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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 7

3Mourning Dove
8Black-bellied Plover
9Semipalmated Plover
2Greater Yellowlegs
20Least Sandpiper
9Western Sandpiper
4Least Tern
2Royal Tern
4Anhinga
3Double-crested Cormorant
4White Ibis
3Roseate Spoonbill
2American Bittern
5Tricolored Heron
4Snowy Egret
12Great Egret
1Great Blue Heron
1Bald Eagle
2Red-bellied Woodpecker
2American Crow
4Fish Crow
6Barn Swallow
2Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
10Red-winged Blackbird
4Brown-headed Cowbird
4Boat-tailed Grackle
3Northern Cardinal
2Ruby-throated Hummingbird
2American Coot
2Black-necked Stilt
2Killdeer
1Spotted Sandpiper
2Willet
2Ring-billed Gull
1Belted Kingfisher
1Red-eyed Vireo
1Brown-headed Nuthatch
2Brown Thrasher
2House Finch
2Pine Warbler
2Prairie Warbler
2Painted Bunting
1Downy Woodpecker
1Yellow-throated Vireo
1Blue Jay
1Carolina Chickadee
1Carolina Wren
1Mallard
8Short-billed Dowitcher
1Northern Mockingbird
17Semipalmated Sandpiper
1Little Blue Heron
1Clapper Rail
3Laughing Gull
1Yellow-crowned Night Heron
1Red-headed Woodpecker
4Great Crested Flycatcher
1Eastern Kingbird
4Tufted Titmouse
1Prothonotary Warbler
3Common Yellowthroat
3American Redstart
3Glossy Ibis
1Osprey
8White-breasted Nuthatch
1Red-shouldered Hawk
1Eastern Wood-Pewee
1Lesser Yellowlegs
2Black Skimmer
2Forster's Tern
2Green Heron
3Common Grackle
1Eastern Whip-poor-will
1Wilson's Phalarope
4Sanderling
1Sandwich Tern
1Red-tailed Hawk
1Gray Catbird
1Chestnut-sided Warbler
1Common Nighthawk
6Chimney Swift
3Sora
9Common Gallinule
1Hudsonian Whimbrel
1Solitary Sandpiper
3Least Bittern
3Black-crowned Night Heron
1Hairy Woodpecker
1Northern Parula
1Black-throated Blue Warbler
1Rose-breasted Grosbeak

May 6

1Piping Plover
2Brown Pelican
1Turkey Vulture
2Red Knot
2Dunlin
2Pied-billed Grebe
1Willow Flycatcher
1Marsh Wren
1Nelson's Sparrow
1Ovenbird
3Wilson's Plover
5Ruddy Turnstone
1White-eyed Vireo
1Eastern Bluebird
1Baltimore Oriole
1European Starling
2American Robin
1Blue Grosbeak
2Wood Duck
1Yellow-billed Cuckoo
2Stilt Sandpiper
2Wood Stork
1Wood Thrush
1Pileated Woodpecker
1Blue-headed Vireo

May 5

2Bonaparte's Gull
XHouse Sparrow
4Western Cattle-Egret
3Black Vulture
1Purple Martin
3Tree Swallow
4American Herring Gull
1Gull-billed Tern
1Swallow-tailed Kite
1Cape May Warbler
1Magnolia Warbler
1Acadian Flycatcher
2Orchard Oriole
3Summer Tanager
2American White Pelican
1Chipping Sparrow
1American Golden-Plover
1Blue-winged Warbler
1Orange-crowned Warbler

May 4

1Eastern Screech-Owl
2American Goldfinch
1Northern Flicker
1Black-and-white Warbler
1Purple Gallinule
1Marbled Godwit
1Blackburnian Warbler
1Cooper's Hawk

May 3

5Black Scoter
1American Oystercatcher
2Caspian Tern
1Tennessee Warbler
1Hermit Thrush
1Yellow-breasted Chat
1White-rumped Sandpiper
3Canada Goose

May 2

1Peregrine Falcon
1Saltmarsh Sparrow
1Chuck-will's-widow
2Pectoral Sandpiper
4Common Tern
1White-throated Sparrow

May 1

1Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
1Long-billed Dowitcher
1Eurasian Collared-Dove
1Northern Gannet
1Seaside Sparrow