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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.

March 12

1Mourning Dove
1Clapper Rail
1Common Gallinule
2Willet
4Sanderling
1Bonaparte's Gull
1American Herring Gull
2Caspian Tern
2Royal Tern
2Pied-billed Grebe
1Common Loon
4Anhinga
6White Ibis
8Snowy Egret
2Great Egret
2Great Blue Heron
6Brown Pelican
1Bald Eagle
1Belted Kingfisher
1Eastern Phoebe
4Blue Jay
2Carolina Chickadee
2Brown-headed Nuthatch
2Brown Creeper
4European Starling
2Northern Mockingbird
4Eastern Bluebird
1White-throated Sparrow
6Red-winged Blackbird
2Common Grackle
4Yellow-rumped Warbler
2Northern Cardinal

March 11

4Ruddy Duck
2American Coot
1Laughing Gull
1Great Black-backed Gull
4Wood Stork
1Downy Woodpecker
1Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
20Gray Catbird
1House Finch
4Bufflehead
1Double-crested Cormorant
1Black-crowned Night Heron
1Tricolored Heron
1Osprey
1White-eyed Vireo
2American Crow
1Fish Crow
2Tufted Titmouse
30Tree Swallow
2Carolina Wren
6Boat-tailed Grackle
2Pine Warbler
1Blue-winged Teal
1Red-breasted Merganser
1Black-bellied Plover
1Greater Yellowlegs
1Ring-billed Gull
1Little Blue Heron
1Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
1Red-bellied Woodpecker
1Pileated Woodpecker
1Ruby-crowned Kinglet
4Wild Turkey
1Ruby-throated Hummingbird
2Turkey Vulture
1Great Horned Owl
6American Robin
1White-crowned Sparrow
1Song Sparrow
2Rusty Blackbird
1Prairie Warbler

March 10

5Glossy Ibis
1Least Sandpiper
1Western Sandpiper
1Nelson's Sparrow
2Common Yellowthroat
3Gadwall
1Killdeer
1Red-headed Woodpecker
2Brown Thrasher
20Cedar Waxwing
1Eastern Towhee
2Blue-headed Vireo
3Hermit Thrush
2Black-and-white Warbler
150Dunlin
3Forster's Tern
1Golden-crowned Kinglet
1Canada Goose
4Green-winged Teal
4Piping Plover
2Spotted Sandpiper
2Yellow-crowned Night Heron
1Northern Parula

March 9

6Northern Shoveler
1Red-shouldered Hawk
1Sedge Wren
2Swamp Sparrow
2Wilson's Snipe
1Northern Flicker
22Savannah Sparrow
1White-breasted Nuthatch
1Horned Lark
1Pine Siskin
2Brown-headed Cowbird
1Yellow-throated Warbler

March 8

1Green Heron
1Virginia Rail
2Black Vulture
1Red-throated Loon
1Saltmarsh Sparrow

March 7

6Hooded Merganser
2Short-billed Dowitcher
1Barred Owl
1American Goldfinch
1Red-tailed Hawk

March 6

1Northern Harrier
2Ring-necked Duck

March 5

1American Barn Owl
1American Pipit