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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.

April 18

2Canada Goose
2Sora
5Common Gallinule
4American Coot
2Killdeer
1Wood Stork
2Anhinga
2Black-crowned Night Heron
6Tricolored Heron
2Green Heron
1Osprey
2Red-bellied Woodpecker
1Pileated Woodpecker
1Great Crested Flycatcher
1White-eyed Vireo
2Blue Jay
1American Crow
1Carolina Chickadee
1Tufted Titmouse
2Purple Martin
1Barn Swallow
1White-breasted Nuthatch
1Brown-headed Nuthatch
1Brown Creeper
1Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
2Carolina Wren
3European Starling
1Brown Thrasher
2Northern Mockingbird
4Eastern Bluebird
4House Finch
1White-throated Sparrow
1Song Sparrow
1Eastern Towhee
6Red-winged Blackbird
1Brown-headed Cowbird
2Common Grackle
2Boat-tailed Grackle
1Prothonotary Warbler
2Pine Warbler
1Yellow-rumped Warbler
2Northern Cardinal
2Piping Plover
3Wilson's Plover
11Willet
1Ruddy Turnstone
5Sanderling
3Laughing Gull
16Least Tern
3Forster's Tern
1Royal Tern
20Brown Pelican
2Mourning Dove
1Ruby-throated Hummingbird
1Clapper Rail
1Semipalmated Plover
1Hudsonian Whimbrel
XShort-billed Dowitcher
XLesser Yellowlegs
XGreater Yellowlegs
1Least Sandpiper
5Great Egret
3Great Blue Heron
1Red-eyed Vireo
4Fish Crow
10Tree Swallow
1American Robin
1Black-and-white Warbler
1Northern Parula
3Yellow-throated Warbler
1Scarlet Tanager
2Painted Bunting
4Black-bellied Plover
2Long-billed Dowitcher
1Spotted Sandpiper
2Dunlin
3Double-crested Cormorant
1Yellow-crowned Night Heron
7Snowy Egret
1Turkey Vulture
1Sharp-shinned Hawk
1Red-headed Woodpecker
1Downy Woodpecker
2Ruby-crowned Kinglet
1Northern House Wren
1Gray Catbird
1Cedar Waxwing
1Seaside Sparrow
2Savannah Sparrow
1Swamp Sparrow
2Wood Duck
2Blue-winged Teal
1Chuck-will's-widow
1Chimney Swift
1American Oystercatcher
3Bonaparte's Gull
11Ring-billed Gull
2Sandwich Tern
2Northern Gannet
14Little Blue Heron
1Black Vulture
1Swallow-tailed Kite
1Red-shouldered Hawk
2Marsh Wren

April 17

2Pied-billed Grebe
1Glossy Ibis
1Bald Eagle
1Wood Thrush
3House Sparrow
1Cape May Warbler
1Eastern Kingbird
1Hermit Thrush
2American Goldfinch
1American Golden-Plover
2Lesser Black-backed Gull
2White Ibis
4Least Bittern
1American White Pelican
1Belted Kingfisher
2Chipping Sparrow
1Common Yellowthroat
1Northern Yellow Warbler
3American Herring Gull
1Hairy Woodpecker
1Nelson's Sparrow
1Western Sandpiper

April 16

2Bufflehead
1Yellow-billed Cuckoo
2Wilson's Snipe
2Semipalmated Sandpiper
1Roseate Spoonbill
1Saltmarsh Sparrow
1Northern Waterthrush
1Tennessee Warbler
3Wild Turkey
1King Rail
3Black Skimmer
1Common Loon
1Cooper's Hawk
2Red-tailed Hawk
1Blue Grosbeak
1Field Sparrow

April 15

1Blue-headed Vireo
2Summer Tanager
2Virginia Rail
1Purple Gallinule
1Black Tern
1Blue-winged Warbler
4Gadwall
80Black Scoter
3American Flamingo
4Stilt Sandpiper
1Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
1Northern Flicker

April 14

1Black-throated Blue Warbler
1Eastern Whip-poor-will
2Solitary Sandpiper
1Peregrine Falcon

April 13

1Eurasian Collared-Dove
1Northern Harrier
1Palm Warbler
2Marbled Godwit
1Eastern Wood-Pewee
1Orange-crowned Warbler
1Red-throated Loon

April 12

1Yellow-throated Vireo
1Green-winged Teal
3Red-breasted Merganser