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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 5

1Common Nighthawk
3Least Sandpiper
1Black Skimmer
3White Ibis
1Roseate Spoonbill
2Mourning Dove
1Chimney Swift
1Black-bellied Plover
1Killdeer
6Sanderling
6Laughing Gull
1Great Blue Heron
1Brown Pelican
1Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
2Northern Mockingbird
1House Finch
1Painted Bunting
2Clapper Rail
1American Coot
3Semipalmated Plover
1Hudsonian Whimbrel
8Willet
1Greater Yellowlegs
1Dunlin
3Western Sandpiper
2Bonaparte's Gull
1Least Tern
6Anhinga
1Double-crested Cormorant
1Little Blue Heron
1Snowy Egret
1Great Egret
3Barn Swallow
1Red-winged Blackbird
1Boat-tailed Grackle
2Common Gallinule
1Solitary Sandpiper
1Green Heron
1Carolina Chickadee
1Carolina Wren
2Mallard
3Lesser Yellowlegs
1Tricolored Heron
2Great Crested Flycatcher
1American Crow
1Tufted Titmouse
3Brown-headed Cowbird
2Pine Warbler
1Northern Cardinal
1Ruby-throated Hummingbird
4Western Cattle-Egret
3Black Vulture
1Downy Woodpecker
1Purple Martin
1White-breasted Nuthatch
1Common Grackle
1Prothonotary Warbler
1Northern Parula
1Red-bellied Woodpecker
1Eastern Bluebird
2Spotted Sandpiper
1Turkey Vulture
1Blue Jay
1Fish Crow
3Tree Swallow
3American Robin
2Ring-billed Gull
4American Herring Gull
1Gull-billed Tern
1Royal Tern
2Pied-billed Grebe
1Swallow-tailed Kite
2Belted Kingfisher
1Gray Catbird
1Cape May Warbler
1Magnolia Warbler
3Sora
2Black-necked Stilt
1Short-billed Dowitcher
23Semipalmated Sandpiper
2Forster's Tern
2Glossy Ibis
2Least Bittern
1Black-crowned Night Heron
2Osprey
1Red-headed Woodpecker
1American Golden-Plover
1Bald Eagle
2Marsh Wren
1Blue-winged Warbler
1Orange-crowned Warbler

May 4

1Eastern Screech-Owl
1Yellow-crowned Night Heron
2American Goldfinch
1American Bittern
4Stilt Sandpiper
2European Starling
1Wilson's Plover
1Red-shouldered Hawk
1Northern Flicker
1Eastern Kingbird
1Red-eyed Vireo
1Brown Thrasher
1Ovenbird
1Black-and-white Warbler
2Common Yellowthroat
1American Redstart
5Ruddy Turnstone
1Red-tailed Hawk
1Purple Gallinule
1Marbled Godwit
1Blackburnian Warbler
1Black-throated Blue Warbler
1Cooper's Hawk
1Orchard Oriole

May 3

5Black Scoter
1American Oystercatcher
2Caspian Tern
1Willow Flycatcher
1Brown-headed Nuthatch
1Tennessee Warbler
1Prairie Warbler
1Hairy Woodpecker
1Hermit Thrush
1Rose-breasted Grosbeak
1White-eyed Vireo
1Summer Tanager
1Yellow-breasted Chat
1White-rumped Sandpiper
1Pileated Woodpecker
1Chipping Sparrow
3Canada Goose
1House Sparrow

May 2

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

May 1

1Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
1Long-billed Dowitcher
1Eurasian Collared-Dove
1Northern Gannet
1Acadian Flycatcher
1Yellow-throated Vireo
1Seaside Sparrow

April 30

2Sandwich Tern
1Merlin
3Red-breasted Merganser
1Mute Swan
1Wood Duck
1Ring-necked Duck
1Yellow-billed Cuckoo
1Common Loon
1Mississippi Kite
1Great Horned Owl
1American Kestrel
1Eastern Wood-Pewee
1Ruby-crowned Kinglet
1Savannah Sparrow
2Song Sparrow
1Swamp Sparrow
1Bobolink
2Yellow-rumped Warbler
1Blue-headed Vireo
1Wood Thrush
1Northern Waterthrush
2Cedar Waxwing
1Baltimore Oriole

April 29

1Rock Pigeon
1Northern Harrier