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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.

May 13

4Mourning Dove
1Green Heron
XDowny Woodpecker
1Pileated Woodpecker
1White-eyed Vireo
XCarolina Chickadee
XTufted Titmouse
3Brown-headed Nuthatch
1Carolina Wren
XHouse Finch
2Red-winged Blackbird
1Common Grackle
1Boat-tailed Grackle
XProthonotary Warbler
XNorthern Parula
1Pine Warbler
3Northern Cardinal
2Painted Bunting
1Wood Stork
1Mississippi Kite
2Wilson's Plover
1Hudsonian Whimbrel
1Ruddy Turnstone
20Sanderling
1Least Tern
2Sandwich Tern
2Royal Tern
1Double-crested Cormorant
4Brown Pelican
1Osprey
2Ruby-throated Hummingbird
XClapper Rail
1American Coot
3Semipalmated Plover
XWillet
1Roseate Spoonbill
XAmerican Bittern
1Swallow-tailed Kite
1Bald Eagle
1Red-bellied Woodpecker
1Fish Crow
3White-breasted Nuthatch
1Brown-headed Cowbird
2Black-bellied Plover
24Least Sandpiper
3Anhinga
6White Ibis
1Glossy Ibis
1Yellow-crowned Night Heron
1Tricolored Heron
2Snowy Egret
1Great Egret
1Great Blue Heron
2Turkey Vulture
1Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
1Killdeer
1Short-billed Dowitcher
2Spotted Sandpiper
8Semipalmated Sandpiper
4Laughing Gull
1Little Blue Heron
1Great Crested Flycatcher
2Barn Swallow
3Common Gallinule
2Chimney Swift
1Lesser Yellowlegs
6Greater Yellowlegs
1Red-headed Woodpecker
1Blue Jay
1Eastern Towhee
2Common Yellowthroat
1Black-necked Stilt
3American Crow
XBrown Thrasher
2Black Vulture
1Red-tailed Hawk
1Northern Mockingbird
2Eastern Bluebird
3Cedar Waxwing

May 12

1Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
1Sora
2Least Bittern
1White-rumped Sandpiper
1Seaside Sparrow

May 11

1Common Nighthawk
3Chuck-will's-widow
1Cooper's Hawk
1Orchard Oriole
1Solitary Sandpiper
1Rose-breasted Grosbeak
1Yellow-billed Cuckoo
4Western Sandpiper
2Ring-billed Gull
1Black Skimmer
1Gull-billed Tern
1Pied-billed Grebe
1Marsh Wren
1Gray Catbird
1Hooded Warbler
4Long-billed Dowitcher
1Stilt Sandpiper
6Dunlin
2Purple Martin
1Wild Turkey
1Eurasian Collared-Dove

May 10

1Eastern Kingbird
1Orange-crowned Warbler
2Piping Plover
1American Robin
1Summer Tanager
2Forster's Tern
1Red-shouldered Hawk
1American Redstart
4European Starling

May 9

2Belted Kingfisher
1Gray-cheeked Thrush
1Black-and-white Warbler
1Black-crowned Night Heron
1Sandhill Crane
1Hairy Woodpecker
1Wood Duck
1Mallard
1Red-eyed Vireo
1Yellow-breasted Chat
1Baltimore Oriole
1Northern Waterthrush
1Willow Flycatcher
1Saltmarsh Sparrow

May 8

1Eastern Screech-Owl
1Eastern Wood-Pewee
1Blue-winged Warbler
1King Rail
1Yellow-throated Vireo
2Tree Swallow
1Ovenbird
1Swainson's Warbler
1Northern Yellow Warbler
1Blackpoll Warbler
1Black-throated Blue Warbler
1Blue Grosbeak

May 7

2Prairie Warbler