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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 3

1Black Scoter
2Mourning Dove
1American Coot
2Short-billed Dowitcher
4Sanderling
4Ring-billed Gull
2Horned Grebe
4Double-crested Cormorant
2Little Blue Heron
2Green Heron
1Osprey
1Bald Eagle
1Red-bellied Woodpecker
2Eastern Phoebe
1Blue-headed Vireo
1Ruby-crowned Kinglet
2Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
2Northern Mockingbird
1House Finch
2Red-winged Blackbird
1Yellow-throated Warbler
2Northern Cardinal
2Wood Duck
1Bufflehead
21Common Gallinule
1Forster's Tern
16Anhinga
7Snowy Egret
4Great Egret
1Great Blue Heron
1Downy Woodpecker
1Great Crested Flycatcher
1White-eyed Vireo
2Blue Jay
2American Crow
2Carolina Chickadee
2Tufted Titmouse
1Marsh Wren
6Carolina Wren
3Gray Catbird
2White-throated Sparrow
8Common Grackle
1Northern Parula
2Blue-winged Teal
4Clapper Rail
1Sora
3Black-bellied Plover
7Killdeer
26Semipalmated Plover
6Lesser Yellowlegs
6Willet
9Greater Yellowlegs
28Dunlin
24Least Sandpiper
9Western Sandpiper
1Laughing Gull
2Royal Tern
2Pied-billed Grebe
5Tricolored Heron
4Turkey Vulture
1Belted Kingfisher
4Fish Crow
18Tree Swallow
4Barn Swallow
2Brown-headed Nuthatch
1Northern House Wren
4Eastern Bluebird
1Hermit Thrush
1American Robin
23Cedar Waxwing
1Chipping Sparrow
2Song Sparrow
5Swamp Sparrow
1Eastern Towhee
9Brown-headed Cowbird
6Boat-tailed Grackle
3Pine Warbler
2Yellow-rumped Warbler
2Red-breasted Merganser
1Spotted Sandpiper
4White Ibis
1Red-shouldered Hawk
1Brown Creeper
1Savannah Sparrow
1Common Yellowthroat

April 2

4Green-winged Teal
2Chuck-will's-widow
1Marbled Godwit
1Common Loon
1American Bittern
1Broad-winged Hawk
1Peregrine Falcon
1White-breasted Nuthatch
1Brown Thrasher
1Worm-eating Warbler
1Chestnut-sided Warbler
1Glossy Ibis
1Pileated Woodpecker
1Red-eyed Vireo
5European Starling
1Prothonotary Warbler
1Hooded Warbler
1Summer Tanager
1Northern Flicker
1Northern Bobwhite
4American Avocet
6Piping Plover
1American Woodcock
1Wilson's Phalarope
2Solitary Sandpiper
2Red Knot
4Pectoral Sandpiper
1Lesser Black-backed Gull
2Least Tern
1Caspian Tern
8Brown Pelican
1Gadwall
1Wilson's Plover
33Bonaparte's Gull
2Northern Gannet
1Black-crowned Night Heron
1Seaside Sparrow

April 1

1Ruby-throated Hummingbird
1Great Black-backed Gull
2Common Tern
2Least Bittern
1Eastern Kingbird
3Black Vulture
1Hairy Woodpecker
4Wilson's Snipe
2Black Skimmer
2Gull-billed Tern
1Black Tern
2Sandwich Tern
1Saltmarsh Sparrow

March 30

4Hooded Merganser
2Long-billed Dowitcher
1Prairie Warbler
3American Herring Gull
1Virginia Rail
2Mallard
20Stilt Sandpiper
1Black-and-white Warbler
1Red-tailed Hawk
2Canada Goose
1American Oystercatcher

March 29

2Wood Stork
1Northern Harrier
3Northern Rough-winged Swallow
1Semipalmated Sandpiper
1Yellow-crowned Night Heron
2Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
1American Kestrel
1Yellow-throated Vireo

March 28

1Sedge Wren
1Pine Siskin
2Rusty Blackbird