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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 8

2American Oystercatcher ✓
11Ruddy Turnstone ✓
10Sanderling ✓
1Parasitic Jaeger ✓
7Laughing Gull ✓
3Ring-billed Gull ✓
4American Herring Gull ✓
25Forster's Tern ✓
5Sandwich Tern ✓
50Royal Tern ✓
80Double-crested Cormorant ✓
8Brown Pelican ✓
2Clapper Rail ✓
32Common Gallinule ✓
1American Coot ✓
10Pied-billed Grebe ✓
9Wood Stork ✓
1Black-crowned Night Heron ✓
1Little Blue Heron ✓
2Snowy Egret ✓
1Great Egret ✓
2American White Pelican ✓
4Turkey Vulture ✓
1Osprey ✓
1Bald Eagle ✓
1Eastern Screech-Owl ✓
2Red-bellied Woodpecker ✓
1Downy Woodpecker ✓
2Northern Flicker ✓
1Blue-headed Vireo ✓
4Blue Jay ✓
4American Crow ✓
8Fish Crow ✓
3Carolina Chickadee ✓
4Tufted Titmouse ✓
7Ruby-crowned Kinglet ✓
2Golden-crowned Kinglet ✓
1White-breasted Nuthatch ✓
2Carolina Wren ✓
1Gray Catbird ✓
2Northern Mockingbird ✓
1Hermit Thrush ✓
1Savannah Sparrow ✓
2Swamp Sparrow ✓
14Red-winged Blackbird ✓
27Yellow-rumped Warbler ✓
2Northern Cardinal ✓
1Hooded Merganser ✓
2Brown-headed Nuthatch ✓
1Eastern Towhee ✓
1Virginia Rail ✓
2Caspian Tern ✓
1Cooper's Hawk ✓
1Yellow-bellied Sapsucker ✓
1Eastern Phoebe ✓
2Brown Creeper ✓
2Winter Wren ✓
2Cedar Waxwing ✓
7White-throated Sparrow ✓
5Common Grackle ✓
1Orange-crowned Warbler ✓
14Blue-winged Teal ✓
1Mallard ✓
1Ruby-throated Hummingbird ✓
6Greater Yellowlegs ✓
16White Ibis ✓
5Tricolored Heron ✓
6Great Blue Heron ✓
1Belted Kingfisher ✓
15Tree Swallow ✓
1Brown Thrasher ✓
6Eastern Bluebird ✓
2House Finch ✓
3Pine Warbler ✓
2Killdeer ✓
4Least Sandpiper ✓
2Roseate Spoonbill ✓
25Green-winged Teal ✓
2Mourning Dove ✓
1Northern Harrier ✓
1Pileated Woodpecker ✓
2Song Sparrow ✓
4Ruddy Duck ✓
1Black-bellied Plover ✓
4Semipalmated Plover ✓
2American Redstart ✓

November 7

1Palm Warbler ✓
1Piping Plover ✓
1Prairie Willet ✓
2Northern Gannet ✓
2Northern House Wren ✓
1Western Kingbird
1Boat-tailed Grackle ✓
2Wilson's Plover ✓
2Gadwall ✓
2Blue-gray Gnatcatcher ✓
1White-crowned Sparrow ✓
1Spotted Sandpiper ✓
1Sora ✓
3Red-shouldered Hawk ✓
1Seaside Sparrow ✓
1Common Yellowthroat ✓

November 6

1Lesser Yellowlegs ✓
2Dunlin ✓
1Chipping Sparrow ✓
1Prairie Warbler ✓
1Merlin ✓
1Anhinga ✓
1Peregrine Falcon ✓
1Nelson's Sparrow ✓

November 5

350Black Skimmer ✓
1Short-billed Dowitcher ✓
2Western Sandpiper ✓
2Bonaparte's Gull ✓
1American Goldfinch ✓
1Northern Waterthrush
4Red Knot ✓
1Long-billed Dowitcher ✓
1Sedge Wren ✓
2European Starling ✓
1American Pipit ✓
1Saltmarsh Sparrow ✓
1Rusty Blackbird ✓

November 4

1White-eyed Vireo ✓
1Brown-headed Cowbird ✓
1Black Vulture ✓
1Field Sparrow ✓
1Black-and-white Warbler ✓
1American Robin ✓

November 3

1Great Horned Owl ✓
11Black Scoter ✓
2Loggerhead Shrike ✓
8Canada Goose ✓

November 2

1Black-throated Blue Warbler ✓
1Lesser Black-backed Gull ✓
1Surf Scoter ✓
1Green Heron ✓

November 1

2Wild Turkey ✓
1Purple Finch ✓