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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.

August 4

3Mourning Dove
5Willet
7Sanderling
4Laughing Gull
4Royal Tern
11Wood Stork
1Great Egret
9Brown Pelican
2Mississippi Kite
3House Finch
1Northern Cardinal
1Ruby-throated Hummingbird
2Killdeer
1Spotted Sandpiper
2Ring-billed Gull
2Forster's Tern
1Double-crested Cormorant
6White Ibis
2Little Blue Heron
1Great Blue Heron
1Osprey
2Belted Kingfisher
1Eastern Kingbird
2Blue Jay
2Tufted Titmouse
1Brown-headed Nuthatch
4American Robin
2Red-winged Blackbird
1American Redstart
2Painted Bunting
3American Oystercatcher
5Black-bellied Plover
16Semipalmated Plover
1Piping Plover
1Short-billed Dowitcher
3Ruddy Turnstone
2Common Tern
1Sandwich Tern
2Tricolored Heron
2Snowy Egret
3Green Heron
1Pileated Woodpecker
25Chimney Swift
3Hudsonian Whimbrel
1Solitary Sandpiper
20Semipalmated Sandpiper
2Anhinga
2Turkey Vulture
2Red-headed Woodpecker
1Red-bellied Woodpecker
1White-eyed Vireo
2Carolina Chickadee
10Barn Swallow
2White-breasted Nuthatch
1Brown Thrasher
4Northern Mockingbird
6Eastern Bluebird
1Seaside Sparrow
1Prairie Warbler
3Common Gallinule
1Cooper's Hawk
1Downy Woodpecker
1Great Crested Flycatcher
1Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
5Carolina Wren

August 3

3American Goldfinch
1Rock Pigeon
1American Coot
1Stilt Sandpiper
1Least Sandpiper
1Yellow-crowned Night Heron
1Swallow-tailed Kite
1Red-tailed Hawk
1Chipping Sparrow
2Common Grackle
5Roseate Spoonbill
1American Crow
2Fish Crow
1Black-crowned Night Heron
2Clapper Rail
2Greater Yellowlegs
3Black Skimmer
1Black Tern
1Reddish Egret
4Purple Martin
4Boat-tailed Grackle
2Eastern Whip-poor-will
2Black-necked Stilt
2American Avocet
2Least Tern
1Red-shouldered Hawk
1Yellow-throated Vireo
6Brown-headed Cowbird
1Common Yellowthroat
1Yellow-throated Warbler

August 2

1Eurasian Collared-Dove
2American Herring Gull
1Glossy Ibis
2Gull-billed Tern
1Pine Warbler
2Blue Grosbeak

August 1

1Yellow-billed Cuckoo
1Bald Eagle
1Worm-eating Warbler
1Least Bittern
1Wood Duck
1American Kestrel
2Western Sandpiper
1Great Black-backed Gull
1Northern Flicker
1House Sparrow
1Summer Tanager
1Lesser Yellowlegs
3Wilson's Plover
1Marsh Wren

July 31

1Prothonotary Warbler
1Louisiana Waterthrush
1Chuck-will's-widow
1Pied-billed Grebe
1Hooded Warbler

July 30

1Northern Yellow Warbler
1European Starling

July 29

1Common Nighthawk
6Red Knot
4American White Pelican
2Red-eyed Vireo