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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 16

4Northern Shoveler
20Gadwall
2American Wigeon
2Northern Pintail
40Green-winged Teal
1Lesser Scaup
6Bufflehead
24Hooded Merganser
4Red-breasted Merganser
3Mourning Dove
5Common Gallinule
40American Coot
25Black-bellied Plover
75Semipalmated Plover
4Short-billed Dowitcher
2Lesser Yellowlegs
7Willet
6Greater Yellowlegs
8Ruddy Turnstone
1Red Knot
22Sanderling
250Dunlin
1Purple Sandpiper
1Least Sandpiper
2Western Sandpiper
12Bonaparte's Gull
200Laughing Gull
15Ring-billed Gull
3American Herring Gull
4Forster's Tern
5Pied-billed Grebe
1Horned Grebe
3Red-throated Loon
20Common Loon
3Northern Gannet
18Double-crested Cormorant
7White Ibis
1Black-crowned Night Heron
4Little Blue Heron
2Tricolored Heron
6Snowy Egret
7Great Egret
3Great Blue Heron
4American White Pelican
25Brown Pelican
1Osprey
1Northern Harrier
1Belted Kingfisher
1Downy Woodpecker
6Blue Jay
3American Crow
3Carolina Chickadee
2Tufted Titmouse
4Ruby-crowned Kinglet
2White-breasted Nuthatch
1Brown-headed Nuthatch
3Carolina Wren
2Gray Catbird
1Brown Thrasher
1Northern Mockingbird
4Cedar Waxwing
5House Finch
12White-throated Sparrow
35Savannah Sparrow
2Swamp Sparrow
1Eastern Towhee
30Red-winged Blackbird
1Palm Warbler
20Yellow-rumped Warbler
3Northern Cardinal
8Ruddy Duck
1Clapper Rail
1Sora
1Bald Eagle
4Common Grackle
4Black Scoter
3American Oystercatcher
1Great Black-backed Gull
2Black Skimmer
2Red-bellied Woodpecker
7Tree Swallow
1Saltmarsh Sparrow
3Song Sparrow

January 15

6Mallard
8Canvasback
1Red-shouldered Hawk
1Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
1Redhead
1Killdeer
1Razorbill
2Royal Tern
6Turkey Vulture
1Eastern Phoebe
1Blue-headed Vireo
4Eastern Bluebird
2Hermit Thrush
12American Robin
3Purple Finch
4American Goldfinch
1Orange-crowned Warbler
6Pine Warbler
6Ring-necked Duck
1Sharp-shinned Hawk
1Brown Creeper
1Chipping Sparrow
1Fox Sparrow
1Yellow-throated Warbler

January 14

1Eastern Screech-Owl
1Pileated Woodpecker
1Loggerhead Shrike
1Rusty Blackbird
2Blue-winged Teal
2Virginia Rail
3Wilson's Snipe
1Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
1Marsh Wren

January 13

1Red-tailed Hawk
1Barred Owl
2White-crowned Sparrow
2Long-billed Dowitcher
1Spotted Sandpiper
1Eurasian Collared-Dove

January 12

4Mottled Duck
1Black Vulture
1Peregrine Falcon
1Seaside Sparrow
4Boat-tailed Grackle
1Common Goldeneye
1Wood Stork
1Fish Crow
12Brown-headed Cowbird
1Common Yellowthroat
1Common Eider
4White-winged Scoter
1Red-headed Woodpecker
1Northern Flicker
1Golden-crowned Kinglet
1Northern House Wren

January 11

1Canada Goose

January 10

1Winter Wren