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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.

March 22

5Mourning Dove
4Common Gallinule
3American Coot
6Anhinga
5Double-crested Cormorant
1White Ibis
3Little Blue Heron
35Snowy Egret
8Great Egret
1Great Blue Heron
2Brown Pelican
2Fish Crow
3Carolina Chickadee
2Tufted Titmouse
2Eastern Bluebird
6House Finch
10Chipping Sparrow
7Red-winged Blackbird
9Common Grackle
3Boat-tailed Grackle
5Yellow-rumped Warbler
2Willet
4Sanderling
4Ring-billed Gull
2Forster's Tern
1Bald Eagle
1Red-bellied Woodpecker
1Downy Woodpecker
1Blue-headed Vireo
2Blue Jay
2Ruby-crowned Kinglet
2Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
2Gray Catbird
4Northern Mockingbird
6American Robin
2Pine Siskin
1White-throated Sparrow
4Rusty Blackbird
1Palm Warbler
2Northern Cardinal
11Black-bellied Plover
13Semipalmated Plover
3Spotted Sandpiper
17Greater Yellowlegs
25Dunlin
10Least Sandpiper
7Laughing Gull
1Royal Tern
1Tricolored Heron
1American Crow
2Carolina Wren
1Hermit Thrush
15Cedar Waxwing
1Eastern Towhee
1Northern Parula
3Lesser Yellowlegs
1Osprey
1Northern Harrier
1Belted Kingfisher
30Tree Swallow
1Brown-headed Nuthatch
6Bufflehead
2Clapper Rail
2Sora
2Short-billed Dowitcher
6American Herring Gull
1Pied-billed Grebe
1Common Loon
1American Bittern
1Green Heron
1Cooper's Hawk
1Red-shouldered Hawk
1Pileated Woodpecker
2Eastern Phoebe
1Ovenbird
1Pine Warbler

March 21

1Killdeer
1Hudsonian Whimbrel
1Sandwich Tern
2White-eyed Vireo
1Brown Creeper
8Gadwall
3Green-winged Teal
1Seaside Sparrow
2European Starling
1Song Sparrow
1Yellow-throated Warbler

March 20

4Ruddy Duck
1Ruby-throated Hummingbird
1Virginia Rail
4Piping Plover
2Wilson's Snipe
1Horned Grebe
1Sedge Wren
1Common Yellowthroat
3Wilson's Plover
5Ruddy Turnstone
24Western Sandpiper
7Bonaparte's Gull
1Red-throated Loon
2Savannah Sparrow
1Hooded Merganser
1Chuck-will's-widow
2Lesser Black-backed Gull
2Yellow-crowned Night Heron
1Baltimore Oriole

March 19

4Turkey Vulture
1Northern Rough-winged Swallow
1Northern Bobwhite
2Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
1Field Sparrow
1Saltmarsh Sparrow
1Eurasian Collared-Dove
1American Woodcock
4Wood Stork
1Eastern Kingbird
1White-breasted Nuthatch
1Marsh Wren
1Black-and-white Warbler

March 18

2Brown-headed Cowbird
1Purple Sandpiper
2Black-crowned Night Heron
1Golden-crowned Kinglet

March 17

2American White Pelican
1Peregrine Falcon
2American Avocet
1Brown Thrasher
5Blue-winged Teal
2Mallard
1Swamp Sparrow

March 16

2American Pipit
1Dark-eyed Junco
1Parasitic Jaeger
1Barred Owl
1American Kestrel
1American Goldfinch