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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.

January 6

6Northern Shoveler
4Ring-necked Duck
10Bufflehead
8Hooded Merganser
2Killdeer
2Piping Plover
6Willet
2Sanderling
4Ring-billed Gull
2Forster's Tern
6White Ibis
4Snowy Egret
6Great Egret
2Great Blue Heron
10American White Pelican
1Northern Harrier
2Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
2Downy Woodpecker
1Blue-headed Vireo
4Blue Jay
1Carolina Chickadee
1Tufted Titmouse
1Ruby-crowned Kinglet
2Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
1Carolina Wren
4Gray Catbird
2House Finch
1White-crowned Sparrow
1Savannah Sparrow
2Red-winged Blackbird
6Yellow-rumped Warbler
2Northern Cardinal
60Green-winged Teal
7Common Gallinule
3American Coot
3Pied-billed Grebe
1Tricolored Heron
2Brown Pelican
2Turkey Vulture
1Bald Eagle
1Belted Kingfisher
1American Robin
2Pine Warbler
1Red-bellied Woodpecker
2White-breasted Nuthatch
1Winter Wren
9White-throated Sparrow
1Mourning Dove
1Clapper Rail
2Wilson's Snipe
5Greater Yellowlegs
1Double-crested Cormorant
1Osprey
1American Crow
1Fish Crow
1Brown Creeper
1Song Sparrow
1Swamp Sparrow
1Orange-crowned Warbler
4Lesser Scaup
1Little Blue Heron
6Laughing Gull
4Anhinga
1Sharp-shinned Hawk
1Northern Flicker
1Loggerhead Shrike
1Brown Thrasher
1American Pipit
6Common Grackle
2Common Yellowthroat

January 5

15Gadwall
2Ruddy Duck
2Black-bellied Plover
1Semipalmated Plover
1Red-tailed Hawk
1Red-headed Woodpecker
2Eastern Phoebe
1Sedge Wren
2Rusty Blackbird
2Boat-tailed Grackle
2Yellow-throated Warbler
2Blue-winged Teal
1Northern Pintail
1Redhead
1Common Goldeneye
6Bonaparte's Gull
1Golden-crowned Kinglet
3Brown-headed Nuthatch
2Marsh Wren
2Northern Mockingbird
1Hermit Thrush
6Cedar Waxwing
1Surf Scoter
2Red-breasted Merganser
5Ruddy Turnstone
5Least Sandpiper
1American Herring Gull
2Horned Grebe
3Red-throated Loon
7Common Loon
1Black-and-white Warbler
3Sora
1Wood Stork
4Black-crowned Night Heron
2Black Vulture
1Pileated Woodpecker
1Mallard
6Short-billed Dowitcher
1Lesser Black-backed Gull
1White-eyed Vireo

January 4

2Virginia Rail
2Dunlin
2Western Sandpiper
1Eastern Screech-Owl
2Brown-headed Cowbird
1Long-tailed Duck
1Eastern Towhee
2Eastern Bluebird
2Chipping Sparrow
1American Wigeon
1White-winged Scoter
3Black Scoter
2American Oystercatcher
1American Bittern
8Mottled Duck
1Great Black-backed Gull

January 3

50Tree Swallow
6Canvasback
2Long-billed Dowitcher
1Barred Owl
1Prairie Warbler
1Marbled Godwit
1Green Heron
1Fox Sparrow
1Seaside Sparrow

January 2

1Spotted Sandpiper
XGreater Scaup
2Lesser Yellowlegs
2Cooper's Hawk

January 1

1Red Knot
1Red-shouldered Hawk
14Canada Goose
6Northern Gannet
2Purple Sandpiper
5Royal Tern
1Vesper Sparrow

December 31

1Northern House Wren
2Saltmarsh Sparrow
1Purple Finch