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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.

October 21

4Mourning Dove
3Clapper Rail
7Semipalmated Plover
1Piping Plover
6Willet
15Sanderling
2Dunlin
3Laughing Gull
5Ring-billed Gull
2American Herring Gull
3Caspian Tern
3Forster's Tern
5Sandwich Tern
5Royal Tern
2Wood Stork
1Double-crested Cormorant
1Little Blue Heron
2Snowy Egret
1Great Egret
25Brown Pelican
3Turkey Vulture
1Osprey
1Cooper's Hawk
1Northern Harrier
1Belted Kingfisher
1Merlin
3Song Sparrow
2Swamp Sparrow

October 20

2Black-bellied Plover
2Short-billed Dowitcher
2Ruddy Turnstone
3Least Sandpiper
18White Ibis
2Roseate Spoonbill
3Great Blue Heron
4Tree Swallow
2Northern Rough-winged Swallow
5Barn Swallow
2Carolina Wren
2Seaside Sparrow
3Nelson's Sparrow
4Saltmarsh Sparrow
5Red-winged Blackbird
1Palm Warbler
6Northern Cardinal

October 19

2Black Scoter
2American Oystercatcher
1Whimbrel
18Greater Yellowlegs
10Western Sandpiper
3Black Skimmer
7Tricolored Heron
1Northern Flicker
1Savannah Sparrow

October 18

1Black Vulture
1Bald Eagle
1American Kestrel
5House Sparrow
6House Finch
7Boat-tailed Grackle