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Recent reports from Huntington Beach SP

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

April 28

1Chuck-will's-widow
2Common Nighthawk
1Willet
1Greater Yellowlegs
12Sanderling
7Laughing Gull
1Sora
15Common Gallinule
4American Coot
1Lesser Yellowlegs
7Anhinga
6Double-crested Cormorant
1Glossy Ibis
1Least Bittern
1Yellow-crowned Night Heron
3Little Blue Heron
6Tricolored Heron
27Snowy Egret
3Green Heron
17Great Egret
2Red-bellied Woodpecker
2Great Crested Flycatcher
1Blue Jay
4American Crow
1Fish Crow
1Tufted Titmouse
2Carolina Wren
1Eastern Bluebird
2Red-winged Blackbird
2Common Grackle
3Boat-tailed Grackle
5Pine Warbler
1Yellow-rumped Warbler
8Northern Cardinal
2Painted Bunting
6Mourning Dove
45Chimney Swift
2Clapper Rail
2Purple Gallinule
1Semipalmated Plover
4Short-billed Dowitcher
2Dunlin
4Least Sandpiper
2Ring-billed Gull
11Least Tern
1Caspian Tern
1Forster's Tern
1Pied-billed Grebe
3White Ibis
1Black-crowned Night Heron
1Great Blue Heron
1Bald Eagle
1Downy Woodpecker
1Peregrine Falcon
1Eastern Kingbird
1Blue-headed Vireo
3Carolina Chickadee
3Barn Swallow
1Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
1Marsh Wren
4European Starling
4American Robin
2House Finch
1Seaside Sparrow
1Orchard Oriole
2Brown-headed Cowbird
1Prothonotary Warbler
1Common Yellowthroat
1Rose-breasted Grosbeak
25Black-bellied Plover
4Black Skimmer
2American Oystercatcher
1Wilson's Plover
1Hudsonian Whimbrel
1Ruddy Turnstone
115Royal Tern
6Brown Pelican
1Brown Thrasher
1Northern Mockingbird
4Canada Goose
4Wilson's Snipe
2Solitary Sandpiper
2Pectoral Sandpiper
4Semipalmated Sandpiper
4American Herring Gull
1Belted Kingfisher
1Red-headed Woodpecker
1Pileated Woodpecker
1White-eyed Vireo
2Red-eyed Vireo
3Tree Swallow
1White-breasted Nuthatch
1Brown Creeper
2Gray Catbird
1Veery
1Baltimore Oriole
4Spotted Sandpiper
2Brown-headed Nuthatch
1Bobolink
3Western Cattle-Egret
1Ruby-crowned Kinglet
1Black-and-white Warbler
1Indigo Bunting
1Wood Duck
1Red-breasted Merganser
5Killdeer
1Long-billed Dowitcher
1Bonaparte's Gull
4Sandwich Tern
1Common Loon
3Northern Gannet
2Black Vulture
11Turkey Vulture
2Mississippi Kite
1Red-tailed Hawk
2Purple Martin
1White-throated Sparrow
1Nelson's Sparrow
2Saltmarsh Sparrow
1Song Sparrow
1Cape May Warbler
1Northern Parula

April 27

2Stilt Sandpiper
1Black-throated Blue Warbler
1Osprey
1Piping Plover
1Acadian Flycatcher
1Ovenbird
1Blue-winged Teal
2Black-necked Stilt
2Wood Stork
2Yellow-throated Warbler
1Ruby-throated Hummingbird
2Roseate Spoonbill
2American Goldfinch
2Western Sandpiper
2Gull-billed Tern
1Blue Grosbeak
1Virginia Rail
16Black Scoter
1Savannah Sparrow
1Summer Tanager

April 26

1Hooded Warbler
1Eastern Wood-Pewee
1Yellow-throated Vireo
2Lesser Scaup
1King Rail
1Lesser Black-backed Gull
1Red-shouldered Hawk
1Eastern Towhee

April 25

1Blackburnian Warbler
1Merlin
1Worm-eating Warbler
1Magnolia Warbler

April 24

1Northern Harrier
4Red Knot
1Scarlet Tanager
1Broad-winged Hawk
4Cedar Waxwing
1Hermit Thrush
1Swamp Sparrow

April 23

1American Kestrel
1Palm Warbler
1Marbled Godwit
1Wood Thrush
1Northern House Wren

April 22

1Yellow-billed Cuckoo
1Prairie Warbler
1Chipping Sparrow
1Common Tern
1Northern Bobwhite
1Wilson's Phalarope
1Blue-winged Warbler
1Hairy Woodpecker