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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.

March 30

1Piping Plover
3Wilson's Plover
25Willet
1Ruddy Turnstone
3Sanderling
3Dunlin
12Laughing Gull
8Ring-billed Gull
6American Herring Gull
25Forster's Tern
3Royal Tern
1Red-throated Loon
4Common Loon
1Northern Gannet
15Double-crested Cormorant
1Great Egret
16Brown Pelican
1Savannah Sparrow

March 26

10Black-bellied Plover
1Killdeer
10Semipalmated Plover
15Long-billed Dowitcher
3Greater Yellowlegs
10Bonaparte's Gull
1Least Tern

March 25

3Black Scoter
13Red-breasted Merganser
38Short-billed Dowitcher
47Least Sandpiper
1Parasitic Jaeger
1Caspian Tern
1Horned Grebe
1Little Blue Heron
1Tricolored Heron
1Great Blue Heron
2Osprey
1Carolina Wren
1Gray Catbird
2Northern Mockingbird
4Cedar Waxwing
28Red-winged Blackbird
4Yellow-rumped Warbler
1Northern Cardinal