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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.

September 24

XOsprey ✓
XDouble-crested Cormorant ✓
XBelted Kingfisher ✓
1Mourning Dove ✓
1Semipalmated Plover ✓
2Sanderling ✓
1Laughing Gull ✓
1Ring-billed Gull ✓
1Tricolored Heron ✓
2Great Egret ✓
21Brown Pelican ✓
3Turkey Vulture ✓
2Red-bellied Woodpecker ✓
1Downy Woodpecker ✓
1Blue Jay ✓
5Carolina Chickadee ✓
1Tufted Titmouse ✓
6Tree Swallow ✓
2White-breasted Nuthatch ✓
1Brown-headed Nuthatch ✓
2Carolina Wren ✓
2Northern Mockingbird ✓
1Eastern Bluebird ✓
3Northern Cardinal ✓
1Black-bellied Plover ✓
2Willet ✓
1Royal Tern ✓
1Red-tailed Hawk ✓
2American Crow ✓
3Barn Swallow ✓
1Gray Catbird ✓
4Brown Thrasher ✓
1Northern Yellow Warbler ✓
1Palm Warbler ✓
2Chimney Swift ✓
9Common Gallinule ✓
23Wood Stork ✓
1Anhinga ✓
1Snowy Egret ✓
3Great Blue Heron ✓
1Bald Eagle ✓
1Merlin ✓
1Fish Crow ✓
3Red-winged Blackbird ✓
2Pine Warbler ✓
5Clapper Rail ✓
1Forster's Tern ✓
4White Ibis ✓
4Yellow-crowned Night Heron ✓
1Black-crowned Night Heron ✓
1Little Blue Heron ✓

September 23

1Ruby-throated Hummingbird ✓
2Caspian Tern ✓
1House Finch ✓
1Painted Bunting ✓
1House Sparrow ✓
1Sora ✓
1American Coot ✓
4Killdeer ✓
1Piping Plover ✓
1Short-billed Dowitcher ✓
1Solitary Sandpiper ✓
2Western Sandpiper ✓
1Black Skimmer ✓
1Common Tern ✓
1Green Heron ✓
1Eastern Kingbird ✓
1Common Yellowthroat ✓
1American Kestrel ✓
1Tennessee Warbler ✓
1American Redstart ✓
1Cooper's Hawk ✓
1Hairy Woodpecker
3American Robin ✓
1Common Nighthawk ✓
2Lesser Yellowlegs ✓
1Parasitic Jaeger ✓
2Gull-billed Tern ✓
1Least Bittern ✓
1Northern Harrier ✓
1Least Flycatcher ✓
1Great Crested Flycatcher ✓
1Yellow-throated Vireo ✓
2Blue-gray Gnatcatcher ✓
1Marsh Wren ✓
2European Starling ✓
1Gray-cheeked Thrush ✓
1Swainson's Thrush ✓
4Brown-headed Cowbird ✓
1Magnolia Warbler ✓

September 22

1Wilson's Phalarope ✓
1Semipalmated Sandpiper ✓
1Northern Flicker ✓
1Seaside Sparrow ✓
1Golden-winged Warbler ✓
1Hooded Warbler ✓

September 21

2Spotted Sandpiper ✓
2Lesser Black-backed Gull ✓
2American Bittern ✓
2Common Grackle ✓
1Red-shouldered Hawk ✓
1Red-headed Woodpecker ✓
2White-eyed Vireo ✓
2Red-eyed Vireo ✓
1Boat-tailed Grackle ✓
1Northern Waterthrush ✓
1Black-and-white Warbler ✓
1Marbled Godwit ✓
1Black-throated Blue Warbler ✓

September 20

1Northern Bobwhite ✓
1American Golden-Plover ✓
1Roseate Spoonbill ✓
1Pileated Woodpecker ✓
1Yellow-billed Cuckoo ✓
1Wild Turkey ✓
4Wilson's Snipe ✓
1Black Tern ✓
1Savannah Sparrow ✓

September 19

1American Herring Gull ✓
1Northern House Wren ✓
1Chipping Sparrow ✓
4American Oystercatcher ✓
1Stilt Sandpiper ✓
1Great Black-backed Gull ✓
2Cape May Warbler ✓
1Northern Parula ✓
1Canada Goose ✓
1Acadian Flycatcher ✓
1Eastern Phoebe
1American Goldfinch ✓
3Greater Yellowlegs ✓
5Least Sandpiper ✓
1Summer Tanager ✓
1Sandwich Tern ✓
1Prairie Warbler ✓
8Bobolink ✓
1Blue Grosbeak ✓

September 18

1White-rumped Sandpiper ✓
1Peregrine Falcon ✓