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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.

April 8

1Chuck-will's-widow
2Ruby-throated Hummingbird
1American Coot
4Semipalmated Plover
2Marbled Godwit
4Wilson's Snipe
4Willet
6Sanderling
4Semipalmated Sandpiper
6Ring-billed Gull
2Royal Tern
4White Ibis
2Little Blue Heron
4Snowy Egret
4Great Egret
2Great Blue Heron
1Osprey
1Great Crested Flycatcher
1White-eyed Vireo
1Carolina Chickadee
1Tufted Titmouse
2White-breasted Nuthatch
2Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
2Eastern Bluebird
6Red-winged Blackbird
1Common Grackle
2Yellow-throated Warbler
2Northern Cardinal
4Common Gallinule
3Anhinga
1Green Heron
3Black-bellied Plover
5Greater Yellowlegs
1Laughing Gull
1Forster's Tern
1Pied-billed Grebe
2Double-crested Cormorant
3Turkey Vulture
1Bald Eagle
1Fish Crow
5Barn Swallow
1Carolina Wren
4Boat-tailed Grackle
2Sora
2Red-bellied Woodpecker
1Downy Woodpecker
2Pine Warbler
4Bufflehead
2Mourning Dove
1Yellow-billed Cuckoo
1Clapper Rail
4Killdeer
6Short-billed Dowitcher
6Lesser Yellowlegs
2Stilt Sandpiper
4Least Sandpiper
2American Herring Gull
4Common Tern
2Yellow-crowned Night Heron
1Peregrine Falcon
2Blue Jay
1Gray Catbird
1Northern Mockingbird
1Savannah Sparrow
2Prothonotary Warbler

April 7

4Least Tern
3Tricolored Heron
1Belted Kingfisher
1American Crow
1Brown Thrasher
14Blue-winged Teal
3American Oystercatcher
2Common Loon
9Black-crowned Night Heron
33Brown Pelican
1Red-shouldered Hawk
1Northern Flicker
10Tree Swallow
2Brown-headed Nuthatch
2European Starling
1House Sparrow
6White-throated Sparrow
3Brown-headed Cowbird
1Northern Parula
2Piping Plover
4Wilson's Plover
1House Finch
3Gadwall
8Black Scoter
1King Rail
3Hudsonian Whimbrel
1Long-billed Dowitcher
2Ruddy Turnstone
28Dunlin
8Western Sandpiper
5Bonaparte's Gull
2Horned Grebe
10Northern Gannet
1Black Vulture
1Northern Harrier
1Pileated Woodpecker
1Blue-headed Vireo
1Ruby-crowned Kinglet
56Cedar Waxwing
2Seaside Sparrow
2Song Sparrow
4Eastern Towhee
1Yellow-rumped Warbler
1Least Bittern
1Brown Creeper
1Common Yellowthroat

April 6

1Swamp Sparrow
2Spotted Sandpiper
1Sandwich Tern
1Chestnut-sided Warbler
1Eurasian Collared-Dove
1Eastern Whip-poor-will
1Lesser Black-backed Gull
6Wood Stork
1Red-tailed Hawk
1Yellow-throated Vireo
4Chipping Sparrow
1Hooded Warbler

April 5

1Black-and-white Warbler
2Canada Goose
1Solitary Sandpiper
1Painted Bunting
1Gull-billed Tern
1Red-eyed Vireo
1Virginia Rail
1Glossy Ibis
1Eastern Kingbird
2Rusty Blackbird
1Green-winged Teal
1Red-headed Woodpecker
2Northern House Wren
2American Robin
2American Goldfinch
1Northern Bobwhite
1Red-throated Loon
1Marsh Wren

April 4

2Purple Martin
1Ovenbird
1Wild Turkey
4Chimney Swift
1Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
1Merlin
2Eastern Phoebe
1Loggerhead Shrike
1Worm-eating Warbler
2Wood Duck
1Pectoral Sandpiper
1Sharp-shinned Hawk
2Field Sparrow
1Prairie Warbler

April 3

1Hermit Thrush
2Red-breasted Merganser

April 2

1American Bittern
1Broad-winged Hawk
1Summer Tanager
4American Avocet
1American Woodcock
1Wilson's Phalarope
2Red Knot
1Caspian Tern