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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 20

2Mourning Dove
2Clapper Rail
8Common Gallinule
2Semipalmated Plover
1Willet
1Ruddy Turnstone
4Sanderling
75Semipalmated Sandpiper
2Laughing Gull
30Least Tern
3Royal Tern
2Wood Stork
2Anhinga
2Double-crested Cormorant
3Roseate Spoonbill
1Least Bittern
4Little Blue Heron
2Tricolored Heron
2Snowy Egret
2Green Heron
5Great Egret
2Great Blue Heron
3Brown Pelican
1Osprey
1Barred Owl
1Red-bellied Woodpecker
1Eastern Wood-Pewee
1Great Crested Flycatcher
2Blue Jay
4American Crow
1Tufted Titmouse
2Barn Swallow
1Brown-headed Nuthatch
1Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
1Eastern Bluebird
1Orchard Oriole
10Red-winged Blackbird
5Brown-headed Cowbird
10Common Grackle
2Prothonotary Warbler
2Northern Cardinal
1Painted Bunting
2Downy Woodpecker
2Carolina Chickadee
1Carolina Wren
1Northern Mockingbird
1House Finch
1Pine Warbler
2Ruby-throated Hummingbird
1American Coot
2Black-necked Stilt
1Spotted Sandpiper
1Solitary Sandpiper
2Western Sandpiper
6Ring-billed Gull
4Gull-billed Tern
2Pied-billed Grebe
1Glossy Ibis
1Red-shouldered Hawk
1Eastern Kingbird
2Fish Crow
1Gray-cheeked Thrush
1American Robin
1Savannah Sparrow
2Boat-tailed Grackle
1Common Yellowthroat
1American Redstart
20Piping Plover
3Black-bellied Plover
1White-eyed Vireo
1Marsh Wren
1Killdeer
1Turkey Vulture
1Bald Eagle
XKing Rail
3Wilson's Plover
3Greater Yellowlegs
4Least Sandpiper

May 19

1Purple Gallinule
1Chimney Swift
1Short-billed Dowitcher
2White Ibis
1Belted Kingfisher
2European Starling
1Chipping Sparrow
2Indigo Bunting
1Black-crowned Night Heron
3Tree Swallow
1Summer Tanager
2Canada Goose
1Hudsonian Whimbrel
1Lesser Yellowlegs
1Yellow-crowned Night Heron
4Black Scoter
1Yellow-billed Cuckoo
2Chuck-will's-widow
2White-rumped Sandpiper
2Forster's Tern
1Great Horned Owl
1Willow Flycatcher
1Seaside Sparrow
2Wood Duck
1Common Nighthawk
3Red-headed Woodpecker
1Pileated Woodpecker
1Red-eyed Vireo
1Gray Catbird
1Brown Thrasher
1Yellow-breasted Chat
1Northern Parula

May 18

1Yellow-throated Vireo
1Black-and-white Warbler
1Blue Grosbeak
2American Oystercatcher
2American Herring Gull
1Broad-winged Hawk
1Swallow-tailed Kite
1Eurasian Collared-Dove
1Wood Thrush
1Blue-winged Warbler
4White-breasted Nuthatch

May 17

1Eastern Towhee
4Stilt Sandpiper
3Red Knot
5Dunlin
6Black Skimmer
3Caspian Tern
2Sandwich Tern
4Purple Martin
1Red-tailed Hawk
1Black-throated Blue Warbler

May 16

1American Kestrel
4Wild Turkey

May 15

1Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
1Mallard
3Pectoral Sandpiper
1Magnolia Warbler
1Northern Yellow Warbler