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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 30

2Wood Duck
1Ruby-throated Hummingbird
14Common Gallinule
2Spotted Sandpiper
3Solitary Sandpiper
2Lesser Yellowlegs
6Least Sandpiper
12Anhinga
2Double-crested Cormorant
1Least Bittern
4Black-crowned Night Heron
5Little Blue Heron
8Tricolored Heron
1Snowy Egret
4Green Heron
7Great Egret
1Great Blue Heron
2Red-bellied Woodpecker
1Merlin
3Great Crested Flycatcher
1White-eyed Vireo
1Red-eyed Vireo
1Blue Jay
2American Crow
2Fish Crow
2Carolina Chickadee
4Tufted Titmouse
25Tree Swallow
70Barn Swallow
2Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
6Carolina Wren
1Northern Mockingbird
1Orchard Oriole
8Red-winged Blackbird
12Common Grackle
1Northern Waterthrush
2Prothonotary Warbler
1Black-throated Blue Warbler
4Pine Warbler
15Northern Cardinal
1Rose-breasted Grosbeak
4Painted Bunting
5Mourning Dove
1Clapper Rail
3American Coot
1Killdeer
1Greater Yellowlegs
2Laughing Gull
1White Ibis
3Red-headed Woodpecker
3Downy Woodpecker
2Pileated Woodpecker
2Eastern Kingbird
2Purple Martin
1White-breasted Nuthatch
1Brown-headed Nuthatch
4Gray Catbird
3Brown Thrasher
2Cedar Waxwing
8House Finch
1Seaside Sparrow
2Song Sparrow
4Brown-headed Cowbird
2Boat-tailed Grackle
2Black-and-white Warbler
4Common Yellowthroat
1American Redstart
3Northern Parula
3Yellow-rumped Warbler

April 29

3Black-bellied Plover
1Semipalmated Plover
1Hudsonian Whimbrel
3Short-billed Dowitcher
1Willet
3Sanderling
7Least Tern
1Forster's Tern
1Common Loon
9Dunlin
1Turkey Vulture
1Osprey
1American Oystercatcher
1Ring-billed Gull
1Sandwich Tern
22Royal Tern
1Marsh Wren
1Eastern Bluebird
1Ruby-crowned Kinglet
1Red-shouldered Hawk
1Semipalmated Sandpiper
1Brown Pelican
1Glossy Ibis
1Mississippi Kite
2Prairie Warbler
2Black Vulture
2Ovenbird
1Rock Pigeon
1Chuck-will's-widow
1Chimney Swift
1Sora
1Roseate Spoonbill
1Yellow-crowned Night Heron
1Bald Eagle
1American Robin
1Savannah Sparrow
1White-throated Sparrow
1Swamp Sparrow
1Yellow-breasted Chat
4Wilson's Plover
2Long-billed Dowitcher
18Ruddy Turnstone
19Black Skimmer
1Gull-billed Tern
5Northern Gannet
1Northern Harrier
1Belted Kingfisher

April 28

2Common Nighthawk
2Purple Gallinule
1Caspian Tern
1Pied-billed Grebe
1Peregrine Falcon
1Blue-headed Vireo
4European Starling
4Canada Goose
4Wilson's Snipe
2Pectoral Sandpiper
4American Herring Gull
1Brown Creeper
1Veery
1Baltimore Oriole
1Bobolink
3Western Cattle-Egret
1Indigo Bunting
1Red-breasted Merganser
1Bonaparte's Gull
1Red-tailed Hawk
1Nelson's Sparrow
2Saltmarsh Sparrow
1Cape May Warbler

April 27

2Stilt Sandpiper
1Piping Plover
1Acadian Flycatcher
1Blue-winged Teal
2Black-necked Stilt
2Wood Stork
2Yellow-throated Warbler
2American Goldfinch
2Western Sandpiper
1Blue Grosbeak
1Virginia Rail
16Black Scoter
1Summer Tanager

April 26

1Hooded Warbler
1Eastern Wood-Pewee
1Yellow-throated Vireo
2Lesser Scaup
1King Rail
1Lesser Black-backed Gull
1Eastern Towhee

April 25

1Blackburnian Warbler
1Worm-eating Warbler
1Magnolia Warbler

April 24

4Red Knot
1Scarlet Tanager
1Broad-winged Hawk
1Hermit Thrush

April 23

1American Kestrel