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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 18

1Mourning Dove
1Clapper Rail
2Killdeer
1Semipalmated Plover
1Hudsonian Whimbrel
2Greater Yellowlegs
5Least Sandpiper
100Semipalmated Sandpiper
1Wood Stork
1Black-crowned Night Heron
1Tricolored Heron
2Snowy Egret
12Great Egret
1Red-bellied Woodpecker
3Downy Woodpecker
2Great Crested Flycatcher
1Yellow-throated Vireo
2American Crow
1Tufted Titmouse
5Tree Swallow
3Barn Swallow
1Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
2Carolina Wren
1Northern Mockingbird
1American Robin
1Yellow-breasted Chat
5Red-winged Blackbird
7Brown-headed Cowbird
4Boat-tailed Grackle
1Black-and-white Warbler
1Common Yellowthroat
1Northern Parula
3Pine Warbler
3Northern Cardinal
1Blue Grosbeak
3Painted Bunting
1Sanderling
1Ruby-throated Hummingbird
2American Oystercatcher
2Spotted Sandpiper
2American Herring Gull
2Forster's Tern
2Pied-billed Grebe
6White Ibis
2Glossy Ibis
1Little Blue Heron
1Broad-winged Hawk
1Willow Flycatcher
4Blue Jay
1Orchard Oriole
1American Redstart
1Yellow-crowned Night Heron
4Least Tern
6Anhinga
1Double-crested Cormorant
4Roseate Spoonbill
3Great Blue Heron
1Brown Thrasher
6Canada Goose
1Eurasian Collared-Dove
1Black-bellied Plover
4Solitary Sandpiper
1Lesser Yellowlegs
2White-rumped Sandpiper
4Western Sandpiper
2Ring-billed Gull
1Belted Kingfisher
1Carolina Chickadee
1Wood Thrush
1Savannah Sparrow
1Blue-winged Warbler
1Summer Tanager
8Common Gallinule
3Green Heron
1Red-headed Woodpecker
2White-eyed Vireo
2Fish Crow
4White-breasted Nuthatch
3Brown-headed Nuthatch
3House Finch
4Common Grackle

May 17

1Common Nighthawk
1Eastern Towhee
4Stilt Sandpiper
2Gull-billed Tern
1Osprey
1Swallow-tailed Kite
3Short-billed Dowitcher
3Laughing Gull
12Wilson's Plover
25Willet
7Ruddy Turnstone
3Red Knot
5Dunlin
6Black Skimmer
3Caspian Tern
2Sandwich Tern
11Royal Tern
7Brown Pelican
4Purple Martin
1Marsh Wren
2Black Scoter
1American Coot
2Black-necked Stilt
2Turkey Vulture
1Red-tailed Hawk
1Pileated Woodpecker
1Red-eyed Vireo
2Gray Catbird
1Black-throated Blue Warbler
1Least Bittern
2European Starling
1Prothonotary Warbler
1Indigo Bunting

May 16

2Purple Gallinule
1American Kestrel
1Eastern Kingbird
4Chimney Swift
1Red-shouldered Hawk
1Eastern Wood-Pewee
4Wild Turkey
1Eastern Bluebird

May 15

1Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
2Bald Eagle
1Yellow-billed Cuckoo
1Mallard
3Pectoral Sandpiper
1Magnolia Warbler
1Northern Yellow Warbler

May 13

1Mississippi Kite
XAmerican Bittern
2Black Vulture
3Cedar Waxwing

May 12

1Sora
1Seaside Sparrow