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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.

August 20

1Ruby-throated Hummingbird
2American Coot
2Piping Plover
2Willet
4Sanderling
1Least Sandpiper
2Ring-billed Gull
2Forster's Tern
2Double-crested Cormorant
2Least Bittern
4Snowy Egret
1Swallow-tailed Kite
2Belted Kingfisher
1Downy Woodpecker
2Red-eyed Vireo
4Blue Jay
1Fish Crow
1Carolina Chickadee
1Tufted Titmouse
2Carolina Wren
1Eastern Bluebird
1Orchard Oriole
4Red-winged Blackbird
2Common Grackle
1Boat-tailed Grackle
2Painted Bunting
4American Oystercatcher
6Black-bellied Plover
17Semipalmated Plover
1Marbled Godwit
1Ruddy Turnstone
1Pectoral Sandpiper
46Laughing Gull
11Black Skimmer
2Common Tern
1Sandwich Tern
7Wood Stork
1Tricolored Heron
13Great Egret
1Great Blue Heron
2Osprey
1American Crow
6Northern Cardinal
5Northern Mockingbird
3Common Yellowthroat
5Mourning Dove
9Common Gallinule
2Anhinga
5Black-crowned Night Heron
1Green Heron
3Red-headed Woodpecker
4Red-bellied Woodpecker
4Great Crested Flycatcher
2White-eyed Vireo
1White-breasted Nuthatch
3Brown-headed Nuthatch
1Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

August 19

1Clapper Rail
1Spotted Sandpiper
6House Finch
1American Goldfinch
1Short-billed Dowitcher
4American Herring Gull
1Gull-billed Tern
2White Ibis
1American Redstart
2Semipalmated Sandpiper
1Yellow-crowned Night Heron
2Summer Tanager
1Solitary Sandpiper
2Little Blue Heron
1Bald Eagle
1Northern Flicker
1Barn Swallow
1Pine Warbler
1Eastern Whip-poor-will
1Western Sandpiper
1Pied-billed Grebe
6Brown Pelican
1Mississippi Kite
1Chipping Sparrow
1Black-and-white Warbler
4Chimney Swift
7Greater Yellowlegs
4Caspian Tern
1Black Tern
10Royal Tern
3Brown Thrasher
1Northern Waterthrush
8Black-necked Stilt
1Prairie Warbler

August 18

1Pileated Woodpecker
1Northern Parula
1Lesser Yellowlegs
4Turkey Vulture
1Red-shouldered Hawk
7Tree Swallow
3American Robin
2Blue Grosbeak

August 17

1Louisiana Waterthrush

August 16

2Least Tern
3Cliff Swallow

August 15

1Blue-winged Teal
1Prothonotary Warbler
1Swainson's Warbler

August 14

1Red-tailed Hawk
1Brown-headed Cowbird