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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.

January 2

2Laughing Gull
1Red-bellied Woodpecker
2Blue Jay
2Northern Mockingbird
3Eastern Bluebird
1American Robin
25Red-winged Blackbird
7Common Grackle
2Yellow-rumped Warbler
10Northern Shoveler
4Gadwall
15Green-winged Teal
10Lesser Scaup
5Bufflehead
8Hooded Merganser
5Ruddy Duck
2Lesser Yellowlegs
6Greater Yellowlegs
2Ring-billed Gull
2Forster's Tern
3Pied-billed Grebe
2Double-crested Cormorant
31White Ibis
6Little Blue Heron
1Tricolored Heron
5Snowy Egret
2Great Egret
15Great Blue Heron
1American White Pelican
1Brown Pelican
3Osprey
1Bald Eagle
1Tree Swallow
2Marsh Wren

January 1

2Redhead
6Ring-necked Duck
4Red-breasted Merganser
2American Coot
1Killdeer
4Willet
1Red Knot
4Least Sandpiper
1Horned Grebe
2Anhinga
1Eastern Screech-Owl
1Carolina Chickadee
1Tufted Titmouse
1Winter Wren
2White-crowned Sparrow
1Brown-headed Cowbird
1Prairie Warbler
3Common Gallinule
2Bonaparte's Gull
1Black-crowned Night Heron
1Red-shouldered Hawk
1White-breasted Nuthatch
2Northern Pintail
1Common Goldeneye
1Sora
5Turkey Vulture
1Belted Kingfisher
2Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
1Downy Woodpecker
3Eastern Phoebe
1Blue-headed Vireo
2American Crow
3Ruby-crowned Kinglet
8Brown-headed Nuthatch
2Carolina Wren
1Gray Catbird
1Hermit Thrush
2White-throated Sparrow
5Pine Warbler
3Northern Cardinal
2Mourning Dove
1Common Loon
14Canada Goose
14Dunlin
1Green Heron
1Pileated Woodpecker
2Fish Crow
3House Finch
2Chipping Sparrow
2Song Sparrow
1Eastern Towhee
1Barred Owl
6Northern Gannet
1American Bittern
1Swamp Sparrow
8American Wigeon
1White-winged Scoter
39Black Scoter
1Clapper Rail
2American Oystercatcher
4Black-bellied Plover
26Semipalmated Plover
6Short-billed Dowitcher
19Ruddy Turnstone
44Sanderling
2Purple Sandpiper
8American Herring Gull
5Royal Tern
1Red-throated Loon
1Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
1Cedar Waxwing
1Vesper Sparrow
26Savannah Sparrow
2Boat-tailed Grackle
4Blue-winged Teal
6Canvasback

December 31

2Western Sandpiper
2Yellow-throated Warbler
2Wood Stork
1Cooper's Hawk
1White-eyed Vireo
1Northern House Wren
2Saltmarsh Sparrow
2Black-and-white Warbler
1Spotted Sandpiper
1Northern Flicker
1Purple Finch

December 30

1Common Yellowthroat
1Common Eider
18Black Skimmer
2Black Vulture
1Red-tailed Hawk
1Orange-crowned Warbler
4Mallard
2Virginia Rail
1Rusty Blackbird

December 28

1Field Sparrow
1Long-billed Dowitcher
6Wilson's Snipe
18Brown Thrasher

December 27

2Golden-crowned Kinglet
1Brown Creeper
1Wild Turkey