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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.

May 6

2Ruby-throated Hummingbird
1Clapper Rail
2Black-necked Stilt
2Killdeer
4Short-billed Dowitcher
2Spotted Sandpiper
6Sanderling
2Ring-billed Gull
1Royal Tern
2Pied-billed Grebe
4Double-crested Cormorant
2White Ibis
1Little Blue Heron
1Green Heron
1Willow Flycatcher
2Fish Crow
1Carolina Chickadee
1Marsh Wren
1Gray Catbird
1Brown Thrasher
2House Finch
1Nelson's Sparrow
2Brown-headed Cowbird
1Common Yellowthroat
1Black-throated Blue Warbler
2Painted Bunting
3Mourning Dove
2Black-bellied Plover
6Semipalmated Plover
2Hudsonian Whimbrel
1Greater Yellowlegs
8Least Sandpiper
2Least Tern
3Anhinga
1Tricolored Heron
3Great Egret
1Great Blue Heron
1Bald Eagle
1Red-bellied Woodpecker
1Great Crested Flycatcher
1Blue Jay
1Tufted Titmouse
1Barn Swallow
1Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
1Carolina Wren
1Red-winged Blackbird
1Common Grackle
1American Redstart
1Northern Cardinal
1Brown-headed Nuthatch
1Ovenbird
2Prothonotary Warbler
1Northern Parula
1Pine Warbler
8Brown Pelican
1Turkey Vulture
1White-eyed Vireo
2Red-eyed Vireo
1American Crow
1Northern Mockingbird
1Eastern Bluebird
1Baltimore Oriole
2Boat-tailed Grackle
7Common Gallinule
2Lesser Yellowlegs
2Willet
1Forster's Tern
1Sandwich Tern
2Roseate Spoonbill
1Black-crowned Night Heron
3Snowy Egret
1Red-headed Woodpecker
1European Starling
2American Robin
1Blue Grosbeak
1Yellow-billed Cuckoo
1Sora
1Solitary Sandpiper
2Stilt Sandpiper
2Western Sandpiper
1Least Bittern
1Red-tailed Hawk
1Belted Kingfisher
1Wood Thrush
1Red-shouldered Hawk
1Downy Woodpecker
1White-breasted Nuthatch
2Wood Duck
5Chimney Swift
2American Coot
1Osprey
1Pileated Woodpecker
1Blue-headed Vireo

May 5

1Common Nighthawk
1Black Skimmer
6Laughing Gull
1Dunlin
2Bonaparte's Gull
2Mallard
2Wood Stork
1American Bittern
4Western Cattle-Egret
3Black Vulture
1Purple Martin
3Tree Swallow
4American Herring Gull
1Gull-billed Tern
1Swallow-tailed Kite
1Cape May Warbler
1Magnolia Warbler
1Eastern Wood-Pewee
1Acadian Flycatcher
2Orchard Oriole
3Summer Tanager
23Semipalmated Sandpiper
2Glossy Ibis
2American White Pelican
1Chipping Sparrow
1American Golden-Plover
1Blue-winged Warbler
1Orange-crowned Warbler

May 4

1Eastern Screech-Owl
1Yellow-crowned Night Heron
2American Goldfinch
1Wilson's Plover
1Northern Flicker
1Eastern Kingbird
1Black-and-white Warbler
5Ruddy Turnstone
1Purple Gallinule
1Marbled Godwit
1Blackburnian Warbler
1Cooper's Hawk

May 3

5Black Scoter
1American Oystercatcher
2Caspian Tern
1Tennessee Warbler
1Prairie Warbler
1Hairy Woodpecker
1Hermit Thrush
1Rose-breasted Grosbeak
1Yellow-breasted Chat
1White-rumped Sandpiper
3Canada Goose
1House Sparrow

May 2

1Peregrine Falcon
1Saltmarsh Sparrow
1Chuck-will's-widow
2Pectoral Sandpiper
4Common Tern
1White-throated Sparrow

May 1

1Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
1Long-billed Dowitcher
1Eurasian Collared-Dove
1Northern Gannet
1Yellow-throated Vireo
1Seaside Sparrow

April 30

1Merlin
3Red-breasted Merganser
1Mute Swan
1Ring-necked Duck
1Common Loon
1Mississippi Kite
1Great Horned Owl
1American Kestrel
1Ruby-crowned Kinglet
1Savannah Sparrow
2Song Sparrow
1Swamp Sparrow
1Bobolink
2Yellow-rumped Warbler
1Northern Waterthrush
2Cedar Waxwing