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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 14

4Mourning Dove
1Eastern Whip-poor-will
20Chimney Swift
2Clapper Rail
2Solitary Sandpiper
4Willet
8Greater Yellowlegs
2Sanderling
4Ring-billed Gull
2Forster's Tern
4Wood Stork
4Anhinga
4White Ibis
1Black-crowned Night Heron
2Little Blue Heron
4Great Egret
2Great Blue Heron
1Bald Eagle
2Belted Kingfisher
1Peregrine Falcon
1Great Crested Flycatcher
2Blue Jay
2American Crow
1Carolina Chickadee
1Tufted Titmouse
1White-breasted Nuthatch
1Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
6European Starling
1Gray Catbird
2House Finch
4Red-winged Blackbird
1Common Yellowthroat
1Yellow-rumped Warbler
2Northern Cardinal
2Blue-winged Teal
4Gadwall
42Black Scoter
2Bufflehead
3Sora
8Common Gallinule
5American Coot
1American Oystercatcher
13Black-bellied Plover
4Killdeer
29Semipalmated Plover
3Piping Plover
4Wilson's Plover
8Short-billed Dowitcher
4Long-billed Dowitcher
1Spotted Sandpiper
4Lesser Yellowlegs
1Ruddy Turnstone
5Dunlin
13Least Sandpiper
3Western Sandpiper
8Bonaparte's Gull
24Laughing Gull
33Least Tern
13Sandwich Tern
28Royal Tern
1Pied-billed Grebe
1Common Loon
1Northern Gannet
68Double-crested Cormorant
1Yellow-crowned Night Heron
12Tricolored Heron
19Snowy Egret
4Green Heron
62Brown Pelican
10Black Vulture
6Turkey Vulture
3Osprey
2Red-bellied Woodpecker
3Downy Woodpecker
1Pileated Woodpecker
3White-eyed Vireo
1Blue-headed Vireo
3Fish Crow
163Tree Swallow
2Barn Swallow
2Ruby-crowned Kinglet
2Brown-headed Nuthatch
1Northern House Wren
4Marsh Wren
6Carolina Wren
1Brown Thrasher
5Northern Mockingbird
2Eastern Bluebird
2Hermit Thrush
2Cedar Waxwing
23White-throated Sparrow
1Seaside Sparrow
1Song Sparrow
1Swamp Sparrow
1Eastern Towhee
7Brown-headed Cowbird
6Common Grackle
2Black-and-white Warbler
2Prothonotary Warbler
2Northern Parula
6Pine Warbler
1Yellow-throated Warbler
1Painted Bunting

April 13

1Eurasian Collared-Dove
2Virginia Rail
1Least Bittern
1Northern Harrier
1Wood Thrush
1Palm Warbler
2Red-headed Woodpecker
1Purple Martin
1House Sparrow
1Chipping Sparrow
1Yellow-billed Cuckoo
2Marbled Godwit
4American Herring Gull
2Lesser Black-backed Gull
1Eastern Wood-Pewee
1Orange-crowned Warbler
1Red-throated Loon
2Hairy Woodpecker
2Savannah Sparrow
3Boat-tailed Grackle

April 12

2Stilt Sandpiper
1Yellow-throated Vireo
2Glossy Ibis
1Red-shouldered Hawk
1Green-winged Teal
5Canada Goose
1American Robin
3Red-breasted Merganser

April 11

8Common Tern
1Northern Flicker
1Brown Creeper
1Chestnut-sided Warbler
7Hudsonian Whimbrel
1Caspian Tern
4Gull-billed Tern
1Eastern Kingbird
2Saltmarsh Sparrow

April 10

4Wilson's Snipe
4Semipalmated Sandpiper
1Red-eyed Vireo
1Blue-winged Warbler
2Ruby-throated Hummingbird
1Tennessee Warbler
1Western Cattle-Egret
1Nelson's Sparrow

April 9

1Red-tailed Hawk
5Mallard
1Common Nighthawk
1Black Tern
1Blackburnian Warbler
1Scarlet Tanager

April 8

1Chuck-will's-widow
2Rock Pigeon
1Purple Finch