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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 21

1Ruby-throated Hummingbird
1American Coot
2Spotted Sandpiper
4Willet
4Sanderling
1Semipalmated Sandpiper
2Black Skimmer
1Common Tern
6Wood Stork
2Little Blue Heron
1Snowy Egret
1Turkey Vulture
1Red-bellied Woodpecker
2Blue Jay
1Carolina Chickadee
1Brown-headed Nuthatch
2Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
2Eastern Bluebird
1Seaside Sparrow
2Brown-headed Cowbird
2Hooded Warbler
4Northern Cardinal
2Laughing Gull
2Anhinga
1Glossy Ibis
1Tricolored Heron
3Great Egret
1Great Blue Heron
1Osprey
2American Crow
2Least Sandpiper
XRing-billed Gull
1Least Tern
5Forster's Tern
1Sandwich Tern
XRoyal Tern
2Barn Swallow
5Short-billed Dowitcher
1White Ibis
3Carolina Wren
6Red-winged Blackbird
1Eurasian Collared-Dove
2Chuck-will's-widow
1Clapper Rail
2Semipalmated Plover
2Lesser Yellowlegs
1Stilt Sandpiper
1Gull-billed Tern
1Double-crested Cormorant
1Green Heron
2Belted Kingfisher
1Red-headed Woodpecker
1White-eyed Vireo
1Tufted Titmouse
1White-breasted Nuthatch
2House Finch
1Blue-winged Warbler
2Painted Bunting

August 20

2Piping Plover
2Least Bittern
1Swallow-tailed Kite
1Downy Woodpecker
2Red-eyed Vireo
1Fish Crow
1Orchard Oriole
2Common Grackle
1Boat-tailed Grackle
4American Oystercatcher
6Black-bellied Plover
1Marbled Godwit
1Ruddy Turnstone
1Pectoral Sandpiper
5Northern Mockingbird
3Common Yellowthroat
5Mourning Dove
9Common Gallinule
5Black-crowned Night Heron
4Great Crested Flycatcher

August 19

1American Goldfinch
4American Herring Gull
1American Redstart
1Yellow-crowned Night Heron
2Summer Tanager
1Solitary Sandpiper
1Bald Eagle
1Northern Flicker
1Pine Warbler
1Eastern Whip-poor-will
1Western Sandpiper
1Pied-billed Grebe
6Brown Pelican
1Mississippi Kite
1Chipping Sparrow
1Black-and-white Warbler
4Chimney Swift
7Greater Yellowlegs
4Caspian Tern
1Black Tern
3Brown Thrasher
1Northern Waterthrush
8Black-necked Stilt
1Prairie Warbler

August 18

1Pileated Woodpecker
1Northern Parula
1Red-shouldered Hawk
7Tree Swallow
3American Robin
2Blue Grosbeak

August 17

1Louisiana Waterthrush

August 16

3Cliff Swallow