Carolina Wren
1White-throated Sparrow
15Red-winged Blackbird
3Yellow-rumped Warbler
4Northern Cardinal
7Gadwall
1Clapper Rail
2Black-bellied Plover
1Killdeer
8Bonaparte's Gull
7Little Blue Heron
2Tricolored Heron
1Red-shouldered Hawk
1American Crow
7Tree Swallow
1Brown Thrasher
1Northern Mockingbird
1Hermit Thrush
5Horned Grebe
1Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
2Mottled Duck
4Bufflehead
2Red-breasted Merganser
2Wilson's Plover
2Lesser Yellowlegs
3Willet
1Ruddy Turnstone
300Sanderling
1Laughing Gull
2Ring-billed Gull
1White Ibis
2Ruby-crowned Kinglet
1Gray Catbird
1Eastern Bluebird
1Common Grackle
1Pine Warbler

March 13

1Common Eider
1Northern Bobwhite
1Wild Turkey
1American Coot
1Western Cattle-Egret
1Osprey
2Downy Woodpecker
1Eastern Phoebe
1White-breasted Nuthatch
1Chipping Sparrow
1White-crowned Sparrow
2Brown-headed Cowbird
1Prairie Warbler
11Common Gallinule
8Anhinga
2American Robin
1Swamp Sparrow
2Turkey Vulture
1Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
1Fish Crow
1House Finch
1Black-and-white Warbler
1Virginia Rail
1Sora
1Short-billed Dowitcher
1Western Sandpiper
1Great Black-backed Gull
1Black Skimmer
1Northern Gannet
1Yellow-crowned Night Heron
1Green Heron
1Merlin
1Marsh Wren

March 12

1Red-throated Loon
1Belted Kingfisher
1Seaside Sparrow
1American Herring Gull
2Caspian Tern
2Royal Tern
2Brown Creeper
4European Starling

March 11

4Ruddy Duck
4Wood Stork
1Black-crowned Night Heron
1White-eyed Vireo
6Boat-tailed Grackle
1Blue-winged Teal
1Pileated Woodpecker
1Ruby-throated Hummingbird
1Great Horned Owl
1Song Sparrow
2Rusty Blackbird

March 10

5Glossy Ibis
1Least Sandpiper
1Nelson's Sparrow
2Common Yellowthroat
1Red-headed Woodpecker
20Cedar Waxwing
1Eastern Towhee
2Blue-headed Vireo
150Dunlin
1Golden-crowned Kinglet
1Canada Goose
4Green-winged Teal
4Piping Plover
2Spotted Sandpiper
1Northern Parula

March 9

6Northern Shoveler
1Sedge Wren
2Wilson's Snipe
1Northern Flicker
22Savannah Sparrow
1Horned Lark
1Pine Siskin
1Yellow-throated Warbler

March 8

2Black Vulture
1Saltmarsh Sparrow

March 7

6Hooded Merganser
1Barred Owl
1American Goldfinch