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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.

September 5

3American Oystercatcher
7Black-bellied Plover
47Semipalmated Plover
2Short-billed Dowitcher
1Ruddy Turnstone
1Western Sandpiper
13Laughing Gull
42Black Skimmer
1Caspian Tern
8Forster's Tern
1Royal Tern
1Little Blue Heron
8Snowy Egret
13Great Egret
6Black Vulture
19Turkey Vulture
1Mourning Dove
1Ruby-throated Hummingbird
23Wood Stork
1Anhinga
3White Ibis
1Yellow-crowned Night Heron
3Tricolored Heron
1Great Blue Heron
1Osprey
1Cooper's Hawk
1Belted Kingfisher
1Downy Woodpecker
1Blue Jay
2American Crow
2Carolina Chickadee
2Tufted Titmouse
3Barn Swallow
1Carolina Wren
3Eastern Bluebird
3House Finch
1Eastern Towhee
5Red-winged Blackbird
4Northern Cardinal
1Indigo Bunting
1Painted Bunting
7Chimney Swift
6Common Gallinule
13Semipalmated Sandpiper
3Green Heron
3White-eyed Vireo
2Red-eyed Vireo
1Northern Mockingbird
3Common Grackle
1Northern Parula
2Pine Warbler
1Summer Tanager
2Clapper Rail
2American Coot
8Killdeer
4Willet
2Sanderling
2Least Tern
1Pied-billed Grebe
2Red-headed Woodpecker
2Red-bellied Woodpecker
1Least Flycatcher
2Great Crested Flycatcher
2Yellow-throated Vireo
1Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
1Gray Catbird
1Brown Thrasher
1Bobolink
1Blue-winged Warbler
1American Redstart
1Prairie Warbler
3Black-crowned Night Heron

September 4

1Double-crested Cormorant
2Spotted Sandpiper
4American Herring Gull
1Red-tailed Hawk
1Peregrine Falcon
1Common Yellowthroat
1Blue Grosbeak
1Mississippi Kite
1Red-shouldered Hawk
3Eastern Kingbird
7Canada Goose
6Least Sandpiper
1Ring-billed Gull
3Brown-headed Cowbird
1Common Nighthawk
1Seaside Sparrow
1Pileated Woodpecker
2White-breasted Nuthatch
1Brown-headed Nuthatch

September 3

1Least Bittern
2European Starling
1Orchard Oriole
1Black-and-white Warbler
1Sandwich Tern
1Northern Waterthrush
1Reddish Egret
1Bald Eagle
2Brown Pelican
2American Robin
1Hooded Warbler

September 2

4Common Tern
1Stilt Sandpiper
1Barred Owl
1Eurasian Collared-Dove
2Chuck-will's-widow
2Piping Plover
1Great Horned Owl
2Northern Flicker
1Chipping Sparrow
4Boat-tailed Grackle
1Cape May Warbler
3Purple Martin
1Greater Yellowlegs

September 1

1Marbled Godwit
1Fish Crow
1Prothonotary Warbler

August 31

1Great Black-backed Gull
2Gull-billed Tern
1Tree Swallow
1Rock Pigeon
2Eastern Whip-poor-will
4Hudsonian Whimbrel

August 29

1Western Cattle-Egret
2Pectoral Sandpiper