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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.

December 3

6Gadwall
XGreen-winged Teal
3Lesser Scaup
23Hooded Merganser
1Lesser Yellowlegs
8Pied-billed Grebe
4White Ibis
1Little Blue Heron
3Tricolored Heron
3Snowy Egret
3Great Egret
1Great Blue Heron
14American White Pelican
3Turkey Vulture
1Osprey
1Belted Kingfisher
1Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
1Red-bellied Woodpecker
1Northern Flicker
1Eastern Phoebe
2Blue Jay
1American Crow
3Carolina Chickadee
3Tufted Titmouse
25Tree Swallow
2Ruby-crowned Kinglet
1Golden-crowned Kinglet
1White-breasted Nuthatch
2Brown-headed Nuthatch
1Northern House Wren
1Carolina Wren
6House Finch
XRed-winged Blackbird
10Yellow-rumped Warbler
2Northern Cardinal
1Ring-necked Duck
XBufflehead
3Common Gallinule
40American Coot
1Killdeer
2Laughing Gull
5Ring-billed Gull
4Forster's Tern
35Double-crested Cormorant
4Black-crowned Night Heron
2Brown Pelican
1Bald Eagle
1Red-shouldered Hawk
1Downy Woodpecker
4Northern Mockingbird
1Eastern Bluebird
1Hermit Thrush
8White-throated Sparrow
5Common Grackle
1Common Yellowthroat

December 2

2Blue-winged Teal
1Clapper Rail
1Sora
1Gray Catbird
2Swamp Sparrow
6Ruddy Duck
2Short-billed Dowitcher
1Wilson's Snipe
1Willet
2Greater Yellowlegs
4Least Sandpiper
1American Herring Gull
9Wood Stork
2Roseate Spoonbill

December 1

2Northern Shoveler
1Northern Pintail
1Black-bellied Plover
38Dunlin
1Greater Scaup
88Black Scoter
42Ruddy Turnstone
1Red Knot
11Sanderling
1Purple Sandpiper
4Western Sandpiper
1Parasitic Jaeger
200Black Skimmer
1Red-throated Loon
5Common Loon
24Northern Gannet
1Loggerhead Shrike
1Nelson's Sparrow
1Song Sparrow
1Orange-crowned Warbler
2Mourning Dove
2Anhinga
1Winter Wren
1American Robin
7Wood Duck
1Cooper's Hawk
1Black-and-white Warbler

November 30

2Black Vulture
1Eastern Screech-Owl
3Bonaparte's Gull
1Northern Harrier
2Marsh Wren
2Chipping Sparrow
4Boat-tailed Grackle

November 29

11Semipalmated Plover
1Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
1American Goldfinch
2Pine Warbler
4Redhead
3Red-breasted Merganser
1Eastern Towhee
10Canada Goose
3Barn Swallow

November 28

1Red-tailed Hawk
4White-winged Scoter
1Lesser Black-backed Gull
1Sandwich Tern
1Royal Tern
1Saltmarsh Sparrow
1Purple Finch
2Pileated Woodpecker
1Blue-headed Vireo
3Cave Swallow
1Brown Thrasher