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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.

December 27

12Northern Shoveler
6Ring-necked Duck
8Bufflehead
10Hooded Merganser
7Ruddy Duck
6Semipalmated Plover
8Long-billed Dowitcher
6Lesser Yellowlegs
8Greater Yellowlegs
6Ring-billed Gull
2American Herring Gull
16Pied-billed Grebe
2Double-crested Cormorant
8White Ibis
2Little Blue Heron
6Snowy Egret
4Great Egret
2Great Blue Heron
1Bald Eagle
1Red-bellied Woodpecker
2Eastern Phoebe
1Blue-headed Vireo
1Blue Jay
1Carolina Chickadee
1Tufted Titmouse
6Ruby-crowned Kinglet
2Golden-crowned Kinglet
1Brown Creeper
1Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
1White-throated Sparrow
4Red-winged Blackbird
2Common Grackle
1Common Yellowthroat
4Yellow-rumped Warbler
6Gadwall
14Green-winged Teal
5Lesser Scaup
4Mourning Dove
4Common Gallinule
5American Coot
12Dunlin
4Bonaparte's Gull
2Laughing Gull
2Forster's Tern
5Tricolored Heron
14American White Pelican
2Brown Pelican
4Turkey Vulture
3Osprey
1Belted Kingfisher
1Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
1Downy Woodpecker
4American Crow
3White-breasted Nuthatch
2Brown-headed Nuthatch
3Carolina Wren
2Gray Catbird
1Brown Thrasher
2Northern Mockingbird
3Eastern Bluebird
4House Finch
3Chipping Sparrow
2Song Sparrow
2Eastern Towhee
1Black-and-white Warbler
2Northern Cardinal
4Blue-winged Teal
1Wild Turkey
2Short-billed Dowitcher
2Ruddy Turnstone
4Least Sandpiper
2Western Sandpiper

December 26

7Canvasback
2Redhead
1Clapper Rail
8Wood Stork
2White-crowned Sparrow
1Black-crowned Night Heron
1Savannah Sparrow
1Pileated Woodpecker
11Tree Swallow
2Marsh Wren
2Swamp Sparrow
1Pine Warbler

December 25

1Virginia Rail
1American Oystercatcher
1Spotted Sandpiper
1Horned Grebe
1American Kestrel
1Purple Finch

December 24

2Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
8Mallard
2Red-breasted Merganser
2American Woodcock
1Northern Flicker
2Fish Crow
2Brown-headed Cowbird
4Boat-tailed Grackle

December 23

2Killdeer
1Red-throated Loon
XAmerican Robin
2Long-tailed Duck
4Piping Plover

December 22

1Eastern Screech-Owl
1Winter Wren
1Prairie Warbler
2Cedar Waxwing
4Northern Pintail