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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.

March 19

4Gadwall
3Mourning Dove
3Black-bellied Plover
2Greater Yellowlegs
5Anhinga
20Double-crested Cormorant
2White Ibis
4Little Blue Heron
1Tricolored Heron
3Snowy Egret
2Great Egret
2Great Blue Heron
4Brown Pelican
4Turkey Vulture
1Osprey
1Red-bellied Woodpecker
1Carolina Chickadee
22Tree Swallow
1Northern Rough-winged Swallow
2Ruby-crowned Kinglet
2Carolina Wren
1Gray Catbird
1Hermit Thrush
6Cedar Waxwing
5White-throated Sparrow
4Red-winged Blackbird
2Common Grackle
3Yellow-rumped Warbler
4Northern Cardinal
1Northern Bobwhite
1Virginia Rail
1Common Gallinule
6Semipalmated Plover
4Short-billed Dowitcher
6Sanderling
2Dunlin
2Ring-billed Gull
2Pied-billed Grebe
1Bald Eagle
2Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
2Downy Woodpecker
1White-eyed Vireo
2Blue Jay
2American Crow
2Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
4European Starling
2House Finch
1Field Sparrow
1Saltmarsh Sparrow
2Rusty Blackbird
1Northern Parula
1Eurasian Collared-Dove
2American Coot
1American Woodcock
2Willet
4Wood Stork
1Eastern Kingbird
1White-breasted Nuthatch
1Marsh Wren
1Northern Mockingbird
6Chipping Sparrow
1Black-and-white Warbler
1Pine Warbler

March 18

2Clapper Rail
1Spotted Sandpiper
4Western Sandpiper
1Forster's Tern
18Common Loon
2Brown-headed Cowbird
1Chuck-will's-widow
1Ruby-throated Hummingbird
1Purple Sandpiper
2Laughing Gull
2Black-crowned Night Heron
1Red-shouldered Hawk
1Golden-crowned Kinglet
2Brown Creeper
1Yellow-throated Warbler

March 17

2American White Pelican
2Tufted Titmouse
2Eastern Bluebird
4Least Sandpiper
2Green Heron
1Peregrine Falcon
1Palm Warbler
2Red-throated Loon
XFish Crow
1Sora
2American Avocet
2Wilson's Snipe
2Bonaparte's Gull
1Yellow-crowned Night Heron
1Belted Kingfisher
2Eastern Phoebe
1Blue-headed Vireo
1Brown-headed Nuthatch
1Brown Thrasher
8American Robin
1Pine Siskin
2Savannah Sparrow
5Blue-winged Teal
2Mallard
1Northern Harrier
1Song Sparrow
1Swamp Sparrow
1Eastern Towhee

March 16

1Sedge Wren
2American Pipit
1Dark-eyed Junco
1Parasitic Jaeger
1Barred Owl
1American Kestrel
1American Goldfinch

March 15

1Marbled Godwit
2American Herring Gull
1Nelson's Sparrow
1Orchard Oriole
5Green-winged Teal
1Red-tailed Hawk
8American Wigeon
1Killdeer
1Lesser Yellowlegs
1Northern Flicker
1Rock Pigeon
1Horned Grebe
1Seaside Sparrow

March 14

3Bufflehead
2Mottled Duck
2Red-breasted Merganser
2Wilson's Plover
1Ruddy Turnstone

March 13

1Common Eider
1Wild Turkey
1Western Cattle-Egret
1White-crowned Sparrow
1Prairie Warbler