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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 3

5Black Scoter
1American Oystercatcher
3Black-bellied Plover
1Killdeer
6Semipalmated Plover
15Hudsonian Whimbrel
2Spotted Sandpiper
1Greater Yellowlegs
6Sanderling
4Laughing Gull
1Ring-billed Gull
1American Herring Gull
1Least Tern
2Caspian Tern
1Royal Tern
2Brown Pelican
1Great Crested Flycatcher
1Tufted Titmouse
1White-breasted Nuthatch
1Carolina Wren
1Red-winged Blackbird
1Orange-crowned Warbler
1Northern Cardinal
3Common Gallinule
1Anhinga
2Tricolored Heron
1Green Heron
10Great Egret
1Mourning Dove
2Lesser Yellowlegs
12Least Sandpiper
3Black Skimmer
11Double-crested Cormorant
1Little Blue Heron
1Snowy Egret
2Great Blue Heron
1Red-bellied Woodpecker
1Downy Woodpecker
1Eastern Kingbird
1Blue Jay
1American Crow
1Fish Crow
2Barn Swallow
1Northern Mockingbird
1House Finch
1Common Grackle
1Pine Warbler
4Painted Bunting
1Ruby-throated Hummingbird
1Purple Gallinule
2Black-necked Stilt
4Short-billed Dowitcher
4Forster's Tern
2White Ibis
1Swallow-tailed Kite
1Bald Eagle
1Willow Flycatcher
2Carolina Chickadee
1Brown-headed Nuthatch
2Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
4American Robin
1Tennessee Warbler
1Prairie Warbler
2Solitary Sandpiper
2Turkey Vulture
1Hairy Woodpecker
1Gray Catbird
1Hermit Thrush
1Rose-breasted Grosbeak
1American Redstart
1American Coot
5Semipalmated Sandpiper
1Least Bittern
1Osprey
1White-eyed Vireo
2Tree Swallow
2Brown-headed Cowbird
1Summer Tanager
1Cooper's Hawk
1Red-eyed Vireo
1Clapper Rail
21Glossy Ibis
3Purple Martin
4Boat-tailed Grackle
1Common Yellowthroat
1Red-shouldered Hawk
1Brown Thrasher
1Yellow-breasted Chat
4Willet
1White-rumped Sandpiper
4Western Sandpiper
2Pied-billed Grebe
2Belted Kingfisher
1Pileated Woodpecker
1Chipping Sparrow
1Orchard Oriole
1Black-and-white Warbler
3Canada Goose
1Sora
5Dunlin
1Yellow-crowned Night Heron
3Black-crowned Night Heron
1Black Vulture
1European Starling
2Eastern Bluebird
1House Sparrow
1Prothonotary Warbler
1Black-throated Blue Warbler
1Eastern Screech-Owl

May 2

1Wood Stork
1Marsh Wren
1Peregrine Falcon
1Saltmarsh Sparrow
1Chuck-will's-widow
8Wilson's Plover
2Pectoral Sandpiper
4Common Tern
1White-throated Sparrow

May 1

1Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
1Ruddy Turnstone
1Blue-winged Warbler
4Chimney Swift
1Long-billed Dowitcher
1Eurasian Collared-Dove
1Northern Gannet
1Acadian Flycatcher
1Yellow-throated Vireo
1Seaside Sparrow

April 30

1Northern Parula
2Sandwich Tern
1Merlin
4Red-headed Woodpecker
3Red-breasted Merganser
1Mute Swan
6Mallard
2Gull-billed Tern
1Wood Duck
1Ring-necked Duck
1Yellow-billed Cuckoo
1Common Loon
1Mississippi Kite
1Great Horned Owl
1American Kestrel
1Eastern Wood-Pewee
1Ruby-crowned Kinglet
1Savannah Sparrow
2Song Sparrow
1Swamp Sparrow
1Bobolink
1Ovenbird
1Magnolia Warbler
2Yellow-rumped Warbler
1Red-tailed Hawk
1Blue-headed Vireo
1Wood Thrush
1Northern Waterthrush
2Cedar Waxwing
1Baltimore Oriole

April 29

1Rock Pigeon
1Roseate Spoonbill
1Northern Harrier

April 28

2Common Nighthawk
4Wilson's Snipe
1Brown Creeper
1Veery
3Western Cattle-Egret
1Indigo Bunting
1Bonaparte's Gull
1Nelson's Sparrow
1Cape May Warbler

April 27

2Stilt Sandpiper
1Piping Plover
1Blue-winged Teal
2Yellow-throated Warbler
2American Goldfinch
1Blue Grosbeak
1Virginia Rail