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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.

August 19

1Sanderling
2Laughing Gull
1Osprey
1Semipalmated Plover
1Piping Plover
2Spotted Sandpiper
2Least Sandpiper
3Semipalmated Sandpiper
2Ring-billed Gull
1Black Skimmer
4Caspian Tern
1Black Tern
2Common Tern
10Royal Tern
1Tricolored Heron
2Snowy Egret
1Green Heron
2Great Egret
8Brown Pelican
1American Crow
2Carolina Chickadee
5Northern Mockingbird
2Northern Cardinal

August 16

14Mourning Dove
5Black-bellied Plover
6Willet
2Ruddy Turnstone
2Western Sandpiper
2Least Tern
8Forster's Tern
1Sandwich Tern
4Double-crested Cormorant
16Tree Swallow
22Barn Swallow
3Cliff Swallow
6Red-winged Blackbird

August 14

1Blue Jay

August 13

1Clapper Rail
14American Oystercatcher
5Wilson's Plover
6Hudsonian Whimbrel
7Short-billed Dowitcher
2Long-billed Dowitcher
2Lesser Yellowlegs
14Greater Yellowlegs
1Pectoral Sandpiper
5Gull-billed Tern
9Glossy Ibis
2Great Blue Heron