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Recent reports from Huntington Beach SP--North Beach

Only the most recent report per species is shown. Some reports may be pending verification.

November 6

6Surf Scoter
2Clapper Rail
1American Oystercatcher
1Black-bellied Plover
3Killdeer
25Semipalmated Plover
1Spotted Sandpiper
2Willet
1Greater Yellowlegs
4Ruddy Turnstone
40Sanderling
1Dunlin
2Least Sandpiper
15Laughing Gull
35Ring-billed Gull
1American Herring Gull
120Black Skimmer
1Caspian Tern
45Forster's Tern
2Sandwich Tern
10Royal Tern
1Common Loon
3Northern Gannet
55Double-crested Cormorant
2Tricolored Heron
2Snowy Egret
3Great Egret
25Brown Pelican
10Turkey Vulture
3Osprey
2Bald Eagle
1Belted Kingfisher
1American Kestrel
3Tree Swallow
6House Finch
1Nelson's Sparrow
5Saltmarsh Sparrow
3Savannah Sparrow
1Song Sparrow
15Red-winged Blackbird

November 5

85Black Scoter
2Pied-billed Grebe
3Great Blue Heron
1Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
1Red-bellied Woodpecker
1Northern Flicker
1Blue Jay
1Carolina Chickadee
1Tufted Titmouse
1Ruby-crowned Kinglet
3Brown-headed Nuthatch
2Northern Mockingbird
4White-throated Sparrow
1Swamp Sparrow
1Eastern Towhee
2Pine Warbler
4Yellow-rumped Warbler
2Northern Cardinal

November 3

2Great Black-backed Gull
1Cooper's Hawk
3Northern Harrier
1Palm Warbler

October 31

1Red-shouldered Hawk
1Merlin
1Painted Bunting
1American Avocet
12Lesser Black-backed Gull
15Barn Swallow