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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 2

1Ruby-throated Hummingbird ✓
2Short-billed Dowitcher ✓
4Sanderling ✓
2Ring-billed Gull ✓
2Forster's Tern ✓
8Wood Stork ✓
4Snowy Egret ✓
2Great Egret ✓
1Belted Kingfisher ✓
1Eastern Phoebe ✓
4Blue Jay ✓
1Carolina Chickadee ✓
4Ruby-crowned Kinglet ✓
1Blue-gray Gnatcatcher ✓
4Northern Mockingbird ✓
1White-crowned Sparrow ✓
1Song Sparrow ✓
4Common Grackle ✓
1Black-and-white Warbler ✓
1Black-throated Blue Warbler ✓
1Hooded Merganser ✓
1Ruddy Duck ✓
2Black-bellied Plover ✓
6Laughing Gull ✓
3Pied-billed Grebe ✓
9Northern Gannet ✓
9Double-crested Cormorant ✓
11White Ibis ✓
2Great Blue Heron ✓
11Brown Pelican ✓
2Osprey ✓
4House Finch ✓
7Yellow-rumped Warbler ✓
1Clapper Rail ✓
1American Oystercatcher ✓
25Semipalmated Plover ✓
11Prairie Willet ✓
9Greater Yellowlegs ✓
1Ruddy Turnstone ✓
205Dunlin ✓
5Western Sandpiper ✓
1Lesser Black-backed Gull ✓
9Caspian Tern ✓
1Little Blue Heron ✓
1Northern Harrier ✓
5American Crow ✓
75Tree Swallow ✓
2Brown-headed Nuthatch ✓
2Carolina Wren ✓
1Gray Catbird ✓
3Eastern Bluebird ✓
6White-throated Sparrow ✓
1Eastern Towhee ✓
1Palm Warbler ✓
1Pine Warbler ✓
3Northern Cardinal ✓
1Surf Scoter ✓
3Mourning Dove ✓
1American Herring Gull ✓
1Royal Tern ✓
2Tricolored Heron ✓
11Turkey Vulture ✓
1Red-shouldered Hawk ✓
2Red-bellied Woodpecker ✓
1Downy Woodpecker ✓
1Northern Flicker ✓
1Blue-headed Vireo ✓
1Fish Crow ✓
3Tufted Titmouse ✓
3Hermit Thrush ✓
25Red-winged Blackbird ✓
2Gadwall ✓
19Common Gallinule ✓
4American Coot ✓
1Green Heron ✓
2Bald Eagle ✓
1Northern House Wren ✓
2Swamp Sparrow ✓

November 1

2Wild Turkey ✓
1Spotted Sandpiper ✓
1Roseate Spoonbill ✓
1Black Vulture ✓
1Peregrine Falcon ✓
1Purple Finch ✓
1Boat-tailed Grackle ✓
1Prairie Warbler ✓
1Red Knot ✓
1White-breasted Nuthatch ✓
1Chuck-will's-widow ✓
1Virginia Rail ✓
1Lesser Scaup ✓
70Black Scoter ✓
2Least Sandpiper ✓
2Great Black-backed Gull ✓
6Sandwich Tern ✓
1Common Loon ✓
1Seaside Sparrow ✓
1Chipping Sparrow ✓

October 31

1Snow Goose ✓
1Golden-crowned Kinglet ✓
1Hairy Woodpecker
1Canada Goose ✓
10Green-winged Teal ✓
1Killdeer ✓
3Lesser Yellowlegs ✓
1Cooper's Hawk ✓
1Yellow-bellied Sapsucker ✓
1Nelson's Sparrow ✓
1Cape May Warbler ✓
2Painted Bunting ✓
2Eurasian Collared-Dove ✓
1Eastern Marsh Wren ✓
1Common Yellowthroat ✓
3Pileated Woodpecker ✓
1Winter Wren ✓
2American Robin ✓
1Orange-crowned Warbler ✓
1Blackpoll Warbler ✓

October 30

1Red-tailed Hawk ✓
2Brown Creeper ✓
2European Starling ✓
1Savannah Sparrow ✓
2Brown-headed Cowbird ✓
1Anhinga ✓
1Merlin ✓
1Red-eyed Vireo ✓
1American Redstart ✓
1Brown Thrasher ✓

October 29

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

October 28

1Eastern Screech-Owl ✓
4American Pipit ✓

October 27

1Barn Swallow ✓