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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.

November 14

5Green-winged Teal ✓
1Clapper Rail ✓
1Virginia Rail ✓
30Common Gallinule ✓
20American Coot ✓
1Spotted Sandpiper ✓
2Greater Yellowlegs ✓
8Laughing Gull ✓
1Ring-billed Gull ✓
16Forster's Tern ✓
4Pied-billed Grebe ✓
39Wood Stork ✓
25Double-crested Cormorant ✓
5White Ibis ✓
2Roseate Spoonbill ✓
2Little Blue Heron ✓
6Tricolored Heron ✓
8Snowy Egret ✓
6Great Egret ✓
26American White Pelican ✓
14Turkey Vulture ✓
1Osprey ✓
1Cooper's Hawk ✓
2Bald Eagle ✓
1Red-shouldered Hawk ✓
4Belted Kingfisher ✓
1Yellow-bellied Sapsucker ✓
3Red-bellied Woodpecker ✓
1Pileated Woodpecker ✓
2Northern Flicker ✓
1Blue-headed Vireo ✓
2Blue Jay ✓
5American Crow ✓
6Carolina Chickadee ✓
1Tufted Titmouse ✓
60Tree Swallow ✓
7Ruby-crowned Kinglet ✓
1White-breasted Nuthatch ✓
2Brown-headed Nuthatch ✓
1Brown Creeper ✓
1Northern House Wren ✓
1Winter Wren ✓
4Carolina Wren ✓
2Gray Catbird ✓
1Northern Mockingbird ✓
3Eastern Bluebird ✓
2Hermit Thrush ✓
2White-throated Sparrow ✓
2Song Sparrow ✓
2Swamp Sparrow ✓
30Red-winged Blackbird ✓
1Common Grackle ✓
1Pine Warbler ✓
28Yellow-rumped Warbler ✓
3Northern Cardinal ✓
1Bufflehead ✓
4Hooded Merganser ✓
2Red-breasted Merganser ✓
2Ruddy Duck ✓
3Mourning Dove ✓
2Killdeer ✓
5Prairie Willet ✓
5Dunlin ✓
9Least Sandpiper ✓
5Great Blue Heron ✓
15Brown Pelican ✓
1Northern Harrier ✓
5Red-tailed Hawk ✓
1Black-and-white Warbler ✓
6Blue-winged Teal ✓
2Piping Plover ✓
6Short-billed Dowitcher ✓
2Red Knot ✓
4Sanderling ✓
2Bonaparte's Gull ✓
2Anhinga ✓
2Eastern Phoebe ✓
1Savannah Sparrow ✓
1Rusty Blackbird ✓
2American Redstart ✓

November 13

1Eastern Screech-Owl ✓
2House Finch ✓
10American Herring Gull ✓
1Common Loon ✓
1Northern Gannet ✓
1Ruby-throated Hummingbird ✓
1Golden-crowned Kinglet ✓
1White-crowned Sparrow ✓
2Boat-tailed Grackle ✓
9Gadwall ✓
3Western Cattle-Egret ✓
2Northern Pintail ✓
2Ring-necked Duck ✓
1Royal Tern ✓
2Fish Crow ✓
1Chipping Sparrow ✓
1Eastern Towhee ✓
1Merlin ✓

November 12

2Wilson's Snipe ✓
1Purple Sandpiper ✓
4Western Sandpiper ✓
1Blue-gray Gnatcatcher ✓
1Brown Thrasher ✓
1Fox Sparrow ✓
2Brown-headed Cowbird ✓
1American Robin ✓
2Palm Warbler ✓
1Green Heron ✓
1Saltmarsh Sparrow ✓

November 11

2Sandwich Tern ✓
1Common Yellowthroat ✓
2American Goldfinch ✓
1Baltimore Oriole ✓
9Semipalmated Plover ✓
1Barn Swallow ✓
2Caspian Tern ✓
4European Starling ✓
1Seaside Sparrow ✓
2Downy Woodpecker ✓

November 10

3Black-bellied Plover ✓
3Ruddy Turnstone ✓
1Sora ✓
5Black-crowned Night Heron ✓

November 9

2Wilson's Plover ✓
1Peregrine Falcon ✓
2Northern Shoveler ✓
1Red-headed Woodpecker ✓
4Cedar Waxwing ✓
1Lark Sparrow ✓

November 8

2American Oystercatcher ✓
1Parasitic Jaeger ✓
1Lesser Black-backed Gull ✓
1Orange-crowned Warbler ✓
1Mallard ✓

November 7

1Western Kingbird ✓