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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.

January 7

9Black Scoter
8Red-breasted Merganser
10Black-bellied Plover
3Killdeer
200Semipalmated Plover
40Short-billed Dowitcher
10Willet
6Ruddy Turnstone
7Red Knot
20Sanderling
150Dunlin
16Western Sandpiper
8Bonaparte's Gull
4Ring-billed Gull
3American Herring Gull
5Forster's Tern
2Pied-billed Grebe
3Horned Grebe
4Red-throated Loon
3Common Loon
2Northern Gannet
6Double-crested Cormorant
12Brown Pelican
1Turkey Vulture
1American Kestrel
10Tree Swallow
2House Finch
16Savannah Sparrow
6Red-winged Blackbird
10Yellow-rumped Warbler
2Blue-winged Teal
12Northern Shoveler
2Gadwall
2Northern Pintail
38Green-winged Teal
40Bufflehead
40Hooded Merganser
1Mourning Dove
6Common Gallinule
20American Coot
4White Ibis
1Black-crowned Night Heron
2Little Blue Heron
1Tricolored Heron
14Snowy Egret
3Great Egret
3Great Blue Heron
3American White Pelican
2Osprey
1Bald Eagle
1Red-tailed Hawk
1Belted Kingfisher
1Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
1Northern Flicker
1Eastern Phoebe
1Blue Jay
3American Crow
5Carolina Chickadee
2Tufted Titmouse
1Ruby-crowned Kinglet
1Brown-headed Nuthatch
2Carolina Wren
1Gray Catbird
1Northern Mockingbird
5White-throated Sparrow
1Black-and-white Warbler
2Pine Warbler
3Northern Cardinal
5Lesser Scaup
1Least Sandpiper
1Royal Tern
1Red-shouldered Hawk
2Red-bellied Woodpecker
1Downy Woodpecker
1Pileated Woodpecker
1White-breasted Nuthatch
2Eastern Bluebird
2Hermit Thrush
1American Robin
1Cedar Waxwing
1American Goldfinch
2Swamp Sparrow
1Eastern Towhee
1Common Goldeneye
1Greater Yellowlegs
1Sedge Wren
6Ring-necked Duck
1Long-tailed Duck
1Barred Owl
1Peregrine Falcon
1Golden-crowned Kinglet
1Brown Creeper
2European Starling
1White-crowned Sparrow
1Saltmarsh Sparrow
2Mallard
1Blue-headed Vireo
3Song Sparrow
6Common Grackle

January 6

2Piping Plover
1Northern Harrier
2Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
1Winter Wren
1Clapper Rail
1Virginia Rail
2Wilson's Snipe
1Fish Crow
1Orange-crowned Warbler
6Laughing Gull
4Anhinga
1Sharp-shinned Hawk
1Loggerhead Shrike
1Brown Thrasher
1American Pipit
2Common Yellowthroat

January 5

2Ruddy Duck
1Red-headed Woodpecker
2Rusty Blackbird
2Boat-tailed Grackle
2Yellow-throated Warbler
1Redhead
2Marsh Wren
1Surf Scoter
3Sora
1Wood Stork
2Black Vulture
1Lesser Black-backed Gull
1White-eyed Vireo

January 4

1Eastern Screech-Owl
2Brown-headed Cowbird
2Chipping Sparrow
1American Wigeon
1White-winged Scoter
2American Oystercatcher
1American Bittern
8Mottled Duck
1Great Black-backed Gull

January 3

6Canvasback
2Long-billed Dowitcher
1Prairie Warbler
1Marbled Godwit
1Green Heron
1Fox Sparrow
1Seaside Sparrow

January 2

1Spotted Sandpiper
XGreater Scaup
2Lesser Yellowlegs
2Cooper's Hawk

January 1

14Canada Goose
2Purple Sandpiper
1Vesper Sparrow