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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 6

1Eurasian Collared-Dove
1Mourning Dove
1Eastern Whip-poor-will
2Clapper Rail
2American Coot
4Black-bellied Plover
4Piping Plover
2Spotted Sandpiper
6Sanderling
1American Herring Gull
1Lesser Black-backed Gull
2Pied-billed Grebe
6Wood Stork
1Northern Gannet
2Least Bittern
1Black-crowned Night Heron
4Little Blue Heron
2Green Heron
4Great Blue Heron
6Brown Pelican
1Osprey
1Red-tailed Hawk
1Yellow-throated Vireo
1Blue Jay
2Tufted Titmouse
1Ruby-crowned Kinglet
1Brown-headed Nuthatch
2Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
1Gray Catbird
2House Finch
4Chipping Sparrow
4Red-winged Blackbird
2Boat-tailed Grackle
1Hooded Warbler
1Yellow-throated Warbler
4Northern Cardinal

April 5

1Downy Woodpecker
2Carolina Wren
2Brown Thrasher
5Cedar Waxwing
2Brown-headed Cowbird
1Black-and-white Warbler
1Pine Warbler
2Canada Goose
1King Rail
3Semipalmated Plover
1Solitary Sandpiper
8Lesser Yellowlegs
2Willet
2Greater Yellowlegs
1Laughing Gull
1Anhinga
1Double-crested Cormorant
2Tricolored Heron
1Snowy Egret
1Great Egret
1Red-shouldered Hawk
1Fish Crow
46Tree Swallow
1Barn Swallow
1Northern Mockingbird
3Common Grackle
1Painted Bunting
2Blue-winged Teal
1Bufflehead
2Sora
19Common Gallinule
28Short-billed Dowitcher
4Long-billed Dowitcher
2Dunlin
1Least Tern
1Gull-billed Tern
4Forster's Tern
2White Ibis
2Turkey Vulture
5Red-bellied Woodpecker
1Pileated Woodpecker
1White-eyed Vireo
1Blue-headed Vireo
1Red-eyed Vireo
2American Crow
4Carolina Chickadee
1White-breasted Nuthatch
6White-throated Sparrow
1Prothonotary Warbler
1Northern Parula
1Virginia Rail
4Killdeer
1Stilt Sandpiper
2Western Sandpiper
1Ring-billed Gull
1Glossy Ibis
1Bald Eagle
1Eastern Kingbird
2Rusty Blackbird
1Common Yellowthroat
4Gadwall
1Green-winged Teal
9Black Scoter
2American Oystercatcher
2Wilson's Plover
63Least Sandpiper
4Royal Tern
1Common Loon
3Black Vulture
1Red-headed Woodpecker
2Northern House Wren
2Eastern Bluebird
2American Robin
2American Goldfinch
3Song Sparrow
2Swamp Sparrow
3Eastern Towhee
8Yellow-rumped Warbler
1Northern Bobwhite
1Red-throated Loon
1Northern Harrier
2Belted Kingfisher
1Great Crested Flycatcher
1Marsh Wren
1Seaside Sparrow

April 4

2Purple Martin
6European Starling
1Ovenbird
1Wild Turkey
4Chimney Swift
1Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
1Merlin
2Eastern Phoebe
1Loggerhead Shrike
1Worm-eating Warbler
2Wood Duck
1Pectoral Sandpiper
19Bonaparte's Gull
1Sandwich Tern
1Sharp-shinned Hawk
1Brown Creeper
2Field Sparrow
1Prairie Warbler

April 3

2Horned Grebe
1Hermit Thrush
2Red-breasted Merganser
1Savannah Sparrow

April 2

2Chuck-will's-widow
1Marbled Godwit
1American Bittern
1Broad-winged Hawk
1Peregrine Falcon
1Chestnut-sided Warbler
1Summer Tanager
1Northern Flicker
4American Avocet
1American Woodcock
1Wilson's Phalarope
2Red Knot
1Caspian Tern

April 1

1Ruby-throated Hummingbird
1Great Black-backed Gull
2Common Tern
4Wilson's Snipe
2Black Skimmer
1Black Tern
1Saltmarsh Sparrow

March 30

4Hooded Merganser