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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 13

2Mourning Dove
1Yellow-billed Cuckoo
2Eastern Whip-poor-will
8Chimney Swift
2Sora
2American Coot
2Black-bellied Plover
2Marbled Godwit
4Long-billed Dowitcher
2Greater Yellowlegs
1Dunlin
4American Herring Gull
2Lesser Black-backed Gull
1Pied-billed Grebe
2Double-crested Cormorant
1Little Blue Heron
1Tricolored Heron
2Great Egret
2Great Blue Heron
2Belted Kingfisher
1Red-headed Woodpecker
1Pileated Woodpecker
1Eastern Wood-Pewee
1Blue-headed Vireo
4Blue Jay
2Carolina Chickadee
2White-breasted Nuthatch
1Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
2Gray Catbird
2White-throated Sparrow
2Red-winged Blackbird
1Brown-headed Cowbird
1Orange-crowned Warbler
4Northern Cardinal

April 12

1Clapper Rail
4Semipalmated Plover
2Piping Plover
6Willet
2Stilt Sandpiper
2Ring-billed Gull
4Anhinga
2White Ibis
2Least Bittern
2Green Heron
1Osprey
1Peregrine Falcon
1Yellow-throated Vireo
1Tufted Titmouse
2Brown-headed Nuthatch
2Carolina Wren
4Northern Mockingbird
1House Finch
1Yellow-throated Warbler
20Common Gallinule
18Laughing Gull
1Least Tern
1Forster's Tern
2Glossy Ibis
1Black-crowned Night Heron
1Snowy Egret
6Brown Pelican
1Turkey Vulture
1Bald Eagle
1Red-shouldered Hawk
1Red-bellied Woodpecker
1Downy Woodpecker
1Great Crested Flycatcher
1White-eyed Vireo
1American Crow
1Fish Crow
1Tree Swallow
1Barn Swallow
1Ruby-crowned Kinglet
1Brown Thrasher
1Eastern Bluebird
15Cedar Waxwing
1Swamp Sparrow
10Common Grackle
1Prothonotary Warbler
1Northern Parula
3Pine Warbler
3Blue-winged Teal
1Green-winged Teal
2Bufflehead
1Hermit Thrush
1Yellow-rumped Warbler
5Canada Goose
1Killdeer
4Lesser Yellowlegs
1American Robin
1Black-and-white Warbler
2Gadwall
266Black Scoter
3Red-breasted Merganser
6American Oystercatcher
3Wilson's Plover
12Short-billed Dowitcher
22Ruddy Turnstone
31Sanderling
3Least Sandpiper
2Western Sandpiper
8Bonaparte's Gull
8Royal Tern
1Common Loon
8Northern Gannet
1Black Vulture
1Marsh Wren
2Seaside Sparrow
2Song Sparrow
1Eastern Towhee
3Boat-tailed Grackle

April 11

8Common Tern
1Northern Harrier
1Northern Flicker
1Brown Creeper
4European Starling
1Wood Thrush
1Common Yellowthroat
1Chestnut-sided Warbler
7Hudsonian Whimbrel
1Spotted Sandpiper
1Caspian Tern
7Sandwich Tern
1Northern House Wren
2Chipping Sparrow
4Gull-billed Tern
1Eastern Kingbird
2Saltmarsh Sparrow

April 10

4Wilson's Snipe
4Semipalmated Sandpiper
1Red-eyed Vireo
1Blue-winged Warbler
2Ruby-throated Hummingbird
2Virginia Rail
1Tennessee Warbler
1Western Cattle-Egret
1Purple Martin
1Nelson's Sparrow
2Savannah Sparrow

April 9

1Red-tailed Hawk
5Mallard
1Common Nighthawk
2Solitary Sandpiper
1Black Tern
1Blackburnian Warbler
1Scarlet Tanager

April 8

1Chuck-will's-widow
2Yellow-crowned Night Heron
2Rock Pigeon
1Purple Finch

April 7

1House Sparrow
1King Rail
2Horned Grebe