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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 26

5Semipalmated Plover ✓
7Sanderling ✓
1Black-bellied Plover ✓
1Ruddy Turnstone ✓
9Dunlin ✓
14Laughing Gull ✓
9Ring-billed Gull ✓
2American Herring Gull ✓
2Forster's Tern ✓
37Double-crested Cormorant ✓
2Great Egret ✓
22Brown Pelican ✓
1Osprey ✓
3Mourning Dove ✓
4Pied-billed Grebe ✓
2White Ibis ✓
1Roseate Spoonbill ✓
1Little Blue Heron ✓
1Tricolored Heron ✓
5Snowy Egret ✓
2Great Blue Heron ✓
1Yellow-bellied Sapsucker ✓
2Carolina Chickadee ✓
2Tufted Titmouse ✓
1White-breasted Nuthatch ✓
5Red-winged Blackbird ✓
2Pine Warbler ✓
2Yellow-rumped Warbler ✓
1Northern Cardinal ✓
1Wood Stork ✓
1Bald Eagle ✓
1Belted Kingfisher ✓
17Black Scoter ✓
1Clapper Rail ✓
5Northern Gannet ✓
2Red-bellied Woodpecker ✓
2Blue Jay ✓
2American Crow ✓
1Carolina Wren ✓
1Gray Catbird ✓
1Northern Mockingbird ✓
1Eastern Bluebird ✓
10House Finch ✓
1Black-and-white Warbler ✓
13Common Gallinule ✓
2Spotted Sandpiper ✓
2Turkey Vulture ✓
1Red-shouldered Hawk ✓
2Downy Woodpecker ✓
2Northern Flicker ✓
100Tree Swallow ✓
3Brown-headed Nuthatch ✓
2Hermit Thrush ✓
2White-throated Sparrow ✓
2Swamp Sparrow ✓
4Common Grackle ✓
1Black-crowned Night Heron ✓
1Cooper's Hawk ✓
1Merlin ✓
1Eastern Phoebe ✓

October 25

2Least Sandpiper ✓
1Anhinga ✓
1Northern Harrier ✓
1Golden-crowned Kinglet ✓
2Song Sparrow ✓
4Northern Shoveler ✓
2Semipalmated Sandpiper
2Green-winged Teal ✓
2Greater Yellowlegs ✓
1Red-tailed Hawk ✓
1Northern House Wren ✓

October 24

6Willet ✓
1Western Sandpiper ✓
35Boat-tailed Grackle ✓
1Eastern Screech-Owl ✓
2Caspian Tern ✓
3Black Vulture ✓
1Ruddy Duck ✓
1Nelson's Sparrow ✓
3Royal Tern ✓
2Ruby-crowned Kinglet ✓
3American Coot ✓
1Green Heron ✓
1Pileated Woodpecker ✓
1Fish Crow ✓
1Sora ✓
2Killdeer ✓
2Blue-gray Gnatcatcher ✓
1Marsh Wren ✓
1Swainson's Thrush ✓
1Palm Warbler ✓
1Common Yellowthroat ✓

October 23

4Wood Duck ✓
2Sandwich Tern ✓
24Blue-winged Teal ✓
4Gadwall ✓
35American White Pelican ✓
1Peregrine Falcon ✓
1White-eyed Vireo ✓
1Blue-headed Vireo ✓
2Brown Thrasher ✓
1Veery
1Cape May Warbler ✓
1Northern Parula ✓
1Painted Bunting ✓
1Prairie Warbler ✓
2Bonaparte's Gull ✓

October 22

1American Redstart ✓
3Great Cormorant
2Chipping Sparrow ✓
1Red-breasted Nuthatch
1Black-throated Blue Warbler ✓
1American Robin ✓
1Saltmarsh Sparrow ✓
1Eastern Towhee ✓

October 21

1Ruby-throated Hummingbird ✓
1Kentucky Warbler ✓
1Wild Turkey ✓
1Least Flycatcher ✓
2Loggerhead Shrike ✓
1Orange-crowned Warbler ✓
1Chestnut-sided Warbler ✓
1Northern Waterthrush ✓

October 20

4Piping Plover ✓
2Short-billed Dowitcher ✓
2Yellow-crowned Night Heron ✓