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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 10

1Marsh Wren
1Mourning Dove
2Clapper Rail
4American Coot
2Semipalmated Plover
1Marbled Godwit
4Wilson's Snipe
2Lesser Yellowlegs
2Least Sandpiper
4Semipalmated Sandpiper
2Ring-billed Gull
4American Herring Gull
1White Ibis
2Little Blue Heron
1Great Blue Heron
2Belted Kingfisher
1Great Crested Flycatcher
1Red-eyed Vireo
4Blue Jay
2American Crow
1Carolina Chickadee
1Tufted Titmouse
2Brown-headed Nuthatch
4European Starling
1Gray Catbird
1White-throated Sparrow
2Red-winged Blackbird
1Blue-winged Warbler
1Pine Warbler
2Ruby-throated Hummingbird
2Virginia Rail
1Black-bellied Plover
6Sanderling
2Western Sandpiper
1Tricolored Heron
2Great Egret
8Brown Pelican
1Northern Harrier
1Bald Eagle
1Northern Flicker
1Ruby-crowned Kinglet
1Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
1Carolina Wren
2Brown Thrasher
6American Robin
17House Finch
1Song Sparrow
2Brown-headed Cowbird
1Black-and-white Warbler
1Tennessee Warbler
19Yellow-throated Warbler
2Northern Cardinal
4Blue-winged Teal
4Gadwall
1Green-winged Teal
2Bufflehead
6Red-breasted Merganser
2Sora
18Common Gallinule
3Killdeer
2Piping Plover
6Wilson's Plover
9Hudsonian Whimbrel
18Willet
3Greater Yellowlegs
2Ruddy Turnstone
6Dunlin
4Bonaparte's Gull
81Laughing Gull
31Least Tern
8Forster's Tern
11Royal Tern
2Pied-billed Grebe
12Northern Gannet
7Anhinga
38Double-crested Cormorant
21Glossy Ibis
29Snowy Egret
1Western Cattle-Egret
1Black Vulture
5Turkey Vulture
1Osprey
4Red-bellied Woodpecker
2Downy Woodpecker
3Blue-headed Vireo
2Fish Crow
17Tree Swallow
1Purple Martin
1Barn Swallow
1White-breasted Nuthatch
3Northern Mockingbird
2Eastern Bluebird
1Hermit Thrush
2Cedar Waxwing
3Seaside Sparrow
1Nelson's Sparrow
2Savannah Sparrow
1Swamp Sparrow
2Eastern Towhee
8Common Grackle
2Boat-tailed Grackle
2Prothonotary Warbler
1Orange-crowned Warbler
1Yellow-rumped Warbler

April 9

1Caspian Tern
1Yellow-billed Cuckoo
40Stilt Sandpiper
1Red-shouldered Hawk
1Black-crowned Night Heron
2Green Heron
1Red-tailed Hawk
2White-eyed Vireo
2Canada Goose
5Mallard
1Common Nighthawk
2Solitary Sandpiper
1Lesser Black-backed Gull
1Black Tern
4Chipping Sparrow
1Blackburnian Warbler
1Scarlet Tanager

April 8

1Chuck-will's-widow
6Short-billed Dowitcher
4Common Tern
2Yellow-crowned Night Heron
1Peregrine Falcon
2Rock Pigeon
1Purple Finch

April 7

3American Oystercatcher
2Common Loon
1House Sparrow
1Northern Parula
8Black Scoter
1King Rail
1Long-billed Dowitcher
2Horned Grebe
1Pileated Woodpecker
1Least Bittern
1Brown Creeper
1Common Yellowthroat

April 6

2Spotted Sandpiper
1Sandwich Tern
1Chestnut-sided Warbler
1Eurasian Collared-Dove
1Eastern Whip-poor-will
6Wood Stork
1Yellow-throated Vireo
1Hooded Warbler

April 5

1Painted Bunting
1Gull-billed Tern
1Eastern Kingbird
2Rusty Blackbird
1Red-headed Woodpecker
2Northern House Wren
2American Goldfinch
1Northern Bobwhite
1Red-throated Loon

April 4

1Ovenbird
1Wild Turkey
4Chimney Swift
1Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
1Merlin
2Eastern Phoebe
1Loggerhead Shrike
1Worm-eating Warbler