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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.

April 25

15Mourning Dove
2Killdeer
2Lesser Yellowlegs
3Willet
2Greater Yellowlegs
3Semipalmated Sandpiper
17Laughing Gull
3Least Tern
2Anhinga
13Double-crested Cormorant
1Yellow-crowned Night Heron
6Little Blue Heron
3Snowy Egret
3Great Egret
1Great Blue Heron
3Turkey Vulture
1Bald Eagle
3Red-bellied Woodpecker
1American Crow
6Carolina Chickadee
1Brown-headed Nuthatch
2Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
3Carolina Wren
1Gray Catbird
1Northern Mockingbird
8House Finch
17Red-winged Blackbird
1Boat-tailed Grackle
14Northern Cardinal
2Painted Bunting
2Clapper Rail
2American Coot
2Long-billed Dowitcher
4Sanderling
2American Herring Gull
1Forster's Tern
1Black-crowned Night Heron
1Belted Kingfisher
1Peregrine Falcon
1Yellow-throated Vireo
2Blue Jay
1Brown Creeper
1Seaside Sparrow
1Savannah Sparrow
2Brown-headed Cowbird
1Common Yellowthroat
1Blackburnian Warbler
6Wood Duck
3Sora
9Common Gallinule
1Black-necked Stilt
2American Oystercatcher
41Black-bellied Plover
67Semipalmated Plover
4Wilson's Plover
2Hudsonian Whimbrel
162Short-billed Dowitcher
1Spotted Sandpiper
1Solitary Sandpiper
43Ruddy Turnstone
3Dunlin
25Least Sandpiper
5Ring-billed Gull
8Black Skimmer
1Caspian Tern
2Sandwich Tern
150Royal Tern
2Roseate Spoonbill
2Least Bittern
7Tricolored Heron
7Green Heron
8Western Cattle-Egret
14Brown Pelican
1Black Vulture
1Osprey
1Red-tailed Hawk
2Downy Woodpecker
2Pileated Woodpecker
1Merlin
4Great Crested Flycatcher
3White-eyed Vireo
3Fish Crow
5Tufted Titmouse
2Tree Swallow
2Purple Martin
8Barn Swallow
2Ruby-crowned Kinglet
3White-breasted Nuthatch
1Marsh Wren
1Brown Thrasher
2Eastern Bluebird
1American Robin
1Song Sparrow
1Orchard Oriole
3Common Grackle
1Worm-eating Warbler
1Black-and-white Warbler
1Prothonotary Warbler
5Northern Parula
1Magnolia Warbler
8Pine Warbler
8Yellow-rumped Warbler

April 24

1Ruby-throated Hummingbird
2White Ibis
1Northern Harrier
1White-throated Sparrow
1Cape May Warbler
1Red-breasted Merganser
4Red Knot
3Bonaparte's Gull
2Glossy Ibis
1Yellow-throated Warbler
2Red-headed Woodpecker
1Red-shouldered Hawk
1Scarlet Tanager
1Chuck-will's-widow
4Pied-billed Grebe
1Broad-winged Hawk
1Eastern Kingbird
2European Starling
4Cedar Waxwing
1King Rail
7Northern Gannet
1Hermit Thrush
1Swamp Sparrow

April 23

1Chimney Swift
2Purple Gallinule
4Piping Plover
2Wilson's Snipe
2Gull-billed Tern
1American Kestrel
1Palm Warbler
1Marbled Godwit
1Western Sandpiper
1Veery
1Wood Thrush
1Black Scoter
1Blue-headed Vireo
1Northern House Wren
3Eastern Towhee
1Summer Tanager

April 22

1Yellow-billed Cuckoo
1Prairie Warbler
1Chipping Sparrow
1Saltmarsh Sparrow
2Stilt Sandpiper
1Common Tern
1Northern Bobwhite
1Wilson's Phalarope
1Blue-winged Warbler
1Hairy Woodpecker

April 21

1Common Eider
1Virginia Rail
4Canada Goose
1Common Nighthawk
1Hooded Warbler
1American Redstart
1Blue-winged Teal
1Cooper's Hawk

April 20

1Swallow-tailed Kite
2Baltimore Oriole
1American Goldfinch

April 19

1Blue Grosbeak
1House Sparrow
1Wild Turkey
1Red-eyed Vireo
1Northern Yellow Warbler
1Northern Rough-winged Swallow
1Nelson's Sparrow
1Yellow-breasted Chat
1Rock Pigeon
2American Woodcock
2American White Pelican