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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.

June 5

3Mourning Dove
1Ruby-throated Hummingbird
6Common Gallinule
2Double-crested Cormorant
5White Ibis
1Least Bittern
1Black-crowned Night Heron
2Little Blue Heron
1Green Heron
1Red-bellied Woodpecker
2Downy Woodpecker
3Great Crested Flycatcher
2Carolina Chickadee
1Tufted Titmouse
3Brown-headed Nuthatch
1Carolina Wren
1Brown Thrasher
6Red-winged Blackbird
1Common Grackle
2Prothonotary Warbler
1Northern Parula
2Northern Cardinal
1Willet
2Least Tern
1Tricolored Heron
3White-breasted Nuthatch
4Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
2Northern Mockingbird
2Painted Bunting
1Laughing Gull
2Wood Stork
1Anhinga
8Roseate Spoonbill
5Snowy Egret
8Great Egret
3Great Blue Heron
2Barn Swallow
1Boat-tailed Grackle
2Swallow-tailed Kite
1Clapper Rail
1American Coot
4Ring-billed Gull
2Pied-billed Grebe
1Red-shouldered Hawk
2Eastern Wood-Pewee
4Blue Jay
2American Crow
4European Starling
2House Finch
1Yellow-throated Warbler
1Blue Grosbeak
1Indigo Bunting
6Black-necked Stilt
2Killdeer
1Chuck-will's-widow
1Black-bellied Plover
2Sanderling
2American Herring Gull
2Brown Pelican
1Belted Kingfisher
2Fish Crow
2Eastern Bluebird
1Seaside Sparrow
2Chimney Swift
3Red-headed Woodpecker
1Pileated Woodpecker
1Eastern Kingbird
2Brown-headed Cowbird
3Pine Warbler
1Summer Tanager

June 4

1Least Sandpiper
2Forster's Tern
1Royal Tern
1Osprey
1Chipping Sparrow
1Eastern Towhee
2Turkey Vulture
1White-eyed Vireo
1Ovenbird
1Eastern Whip-poor-will
1Marbled Godwit
1Bald Eagle
1Red-tailed Hawk
1Northern Flicker
1Red-eyed Vireo
1Gray Catbird
1Cooper's Hawk
2Purple Martin

June 3

1Sandwich Tern
1Black Vulture
2Semipalmated Plover
1Yellow-crowned Night Heron
1Marsh Wren
1Black-throated Green Warbler
1Red-breasted Merganser
4Wilson's Plover
1Ruddy Turnstone
2Semipalmated Sandpiper
4Black Skimmer
1Northern Rough-winged Swallow

June 2

3Glossy Ibis
2Spotted Sandpiper
3Cliff Swallow
1Purple Gallinule

June 1

1Bachman's Sparrow
1Wood Duck
1Greater Yellowlegs
1Dunlin
2Gull-billed Tern

May 31

1Orchard Oriole
1Common Yellowthroat
6Short-billed Dowitcher
1Yellow-billed Cuckoo

May 30

3Canada Goose
1Common Nighthawk
2American Oystercatcher
2Mississippi Kite
1Northern House Wren