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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.

January 23

23Gadwall
28Green-winged Teal
14Bufflehead
35Hooded Merganser
6Mourning Dove
2Black-bellied Plover
2Killdeer
30Semipalmated Plover
24Short-billed Dowitcher
10Long-billed Dowitcher
1Spotted Sandpiper
6Willet
27Greater Yellowlegs
8Sanderling
85Dunlin
7Least Sandpiper
5Western Sandpiper
1Bonaparte's Gull
4Laughing Gull
8Pied-billed Grebe
15White Ibis
2Little Blue Heron
5Snowy Egret
3Great Egret
2Great Blue Heron
2American White Pelican
2Brown Pelican
1Osprey
1Bald Eagle
3Belted Kingfisher
1Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
3Red-bellied Woodpecker
1Pileated Woodpecker
5American Crow
6Carolina Chickadee
3Tufted Titmouse
7Tree Swallow
1Ruby-crowned Kinglet
1Carolina Wren
2Northern Mockingbird
4House Finch
3White-throated Sparrow
1Swamp Sparrow
1Black-and-white Warbler
1Pine Warbler
28Yellow-rumped Warbler
2Northern Cardinal
8Canvasback
12Ring-necked Duck
6Ruddy Duck
2Sora
1Hudsonian Whimbrel
4Ring-billed Gull
1Northern Gannet
1Tricolored Heron
1Red-tailed Hawk
1Blue-headed Vireo
1Brown Creeper
2Brown Thrasher
1Rusty Blackbird
9Northern Shoveler
1King Rail
6Common Gallinule
35American Coot
1Ruddy Turnstone
1American Herring Gull
2Forster's Tern
1Common Loon
6Double-crested Cormorant
1Black-crowned Night Heron
3Turkey Vulture
1Red-shouldered Hawk
1Eastern Phoebe
7Blue Jay
1Gray Catbird
4Eastern Bluebird
20American Robin
15Cedar Waxwing
2Chipping Sparrow
4Savannah Sparrow
1Song Sparrow
3Eastern Towhee
100Red-winged Blackbird

January 22

2Downy Woodpecker
1Northern Flicker
1Golden-crowned Kinglet
2Brown-headed Nuthatch
2Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
1Northern House Wren
4Common Grackle
4Lesser Yellowlegs
2Yellow-throated Warbler
3Canada Goose
6Blue-winged Teal
1Marsh Wren
2Hermit Thrush
2Long-tailed Duck
2Clapper Rail
6Marbled Godwit
2Caspian Tern
1Peregrine Falcon
4European Starling
1White-crowned Sparrow
1Boat-tailed Grackle

January 21

6Lesser Scaup
2Royal Tern
6American Wigeon

January 20

1Cooper's Hawk
1White-winged Scoter
1Common Goldeneye
1Razorbill
1Great Black-backed Gull
1Horned Grebe
10Red-throated Loon
1Hairy Woodpecker
1Merlin
1Northern Pintail
1Common Yellowthroat
1Virginia Rail

January 19

1Eastern Screech-Owl
XMallard
XBlack Scoter
XBlack Vulture
1Redhead
1White-breasted Nuthatch

January 18

7American Oystercatcher

January 17

12Red Knot
1White-eyed Vireo
1American Goldfinch
2Red-breasted Merganser
1Orange-crowned Warbler

January 16

1Tundra Swan
1Lesser Black-backed Gull