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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.

July 21

2Mourning Dove
1Yellow-billed Cuckoo
2Chuck-will's-widow
1American Coot
2Black-bellied Plover
1Piping Plover
2Willet
1Least Sandpiper
4Ring-billed Gull
1Least Tern
6Wood Stork
2Roseate Spoonbill
1Black-crowned Night Heron
2Green Heron
4Great Egret
1Red-tailed Hawk
2Belted Kingfisher
1Red-eyed Vireo
4Blue Jay
1Carolina Chickadee
1Tufted Titmouse
2Purple Martin
2Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
2Northern Mockingbird
1House Finch
2Red-winged Blackbird
2Common Grackle
1Pine Warbler
2Northern Cardinal
2Painted Bunting
2Chimney Swift
2Ruby-throated Hummingbird
1Greater Yellowlegs
2Anhinga
2White Ibis
3Snowy Egret
3Great Blue Heron
1Osprey
1Red-headed Woodpecker
1White-breasted Nuthatch
1Carolina Wren
3Eastern Bluebird
1Summer Tanager

July 20

2Spotted Sandpiper
2Sanderling
2Pied-billed Grebe
1Little Blue Heron
2Great Crested Flycatcher
4Barn Swallow
1Brown-headed Nuthatch
4Brown Thrasher
1Hooded Warbler
3Common Gallinule
1Killdeer
2Glossy Ibis
1Swallow-tailed Kite
2Downy Woodpecker
1Eurasian Collared-Dove
2Clapper Rail
2Short-billed Dowitcher
1Black Tern
1Sandwich Tern
1Mississippi Kite
2American Crow
4European Starling

July 19

1Magnificent Frigatebird
4Least Bittern
2Semipalmated Plover
2Lesser Yellowlegs
1Gull-billed Tern
2Forster's Tern
2American Robin
1Yellow-throated Warbler
2Bald Eagle
1Yellow-crowned Night Heron
1Indigo Bunting
2American Herring Gull
4Brown Pelican
2Fish Crow
1Prothonotary Warbler
4Tricolored Heron
1Red-bellied Woodpecker

July 18

3Wilson's Plover
1Hudsonian Whimbrel
2Ruddy Turnstone
2Laughing Gull
4Common Tern
5Royal Tern
1Boat-tailed Grackle
1Turkey Vulture
1Black-and-white Warbler

July 17

1Marsh Wren
2Chipping Sparrow
1Common Yellowthroat
1White-eyed Vireo
1Eastern Whip-poor-will
2Double-crested Cormorant

July 16

1Common Nighthawk
2Western Sandpiper
5Semipalmated Sandpiper
1American Oystercatcher
1Reddish Egret
1American White Pelican
5Brown-headed Cowbird
1Lesser Black-backed Gull
2Black Skimmer
2Red-shouldered Hawk

July 15

2Marbled Godwit
2American Woodcock
1Great Black-backed Gull
2Seaside Sparrow
1Swainson's Warbler
3Caspian Tern
12Rock Pigeon
1Yellow-throated Vireo
1Eastern Meadowlark
1Northern Flicker
1Northern Parula