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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 1

2Blue-winged Teal
1Black Scoter
XCommon Gallinule
XAmerican Coot
2Willet
8Sanderling
8Laughing Gull
5Ring-billed Gull
1Forster's Tern
1Royal Tern
XAnhinga
1Double-crested Cormorant
1White Ibis
2Little Blue Heron
7Tricolored Heron
XSnowy Egret
1Green Heron
XGreat Egret
2Brown Pelican
1Osprey
1Downy Woodpecker
1White-eyed Vireo
1Blue Jay
1Carolina Chickadee
1Tufted Titmouse
1Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
1Carolina Wren
1Gray Catbird
1Northern Mockingbird
2House Finch
1Swamp Sparrow
1Northern Parula
XPine Warbler
1Yellow-rumped Warbler
XNorthern Cardinal
4Mourning Dove
1Ruby-throated Hummingbird
1Black-bellied Plover
2Western Sandpiper
1Great Black-backed Gull
2Common Tern
1American Bittern
2Least Bittern
1Bald Eagle
1Eastern Kingbird
4American Crow
1Brown Creeper
1Brown Thrasher
6Red-winged Blackbird
1Common Yellowthroat
1Bufflehead
3Sora
2Pied-billed Grebe
3Black Vulture
5Turkey Vulture
1Red-shouldered Hawk
1Belted Kingfisher
1Red-bellied Woodpecker
1Hairy Woodpecker
3Fish Crow
9Tree Swallow
4Ruby-crowned Kinglet
2White-breasted Nuthatch
3Brown-headed Nuthatch
1Northern House Wren
1Marsh Wren
2Hermit Thrush
4White-throated Sparrow
1Savannah Sparrow
2Song Sparrow
3Eastern Towhee
2Brown-headed Cowbird
6Common Grackle
1Pileated Woodpecker
1Eastern Bluebird
2Red-breasted Merganser
1Clapper Rail
2Short-billed Dowitcher
4Wilson's Snipe
1Pectoral Sandpiper
2Black Skimmer
2Gull-billed Tern
1Black Tern
2Sandwich Tern
2Glossy Ibis
6Great Blue Heron
1Peregrine Falcon
1Saltmarsh Sparrow
1Hooded Warbler

March 31

2Common Loon
1Great Crested Flycatcher
1Blue-headed Vireo
4Chipping Sparrow
1Yellow-throated Warbler

March 30

4Hooded Merganser
2Long-billed Dowitcher
1Least Tern
2Eastern Phoebe
2Barn Swallow
1Prairie Warbler
2Killdeer
1Lesser Yellowlegs
3Bonaparte's Gull
3American Herring Gull
1Greater Yellowlegs
1Virginia Rail
4Gadwall
2Mallard
2Green-winged Teal
35Semipalmated Plover
20Stilt Sandpiper
45Dunlin
30Least Sandpiper
1Northern Flicker
1Black-and-white Warbler
1Chuck-will's-widow
1Red-tailed Hawk
6American Robin
2Canada Goose
1American Oystercatcher
1Cedar Waxwing

March 29

2Wood Stork
1Northern Harrier
3Northern Rough-winged Swallow
2Marbled Godwit
1Semipalmated Sandpiper
1Yellow-crowned Night Heron
2Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
1American Kestrel
1Yellow-throated Vireo
2Boat-tailed Grackle
2Spotted Sandpiper
1Red Knot

March 28

1Sedge Wren
1Pine Siskin
2Rusty Blackbird
1Seaside Sparrow

March 27

1Wild Turkey
1Barred Owl
1Solitary Sandpiper
2Ruddy Turnstone
1Horned Grebe