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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 15

2Gadwall ✓
3Green-winged Teal ✓
11Hooded Merganser ✓
1Ruddy Duck ✓
2Mourning Dove ✓
1Clapper Rail ✓
1Spotted Sandpiper ✓
16Greater Yellowlegs ✓
1Least Sandpiper ✓
6Bonaparte's Gull ✓
8Laughing Gull ✓
12Ring-billed Gull ✓
11Forster's Tern ✓
6Pied-billed Grebe ✓
10Wood Stork ✓
15Double-crested Cormorant ✓
6White Ibis ✓
4Little Blue Heron ✓
8Tricolored Heron ✓
13Snowy Egret ✓
10Great Egret ✓
4Great Blue Heron ✓
18American White Pelican ✓
14Brown Pelican ✓
5Turkey Vulture ✓
4Osprey ✓
1Bald Eagle ✓
1Eastern Screech-Owl ✓
1Fish Crow ✓
2Carolina Chickadee ✓
9Tree Swallow ✓
5Ruby-crowned Kinglet ✓
1Golden-crowned Kinglet ✓
3Northern Mockingbird ✓
1Swamp Sparrow ✓
4Red-winged Blackbird ✓
1Pine Warbler ✓
3Yellow-rumped Warbler ✓
5Bufflehead ✓
1Black-bellied Plover ✓
14Prairie Willet ✓
11Dunlin ✓
1Belted Kingfisher ✓
1Yellow-bellied Sapsucker ✓
1Downy Woodpecker ✓
1Eastern Phoebe ✓
2American Crow ✓
1House Finch ✓
1Savannah Sparrow ✓
2Northern Pintail ✓
2American Herring Gull ✓
1Brown-headed Nuthatch ✓
1Gray Catbird ✓
2White-throated Sparrow ✓
12Sanderling ✓
1Blue Jay ✓
1Tufted Titmouse ✓
1Blue-gray Gnatcatcher ✓
1Carolina Wren ✓
1Northern Cardinal ✓
4American Coot ✓
2Roseate Spoonbill ✓
1Cooper's Hawk ✓
1Eastern Bluebird ✓

November 14

8Short-billed Dowitcher ✓
2Western Sandpiper ✓
1Peregrine Falcon ✓
35Common Gallinule ✓
1Red-shouldered Hawk ✓
1Blue-headed Vireo ✓
1Brown Creeper ✓
1Black-and-white Warbler ✓
2Song Sparrow ✓
2Piping Plover ✓
1Ruddy Turnstone ✓
7Red Knot ✓
1Northern Gannet ✓
1Eastern Towhee ✓
1Virginia Rail ✓
3Red-bellied Woodpecker ✓
1Pileated Woodpecker ✓
2Northern Flicker ✓
1White-breasted Nuthatch ✓
1Northern House Wren ✓
1Winter Wren ✓
2Hermit Thrush ✓
1Common Grackle ✓
1Western Cattle-Egret ✓
2Red-breasted Merganser ✓
2Killdeer ✓
1Northern Harrier ✓
1Red-tailed Hawk ✓
6Blue-winged Teal ✓
2Anhinga ✓
1Rusty Blackbird ✓
2American Redstart ✓
1American Kestrel ✓

November 13

1Common Loon ✓
1Ruby-throated Hummingbird ✓
1White-crowned Sparrow ✓
2Boat-tailed Grackle ✓
2Ring-necked Duck ✓
1Royal Tern ✓
1Chipping Sparrow ✓
1Merlin ✓

November 12

2Wilson's Snipe ✓
1Purple Sandpiper ✓
1Brown Thrasher ✓
1Fox Sparrow ✓
2Brown-headed Cowbird ✓
1American Robin ✓
2Palm Warbler ✓
2Wood Duck ✓
1Green Heron ✓
1Saltmarsh Sparrow ✓

November 11

1Caspian Tern ✓
2Sandwich Tern ✓
1Common Yellowthroat ✓
2American Goldfinch ✓
1Baltimore Oriole ✓
9Semipalmated Plover ✓
1Barn Swallow ✓
4European Starling ✓
1Seaside Sparrow ✓

November 10

1Sora ✓
5Black-crowned Night Heron ✓

November 9

2Wilson's Plover ✓
2Northern Shoveler ✓
1Red-headed Woodpecker ✓
4Cedar Waxwing ✓
1Lark Sparrow ✓