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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.

December 4

7Northern Shoveler
42Gadwall
2Northern Pintail
37Green-winged Teal
3Lesser Scaup
9Bufflehead
19Hooded Merganser
2Ruddy Duck
35Common Gallinule
48American Coot
1Killdeer
13Dunlin
5Least Sandpiper
4Ring-billed Gull
1Forster's Tern
13Pied-billed Grebe
9Wood Stork
35Double-crested Cormorant
7White Ibis
6Black-crowned Night Heron
2Little Blue Heron
3Tricolored Heron
4Snowy Egret
14Great Egret
9Great Blue Heron
52American White Pelican
2Osprey
1Cooper's Hawk
2Bald Eagle
1Red-shouldered Hawk
1Eastern Screech-Owl
1Belted Kingfisher
1Eastern Phoebe
1White-eyed Vireo
1Blue-headed Vireo
2American Crow
1Carolina Chickadee
20Tree Swallow
1Northern Mockingbird
2White-throated Sparrow
8Red-winged Blackbird
14Common Grackle
13Yellow-rumped Warbler
2Northern Cardinal
2Ring-necked Duck
1Mourning Dove
1King Rail
1Sora
1Black-bellied Plover
1Wilson's Snipe
XWillet
6Greater Yellowlegs
1Downy Woodpecker
1Blue Jay
XTufted Titmouse
XCarolina Wren
1American Robin
1Ruddy Turnstone
13Sanderling
3Red-throated Loon
4Northern Gannet
6Brown Pelican
1Great Horned Owl
1Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
1Ruby-crowned Kinglet
1White-breasted Nuthatch
1Brown-headed Nuthatch
1American Pipit
2House Finch
1American Goldfinch
1Dark-eyed Junco

December 3

2Blue-winged Teal
1Red-breasted Merganser
1Clapper Rail
8Semipalmated Plover
6Red Knot
1Bonaparte's Gull
45Laughing Gull
8American Herring Gull
1Great Black-backed Gull
1Royal Tern
6Common Loon
6Turkey Vulture
1Northern Harrier
1Red-tailed Hawk
4Red-bellied Woodpecker
1American Kestrel
2Barn Swallow
2Golden-crowned Kinglet
1Northern House Wren
1Marsh Wren
2Gray Catbird
1Brown Thrasher
2Eastern Bluebird
1Hermit Thrush
3Cedar Waxwing
2Purple Finch
1Saltmarsh Sparrow
7Savannah Sparrow
2Song Sparrow
1Swamp Sparrow
1Eastern Towhee
1Orange-crowned Warbler
1Pine Warbler
2Prairie Warbler

December 2

2Short-billed Dowitcher
2Roseate Spoonbill

December 1

1Greater Scaup
88Black Scoter
1Purple Sandpiper
4Western Sandpiper
1Parasitic Jaeger
200Black Skimmer
2Northern Flicker
1Loggerhead Shrike
1Nelson's Sparrow
2Anhinga
1Winter Wren
7Wood Duck
1Black-and-white Warbler

November 30

2Black Vulture
2Chipping Sparrow
4Boat-tailed Grackle

November 29

1Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
4Redhead
10Canada Goose
1Common Yellowthroat