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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.

June 3

1Swallow-tailed Kite
1Ruby-throated Hummingbird
2American Coot
4Killdeer
4Sanderling
1Laughing Gull
2Ring-billed Gull
1Forster's Tern
1Sandwich Tern
4Wood Stork
1Anhinga
4Roseate Spoonbill
4Snowy Egret
2Great Egret
1Bald Eagle
1Belted Kingfisher
1Great Crested Flycatcher
2Blue Jay
1Carolina Chickadee
1Tufted Titmouse
1Carolina Wren
1Brown Thrasher
2Red-winged Blackbird
4Common Grackle
1Pine Warbler
4Northern Cardinal
2Painted Bunting
3Mourning Dove
6Least Tern
2Royal Tern
3Double-crested Cormorant
5Little Blue Heron
4Tricolored Heron
3Great Blue Heron
1Black Vulture
1Turkey Vulture
2Osprey
1Red-bellied Woodpecker
1Downy Woodpecker
1American Crow
2Fish Crow
7Barn Swallow
4House Finch
2Brown-headed Cowbird
1Chuck-will's-widow
1Black-bellied Plover
2Semipalmated Plover
2Willet
1Least Sandpiper
4American Herring Gull
4Pied-billed Grebe
1Yellow-crowned Night Heron
1Red-shouldered Hawk
1Eastern Wood-Pewee
2Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
1Marsh Wren
6European Starling
2Eastern Bluebird
1Chipping Sparrow
1Yellow-throated Warbler
1Black-throated Green Warbler
1Common Gallinule
1White Ibis
3Least Bittern
9Black-crowned Night Heron
4Green Heron
4Red-headed Woodpecker
2White-breasted Nuthatch
4Northern Mockingbird
1Summer Tanager
1Red-breasted Merganser
3Clapper Rail
4Wilson's Plover
1Ruddy Turnstone
2Semipalmated Sandpiper
4Black Skimmer
1Northern Rough-winged Swallow
4Brown-headed Nuthatch
3Boat-tailed Grackle
1Northern Parula
1Indigo Bunting

June 2

3Glossy Ibis
2Black-necked Stilt
2Spotted Sandpiper
3Cliff Swallow
1Chimney Swift
3Brown Pelican
3Purple Martin
2Prothonotary Warbler
1Purple Gallinule

June 1

1Bachman's Sparrow
1Wood Duck
1Greater Yellowlegs
1Eastern Whip-poor-will
1Dunlin
2Gull-billed Tern
1Eastern Kingbird
1Eastern Towhee

May 31

1Orchard Oriole
1Common Yellowthroat
6Short-billed Dowitcher
1Pileated Woodpecker
1Yellow-billed Cuckoo

May 30

3Canada Goose
1Common Nighthawk
2American Oystercatcher
2Mississippi Kite
1Northern House Wren
1Hudsonian Whimbrel
1Wilson's Phalarope
2Great Black-backed Gull
1Broad-winged Hawk
1White-eyed Vireo
1Orange-crowned Warbler
4Black-bellied Whistling-Duck

May 29

1Yellow-throated Vireo
1Black-and-white Warbler
1Blackpoll Warbler
1Eurasian Collared-Dove
1Bay-breasted Warbler

May 28

1Red-tailed Hawk
1Hooded Warbler
1Chestnut-sided Warbler
4Caspian Tern
2Tree Swallow
1Red-eyed Vireo
1Gray Catbird
2Blue Grosbeak