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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 1

1Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
1Clapper Rail
3Black-bellied Plover
7Killdeer
1Semipalmated Plover
1Hudsonian Whimbrel
2Short-billed Dowitcher
3Lesser Yellowlegs
2Greater Yellowlegs
1Ruddy Turnstone
1Dunlin
1Least Sandpiper
9Least Tern
2Royal Tern
7Double-crested Cormorant
9Snowy Egret
3Great Egret
2Boat-tailed Grackle
1Mourning Dove
2Common Gallinule
1Black-necked Stilt
15Laughing Gull
1Black Skimmer
8Anhinga
1Little Blue Heron
1Tricolored Heron
2Great Blue Heron
1Osprey
1Blue Jay
2Barn Swallow
1Carolina Wren
1Northern Mockingbird
15Red-winged Blackbird
1Brown-headed Cowbird
3Common Grackle
1Common Yellowthroat
1Pine Warbler
2Northern Cardinal
2Painted Bunting
1Ruby-throated Hummingbird
1American Coot
2Spotted Sandpiper
4Willet
4Ring-billed Gull
1Forster's Tern
2Glossy Ibis
1Bald Eagle
2Downy Woodpecker
1Great Crested Flycatcher
2American Crow
1Carolina Chickadee
2Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
1Gray Catbird
1Blue-winged Warbler
4Chimney Swift
1Long-billed Dowitcher
3Semipalmated Sandpiper
2Turkey Vulture
1Red-bellied Woodpecker
4Tufted Titmouse
2Brown Thrasher
12House Finch
1Caspian Tern
1Red-eyed Vireo
1Green Heron
1Fish Crow
1Eurasian Collared-Dove
1Sora
6Sanderling
2Western Sandpiper
6American Herring Gull
1Northern Gannet
2White Ibis
2Least Bittern
6Brown Pelican
1Red-shouldered Hawk
1Acadian Flycatcher
1Yellow-throated Vireo
1Brown-headed Nuthatch
2Hermit Thrush
1Chipping Sparrow
1Seaside Sparrow

April 30

1Black-crowned Night Heron
1Northern Parula
2Sandwich Tern
1Merlin
4Red-headed Woodpecker
3Red-breasted Merganser
1American Oystercatcher
2Common Tern
1Mute Swan
6Mallard
2Gull-billed Tern
2European Starling
2House Sparrow
1Wood Duck
1Ring-necked Duck
1Yellow-billed Cuckoo
3Wilson's Plover
1Solitary Sandpiper
1Pied-billed Grebe
1Common Loon
1Yellow-crowned Night Heron
5Black Vulture
1Mississippi Kite
1Great Horned Owl
1American Kestrel
1Eastern Wood-Pewee
3White-eyed Vireo
3Tree Swallow
2Purple Martin
1Ruby-crowned Kinglet
1White-breasted Nuthatch
2Eastern Bluebird
1White-throated Sparrow
1Savannah Sparrow
2Song Sparrow
1Swamp Sparrow
1Bobolink
1Ovenbird
1Black-and-white Warbler
4Prothonotary Warbler
1Magnolia Warbler
2Yellow-rumped Warbler
1Prairie Warbler
1Summer Tanager
1Rose-breasted Grosbeak
1Red-tailed Hawk
1Peregrine Falcon
1Blue-headed Vireo
1Wood Thrush
1Orchard Oriole
1Northern Waterthrush
1Black-throated Blue Warbler
2Pileated Woodpecker
2Eastern Kingbird
2Cedar Waxwing
1American Redstart
1Belted Kingfisher
1Baltimore Oriole

April 29

1Marsh Wren
1Rock Pigeon
1Chuck-will's-widow
1Roseate Spoonbill
1American Robin
1Yellow-breasted Chat
1Northern Harrier

April 28

2Common Nighthawk
2Purple Gallinule
4Canada Goose
4Wilson's Snipe
2Pectoral Sandpiper
1Brown Creeper
1Veery
3Western Cattle-Egret
1Indigo Bunting
1Bonaparte's Gull
1Nelson's Sparrow
2Saltmarsh Sparrow
1Cape May Warbler

April 27

2Stilt Sandpiper
1Piping Plover
1Blue-winged Teal
2Wood Stork
2Yellow-throated Warbler
2American Goldfinch
1Blue Grosbeak
1Virginia Rail
16Black Scoter

April 26

1Hooded Warbler
2Lesser Scaup
1King Rail
1Lesser Black-backed Gull
1Eastern Towhee

April 25

1Blackburnian Warbler
1Worm-eating Warbler