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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 18

9Gadwall
1American Wigeon
22Green-winged Teal
8Lesser Scaup
12Bufflehead
32Hooded Merganser
7Ruddy Duck
14Common Gallinule
50American Coot
1Spotted Sandpiper
70Dunlin
6Least Sandpiper
2Western Sandpiper
1Bonaparte's Gull
3Ring-billed Gull
13Pied-billed Grebe
50Double-crested Cormorant
25White Ibis
2Black-crowned Night Heron
8Little Blue Heron
12Tricolored Heron
9Snowy Egret
15Great Egret
1Great Blue Heron
2American White Pelican
1Eastern Screech-Owl
1Belted Kingfisher
1Red-bellied Woodpecker
1Pileated Woodpecker
2Carolina Chickadee
3Tree Swallow
7Red-winged Blackbird
1Black-and-white Warbler
7Yellow-rumped Warbler
12Ring-necked Duck
1Common Loon
8Wood Stork
1Downy Woodpecker
1Blue-headed Vireo
6Blue Jay
2Fish Crow
1Tufted Titmouse
6Ruby-crowned Kinglet
1Carolina Wren
2Northern Mockingbird
1House Finch
1Saltmarsh Sparrow
1Savannah Sparrow
4Common Grackle
1Pine Warbler
2Northern Cardinal
1Northern Shoveler
2Greater Scaup
2Black Scoter
7Clapper Rail
1American Oystercatcher
3Black-bellied Plover
4Semipalmated Plover
6Short-billed Dowitcher
4Willet
1Greater Yellowlegs
101Ruddy Turnstone
11Red Knot
28Sanderling
13Laughing Gull
1Caspian Tern
3Forster's Tern
7Royal Tern
1Anhinga
3Roseate Spoonbill
68Brown Pelican
7Turkey Vulture
2Osprey
3American Crow
1Golden-crowned Kinglet
1Northern House Wren
1Winter Wren
1Eastern Bluebird
1Hermit Thrush
12White-throated Sparrow
1Song Sparrow
2Swamp Sparrow
1Bald Eagle
20Eastern Phoebe
2Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

November 17

1Mourning Dove
8American Herring Gull
2Horned Grebe
1White-winged Scoter
2Sora
3Killdeer
1Cooper's Hawk
1Northern Harrier
2Northern Flicker
1Barn Swallow
1Brown-headed Nuthatch
1Marsh Wren
6Gray Catbird
1Brown Thrasher
1Western Kingbird
1Dark-eyed Junco
5Lesser Yellowlegs
1Wood Duck
1Eastern Meadowlark
4Blue-winged Teal
1Yellow-crowned Night Heron
1Red-shouldered Hawk
2Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

November 16

1White-breasted Nuthatch
1European Starling
1American Robin
2Brown-headed Cowbird
1Prairie Warbler
1Piping Plover
1Yellow-billed Cuckoo
1Red-tailed Hawk
2White-crowned Sparrow
8Northern Gannet
5Black Vulture
1White-eyed Vireo

November 15

1Barred Owl
1Red-headed Woodpecker
2Yellow-throated Warbler

November 14

1Red-throated Loon
1Chipping Sparrow
1Common Yellowthroat
1Lesser Black-backed Gull
2Rusty Blackbird

November 13

1American Redstart

November 12

1Cliff Swallow
2Red-breasted Merganser
1Chuck-will's-widow
1Seaside Sparrow