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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.

August 19

4Mourning Dove
2Ruby-throated Hummingbird
1Clapper Rail
1Spotted Sandpiper
4Great Egret
2Great Blue Heron
1Red-headed Woodpecker
1Red-bellied Woodpecker
1White-breasted Nuthatch
1Carolina Wren
1Northern Mockingbird
6House Finch
1American Goldfinch
5Northern Cardinal
1American Coot
2Piping Plover
1Short-billed Dowitcher
1Willet
2Sanderling
4Ring-billed Gull
4American Herring Gull
1Gull-billed Tern
4Wood Stork
2White Ibis
4Snowy Egret
1Belted Kingfisher
1Red-eyed Vireo
4Blue Jay
1Carolina Chickadee
1Tufted Titmouse
1Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
2Red-winged Blackbird
2Boat-tailed Grackle
1American Redstart
2Painted Bunting
2Laughing Gull
1Osprey
2Eastern Bluebird
2Semipalmated Plover
2Semipalmated Sandpiper
1Forster's Tern
2Anhinga
1Yellow-crowned Night Heron
1Tricolored Heron
1Green Heron
2Summer Tanager
7Common Gallinule
1Solitary Sandpiper
1Least Sandpiper
1Black-crowned Night Heron
2Little Blue Heron
1Bald Eagle
1Downy Woodpecker
1Northern Flicker
3White-eyed Vireo
2American Crow
1Barn Swallow
1Pine Warbler
1Eastern Whip-poor-will
1Western Sandpiper
1Pied-billed Grebe
6Brown Pelican
1Mississippi Kite
1Great Crested Flycatcher
2Brown-headed Nuthatch
1Chipping Sparrow
4Common Grackle
1Black-and-white Warbler
4Chimney Swift
7Greater Yellowlegs
1Black Skimmer
4Caspian Tern
1Black Tern
2Common Tern
10Royal Tern
3Brown Thrasher
1Northern Waterthrush
8Black-necked Stilt
1Double-crested Cormorant
1Prairie Warbler

August 18

1Pileated Woodpecker
1Northern Parula
2Black-bellied Plover
1Lesser Yellowlegs
1Pectoral Sandpiper
4Turkey Vulture
1Red-shouldered Hawk
7Tree Swallow
3American Robin
2Blue Grosbeak

August 17

1Least Bittern
1Louisiana Waterthrush

August 16

4American Oystercatcher
2Ruddy Turnstone
4Sandwich Tern
2Least Tern
3Cliff Swallow

August 15

1Blue-winged Teal
1Common Yellowthroat
1Prothonotary Warbler
1Swainson's Warbler

August 14

1Red-tailed Hawk
1Brown-headed Cowbird

August 13

5Wilson's Plover
6Hudsonian Whimbrel
2Long-billed Dowitcher
9Glossy Ibis