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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.

November 7

2Gadwall ✓
1Mourning Dove ✓
2Clapper Rail ✓
2American Coot ✓
4Sanderling ✓
1Forster's Tern ✓
2Pied-billed Grebe ✓
6Wood Stork ✓
4Great Egret ✓
2American White Pelican ✓
1Osprey ✓
1Downy Woodpecker ✓
2Eastern Phoebe ✓
6American Crow ✓
1Carolina Chickadee ✓
1Tufted Titmouse ✓
2Ruby-crowned Kinglet ✓
2Blue-gray Gnatcatcher ✓
1Carolina Wren ✓
2Northern Mockingbird ✓
1Eastern Bluebird ✓
1White-crowned Sparrow ✓
1Song Sparrow ✓
4Red-winged Blackbird ✓
2Common Grackle ✓
2American Redstart ✓
4Yellow-rumped Warbler ✓
4Northern Cardinal ✓
24Common Gallinule ✓
1Spotted Sandpiper ✓
8Prairie Willet ✓
6Laughing Gull ✓
11Double-crested Cormorant ✓
2Roseate Spoonbill ✓
1Little Blue Heron ✓
4Tricolored Heron ✓
28Snowy Egret ✓
3Great Blue Heron ✓
12Brown Pelican ✓
2Belted Kingfisher ✓
3Red-bellied Woodpecker ✓
2Northern Flicker ✓
5Blue Jay ✓
1White-breasted Nuthatch ✓
3Brown-headed Nuthatch ✓
2Northern House Wren ✓
1Gray Catbird ✓
5House Finch ✓
3White-throated Sparrow ✓
1Swamp Sparrow ✓
1Sora ✓
2Killdeer ✓
2Greater Yellowlegs ✓
8White Ibis ✓
1Black-crowned Night Heron ✓
1Turkey Vulture ✓
3Red-shouldered Hawk ✓
1Yellow-bellied Sapsucker ✓
45Fish Crow ✓
1Golden-crowned Kinglet ✓
XWinter Wren ✓
1Seaside Sparrow ✓
1Common Yellowthroat ✓

November 6

1Black-bellied Plover ✓
1Lesser Yellowlegs ✓
2Dunlin ✓
2American Herring Gull ✓
1Chipping Sparrow ✓
1Palm Warbler ✓
1Prairie Warbler ✓
1Pileated Woodpecker ✓
2Blue-headed Vireo ✓
1Pine Warbler ✓
1Virginia Rail ✓
1Merlin ✓
2Tree Swallow ✓
1Eastern Towhee ✓
4Ruddy Duck ✓
1Anhinga ✓
1Bald Eagle ✓
1Savannah Sparrow ✓
1Peregrine Falcon ✓
1Nelson's Sparrow ✓

November 5

71Ruddy Turnstone ✓
1Least Sandpiper ✓
4Ring-billed Gull ✓
350Black Skimmer ✓
50Royal Tern ✓
1Northern Gannet ✓
1Green-winged Teal ✓
1Short-billed Dowitcher ✓
2Western Sandpiper ✓
2Bonaparte's Gull ✓
1Brown Creeper ✓
3Blue-winged Teal ✓
1American Goldfinch ✓
26Semipalmated Plover ✓
8Caspian Tern ✓
4Sandwich Tern ✓
1Hermit Thrush ✓
1Northern Waterthrush
4Red Knot ✓
1Ruby-throated Hummingbird ✓
1Long-billed Dowitcher ✓
1Cooper's Hawk ✓
1Sedge Wren ✓
2European Starling ✓
1American Pipit ✓
1Saltmarsh Sparrow ✓
1Rusty Blackbird ✓
1Brown Thrasher ✓

November 4

1White-eyed Vireo ✓
1Brown-headed Cowbird ✓
1Hooded Merganser ✓
1American Oystercatcher ✓
1Black Vulture ✓
1Field Sparrow ✓
1Black-and-white Warbler ✓
1American Robin ✓
17Boat-tailed Grackle ✓

November 3

1Great Horned Owl ✓
11Black Scoter ✓
2Loggerhead Shrike ✓
8Canada Goose ✓

November 2

1Black-throated Blue Warbler ✓
1Lesser Black-backed Gull ✓
1Northern Harrier ✓
1Surf Scoter ✓
1Green Heron ✓

November 1

2Wild Turkey ✓
1Purple Finch ✓
1Chuck-will's-widow ✓
1Lesser Scaup ✓
2Great Black-backed Gull ✓
1Common Loon ✓

October 31

1Hairy Woodpecker