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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.

October 30

3Mourning Dove ✓
1Spotted Sandpiper ✓
8Wood Stork ✓
14Double-crested Cormorant ✓
5White Ibis ✓
1Little Blue Heron ✓
8Snowy Egret ✓
XGreat Egret ✓
23Great Blue Heron ✓
2Brown Pelican ✓
6Black Vulture ✓
1Downy Woodpecker ✓
3Carolina Chickadee ✓
2Brown-headed Nuthatch ✓
1Northern House Wren ✓
1Carolina Wren ✓
1Northern Mockingbird ✓
6Eastern Bluebird ✓
8House Finch ✓
2Wild Turkey ✓
2Clapper Rail ✓
1Black-bellied Plover ✓
4Killdeer ✓
2Short-billed Dowitcher ✓
2Sanderling ✓
1American Herring Gull ✓
1Forster's Tern ✓
1Red-shouldered Hawk ✓
2Belted Kingfisher ✓
1Merlin ✓
1Red-eyed Vireo ✓
2Blue Jay ✓
4American Crow ✓
8Tree Swallow ✓
2Ruby-crowned Kinglet ✓
1Blue-gray Gnatcatcher ✓
1Savannah Sparrow ✓
1Song Sparrow ✓
2Red-winged Blackbird ✓
1American Redstart ✓
1Pine Warbler ✓
2Northern Cardinal ✓
11Common Gallinule ✓
2Pied-billed Grebe ✓
2Red-bellied Woodpecker ✓
2Northern Flicker ✓
2Eastern Phoebe ✓
3Tufted Titmouse ✓
1White-breasted Nuthatch ✓
3Gray Catbird ✓
1Brown Thrasher ✓
1Hermit Thrush ✓
3White-throated Sparrow ✓
1Swamp Sparrow ✓
3Common Grackle ✓
10Yellow-rumped Warbler ✓

October 29

2Ring-billed Gull ✓
2Brown Creeper ✓
1Saltmarsh Sparrow ✓
1Bay-breasted Warbler ✓
2Red-breasted Merganser ✓
2Chipping Sparrow ✓
1Black-and-white Warbler ✓
1Palm Warbler ✓
1Western Sandpiper ✓
2Laughing Gull ✓
1Common Tern ✓
1Roseate Spoonbill ✓
2Turkey Vulture ✓
1White-crowned Sparrow ✓
1Boat-tailed Grackle ✓
1Northern Parula ✓
3Blue-winged Teal ✓
1Black-crowned Night Heron ✓
1Cooper's Hawk ✓
1Pileated Woodpecker ✓
1Common Yellowthroat ✓

October 28

2American Robin ✓
1Northern Gannet ✓
3Caspian Tern ✓
4Tricolored Heron ✓
1Eastern Screech-Owl ✓
2Seaside Sparrow ✓
4American Pipit ✓

October 27

2Greater Yellowlegs ✓
2Ruddy Turnstone ✓
1Dunlin ✓
2Great Black-backed Gull ✓
4Sandwich Tern ✓
20Royal Tern ✓
3Osprey ✓
2Blue-headed Vireo ✓
1Prairie Warbler ✓
8Semipalmated Plover ✓
2Prairie Willet ✓
2Brown-headed Cowbird ✓
1American Coot ✓
1Barn Swallow ✓
1Least Sandpiper ✓
2Yellow-bellied Sapsucker ✓

October 26

5Red Knot ✓
1Bald Eagle ✓
17Black Scoter ✓

October 25

1Anhinga ✓
1Northern Harrier ✓
1Golden-crowned Kinglet ✓
4Northern Shoveler ✓
2Semipalmated Sandpiper
2Green-winged Teal ✓
1Red-tailed Hawk ✓

October 24

1Ruddy Duck ✓
1Nelson's Sparrow ✓
1Green Heron ✓
1Fish Crow ✓
1Sora ✓
1Eastern Marsh Wren ✓
1Swainson's Thrush ✓