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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 9

1Greater Yellowlegs ✓
4Laughing Gull ✓
3Forster's Tern ✓
8Pied-billed Grebe ✓
29Wood Stork ✓
1Double-crested Cormorant ✓
12Tricolored Heron ✓
4Snowy Egret ✓
16Great Egret ✓
8Great Blue Heron ✓
9American White Pelican ✓
20Brown Pelican ✓
2Osprey ✓
1Eastern Screech-Owl ✓
2Blue Jay ✓
2American Crow ✓
1Fish Crow ✓
1White-throated Sparrow ✓
13Common Gallinule ✓
3American Coot ✓
6White Ibis ✓
2Roseate Spoonbill ✓
3Black-crowned Night Heron ✓
5Little Blue Heron ✓
2Turkey Vulture ✓
1Yellow-bellied Sapsucker ✓
1Red-bellied Woodpecker ✓
2Carolina Chickadee ✓
2Tufted Titmouse ✓
4Ruby-crowned Kinglet ✓
1White-breasted Nuthatch ✓
1Gray Catbird ✓
1Song Sparrow ✓
2Swamp Sparrow ✓
3Red-winged Blackbird ✓
5Yellow-rumped Warbler ✓
2Northern Cardinal ✓
1Downy Woodpecker ✓
1Northern Mockingbird ✓
1House Finch ✓
1Mourning Dove ✓
2Royal Tern ✓
1Red-shouldered Hawk ✓
1Eastern Phoebe ✓
3Carolina Wren ✓
11Eastern Bluebird ✓
1American Robin ✓
4Ruddy Duck ✓
4Clapper Rail ✓
2Black-bellied Plover ✓
6Short-billed Dowitcher ✓
2Prairie Willet ✓
2Sanderling ✓
1Dunlin ✓
2Ring-billed Gull ✓
2Belted Kingfisher ✓
1Blue-headed Vireo ✓
1Brown Creeper ✓
2Blue-gray Gnatcatcher ✓
1White-crowned Sparrow ✓
1Saltmarsh Sparrow ✓
4Common Grackle ✓
2Brown Thrasher ✓
1Hermit Thrush ✓

November 8

1Ruddy Turnstone ✓
1Golden-crowned Kinglet ✓
1Northern House Wren ✓
4Killdeer ✓
2American Redstart ✓
15Semipalmated Plover ✓
1Piping Plover ✓
5Western Sandpiper ✓
1Sandwich Tern ✓
1Bald Eagle ✓
1Boat-tailed Grackle ✓
2American Oystercatcher ✓
1Parasitic Jaeger ✓
4American Herring Gull ✓
1Lesser Black-backed Gull ✓
1Caspian Tern ✓
1Cooper's Hawk ✓
2Northern Flicker ✓
1Savannah Sparrow ✓
1Hooded Merganser ✓
2Brown-headed Nuthatch ✓
1Eastern Towhee ✓
1Virginia Rail ✓
2Winter Wren ✓
2Cedar Waxwing ✓
1Orange-crowned Warbler ✓
14Blue-winged Teal ✓
1Mallard ✓
1Ruby-throated Hummingbird ✓
15Tree Swallow ✓
3Pine Warbler ✓
4Least Sandpiper ✓
25Green-winged Teal ✓
1Northern Harrier ✓
1Pileated Woodpecker ✓

November 7

1Palm Warbler ✓
2Northern Gannet ✓
1Western Kingbird
2Wilson's Plover ✓
2Gadwall ✓
1Spotted Sandpiper ✓
1Sora ✓
1Seaside Sparrow ✓
1Common Yellowthroat ✓

November 6

1Lesser Yellowlegs ✓
1Chipping Sparrow ✓
1Prairie Warbler ✓
1Merlin ✓
1Anhinga ✓
1Peregrine Falcon ✓
1Nelson's Sparrow ✓

November 5

350Black Skimmer ✓
2Bonaparte's Gull ✓
1American Goldfinch ✓
1Northern Waterthrush
4Red Knot ✓
1Long-billed Dowitcher ✓
1Sedge Wren ✓
2European Starling ✓
1American Pipit ✓
1Rusty Blackbird ✓

November 4

1White-eyed Vireo ✓
1Brown-headed Cowbird ✓
1Black Vulture ✓
1Field Sparrow ✓
1Black-and-white Warbler ✓

November 3

1Great Horned Owl ✓
11Black Scoter ✓
2Loggerhead Shrike ✓
8Canada Goose ✓

November 2

1Black-throated Blue Warbler ✓