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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 4

4Clapper Rail ✓
2Dunlin ✓
1Ring-billed Gull ✓
11Wood Stork ✓
18Double-crested Cormorant ✓
56White Ibis ✓
1Roseate Spoonbill ✓
5Little Blue Heron ✓
15Tricolored Heron ✓
47Snowy Egret ✓
6Great Egret ✓
2Great Blue Heron ✓
10Brown Pelican ✓
1Belted Kingfisher ✓
1Blue Jay ✓
2American Crow ✓
7Fish Crow ✓
2Carolina Chickadee ✓
2Tufted Titmouse ✓
2Tree Swallow ✓
1Golden-crowned Kinglet ✓
1Carolina Wren ✓
1European Starling ✓
2White-throated Sparrow ✓
2Nelson's Sparrow ✓
1Red-winged Blackbird ✓
17Boat-tailed Grackle ✓
4Yellow-rumped Warbler ✓
1Northern Cardinal ✓

November 3

2Mourning Dove ✓
1Red-bellied Woodpecker ✓
1Northern Flicker ✓
1Ruby-crowned Kinglet ✓
1Blue-gray Gnatcatcher ✓
1Ruby-throated Hummingbird ✓
1American Coot ✓
2Spotted Sandpiper ✓
2Sanderling ✓
1American Herring Gull ✓
1Forster's Tern ✓
2Pied-billed Grebe ✓
1Osprey ✓
1Bald Eagle ✓
1Great Horned Owl ✓
1Downy Woodpecker ✓
1Eastern Phoebe ✓
1Brown Creeper ✓
4Northern Mockingbird ✓
2House Finch ✓
1Song Sparrow ✓
1Common Grackle ✓
1Black-and-white Warbler ✓
1Pine Warbler ✓
11Black Scoter ✓
1Hooded Merganser ✓
5Ruddy Turnstone ✓
3Laughing Gull ✓
4Royal Tern ✓
5Northern Gannet ✓
5Saltmarsh Sparrow ✓
2Savannah Sparrow ✓
1Eastern Towhee ✓
5Turkey Vulture ✓
1Bonaparte's Gull ✓
2Black Vulture ✓
2Loggerhead Shrike ✓
1Eastern Bluebird ✓
1Seaside Sparrow ✓
1American Redstart ✓
1Northern House Wren ✓
2Swamp Sparrow ✓
8Canada Goose ✓
14Common Gallinule ✓
1Merlin ✓
3Brown-headed Nuthatch ✓
2Gray Catbird ✓
1Prairie Warbler ✓

November 2

2Short-billed Dowitcher ✓
1White-crowned Sparrow ✓
1Black-throated Blue Warbler ✓
1Ruddy Duck ✓
2Black-bellied Plover ✓
1American Oystercatcher ✓
25Semipalmated Plover ✓
11Prairie Willet ✓
9Greater Yellowlegs ✓
5Western Sandpiper ✓
1Lesser Black-backed Gull ✓
9Caspian Tern ✓
1Northern Harrier ✓
1Palm Warbler ✓
1Surf Scoter ✓
1Red-shouldered Hawk ✓
1Blue-headed Vireo ✓
3Hermit Thrush ✓
2Gadwall ✓
1Green Heron ✓

November 1

2Wild Turkey ✓
1Peregrine Falcon ✓
1Purple Finch ✓
1Red Knot ✓
1White-breasted Nuthatch ✓
1Chuck-will's-widow ✓
1Virginia Rail ✓
1Lesser Scaup ✓
2Least Sandpiper ✓
2Great Black-backed Gull ✓
6Sandwich Tern ✓
1Common Loon ✓
1Chipping Sparrow ✓

October 31

1Snow Goose ✓
1Hairy Woodpecker
10Green-winged Teal ✓
1Killdeer ✓
3Lesser Yellowlegs ✓
1Cooper's Hawk ✓
1Yellow-bellied Sapsucker ✓
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-headed Cowbird ✓
1Anhinga ✓
1Red-eyed Vireo ✓
1Brown Thrasher ✓

October 29

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

October 28

1Eastern Screech-Owl ✓