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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 27

1Mourning Dove
1Chuck-will's-widow
2Clapper Rail
1Sora
2Spotted Sandpiper
4Lesser Yellowlegs
6Sanderling
2Western Sandpiper
2Bonaparte's Gull
4American Herring Gull
2Gull-billed Tern
6Double-crested Cormorant
2White Ibis
1Yellow-crowned Night Heron
2Tricolored Heron
4Great Egret
4Great Blue Heron
1Turkey Vulture
1Bald Eagle
1Red-bellied Woodpecker
1Great Crested Flycatcher
4Blue Jay
2American Crow
1Carolina Chickadee
1Tufted Titmouse
6Barn Swallow
1Brown Creeper
1Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
4European Starling
2Northern Mockingbird
1House Finch
4Red-winged Blackbird
2Brown-headed Cowbird
1Common Yellowthroat
1Pine Warbler
1Blue Grosbeak
1Painted Bunting

April 26

1Downy Woodpecker
1Fish Crow
2Carolina Wren
1Eastern Bluebird
1Yellow-rumped Warbler
3Northern Cardinal
1American Coot
2Black-necked Stilt
1Piping Plover
2Short-billed Dowitcher
4Ring-billed Gull
2Forster's Tern
1Pied-billed Grebe
2Green Heron
1Blue-headed Vireo
1White-throated Sparrow
2Boat-tailed Grackle
1Ruby-throated Hummingbird
1Killdeer
8Willet
1Greater Yellowlegs
10Dunlin
7Laughing Gull
1Least Tern
5Anhinga
2Roseate Spoonbill
1Snowy Egret
1Osprey
1Tree Swallow
8Common Gallinule
3Little Blue Heron
1Gray Catbird
1Hooded Warbler
1Northern Parula
2Glossy Ibis
1Black-crowned Night Heron
6Brown Pelican
1Red-tailed Hawk
1Peregrine Falcon
1Eastern Wood-Pewee
1Yellow-throated Vireo
1White-breasted Nuthatch
1Marsh Wren
1Saltmarsh Sparrow
1Orchard Oriole
1Indigo Bunting
1Black-bellied Plover
1Hudsonian Whimbrel
1Red-eyed Vireo
1Purple Martin
1Common Grackle
1Prothonotary Warbler
2Wood Duck
2Lesser Scaup
1King Rail
2American Oystercatcher
2Wilson's Plover
1Long-billed Dowitcher
1Solitary Sandpiper
1Ruddy Turnstone
5Least Sandpiper
1Lesser Black-backed Gull
11Black Skimmer
8Sandwich Tern
220Royal Tern
2Northern Gannet
2Least Bittern
4Black Vulture
1Red-shouldered Hawk
1Red-headed Woodpecker
1Pileated Woodpecker
1Eastern Kingbird
3White-eyed Vireo
1Brown-headed Nuthatch
1American Robin
2Seaside Sparrow
1Nelson's Sparrow
1Savannah Sparrow
1Song Sparrow
1Eastern Towhee
1Black-and-white Warbler

April 25

3Semipalmated Sandpiper
1Belted Kingfisher
1Blackburnian Warbler
67Semipalmated Plover
1Caspian Tern
8Western Cattle-Egret
1Merlin
2Ruby-crowned Kinglet
1Brown Thrasher
1Worm-eating Warbler
1Magnolia Warbler

April 24

1Northern Harrier
1Cape May Warbler
1Red-breasted Merganser
4Red Knot
1Yellow-throated Warbler
1Scarlet Tanager
1Broad-winged Hawk
4Cedar Waxwing
1Hermit Thrush
1Swamp Sparrow

April 23

1Chimney Swift
2Purple Gallinule
2Wilson's Snipe
1American Kestrel
1Palm Warbler
1Marbled Godwit
1Veery
1Wood Thrush
1Black Scoter
1Northern House Wren
1Summer Tanager

April 22

1Yellow-billed Cuckoo
1Prairie Warbler
1Chipping Sparrow
2Stilt Sandpiper
1Common Tern
1Northern Bobwhite
1Wilson's Phalarope
1Blue-winged Warbler
1Hairy Woodpecker

April 21

1Common Eider
1Virginia Rail
4Canada Goose
1Common Nighthawk
1American Redstart
1Blue-winged Teal
1Cooper's Hawk