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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.

January 14

12Northern Shoveler
2Lesser Scaup
8Bufflehead
20Hooded Merganser
7Ruddy Duck
1Mourning Dove
1Sora
4Willet
2Sanderling
6Least Sandpiper
4Western Sandpiper
6Ring-billed Gull
2Forster's Tern
1Common Loon
1Double-crested Cormorant
12White Ibis
2Black-crowned Night Heron
1Little Blue Heron
6Great Egret
2Great Blue Heron
4American White Pelican
6Brown Pelican
1Bald Eagle
1Eastern Screech-Owl
1Pileated Woodpecker
1Loggerhead Shrike
4American Crow
2Tufted Titmouse
2Ruby-crowned Kinglet
1Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
1Gray Catbird
1Saltmarsh Sparrow
2Red-winged Blackbird
4Yellow-rumped Warbler
2Blue-winged Teal
25Green-winged Teal
2Virginia Rail
6Common Gallinule
20American Coot
3Wilson's Snipe
2Snowy Egret
2Osprey
1Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
1Red-bellied Woodpecker
2Downy Woodpecker
1Eastern Phoebe
5Blue Jay
7Carolina Chickadee
40Tree Swallow
1Marsh Wren
2Carolina Wren
2Northern Mockingbird
2White-throated Sparrow
4Swamp Sparrow
5Northern Cardinal
4Black-bellied Plover
2Greater Yellowlegs
3Dunlin
2Tricolored Heron

January 13

1Red-tailed Hawk
4Gadwall
1Barred Owl
1Blue-headed Vireo
1House Finch
2White-crowned Sparrow
4Common Grackle
2Red-breasted Merganser
1Killdeer
2Long-billed Dowitcher
1Spotted Sandpiper
1Bonaparte's Gull
6Pied-billed Grebe
1Turkey Vulture
1Belted Kingfisher
1Pine Warbler
1Clapper Rail
3Ruddy Turnstone
1American Herring Gull
3Horned Grebe
1Red-throated Loon
1Savannah Sparrow
8Canvasback
1Eurasian Collared-Dove
4Short-billed Dowitcher
1Brown-headed Nuthatch
4Eastern Bluebird
2American Robin

January 12

4Mottled Duck
1Semipalmated Plover
1Black Vulture
4Ring-necked Duck
1Peregrine Falcon
1Seaside Sparrow
4Boat-tailed Grackle
1Northern Pintail
1Common Goldeneye
1Wood Stork
1Fish Crow
1Fox Sparrow
1Hermit Thrush
12Brown-headed Cowbird
1Common Yellowthroat
1American Wigeon
1Common Eider
4White-winged Scoter
1Black Scoter
6Lesser Yellowlegs
1Red Knot
1Laughing Gull
1Northern Gannet
1Northern Harrier
1Red-headed Woodpecker
1Northern Flicker
1Golden-crowned Kinglet
1White-breasted Nuthatch
1Brown Creeper
1Northern House Wren
1Cedar Waxwing
1American Goldfinch
1Song Sparrow
1Eastern Towhee
4Rusty Blackbird

January 11

1Canada Goose
1Red-shouldered Hawk
2Brown Thrasher

January 10

1Sharp-shinned Hawk
1Chipping Sparrow
4Mallard
4American Oystercatcher
1Winter Wren

January 9

2Yellow-throated Warbler
4Chimney Swift
1King Rail
1Lesser Black-backed Gull
2Anhinga
2European Starling
1House Sparrow
1Black-and-white Warbler

January 8

1Cooper's Hawk
1Great Horned Owl
1American Kestrel
1American Pipit
1Royal Tern