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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.

April 16

1Mourning Dove
2Black-bellied Plover
4Greater Yellowlegs
22Least Sandpiper
1Laughing Gull
1Royal Tern
2Little Blue Heron
3Tricolored Heron
2Snowy Egret
1Green Heron
4Great Egret
2Black Vulture
3Turkey Vulture
1Osprey
XBlue Jay
2American Crow
3Fish Crow
1Tufted Titmouse
11Barn Swallow
5Red-winged Blackbird
1Blue-winged Teal
2Bufflehead
1Chimney Swift
2Clapper Rail
3Sora
25Common Gallinule
16American Coot
2Killdeer
5Hudsonian Whimbrel
2Lesser Yellowlegs
2Willet
10Wood Stork
11Anhinga
8Double-crested Cormorant
1Glossy Ibis
2Black-crowned Night Heron
1Great Blue Heron
2Red-bellied Woodpecker
1Pileated Woodpecker
3Great Crested Flycatcher
2White-eyed Vireo
3Carolina Chickadee
3Tree Swallow
1Ruby-crowned Kinglet
2Brown-headed Nuthatch
1Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
8Carolina Wren
1Gray Catbird
1Eastern Bluebird
2House Finch
2White-throated Sparrow
1Song Sparrow
4Brown-headed Cowbird
1Common Grackle
1Boat-tailed Grackle
1Northern Parula
4Pine Warbler
1Yellow-rumped Warbler
1Yellow-throated Warbler
10Northern Cardinal
2Painted Bunting
1Yellow-billed Cuckoo
2Wilson's Snipe
4Sanderling
2Semipalmated Sandpiper
2Ring-billed Gull
2Forster's Tern
1White Ibis
1Roseate Spoonbill
10Brown Pelican
1Belted Kingfisher
1Downy Woodpecker
2Northern Mockingbird
1American Robin
1Saltmarsh Sparrow
1Northern Waterthrush
1Tennessee Warbler
3Wild Turkey
1King Rail
2American Oystercatcher
58Semipalmated Plover
3Piping Plover
2Wilson's Plover
48Short-billed Dowitcher
2Long-billed Dowitcher
1Spotted Sandpiper
13Ruddy Turnstone
12Dunlin
8Western Sandpiper
11Bonaparte's Gull
3Black Skimmer
133Least Tern
12Sandwich Tern
1Common Loon
8Northern Gannet
2Least Bittern
1Cooper's Hawk
3Bald Eagle
1Red-shouldered Hawk
2Red-tailed Hawk
2Red-headed Woodpecker
1Hairy Woodpecker
1Northern House Wren
2Marsh Wren
15Cedar Waxwing
1American Goldfinch
1Savannah Sparrow
1Swamp Sparrow
2Eastern Towhee
3Black-and-white Warbler
2Prothonotary Warbler
1Blue Grosbeak
1Ruby-throated Hummingbird
2Pied-billed Grebe
1Field Sparrow

April 15

1White-breasted Nuthatch
1Brown Thrasher
1Red-eyed Vireo
1Blue-headed Vireo
1Yellow-crowned Night Heron
2Hermit Thrush
2Summer Tanager
2Virginia Rail
1Purple Gallinule
1Lesser Black-backed Gull
1Black Tern
1Swallow-tailed Kite
1Blue-winged Warbler
4Gadwall
80Black Scoter
1American Herring Gull
3American Flamingo
4Stilt Sandpiper
1Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
1Northern Flicker
1Common Yellowthroat

April 14

1Black-throated Blue Warbler
1Eastern Whip-poor-will
2Solitary Sandpiper
1Peregrine Falcon
6European Starling
1Seaside Sparrow

April 13

1Eurasian Collared-Dove
1Northern Harrier
1Wood Thrush
1Palm Warbler
1Purple Martin
1House Sparrow
1Chipping Sparrow
2Marbled Godwit
1Eastern Wood-Pewee
1Orange-crowned Warbler
1Red-throated Loon

April 12

1Yellow-throated Vireo
1Green-winged Teal
5Canada Goose
3Red-breasted Merganser

April 11

8Common Tern
1Brown Creeper
1Chestnut-sided Warbler
1Caspian Tern
4Gull-billed Tern
1Eastern Kingbird

April 10

1Western Cattle-Egret
1Nelson's Sparrow