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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.

April 15

1Sora
8Common Gallinule
7American Coot
2Lesser Yellowlegs
4Anhinga
1Double-crested Cormorant
1Glossy Ibis
2Roseate Spoonbill
2Black-crowned Night Heron
1Little Blue Heron
1Green Heron
9Great Egret
1Great Blue Heron
1Turkey Vulture
1Red-shouldered Hawk
1White-eyed Vireo
1Blue-headed Vireo
1American Crow
1Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
1Carolina Wren
1House Finch
5Red-winged Blackbird
1Brown-headed Cowbird
1Common Grackle
1Boat-tailed Grackle
1Black-and-white Warbler
1Prothonotary Warbler
1Pine Warbler
1Northern Cardinal
2Blue-winged Teal
2Bufflehead
4Mourning Dove
2Clapper Rail
2Black-bellied Plover
2Killdeer
2Short-billed Dowitcher
3Spotted Sandpiper
3Willet
7Greater Yellowlegs
9Least Sandpiper
1Pied-billed Grebe
1Yellow-crowned Night Heron
6Tricolored Heron
9Snowy Egret
2Osprey
2Red-headed Woodpecker
5Red-bellied Woodpecker
1Downy Woodpecker
1Hairy Woodpecker
1Pileated Woodpecker
3Great Crested Flycatcher
1Blue Jay
1Fish Crow
4Carolina Chickadee
3Tufted Titmouse
5Tree Swallow
3Ruby-crowned Kinglet
1White-breasted Nuthatch
2Brown-headed Nuthatch
1Northern House Wren
1Marsh Wren
2Gray Catbird
4Northern Mockingbird
4Eastern Bluebird
2Hermit Thrush
20Cedar Waxwing
1American Goldfinch
3White-throated Sparrow
1Song Sparrow
1Swamp Sparrow
1Northern Parula
2Yellow-rumped Warbler
2Summer Tanager
3Painted Bunting
2Virginia Rail
1Purple Gallinule
4Long-billed Dowitcher
4Sanderling
2Ring-billed Gull
1Lesser Black-backed Gull
1Black Tern
1Sandwich Tern
2White Ibis
4Brown Pelican
1Swallow-tailed Kite
1Bald Eagle
2Belted Kingfisher
1Blue-winged Warbler
4Gadwall
80Black Scoter
1King Rail
1American Oystercatcher
5Semipalmated Plover
3Piping Plover
4Wilson's Plover
12Ruddy Turnstone
5Dunlin
2Western Sandpiper
6Bonaparte's Gull
11Laughing Gull
1American Herring Gull
68Least Tern
22Forster's Tern
44Royal Tern
3American Flamingo
1Common Loon
1Northern Gannet
1Cooper's Hawk
1Red-tailed Hawk
4Barn Swallow
1Brown Thrasher
3Eastern Towhee
1Yellow-throated Warbler
1Blue Grosbeak

April 14

1Black-throated Blue Warbler
1Eastern Whip-poor-will
20Chimney Swift
2Solitary Sandpiper
4Wood Stork
1Peregrine Falcon
6European Starling
1Common Yellowthroat
10Black Vulture
1Seaside Sparrow

April 13

1Eurasian Collared-Dove
1Least Bittern
1Northern Harrier
1Wood Thrush
1Palm Warbler
1Purple Martin
1House Sparrow
1Chipping Sparrow
1Yellow-billed Cuckoo
2Marbled Godwit
1Eastern Wood-Pewee
1Orange-crowned Warbler
1Red-throated Loon
2Savannah Sparrow

April 12

2Stilt Sandpiper
1Yellow-throated Vireo
1Green-winged Teal
5Canada Goose
1American Robin
3Red-breasted Merganser

April 11

8Common Tern
1Northern Flicker
1Brown Creeper
1Chestnut-sided Warbler
7Hudsonian Whimbrel
1Caspian Tern
4Gull-billed Tern
1Eastern Kingbird
2Saltmarsh Sparrow

April 10

4Wilson's Snipe
4Semipalmated Sandpiper
1Red-eyed Vireo
2Ruby-throated Hummingbird
1Tennessee Warbler
1Western Cattle-Egret
1Nelson's Sparrow

April 9

5Mallard
1Common Nighthawk
1Blackburnian Warbler
1Scarlet Tanager

April 8

1Chuck-will's-widow