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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.

August 30

4Mourning Dove
3Common Gallinule
3Anhinga
1Double-crested Cormorant
2Yellow-crowned Night Heron
1Black-crowned Night Heron
1Little Blue Heron
1Tricolored Heron
9Snowy Egret
18Great Egret
1Great Blue Heron
4Osprey
3Bald Eagle
1Red-headed Woodpecker
1Downy Woodpecker
2Carolina Chickadee
1Tufted Titmouse
2Barn Swallow
1White-breasted Nuthatch
1Brown-headed Nuthatch
2Carolina Wren
1Northern Mockingbird
5Eastern Bluebird
7House Finch
2Red-winged Blackbird
1Brown-headed Cowbird
1Pine Warbler
6Northern Cardinal
1Painted Bunting
1Rock Pigeon
2Chuck-will's-widow
1American Coot
2Willet
4Sanderling
2American Herring Gull
1Sandwich Tern
6Wood Stork
4White Ibis
1Red-bellied Woodpecker
1Eastern Kingbird
2Blue Jay
2Gray Catbird
2Common Grackle

August 29

1Ruby-throated Hummingbird
2Black-bellied Plover
2Spotted Sandpiper
1Royal Tern
1Western Cattle-Egret
2Belted Kingfisher
2Great Crested Flycatcher
4American Crow
1Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
2Boat-tailed Grackle
1Hooded Warbler
6Least Sandpiper
2Western Sandpiper
7Semipalmated Sandpiper
5Laughing Gull
1Clapper Rail
2Pectoral Sandpiper
1Least Bittern
1Green Heron
1White-eyed Vireo
2Ring-billed Gull
2Black Skimmer
1Brown Thrasher

August 28

1Eastern Whip-poor-will
1Purple Gallinule
2Forster's Tern
1Least Tern
1Red-shouldered Hawk
1Pileated Woodpecker

August 27

1Turkey Vulture
1Acadian Flycatcher
1Common Tern
1Kentucky Warbler
1American Redstart
3Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
1Killdeer
2Caspian Tern
1Black-and-white Warbler

August 26

1Common Nighthawk
11Semipalmated Plover
1Black Tern
1Roseate Spoonbill
1Orchard Oriole
3Brown Pelican
2American Goldfinch
1Marsh Wren
3American Robin
1Eastern Towhee
1Prairie Warbler
2Black-necked Stilt
2Lesser Yellowlegs
1Lesser Black-backed Gull
1Gull-billed Tern
1Cooper's Hawk
1Northern Harrier
1Chimney Swift
2Stilt Sandpiper
1Northern Flicker
1Common Yellowthroat

August 25

2Glossy Ibis
1Chipping Sparrow
2American Oystercatcher
1Hudsonian Whimbrel
2Short-billed Dowitcher
1Fish Crow
1Seaside Sparrow
3Red-eyed Vireo
1Ovenbird
1Prothonotary Warbler
1Northern Parula
1Summer Tanager
1Northern Waterthrush

August 24

1Yellow-billed Cuckoo
1Dunlin
1Yellow-throated Vireo
1Mississippi Kite
2Purple Martin