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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.

May 8

1Eastern Screech-Owl
1Mourning Dove
1Common Nighthawk
7Chimney Swift
2Common Gallinule
3Spotted Sandpiper
9Least Sandpiper
6Double-crested Cormorant
1Least Bittern
20Black-crowned Night Heron
7Little Blue Heron
4Tricolored Heron
5Snowy Egret
3Green Heron
5Great Egret
1Great Blue Heron
1Downy Woodpecker
1Eastern Wood-Pewee
1Great Crested Flycatcher
1American Crow
1Carolina Wren
1Baltimore Oriole
5Red-winged Blackbird
2Common Grackle
4Boat-tailed Grackle
1Common Yellowthroat
1Pine Warbler
1Northern Cardinal
1Sora
3American Coot
1Sanderling
1Roseate Spoonbill
1Yellow-crowned Night Heron
XRed-bellied Woodpecker
2Blue Jay
XCarolina Chickadee
2Ruby-throated Hummingbird
1Clapper Rail
2Black-necked Stilt
2Killdeer
4Solitary Sandpiper
2Stilt Sandpiper
4Ring-billed Gull
1Gull-billed Tern
2White Ibis
1Swallow-tailed Kite
1Bald Eagle
2Fish Crow
1Tufted Titmouse
10Purple Martin
1Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
2Northern Mockingbird
1Blue-winged Warbler
2Painted Bunting
3Anhinga
1Brown-headed Nuthatch
1Summer Tanager
1Lesser Yellowlegs
1Glossy Ibis
1Turkey Vulture
1King Rail
50Semipalmated Plover
4Brown Pelican
1Osprey
12Barn Swallow
1Eastern Bluebird
7Black-bellied Plover
XGreater Yellowlegs
XLaughing Gull
1Brown-headed Cowbird
XAmerican Redstart
2Piping Plover
1Dunlin
2Pied-billed Grebe
1Belted Kingfisher
1Eastern Kingbird
1House Finch
1Orange-crowned Warbler
1Yellow-billed Cuckoo
1Pileated Woodpecker
1Yellow-throated Vireo
3Red-eyed Vireo
2Tree Swallow
1White-breasted Nuthatch
1Gray Catbird
1Ovenbird
1Black-and-white Warbler
1Swainson's Warbler
1Northern Parula
1Northern Yellow Warbler
1Blackpoll Warbler
1Black-throated Blue Warbler
1Rose-breasted Grosbeak
1Blue Grosbeak

May 7

9Western Sandpiper
4Least Tern
2Royal Tern
2American Bittern
2Willet
2Brown Thrasher
2Prairie Warbler
1Mallard
8Short-billed Dowitcher
17Semipalmated Sandpiper
1Red-headed Woodpecker
1Prothonotary Warbler
1Red-shouldered Hawk
2Black Skimmer
2Forster's Tern
1Bobolink
1Eastern Whip-poor-will
1Wilson's Phalarope
1Sandwich Tern
1Red-tailed Hawk
1Chestnut-sided Warbler
1Hudsonian Whimbrel
1Hairy Woodpecker

May 6

2Red Knot
1Willow Flycatcher
1Marsh Wren
1Nelson's Sparrow
3Wilson's Plover
5Ruddy Turnstone
1White-eyed Vireo
1European Starling
2American Robin
2Wood Duck
2Wood Stork
1Wood Thrush
1Blue-headed Vireo

May 5

2Bonaparte's Gull
XHouse Sparrow
4Western Cattle-Egret
3Black Vulture
4American Herring Gull
1Cape May Warbler
1Magnolia Warbler
1Acadian Flycatcher
2Orchard Oriole
2American White Pelican
1Chipping Sparrow
1American Golden-Plover

May 4

2American Goldfinch
1Northern Flicker
1Purple Gallinule
1Marbled Godwit
1Blackburnian Warbler
1Cooper's Hawk

May 3

5Black Scoter
1American Oystercatcher
2Caspian Tern
1Tennessee Warbler
1Hermit Thrush
1Yellow-breasted Chat
1White-rumped Sandpiper
3Canada Goose

May 2

1Peregrine Falcon
1Saltmarsh Sparrow
1Chuck-will's-widow
2Pectoral Sandpiper
4Common Tern
1White-throated Sparrow