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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.

February 20

2Wood Duck
12Gadwall
2Mallard
45Green-winged Teal
7Lesser Scaup
7Bufflehead
6Hooded Merganser
1Mourning Dove
1Clapper Rail
8Common Gallinule
9American Coot
24Greater Yellowlegs
2Laughing Gull
13Ring-billed Gull
5Forster's Tern
1Pied-billed Grebe
38Double-crested Cormorant
7White Ibis
1Black-crowned Night Heron
1Tricolored Heron
1Snowy Egret
10Great Egret
3Great Blue Heron
4American White Pelican
11Brown Pelican
5Turkey Vulture
1Belted Kingfisher
2Red-bellied Woodpecker
4Blue Jay
7American Crow
6Carolina Chickadee
6Tufted Titmouse
45Tree Swallow
5Ruby-crowned Kinglet
1Golden-crowned Kinglet
1Marsh Wren
5Carolina Wren
2Gray Catbird
1Brown Thrasher
1Northern Mockingbird
1Hermit Thrush
9American Robin
15Cedar Waxwing
7House Finch
1American Goldfinch
4White-throated Sparrow
1Swamp Sparrow
35Red-winged Blackbird
4Brown-headed Cowbird
13Common Grackle
1Black-and-white Warbler
3Pine Warbler
16Yellow-rumped Warbler
12Northern Cardinal

February 19

3Black-bellied Plover
2Killdeer
1American Herring Gull
2Little Blue Heron
2White-breasted Nuthatch
3Brown-headed Nuthatch
5Eastern Bluebird
1Downy Woodpecker
4Purple Finch
6Ring-necked Duck
8Ruddy Duck
4Willet
6Sanderling
4Common Loon
2Loggerhead Shrike
6Northern Shoveler
1Wild Turkey
2Lesser Yellowlegs
1Red Knot
4Least Sandpiper
1Bald Eagle
1Pileated Woodpecker
2Blue-headed Vireo
1Brown Creeper
1Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

February 18

4Long-billed Dowitcher
2Dunlin
1Red-throated Loon
4Fish Crow
1Seaside Sparrow
4Bonaparte's Gull
1Osprey
1Black Vulture
1Boat-tailed Grackle
1Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
22Chipping Sparrow
1Song Sparrow
2Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
4Blue-winged Teal
4Piping Plover
2Short-billed Dowitcher
2Royal Tern
1Northern Gannet
1Eastern Phoebe
1Nelson's Sparrow

February 17

4Semipalmated Plover
1Barred Owl
1Northern Flicker
2Canada Goose
1Redhead
1Red-shouldered Hawk
1Eastern Towhee
2Common Yellowthroat
2Spotted Sandpiper
1Saltmarsh Sparrow

February 16

1Horned Grebe
1Red-headed Woodpecker
1Red-tailed Hawk
1Cooper's Hawk
1Fox Sparrow
1Surf Scoter
1White-winged Scoter
4Black Scoter
2American Oystercatcher
11Ruddy Turnstone
1Parasitic Jaeger
1American Kestrel
2Savannah Sparrow
1Common Goldeneye
4Wilson's Snipe
2Vesper Sparrow
1American Woodcock

February 15

6European Starling
1Prairie Warbler
2Eurasian Collared-Dove
2Purple Sandpiper
4Western Sandpiper
4Glossy Ibis
1Northern House Wren

February 14

1Great Black-backed Gull
2Peregrine Falcon
2White-crowned Sparrow
4Mottled Duck
6Canvasback
2Wilson's Plover
1Wood Stork
1Dark-eyed Junco
1Rusty Blackbird