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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.

October 9

2Mourning Dove ✓
9Common Gallinule ✓
2Caspian Tern ✓
1Forster's Tern ✓
3Wood Stork ✓
2Anhinga ✓
3White Ibis ✓
3Black-crowned Night Heron ✓
1Little Blue Heron ✓
2Snowy Egret ✓
2Green Heron ✓
4Great Egret ✓
3Great Blue Heron ✓
2Turkey Vulture ✓
2Osprey ✓
1Northern Harrier ✓
2Belted Kingfisher ✓
1Red-bellied Woodpecker ✓
3Downy Woodpecker ✓
1Pileated Woodpecker ✓
1Northern Flicker ✓
1Merlin ✓
1Peregrine Falcon ✓
1Eastern Wood-Pewee ✓
2Eastern Phoebe ✓
3White-eyed Vireo ✓
2Blue Jay ✓
2American Crow ✓
1Fish Crow ✓
7Carolina Chickadee ✓
5Tufted Titmouse ✓
48Tree Swallow ✓
1Ruby-crowned Kinglet ✓
1White-breasted Nuthatch ✓
1Northern House Wren ✓
3Carolina Wren ✓
14Gray Catbird ✓
5Brown Thrasher ✓
2Northern Mockingbird ✓
1Eastern Bluebird ✓
1White-crowned Sparrow ✓
22Common Grackle ✓
1Boat-tailed Grackle ✓
2Northern Waterthrush ✓
1Black-and-white Warbler ✓
6Common Yellowthroat ✓
3American Redstart ✓
4Northern Parula ✓
1Palm Warbler ✓
2Pine Warbler ✓
2Yellow-throated Warbler ✓
1Summer Tanager ✓
8Northern Cardinal ✓
4Painted Bunting ✓
1Common Nighthawk ✓
1Sora ✓
1American Coot ✓
2Semipalmated Plover ✓
1Marbled Godwit ✓
2Spotted Sandpiper ✓
2Willet ✓
2Ring-billed Gull ✓
4American Herring Gull ✓
1Sandwich Tern ✓
1Bald Eagle ✓
1Great Crested Flycatcher ✓
2Blue-gray Gnatcatcher ✓
1Marsh Wren ✓
1Savannah Sparrow ✓
2Red-winged Blackbird ✓
1Orange-crowned Warbler ✓
1Wild Turkey ✓
1Killdeer ✓
2Greater Yellowlegs ✓
1Least Sandpiper ✓
1Red-eyed Vireo ✓
2Brown-headed Nuthatch ✓
1House Finch ✓
1Blue Grosbeak ✓
1Indigo Bunting ✓
1Clapper Rail ✓
2Double-crested Cormorant ✓

October 8

1Ruby-throated Hummingbird ✓
1Short-billed Dowitcher ✓
1Sanderling ✓
2Pied-billed Grebe ✓
1Red-shouldered Hawk ✓
1Song Sparrow ✓
1Cape May Warbler ✓
1Chestnut-sided Warbler ✓
2Laughing Gull ✓
2Tricolored Heron ✓
1American Kestrel ✓
1Brown-headed Cowbird ✓
1Yellow-billed Cuckoo ✓
6Chimney Swift ✓
3Glossy Ibis ✓
1Virginia Rail ✓
4Bonaparte's Gull ✓
2Yellow-crowned Night Heron ✓
1Least Flycatcher ✓
6American Robin ✓
1Seaside Sparrow ✓
1Hooded Warbler ✓

October 7

1Brown Pelican ✓
1Blue-headed Vireo ✓
1Blue-winged Warbler ✓
1Tennessee Warbler ✓
2Blue-winged Teal ✓
4Semipalmated Sandpiper ✓
1Cooper's Hawk ✓
1Blackpoll Warbler ✓
2Prairie Warbler ✓
2Yellow-bellied Sapsucker ✓

October 6

4Western Sandpiper ✓
2American White Pelican ✓
1Eastern Kingbird ✓
6Northern Rough-winged Swallow ✓
1Magnolia Warbler ✓
2Black-throated Blue Warbler ✓
2European Starling ✓

October 5

3Roseate Spoonbill ✓
2Prothonotary Warbler ✓
1Black-bellied Plover ✓
1American Golden-Plover ✓
4Royal Tern ✓
9Ruddy Turnstone ✓
1Red-headed Woodpecker ✓
2Wilson's Snipe ✓
2Gull-billed Tern ✓
1American Pipit ✓
1Saltmarsh Sparrow ✓
1Nashville Warbler ✓

October 4

1Long-billed Dowitcher ✓
1Dunlin ✓
4Black Skimmer ✓
2Barn Swallow ✓
1Kentucky Warbler ✓
1Bay-breasted Warbler ✓

October 3

2American Oystercatcher ✓
4Lesser Yellowlegs ✓
1Chuck-will's-widow ✓
2Piping Plover ✓
1Yellow-throated Vireo ✓
1Lesser Black-backed Gull ✓