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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 19

17Common Gallinule
9American Coot
78Anhinga
1Roseate Spoonbill
2Least Bittern
1Black-crowned Night Heron
19Little Blue Heron
2Tricolored Heron
22Snowy Egret
2Green Heron
19Great Egret
1Great Blue Heron
11Brown Pelican
1Osprey
1Hairy Woodpecker
1Great Crested Flycatcher
3American Crow
2Carolina Chickadee
1Carolina Wren
1Prothonotary Warbler
1Yellow-throated Warbler
2Wilson's Snipe
4Willet
2Sanderling
2Ring-billed Gull
1Pied-billed Grebe
1Bald Eagle
1Downy Woodpecker
1Yellow-throated Vireo
4Blue Jay
1Tufted Titmouse
1White-breasted Nuthatch
6European Starling
2Gray Catbird
1Savannah Sparrow
1Song Sparrow
2Red-winged Blackbird
2Brown-headed Cowbird
1Black-and-white Warbler
4Northern Cardinal
1Clapper Rail
4Double-crested Cormorant
1Yellow-crowned Night Heron
XTree Swallow
XBarn Swallow
1Common Grackle
2Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
1Brown Thrasher
1Northern Mockingbird
2House Finch
2White-throated Sparrow
1Pine Warbler
1Painted Bunting
2Canada Goose
1Ruby-throated Hummingbird
1Sora
1Hudsonian Whimbrel
6Laughing Gull
3White Ibis
1Turkey Vulture
2Red-bellied Woodpecker
1Pileated Woodpecker
1Red-eyed Vireo
1Purple Martin
1Ruby-crowned Kinglet
1Northern House Wren
2Marsh Wren
2Eastern Bluebird
2Swamp Sparrow
1Eastern Towhee
1Baltimore Oriole
1Boat-tailed Grackle
1Northern Yellow Warbler
6Yellow-rumped Warbler
1Mourning Dove
1Western Cattle-Egret
2White-eyed Vireo
1Brown-headed Nuthatch
11Semipalmated Plover
9Lesser Yellowlegs
3Greater Yellowlegs
1Dunlin
15Least Sandpiper
6Western Sandpiper
4Least Tern
1Belted Kingfisher
1Common Yellowthroat
2Ruddy Turnstone
1Rock Pigeon
1Chuck-will's-widow
12Chimney Swift
4Wilson's Plover
2American Woodcock
1Semipalmated Sandpiper
2Gull-billed Tern
2Common Tern
2American White Pelican
1Blue-headed Vireo
1Blue-winged Warbler
1Red-headed Woodpecker
1Red-breasted Merganser
1Common Nighthawk
1American Oystercatcher
83Black-bellied Plover
234Short-billed Dowitcher
7Long-billed Dowitcher
5Black Skimmer
25Forster's Tern
2Sandwich Tern
90Royal Tern
47Northern Gannet
2Black Vulture
1Red-shouldered Hawk
3Fish Crow
1American Robin
3Cedar Waxwing
5Seaside Sparrow
3Saltmarsh Sparrow
2Northern Parula

April 18

1Virginia Rail
4Stilt Sandpiper
1Peregrine Falcon
1Wood Thrush
2Killdeer
1Wood Stork
1Brown Creeper
2Piping Plover
1Scarlet Tanager
1Spotted Sandpiper
1Sharp-shinned Hawk
2Wood Duck
2Blue-winged Teal
14Bonaparte's Gull
1Swallow-tailed Kite

April 17

1Glossy Ibis
3House Sparrow
3Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
5Black Scoter
2Horned Lark
1Cape May Warbler
1Eastern Kingbird
1Hermit Thrush
2American Goldfinch
1American Golden-Plover
2Lesser Black-backed Gull
2Chipping Sparrow
3American Herring Gull
1Nelson's Sparrow

April 16

2Bufflehead
1Yellow-billed Cuckoo
1Northern Waterthrush
1Tennessee Warbler
3Wild Turkey
1King Rail
1Common Loon
1Cooper's Hawk
2Red-tailed Hawk
1Blue Grosbeak
1Field Sparrow

April 15

2Summer Tanager
1Purple Gallinule
1Black Tern
4Gadwall
3American Flamingo
1Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
1Northern Flicker

April 14

1Black-throated Blue Warbler
1Eastern Whip-poor-will
2Solitary Sandpiper

April 13

1Eurasian Collared-Dove
1Northern Harrier
1Palm Warbler
2Marbled Godwit
1Eastern Wood-Pewee
1Orange-crowned Warbler
1Red-throated Loon