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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 22

25Common Gallinule
6American Coot
1Black-necked Stilt
1Solitary Sandpiper
1Lesser Yellowlegs
3Willet
8Anhinga
1Glossy Ibis
1Yellow-crowned Night Heron
6Little Blue Heron
3Tricolored Heron
3Snowy Egret
8Great Egret
1Red-bellied Woodpecker
2Pileated Woodpecker
4Great Crested Flycatcher
1Carolina Chickadee
3Tufted Titmouse
1Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
2Carolina Wren
1Orchard Oriole
4Red-winged Blackbird
8Common Grackle
3Northern Cardinal
1Mourning Dove
1Clapper Rail
2Least Tern
1Roseate Spoonbill
2Black-crowned Night Heron
4Green Heron
1Great Blue Heron
1Turkey Vulture
3Fish Crow
1Gray Catbird
1Northern Bobwhite
1Chuck-will's-widow
2Purple Gallinule
4Black-bellied Plover
2Piping Plover
1Marbled Godwit
1Wilson's Phalarope
2Least Sandpiper
2Ring-billed Gull
1Pied-billed Grebe
1Double-crested Cormorant
2White Ibis
2Brown Pelican
1Osprey
1Bald Eagle
1Merlin
1Blue-headed Vireo
2Blue Jay
4American Crow
4Tree Swallow
1Marsh Wren
1Brown Thrasher
1Wood Thrush
1Blue-winged Warbler
1Painted Bunting
6Red-breasted Merganser
1Chimney Swift
3Sora
3American Oystercatcher
4Killdeer
300Semipalmated Plover
1Wilson's Plover
6Hudsonian Whimbrel
200Short-billed Dowitcher
1Long-billed Dowitcher
32Greater Yellowlegs
7Ruddy Turnstone
69Sanderling
4Dunlin
1Western Sandpiper
3Laughing Gull
1American Herring Gull
21Forster's Tern
6Sandwich Tern
200Royal Tern
3Least Bittern
1Red-headed Woodpecker
1Hairy Woodpecker
1Barn Swallow
2Ruby-crowned Kinglet
2Brown-headed Nuthatch
3Northern Mockingbird
2Eastern Bluebird
2Cedar Waxwing
2House Finch
2White-throated Sparrow
1Song Sparrow
1Eastern Towhee
2Brown-headed Cowbird
1Boat-tailed Grackle
1Prothonotary Warbler
2Northern Parula
7Pine Warbler
8Yellow-rumped Warbler

April 21

1Common Eider
6Purple Martin
1Ruby-throated Hummingbird
1Virginia Rail
1Common Yellowthroat
4Canada Goose
1Downy Woodpecker
1Common Nighthawk
2Spotted Sandpiper
1Red-tailed Hawk
1Brown Creeper
4European Starling
1Hooded Warbler
1American Redstart
1Blue-winged Teal
14Northern Gannet
3Black Vulture
1Cooper's Hawk
2White-eyed Vireo
1Northern House Wren
1American Robin
1Swamp Sparrow
1Black-and-white Warbler

April 20

4Savannah Sparrow
2Gull-billed Tern
1Common Tern
1Swallow-tailed Kite
2Baltimore Oriole
1Belted Kingfisher
2White-breasted Nuthatch
1Hermit Thrush
1American Goldfinch
1Western Cattle-Egret
1Red-shouldered Hawk
1Eastern Kingbird

April 19

1Blue Grosbeak
1House Sparrow
1Yellow-throated Warbler
2Wilson's Snipe
1Yellow-throated Vireo
1Wild Turkey
1Red-eyed Vireo
1Northern Yellow Warbler
12Caspian Tern
1Northern Rough-winged Swallow
1Nelson's Sparrow
1Yellow-breasted Chat
1Rock Pigeon
2American Woodcock
1Semipalmated Sandpiper
2American White Pelican
5Black Skimmer
5Seaside Sparrow
3Saltmarsh Sparrow

April 18

1Cape May Warbler
4Stilt Sandpiper
1Peregrine Falcon
1Mallard
1Palm Warbler
1Wood Stork
1Scarlet Tanager
1Sharp-shinned Hawk
2Black Scoter
1American Golden-Plover
2Wood Duck
14Bonaparte's Gull

April 17

1Bank Swallow
3Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
2Horned Lark
1Northern Harrier
2Lesser Black-backed Gull
2Chipping Sparrow
1Indigo Bunting

April 16

3American Avocet
2Bufflehead
1Yellow-billed Cuckoo
1Northern Waterthrush
1Tennessee Warbler
1King Rail
1Common Loon
1Field Sparrow