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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.

September 13

4American Oystercatcher
1Black-bellied Plover
11Semipalmated Plover
1Willet
23Laughing Gull
13Black Skimmer
3Forster's Tern
8Royal Tern
18Wood Stork
2Tricolored Heron
6Snowy Egret
15Great Egret
5Great Blue Heron
4Turkey Vulture
1Osprey
1Mourning Dove
1Ruby-throated Hummingbird
2American Coot
2Spotted Sandpiper
1Western Sandpiper
4Ring-billed Gull
1Great Black-backed Gull
1Little Blue Heron
6Brown Pelican
2Belted Kingfisher
1Downy Woodpecker
1Red-eyed Vireo
4Blue Jay
2Tufted Titmouse
1Carolina Wren
4Northern Mockingbird
2Red-winged Blackbird
2Summer Tanager
2Painted Bunting
1Clapper Rail
7Common Gallinule
1Sanderling
1Pied-billed Grebe
1Anhinga
2Double-crested Cormorant
8White Ibis
2Cooper's Hawk
1Bald Eagle
1Red-headed Woodpecker
1Pileated Woodpecker
4Carolina Chickadee
8Barn Swallow
1Brown-headed Nuthatch
4House Finch
1Black-and-white Warbler
12Northern Cardinal
1Eastern Bluebird
3Yellow-crowned Night Heron
1Killdeer
1Green Heron
2White-eyed Vireo
1American Crow
1Brown Thrasher
1Common Grackle
3Least Sandpiper
8Semipalmated Sandpiper
1Caspian Tern
1Black-crowned Night Heron
1Red-bellied Woodpecker
1Pine Warbler
2Piping Plover
4Short-billed Dowitcher
2Greater Yellowlegs
12Ruddy Turnstone
6Pectoral Sandpiper
12American Herring Gull
2Common Tern
2Sandwich Tern

September 12

1Virginia Rail
1Red-tailed Hawk
1Great Crested Flycatcher
2Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
6European Starling
4American Robin
1Savannah Sparrow
4Brown-headed Cowbird
1Swainson's Warbler
1Common Yellowthroat
1Black Vulture
1Solitary Sandpiper
2Baltimore Oriole
2Great Horned Owl
2Eastern Kingbird
1American Redstart

September 11

1Chuck-will's-widow
1Broad-winged Hawk
1Gray Catbird
24Blue-winged Teal
2Chimney Swift
1Hooded Warbler
1Peregrine Falcon
1Boat-tailed Grackle
1Chestnut-sided Warbler
1White-breasted Nuthatch

September 10

1Seaside Sparrow
1Tree Swallow
1Eurasian Collared-Dove
1Black-necked Stilt
2Lesser Yellowlegs
1Stilt Sandpiper
2Glossy Ibis
1Reddish Egret
1Eastern Wood-Pewee
2Gull-billed Tern
1Blue-winged Warbler

September 9

1Northern Harrier
1Cedar Waxwing
1Chipping Sparrow

September 8

1Least Flycatcher
1Yellow-breasted Chat
1Prairie Warbler
2Blue Grosbeak
1Sora
1Lesser Black-backed Gull
1Red-shouldered Hawk
1Northern Flicker
1Yellow-throated Vireo
1Eastern Towhee
1Northern Yellow Warbler
1Yellow-throated Warbler

September 7

1Fish Crow
1Purple Martin