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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.

December 18

6Northern Shoveler
8Green-winged Teal
6Canvasback
4Redhead
6Ring-necked Duck
8Bufflehead
10Hooded Merganser
4Ruddy Duck
8Lesser Yellowlegs
12Least Sandpiper
8Western Sandpiper
4Ring-billed Gull
2Pied-billed Grebe
8Wood Stork
4Little Blue Heron
2Tricolored Heron
8Great Egret
12American White Pelican
1Bald Eagle
1Eastern Screech-Owl
1Barred Owl
2Belted Kingfisher
1Downy Woodpecker
4American Crow
1Carolina Chickadee
1Tufted Titmouse
4Ruby-crowned Kinglet
2Golden-crowned Kinglet
2Carolina Wren
2House Finch
1Chipping Sparrow
2White-crowned Sparrow
4Red-winged Blackbird
2Rusty Blackbird
6Yellow-rumped Warbler
4Northern Cardinal
2Blue-winged Teal
13Gadwall
3American Wigeon
4Northern Pintail
5Lesser Scaup
2Mourning Dove
1Clapper Rail
1Virginia Rail
9Common Gallinule
5American Coot
2Wilson's Snipe
1Spotted Sandpiper
9Dunlin
3Forster's Tern
5Double-crested Cormorant
2White Ibis
7Black-crowned Night Heron
1Snowy Egret
4Great Blue Heron
2Turkey Vulture
1Osprey
1Red-bellied Woodpecker
1Eastern Phoebe
2Blue Jay
12Tree Swallow
1Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
1Northern Mockingbird
1Hermit Thrush
4American Robin
2White-throated Sparrow
4Swamp Sparrow
10Mallard
4Mottled Duck
6Semipalmated Plover
4Piping Plover
4Long-billed Dowitcher
2Greater Yellowlegs
1White-breasted Nuthatch
2Common Grackle

December 17

6Sandhill Crane
2Bonaparte's Gull
2Brown Creeper
1Seaside Sparrow
1Song Sparrow
1Brown-headed Cowbird
XRoyal Tern
XBrown Pelican
XBlack Vulture
XRed-shouldered Hawk

December 16

1Willet
1Pileated Woodpecker
1Merlin
1Sora
5Marsh Wren
1American Goldfinch

December 15

1Brown-headed Nuthatch
34Tundra Swan
XBlack-bellied Plover
18Killdeer
2Short-billed Dowitcher
2Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
3Northern Flicker
2Gray Catbird
8Eastern Bluebird
1Eastern Towhee
1Pine Warbler

December 14

1Red-tailed Hawk
7Black Scoter
5Red-breasted Merganser
1Sanderling
42Laughing Gull
11American Herring Gull
1Great Black-backed Gull
32Black Skimmer
1Horned Grebe
2Red-throated Loon
6Common Loon
100Northern Gannet
1Anhinga
1Northern Harrier
1American Kestrel
1Savannah Sparrow
1Northern House Wren

December 13

1Green Heron
1Hairy Woodpecker
1Black-and-white Warbler
1Ruddy Turnstone
2Canada Goose
1American Pipit
7Red Knot
1White-eyed Vireo
4European Starling
1Cooper's Hawk
1Brown Thrasher

December 12

4American Woodcock
1Yellow-crowned Night Heron
1Common Yellowthroat
2Yellow-throated Warbler
1Blue-headed Vireo
1Saltmarsh Sparrow