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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.

November 1

2Wild Turkey ✓
1Mourning Dove ✓
2Clapper Rail ✓
2American Coot ✓
1Spotted Sandpiper ✓
4Sanderling ✓
2Ring-billed Gull ✓
2Forster's Tern ✓
8Wood Stork ✓
1Roseate Spoonbill ✓
4Snowy Egret ✓
1Black Vulture ✓
1Red-shouldered Hawk ✓
1Downy Woodpecker ✓
1Peregrine Falcon ✓
4Blue Jay ✓
1Carolina Chickadee ✓
1Tufted Titmouse ✓
1Ruby-crowned Kinglet ✓
2Carolina Wren ✓
4Northern Mockingbird ✓
1Purple Finch ✓
1White-throated Sparrow ✓
1Song Sparrow ✓
1Boat-tailed Grackle ✓
1Black-and-white Warbler ✓
1Prairie Warbler ✓
2Northern Cardinal ✓
15Black-bellied Plover ✓
7Short-billed Dowitcher ✓
4Prairie Willet ✓
1Red Knot ✓
16Laughing Gull ✓
1Double-crested Cormorant ✓
4White Ibis ✓
2Tricolored Heron ✓
1Great Egret ✓
3Great Blue Heron ✓
4Brown Pelican ✓
2Eastern Phoebe ✓
1White-breasted Nuthatch ✓
2Brown-headed Nuthatch ✓
1Northern House Wren ✓
6House Finch ✓
3Pine Warbler ✓
2Yellow-rumped Warbler ✓
1Chuck-will's-widow ✓
2Ruby-throated Hummingbird ✓
1Virginia Rail ✓
1Dunlin ✓
2American Herring Gull ✓
1Pied-billed Grebe ✓
1Lesser Scaup ✓
70Black Scoter ✓
1American Oystercatcher ✓
2Semipalmated Plover ✓
10Ruddy Turnstone ✓
2Least Sandpiper ✓
2Great Black-backed Gull ✓
1Caspian Tern ✓
6Sandwich Tern ✓
25Royal Tern ✓
1Common Loon ✓
15Northern Gannet ✓
1Osprey ✓
1000Tree Swallow ✓
1Seaside Sparrow ✓
2Turkey Vulture ✓
1Belted Kingfisher ✓
2Red-bellied Woodpecker ✓
1Gray Catbird ✓
5Eastern Bluebird ✓
1Hermit Thrush ✓
1Chipping Sparrow ✓
1Swamp Sparrow ✓
1Eastern Towhee ✓
1Red-winged Blackbird ✓
1Palm Warbler ✓

October 31

1Snow Goose ✓
1Little Blue Heron ✓
2American Crow ✓
1Golden-crowned Kinglet ✓
12Common Gallinule ✓
1Hairy Woodpecker
1Canada Goose ✓
10Green-winged Teal ✓
1Killdeer ✓
3Lesser Yellowlegs ✓
1Cooper's Hawk ✓
1Bald Eagle ✓
1Yellow-bellied Sapsucker ✓
1Northern Flicker ✓
1Nelson's Sparrow ✓
6Common Grackle ✓
1Cape May Warbler ✓
2Painted Bunting ✓
2Eurasian Collared-Dove ✓
1Eastern Marsh Wren ✓
1Western Sandpiper ✓
2Blue-gray Gnatcatcher ✓
1Common Yellowthroat ✓
3Pileated Woodpecker ✓
1Winter Wren ✓
2American Robin ✓
1Blue-headed Vireo ✓
1Orange-crowned Warbler ✓
1Blackpoll Warbler ✓

October 30

1Red-tailed Hawk ✓
2Brown Creeper ✓
2European Starling ✓
1Savannah Sparrow ✓
2Brown-headed Cowbird ✓
1Black-throated Blue Warbler ✓
1Anhinga ✓
1Northern Harrier ✓
1Merlin ✓
1Red-eyed Vireo ✓
1American Redstart ✓
1Brown Thrasher ✓

October 29

1Saltmarsh Sparrow ✓
1Bay-breasted Warbler ✓
2Red-breasted Merganser ✓
1Common Tern ✓
1White-crowned Sparrow ✓
1Northern Parula ✓
3Blue-winged Teal ✓
1Black-crowned Night Heron ✓

October 28

1Eastern Screech-Owl ✓
4American Pipit ✓

October 27

2Greater Yellowlegs ✓
1Barn Swallow ✓