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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.

January 13

2Northern Shoveler
6Green-winged Teal
12Hooded Merganser
4Greater Yellowlegs
2Great Egret
2Great Blue Heron
1Osprey
1Red-tailed Hawk
1Eastern Screech-Owl
1Eastern Phoebe
1Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
1Swamp Sparrow
6Red-winged Blackbird
3Yellow-rumped Warbler
4Gadwall
8Bufflehead
2American Coot
6Least Sandpiper
2Western Sandpiper
4Ring-billed Gull
8White Ibis
2Little Blue Heron
4American White Pelican
1Bald Eagle
1Barred Owl
2Downy Woodpecker
1Blue-headed Vireo
1Carolina Chickadee
2Ruby-crowned Kinglet
1Gray Catbird
1House Finch
2White-crowned Sparrow
2White-throated Sparrow
4Common Grackle
4Northern Cardinal
2Red-breasted Merganser
1Killdeer
2Long-billed Dowitcher
1Spotted Sandpiper
2Willet
1Bonaparte's Gull
2Forster's Tern
6Pied-billed Grebe
1Double-crested Cormorant
4Tricolored Heron
4Snowy Egret
1Turkey Vulture
1Belted Kingfisher
3American Crow
1Pine Warbler
1Mourning Dove
1Clapper Rail
1Black-bellied Plover
3Ruddy Turnstone
10Sanderling
1American Herring Gull
3Horned Grebe
1Red-throated Loon
16Common Loon
15Brown Pelican
3Tree Swallow
1Carolina Wren
1Northern Mockingbird
1Savannah Sparrow
8Canvasback
1Eurasian Collared-Dove
4Short-billed Dowitcher
1Red-bellied Woodpecker
1Brown-headed Nuthatch
4Eastern Bluebird
2American Robin

January 12

4Mottled Duck
1Semipalmated Plover
1Black Vulture
4Ring-necked Duck
1Pileated Woodpecker
1Peregrine Falcon
2Blue Jay
1Tufted Titmouse
1Seaside Sparrow
4Boat-tailed Grackle
1Northern Pintail
1Common Goldeneye
1Sora
1Wood Stork
1Fish Crow
1Fox Sparrow
1Hermit Thrush
12Brown-headed Cowbird
1Common Yellowthroat
1American Wigeon
8Lesser Scaup
1Common Eider
4White-winged Scoter
1Black Scoter
6Ruddy Duck
1Virginia Rail
1Common Gallinule
1Wilson's Snipe
6Lesser Yellowlegs
1Red Knot
1Dunlin
1Laughing Gull
1Northern Gannet
2Black-crowned Night Heron
1Northern Harrier
1Red-headed Woodpecker
1Northern Flicker
1Golden-crowned Kinglet
1White-breasted Nuthatch
1Brown Creeper
1Northern House Wren
1Marsh Wren
1Cedar Waxwing
1American Goldfinch
1Song Sparrow
1Eastern Towhee
4Rusty Blackbird

January 11

1Canada Goose
2Saltmarsh Sparrow
1Red-shouldered Hawk
2Brown Thrasher
2Blue-winged Teal

January 10

1Sharp-shinned Hawk
1Chipping Sparrow
4Mallard
4American Oystercatcher
1Winter Wren
2Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

January 9

2Yellow-throated Warbler
4Chimney Swift
1King Rail
1Lesser Black-backed Gull
2Anhinga
1Loggerhead Shrike
2European Starling
1House Sparrow
1Black-and-white Warbler

January 8

1Cooper's Hawk
1Great Horned Owl
1American Kestrel
1American Pipit
1Royal Tern

January 7

2Purple Finch
1Sedge Wren
1Long-tailed Duck