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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.

May 16

20Mourning Dove
1Ruby-throated Hummingbird
2Clapper Rail
4Common Gallinule
1Killdeer
18Semipalmated Plover
3Hudsonian Whimbrel
2Willet
156Semipalmated Sandpiper
2Least Tern
3Royal Tern
22Anhinga
3Double-crested Cormorant
6White Ibis
4Little Blue Heron
2Tricolored Heron
11Snowy Egret
4Green Heron
36Great Egret
3Great Blue Heron
1Turkey Vulture
1Red-bellied Woodpecker
1American Crow
1Carolina Chickadee
1Tufted Titmouse
1Barn Swallow
2White-breasted Nuthatch
7House Finch
1Orchard Oriole
9Red-winged Blackbird
8Brown-headed Cowbird
7Common Grackle
1Boat-tailed Grackle
4Northern Cardinal
3Painted Bunting
2Purple Gallinule
2Sanderling
4Laughing Gull
2Ring-billed Gull
1Gull-billed Tern
2Wood Stork
1Black-crowned Night Heron
1Red-tailed Hawk
1American Kestrel
1Eastern Kingbird
4Blue Jay
2Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
1Carolina Wren
2Northern Mockingbird
4American Robin
1Blue-winged Warbler
1Lesser Yellowlegs
3Roseate Spoonbill
1Canada Goose
4Chimney Swift
1Black-necked Stilt
2Greater Yellowlegs
30Least Sandpiper
5Western Sandpiper
1Osprey
1Red-shouldered Hawk
1Eastern Wood-Pewee
2Brown Thrasher
1Prothonotary Warbler
3Northern Parula
1Pine Warbler
4Wild Turkey
1Common Nighthawk
1American Coot
4Spotted Sandpiper
6Solitary Sandpiper
1Black Skimmer
4Forster's Tern
4Brown Pelican
2Belted Kingfisher
1Red-headed Woodpecker
1Great Crested Flycatcher
1Fish Crow
1Brown-headed Nuthatch
1Eastern Bluebird

May 15

1Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
2Eurasian Collared-Dove
2Glossy Ibis
2Least Bittern
2Bald Eagle
1Pileated Woodpecker
1Summer Tanager
1Yellow-billed Cuckoo
2Stilt Sandpiper
1Downy Woodpecker
1American Redstart
1White-eyed Vireo
1Mallard
1Short-billed Dowitcher
3Pectoral Sandpiper
1Eastern Towhee
1Yellow-breasted Chat
1Common Yellowthroat
1Magnolia Warbler
1Northern Yellow Warbler

May 14

1Dunlin
5Black-bellied Plover
1Yellow-crowned Night Heron
1Red-eyed Vireo

May 13

1Mississippi Kite
2Wilson's Plover
1Ruddy Turnstone
2Sandwich Tern
XAmerican Bittern
1Swallow-tailed Kite
2Black Vulture
3Cedar Waxwing

May 12

1Sora
1White-rumped Sandpiper
1Seaside Sparrow

May 11

3Chuck-will's-widow
1Cooper's Hawk
1Rose-breasted Grosbeak
1Pied-billed Grebe
1Marsh Wren
1Gray Catbird
1Hooded Warbler
4Long-billed Dowitcher
2Purple Martin

May 10

1Orange-crowned Warbler
2Piping Plover