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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.

November 2

1Clapper Rail ✓
1Black-bellied Plover ✓
10Laughing Gull ✓
3Ring-billed Gull ✓
3Double-crested Cormorant ✓
1Belted Kingfisher ✓
2Blue Jay ✓
5American Crow ✓
75Tree Swallow ✓
2Brown-headed Nuthatch ✓
2Carolina Wren ✓
1Gray Catbird ✓
3Northern Mockingbird ✓
3Eastern Bluebird ✓
4House Finch ✓
6White-throated Sparrow ✓
1Song Sparrow ✓
1Eastern Towhee ✓
1Palm Warbler ✓
1Pine Warbler ✓
42Yellow-rumped Warbler ✓
3Northern Cardinal ✓
1Surf Scoter ✓
1Ruddy Duck ✓
3Mourning Dove ✓
1American Herring Gull ✓
1Forster's Tern ✓
1Royal Tern ✓
2Pied-billed Grebe ✓
2White Ibis ✓
2Little Blue Heron ✓
2Tricolored Heron ✓
10Snowy Egret ✓
4Great Egret ✓
2Great Blue Heron ✓
10Brown Pelican ✓
11Turkey Vulture ✓
1Osprey ✓
1Red-shouldered Hawk ✓
2Red-bellied Woodpecker ✓
1Downy Woodpecker ✓
1Northern Flicker ✓
1Blue-headed Vireo ✓
1Fish Crow ✓
4Carolina Chickadee ✓
3Tufted Titmouse ✓
1Ruby-crowned Kinglet ✓
3Hermit Thrush ✓
25Red-winged Blackbird ✓

November 1

2Wild Turkey ✓
2American Coot ✓
1Spotted Sandpiper ✓
4Sanderling ✓
8Wood Stork ✓
1Roseate Spoonbill ✓
1Black Vulture ✓
1Peregrine Falcon ✓
1Purple Finch ✓
1Boat-tailed Grackle ✓
1Black-and-white Warbler ✓
1Prairie Warbler ✓
7Short-billed Dowitcher ✓
4Prairie Willet ✓
1Red Knot ✓
2Eastern Phoebe ✓
1White-breasted Nuthatch ✓
1Northern House Wren ✓
1Chuck-will's-widow ✓
2Ruby-throated Hummingbird ✓
1Virginia Rail ✓
1Dunlin ✓
1Lesser Scaup ✓
70Black Scoter ✓
1American Oystercatcher ✓
2Semipalmated Plover ✓
10Ruddy Turnstone ✓
2Least Sandpiper ✓
2Great Black-backed Gull ✓
1Caspian Tern ✓
6Sandwich Tern ✓
1Common Loon ✓
15Northern Gannet ✓
1Seaside Sparrow ✓
1Chipping Sparrow ✓
1Swamp Sparrow ✓

October 31

1Snow Goose ✓
1Golden-crowned Kinglet ✓
12Common Gallinule ✓
1Hairy Woodpecker
1Canada Goose ✓
10Green-winged Teal ✓
1Killdeer ✓
3Lesser Yellowlegs ✓
1Cooper's Hawk ✓
1Bald Eagle ✓
1Yellow-bellied Sapsucker ✓
1Nelson's Sparrow ✓
6Common Grackle ✓
1Cape May Warbler ✓
2Painted Bunting ✓
2Eurasian Collared-Dove ✓
1Eastern Marsh Wren ✓
1Western Sandpiper ✓
2Blue-gray Gnatcatcher ✓
1Common Yellowthroat ✓
3Pileated Woodpecker ✓
1Winter Wren ✓
2American Robin ✓
1Orange-crowned Warbler ✓
1Blackpoll Warbler ✓

October 30

1Red-tailed Hawk ✓
2Brown Creeper ✓
2European Starling ✓
1Savannah Sparrow ✓
2Brown-headed Cowbird ✓
1Black-throated Blue Warbler ✓
1Anhinga ✓
1Northern Harrier ✓
1Merlin ✓
1Red-eyed Vireo ✓
1American Redstart ✓
1Brown Thrasher ✓

October 29

1Saltmarsh Sparrow ✓
1Bay-breasted Warbler ✓
2Red-breasted Merganser ✓
1Common Tern ✓
1White-crowned Sparrow ✓
1Northern Parula ✓
3Blue-winged Teal ✓
1Black-crowned Night Heron ✓

October 28

1Eastern Screech-Owl ✓
4American Pipit ✓

October 27

2Greater Yellowlegs ✓
1Barn Swallow ✓