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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.

October 22

1Mourning Dove
1American Coot
2Willet
1Laughing Gull
4Ring-billed Gull
2Pied-billed Grebe
12Wood Stork
6Double-crested Cormorant
4Roseate Spoonbill
4Snowy Egret
6Great Egret
1Bald Eagle
1Downy Woodpecker
1White-eyed Vireo
2Blue Jay
2Fish Crow
1Brown-headed Nuthatch
2Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
1Carolina Wren
1Brown Thrasher
1Hermit Thrush
1Chipping Sparrow
4Red-winged Blackbird
4Common Grackle
1Tennessee Warbler
1American Redstart
1Pine Warbler
1Black-throated Green Warbler
1Clapper Rail
3Semipalmated Plover
2Dunlin
5Least Sandpiper
1Royal Tern
12White Ibis
2Tricolored Heron
2Great Blue Heron
1Turkey Vulture
1Osprey
1Belted Kingfisher
1American Crow
1Carolina Chickadee
3Barn Swallow
1Northern Mockingbird
1Common Yellowthroat
1Northern Cardinal
6Northern Shoveler
2Ruby-throated Hummingbird
2Black-bellied Plover
4Piping Plover
6Spotted Sandpiper
2Sandwich Tern
6Brown Pelican
1Red-bellied Woodpecker
1Eastern Phoebe
1Blue-headed Vireo
1Tufted Titmouse
20Tree Swallow
2Gray Catbird
1Wood Thrush
1White-crowned Sparrow
1Savannah Sparrow
1Swamp Sparrow
1Cape May Warbler
1Magnolia Warbler

October 21

9Blue-winged Teal
4Mottled Duck
1Yellow-billed Cuckoo
29Common Gallinule
1Western Sandpiper
1Red-shouldered Hawk
2Pileated Woodpecker
2Eastern Bluebird
2Black-and-white Warbler
2Yellow-rumped Warbler
1Yellow-throated Warbler
1Gadwall
3American Wigeon
13Sanderling
1Caspian Tern
1Anhinga
2Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
1Red-headed Woodpecker
2Northern Flicker
1Red-eyed Vireo
1Ruby-crowned Kinglet
10House Finch
1White-throated Sparrow
1Brown-headed Cowbird
1Palm Warbler
2Painted Bunting
7Canada Goose
2Ruddy Turnstone
3Purple Sandpiper
5Black Skimmer
1Little Blue Heron
1Cooper's Hawk
2White-breasted Nuthatch
1Northern House Wren
1Baltimore Oriole
1Forster's Tern
2Common Loon
1Red-tailed Hawk
1Marsh Wren
1Seaside Sparrow
1Saltmarsh Sparrow
1Prairie Warbler
1Field Sparrow
2Boat-tailed Grackle
1Orange-crowned Warbler
1Bay-breasted Warbler
1Black-throated Blue Warbler

October 20

2Brown Creeper
1Song Sparrow
1Prothonotary Warbler
1Kentucky Warbler
1Yellow Warbler
1Indigo Bunting
1Greater Yellowlegs
2Black-crowned Night Heron
1Common Nighthawk
1Killdeer
1Common Tern
1Winter Wren
1Nelson's Sparrow
1Northern Parula

October 19

4Bonaparte's Gull
2Eastern Wood-Pewee
6European Starling
1Northern Harrier
8Black Vulture
1Eastern Towhee
1Sora
1Hairy Woodpecker
1Rock Pigeon
1Chuck-will's-widow
1Wilson's Plover
1Nashville Warbler
1Blackburnian Warbler

October 18

1Eastern Screech-Owl
1Green Heron
2Golden-crowned Kinglet
2House Sparrow

October 17

1Solitary Sandpiper
3Short-billed Dowitcher
1Eurasian Collared-Dove
1White-rumped Sandpiper
1Wilson's Warbler

October 16

1Wild Turkey
1Whimbrel
1Barred Owl
1Semipalmated Sandpiper
1Merlin
1Peregrine Falcon
1Eastern Meadowlark