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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.

September 4

1Wood Stork
1Double-crested Cormorant
6White Ibis
1Little Blue Heron
1Snowy Egret
1Great Egret
1Osprey
1Red-bellied Woodpecker
1Downy Woodpecker
3American Crow
3Carolina Chickadee
2Mourning Dove
1American Coot
2Killdeer
2Spotted Sandpiper
4American Herring Gull
1Pied-billed Grebe
2Tricolored Heron
1Green Heron
1Red-tailed Hawk
2Belted Kingfisher
1Peregrine Falcon
4Blue Jay
2Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
1Carolina Wren
4Northern Mockingbird
1Common Yellowthroat
1Blue Grosbeak
1Painted Bunting
1Ruby-throated Hummingbird
4Common Gallinule
2Anhinga
1Mississippi Kite
1Red-shouldered Hawk
1Red-headed Woodpecker
3Eastern Kingbird
1White-eyed Vireo
1Tufted Titmouse
1House Finch
4Northern Cardinal
7Canada Goose
2Chimney Swift
1Clapper Rail
3Semipalmated Plover
6Least Sandpiper
6Western Sandpiper
14Semipalmated Sandpiper
1Ring-billed Gull
2Royal Tern
1Yellow-crowned Night Heron
3Great Blue Heron
5Barn Swallow
3Brown-headed Cowbird
1Common Nighthawk
2Short-billed Dowitcher
1Willet
4Sanderling
4Least Tern
1Forster's Tern
1Great Crested Flycatcher
1Eastern Bluebird
1Seaside Sparrow
2Common Grackle

September 3

1Laughing Gull
1Least Bittern
1Black-crowned Night Heron
1Least Flycatcher
1Brown-headed Nuthatch
2European Starling
1Orchard Oriole
1Black-and-white Warbler
1Pine Warbler
1Sandwich Tern
1Turkey Vulture
1Northern Waterthrush
2American Oystercatcher
5Black-bellied Plover
41Black Skimmer
1Reddish Egret
1Bald Eagle
1Pileated Woodpecker
2Brown Pelican
1White-breasted Nuthatch
2Gray Catbird
2American Robin
1Hooded Warbler
1Summer Tanager
1Cooper's Hawk

September 2

4Common Tern
1Stilt Sandpiper
1Barred Owl
1Yellow-throated Vireo
2Red-winged Blackbird
1American Redstart
1Eurasian Collared-Dove
2Chuck-will's-widow
2Piping Plover
1Black Vulture
1Great Horned Owl
2Northern Flicker
1Red-eyed Vireo
1Chipping Sparrow
4Boat-tailed Grackle
1Cape May Warbler
3Purple Martin
1Brown Thrasher
1Greater Yellowlegs

September 1

1Marbled Godwit
1Fish Crow
1Prothonotary Warbler

August 31

1Great Black-backed Gull
2Gull-billed Tern
2Caspian Tern
1Ruddy Turnstone
1Tree Swallow
1Rock Pigeon
2Eastern Whip-poor-will
4Hudsonian Whimbrel
1Northern Parula

August 29

1Western Cattle-Egret
2Pectoral Sandpiper