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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.

April 7

4Blue-winged Teal
2Mourning Dove
6Piping Plover
5Willet
1Greater Yellowlegs
1Ruddy Turnstone
1Red Knot
14Sanderling
1Least Sandpiper
1Bonaparte's Gull
25Laughing Gull
5American Herring Gull
15Least Tern
5Forster's Tern
50Royal Tern
30Double-crested Cormorant
1Tricolored Heron
1Snowy Egret
3Great Egret
26Brown Pelican
2American Crow
1Fish Crow
4Carolina Chickadee
1Tree Swallow
7Barn Swallow
1Carolina Wren
3Brown Thrasher
2Northern Mockingbird
1Seaside Sparrow
2Savannah Sparrow
2Red-winged Blackbird
4Yellow-rumped Warbler
3Northern Cardinal

April 3

1Gull-billed Tern
1Northern Gannet
2Black Scoter
4Red-breasted Merganser
XBlack-bellied Plover
16Semipalmated Plover
7Wilson's Plover
1Hudsonian Whimbrel
XShort-billed Dowitcher
2Lesser Yellowlegs
6Dunlin
1Pectoral Sandpiper
3Sandwich Tern
1Red-throated Loon
2Common Loon
1Osprey
1Northern Harrier
1Ring-billed Gull
1Anhinga
1White-throated Sparrow

April 2

1Killdeer
1Little Blue Heron
2Great Blue Heron
2European Starling
6Boat-tailed Grackle