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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 4

2Mourning Dove
1Killdeer
1Semipalmated Plover
1Wilson's Plover
1Short-billed Dowitcher
1Spotted Sandpiper
1Willet
1Greater Yellowlegs
1Least Sandpiper
1Double-crested Cormorant
2Little Blue Heron
2Snowy Egret
1Green Heron
1Great Egret
1Great Blue Heron
2Turkey Vulture
1Osprey
1Red-shouldered Hawk
4Red-bellied Woodpecker
2Downy Woodpecker
1Northern Flicker
5Great Crested Flycatcher
1Eastern Kingbird
1Red-eyed Vireo
1Blue Jay
1American Crow
2Fish Crow
2Carolina Chickadee
1Tufted Titmouse
1Barn Swallow
1White-breasted Nuthatch
1Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
2Carolina Wren
3Gray Catbird
1Brown Thrasher
1Northern Mockingbird
2House Finch
1American Goldfinch
1Red-winged Blackbird
2Brown-headed Cowbird
1Common Grackle
1Ovenbird
1Black-and-white Warbler
1Prothonotary Warbler
2Common Yellowthroat
1American Redstart
1Northern Parula
1Pine Warbler
2Northern Cardinal
2Painted Bunting
6Common Gallinule
2American Coot
1Black-necked Stilt
2Black-bellied Plover
1Solitary Sandpiper
2Lesser Yellowlegs
5Ruddy Turnstone
9Sanderling
1Laughing Gull
2Least Tern
2Forster's Tern
3Royal Tern
7Anhinga
10White Ibis
1Roseate Spoonbill
2Least Bittern
1Black-crowned Night Heron
2Tricolored Heron
1Bald Eagle
1Red-tailed Hawk
1Red-headed Woodpecker
10Tree Swallow
6Purple Martin
3Boat-tailed Grackle
2Ruby-throated Hummingbird
1Purple Gallinule
1Hudsonian Whimbrel
1Marbled Godwit
1Stilt Sandpiper
2Western Sandpiper
2Ring-billed Gull
2Black Skimmer
4European Starling
1Blackburnian Warbler
1Black-throated Blue Warbler
6Chimney Swift
1Clapper Rail
18Semipalmated Sandpiper
5Glossy Ibis
1Western Cattle-Egret
1Cooper's Hawk
3Eastern Bluebird
1Orchard Oriole

May 3

5Black Scoter
1American Oystercatcher
1American Herring Gull
2Caspian Tern
2Brown Pelican
1Orange-crowned Warbler
1Swallow-tailed Kite
1Willow Flycatcher
1Brown-headed Nuthatch
4American Robin
1Tennessee Warbler
1Prairie Warbler
1Hairy Woodpecker
1Hermit Thrush
1Rose-breasted Grosbeak
1White-eyed Vireo
1Summer Tanager
1Yellow-breasted Chat
1White-rumped Sandpiper
2Pied-billed Grebe
2Belted Kingfisher
1Pileated Woodpecker
1Chipping Sparrow
3Canada Goose
1Sora
5Dunlin
1Yellow-crowned Night Heron
1Black Vulture
1House Sparrow
1Eastern Screech-Owl

May 2

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

May 1

1Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
1Blue-winged Warbler
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
6Mallard
2Gull-billed Tern
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
1Magnolia Warbler
2Yellow-rumped Warbler
1Blue-headed Vireo
1Wood Thrush
1Northern Waterthrush
2Cedar Waxwing
1Baltimore Oriole

April 29

1Rock Pigeon
1Northern Harrier

April 28

2Common Nighthawk
4Wilson's Snipe
1Brown Creeper
1Veery
1Indigo Bunting
1Bonaparte's Gull
1Nelson's Sparrow
1Cape May Warbler