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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 2

1Mourning Dove
2Black-bellied Plover
1Killdeer
2Spotted Sandpiper
1Greater Yellowlegs
8Sanderling
2Least Tern
1Forster's Tern
1Wood Stork
1Anhinga
1Double-crested Cormorant
6Little Blue Heron
4Great Egret
1Brown Pelican
1Red-bellied Woodpecker
1Great Crested Flycatcher
1American Crow
1Carolina Chickadee
1Tufted Titmouse
1Barn Swallow
1Marsh Wren
2Carolina Wren
1Gray Catbird
1Red-winged Blackbird
3Boat-tailed Grackle
1Common Yellowthroat
3Northern Cardinal
1Ruby-throated Hummingbird
2American Coot
2Western Sandpiper
4Ring-billed Gull
1Bald Eagle
2Belted Kingfisher
1Peregrine Falcon
1White-eyed Vireo
1Red-eyed Vireo
2Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
4Northern Mockingbird
4American Robin
2House Finch
1Saltmarsh Sparrow
1American Redstart
2Painted Bunting
1Chuck-will's-widow
1Clapper Rail
6Semipalmated Plover
8Wilson's Plover
4Dunlin
2Pectoral Sandpiper
2Laughing Gull
6American Herring Gull
1Black Skimmer
4Common Tern
4Snowy Egret
2Great Blue Heron
1Downy Woodpecker
1Willow Flycatcher
1Blue Jay
6European Starling
1White-throated Sparrow

May 1

1Willet
5Tricolored Heron
1Green Heron
7Hudsonian Whimbrel
4Semipalmated Sandpiper
200Royal Tern
1Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
2Short-billed Dowitcher
3Lesser Yellowlegs
1Ruddy Turnstone
1Least Sandpiper
2Common Gallinule
1Black-necked Stilt
1Osprey
1Brown-headed Cowbird
3Common Grackle
1Pine Warbler
2Glossy Ibis
1Blue-winged Warbler
4Chimney Swift
1Long-billed Dowitcher
2Turkey Vulture
2Brown Thrasher
1Caspian Tern
1Fish Crow
1Eurasian Collared-Dove
1Sora
1Northern Gannet
2White Ibis
2Least Bittern
1Red-shouldered Hawk
1Acadian Flycatcher
1Yellow-throated Vireo
1Brown-headed Nuthatch
2Hermit Thrush
1Chipping Sparrow
1Seaside Sparrow

April 30

1Black-crowned Night Heron
1Northern Parula
2Sandwich Tern
1Merlin
4Red-headed Woodpecker
3Red-breasted Merganser
1American Oystercatcher
1Mute Swan
6Mallard
2Gull-billed Tern
2House Sparrow
1Wood Duck
1Ring-necked Duck
1Yellow-billed Cuckoo
1Solitary Sandpiper
1Pied-billed Grebe
1Common Loon
1Yellow-crowned Night Heron
5Black Vulture
1Mississippi Kite
1Great Horned Owl
1American Kestrel
1Eastern Wood-Pewee
3Tree Swallow
2Purple Martin
1Ruby-crowned Kinglet
1White-breasted Nuthatch
2Eastern Bluebird
1Savannah Sparrow
2Song Sparrow
1Swamp Sparrow
1Bobolink
1Ovenbird
1Black-and-white Warbler
4Prothonotary Warbler
1Magnolia Warbler
2Yellow-rumped Warbler
1Prairie Warbler
1Summer Tanager
1Rose-breasted Grosbeak
1Red-tailed Hawk
1Blue-headed Vireo
1Wood Thrush
1Orchard Oriole
1Northern Waterthrush
1Black-throated Blue Warbler
2Pileated Woodpecker
2Eastern Kingbird
2Cedar Waxwing
1Baltimore Oriole

April 29

1Rock Pigeon
1Roseate Spoonbill
1Yellow-breasted Chat
1Northern Harrier

April 28

2Common Nighthawk
2Purple Gallinule
4Canada Goose
4Wilson's Snipe
1Brown Creeper
1Veery
3Western Cattle-Egret
1Indigo Bunting
1Bonaparte's Gull
1Nelson's Sparrow
1Cape May Warbler

April 27

2Stilt Sandpiper
1Piping Plover
1Blue-winged Teal
2Yellow-throated Warbler
2American Goldfinch
1Blue Grosbeak
1Virginia Rail
16Black Scoter

April 26

1Hooded Warbler
2Lesser Scaup
1King Rail
1Lesser Black-backed Gull
1Eastern Towhee