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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.

May 15

1Painted Bunting
1Black-necked Stilt
1Killdeer
2Semipalmated Plover
2Lesser Yellowlegs
16Least Sandpiper
12Western Sandpiper
12Semipalmated Sandpiper
1Wood Stork
2Anhinga
1Double-crested Cormorant
10White Ibis
2Roseate Spoonbill
1Little Blue Heron
1Tricolored Heron
1Snowy Egret
2Great Egret
3Great Blue Heron
1Osprey
1Red-bellied Woodpecker
1Pileated Woodpecker
1Blue Jay
1Carolina Chickadee
1Tufted Titmouse
1Barn Swallow
1Brown-headed Nuthatch
2Carolina Wren
1Northern Mockingbird
15Red-winged Blackbird
5Brown-headed Cowbird
3Common Grackle
2Pine Warbler
3Northern Cardinal
1Mourning Dove
1Yellow-billed Cuckoo
1Chimney Swift
19Common Gallinule
2Stilt Sandpiper
1Laughing Gull
2Green Heron
1Turkey Vulture
1Red-tailed Hawk
1Downy Woodpecker
1Great Crested Flycatcher
4American Crow
1White-breasted Nuthatch
2Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
2Brown Thrasher
2House Finch
1Orchard Oriole
2Boat-tailed Grackle
1Prothonotary Warbler
1American Redstart
3Canada Goose
1Mallard
2Clapper Rail
2Hudsonian Whimbrel
1Short-billed Dowitcher
1Willet
4Greater Yellowlegs
3Pectoral Sandpiper
1Least Tern
1Least Bittern
3Brown Pelican
1Red-headed Woodpecker
1Eastern Wood-Pewee
1Eastern Kingbird
1Fish Crow
4Eastern Bluebird
2American Robin
1Eastern Towhee
1Yellow-breasted Chat
1Common Yellowthroat
1Northern Parula
1Magnolia Warbler
1Northern Yellow Warbler

May 14

1Spotted Sandpiper
2Ruby-throated Hummingbird
1Dunlin
1Forster's Tern
1Royal Tern
5Black-bellied Plover
1Yellow-crowned Night Heron
1Red-eyed Vireo

May 13

1White-eyed Vireo
1Mississippi Kite
2Wilson's Plover
1Ruddy Turnstone
20Sanderling
2Sandwich Tern
1American Coot
XAmerican Bittern
1Swallow-tailed Kite
1Bald Eagle
1Glossy Ibis
2Black Vulture
3Cedar Waxwing

May 12

1Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
1Sora
1White-rumped Sandpiper
1Seaside Sparrow

May 11

1Common Nighthawk
3Chuck-will's-widow
1Cooper's Hawk
1Solitary Sandpiper
1Rose-breasted Grosbeak
2Ring-billed Gull
1Black Skimmer
1Gull-billed Tern
1Pied-billed Grebe
1Marsh Wren
1Gray Catbird
1Hooded Warbler
4Long-billed Dowitcher
2Purple Martin
1Wild Turkey
1Eurasian Collared-Dove

May 10

1Orange-crowned Warbler
2Piping Plover
1Summer Tanager
1Red-shouldered Hawk
4European Starling

May 9

2Belted Kingfisher
1Gray-cheeked Thrush
1Black-and-white Warbler
1Black-crowned Night Heron
1Sandhill Crane
1Hairy Woodpecker
1Wood Duck
1Baltimore Oriole
1Northern Waterthrush
1Willow Flycatcher
1Saltmarsh Sparrow