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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.

January 24

6Bufflehead
4Hooded Merganser
6Ruddy Duck
4American Coot
4Willet
6Sanderling
4Ring-billed Gull
6Great Black-backed Gull
4Forster's Tern
4Common Loon
2Anhinga
6White Ibis
8Great Egret
4Great Blue Heron
4Turkey Vulture
1Bald Eagle
1Eastern Screech-Owl
2Eastern Phoebe
4Blue Jay
2Fish Crow
1Carolina Chickadee
1Tufted Titmouse
2Brown-headed Nuthatch
2Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
1Carolina Wren
6Northern Mockingbird
4Red-winged Blackbird
2Common Yellowthroat
4Yellow-rumped Warbler
2Northern Cardinal
15Northern Shoveler
12Gadwall
20Green-winged Teal
1Killdeer
1Spotted Sandpiper
6Greater Yellowlegs
20Pied-billed Grebe
1Little Blue Heron
2Tricolored Heron
10Snowy Egret
4American Crow
1Redhead
3Common Gallinule
1Black-bellied Plover
4Semipalmated Plover
12Short-billed Dowitcher
2Ruddy Turnstone
10Least Sandpiper
12Double-crested Cormorant
2American White Pelican
1Brown Pelican
1Northern House Wren
8American Robin
13Cedar Waxwing
5House Finch
2White-throated Sparrow
2Song Sparrow
2Pine Warbler
6Ring-necked Duck
2Mourning Dove
2Sora
4Bonaparte's Gull
1Downy Woodpecker
1Pileated Woodpecker
2Peregrine Falcon
2Golden-crowned Kinglet
6European Starling
2Brown Thrasher
19Seaside Sparrow
2Rusty Blackbird

January 23

4Black Scoter
1Red-breasted Merganser
2Razorbill
4American Herring Gull
1Northern Gannet
2Gray Catbird
2Clapper Rail
6Laughing Gull
2Black-crowned Night Heron
1Barred Owl
1Belted Kingfisher
1Red-bellied Woodpecker
1American Goldfinch
2White-crowned Sparrow
1Black-and-white Warbler
10Long-billed Dowitcher
85Dunlin
5Western Sandpiper
1Osprey
1Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
7Tree Swallow
1Ruby-crowned Kinglet
1Swamp Sparrow
8Canvasback
1Hudsonian Whimbrel
1Red-tailed Hawk
1Blue-headed Vireo
1Brown Creeper
1King Rail
1Red-shouldered Hawk
4Eastern Bluebird
2Chipping Sparrow
4Savannah Sparrow
3Eastern Towhee

January 22

1Northern Flicker
4Common Grackle
4Lesser Yellowlegs
2Yellow-throated Warbler
3Canada Goose
6Blue-winged Teal
1Marsh Wren
2Hermit Thrush
1Common Goldeneye
7Red Knot
1Horned Grebe
2Red-throated Loon
1Wood Stork
1White-breasted Nuthatch
2Long-tailed Duck
6Marbled Godwit
2Caspian Tern
1Boat-tailed Grackle

January 21

6Lesser Scaup
2Royal Tern
6American Wigeon

January 20

1Cooper's Hawk
1White-winged Scoter
1Hairy Woodpecker
1Merlin
1Northern Pintail
1Virginia Rail

January 19

XMallard
XBlack Vulture

January 18

7American Oystercatcher