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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.

November 7

40Wood Stork ✓
5Double-crested Cormorant ✓
22White Ibis ✓
2Roseate Spoonbill ✓
14Tricolored Heron ✓
14Snowy Egret ✓
18Great Egret ✓
2Great Blue Heron ✓
1Belted Kingfisher ✓
2Carolina Chickadee ✓
2Tufted Titmouse ✓
3White-throated Sparrow ✓
3Red-winged Blackbird ✓
2Northern Cardinal ✓
1Red-bellied Woodpecker ✓
1Eastern Phoebe ✓
1Blue Jay ✓
2Ruby-crowned Kinglet ✓
2Golden-crowned Kinglet ✓
1Palm Warbler ✓
1Pine Warbler ✓
3Yellow-rumped Warbler ✓
3Clapper Rail ✓
4Black-bellied Plover ✓
2Laughing Gull ✓
4Ring-billed Gull ✓
1Little Blue Heron ✓
1Yellow-bellied Sapsucker ✓
2House Finch ✓
1Piping Plover ✓
1Prairie Willet ✓
2Sanderling ✓
2American Herring Gull ✓
2Northern Gannet ✓
1Brown Pelican ✓
1Downy Woodpecker ✓
2Northern House Wren ✓
1Carolina Wren ✓
2Song Sparrow ✓
4Swamp Sparrow ✓
8Mourning Dove ✓
4Forster's Tern ✓
8Pied-billed Grebe ✓
2American White Pelican ✓
1Osprey ✓
1Northern Flicker ✓
1Western Kingbird
1Brown Thrasher ✓
1Northern Mockingbird ✓
2Eastern Bluebird ✓
1Boat-tailed Grackle ✓
2Wilson's Plover ✓
2Bald Eagle ✓
7Tree Swallow ✓
1White-breasted Nuthatch ✓
2Hermit Thrush ✓
1Common Gallinule ✓
2American Oystercatcher ✓
3Blue-winged Teal ✓
4Killdeer ✓
4Least Sandpiper ✓
1Turkey Vulture ✓
2Gadwall ✓
2American Coot ✓
6American Crow ✓
2Blue-gray Gnatcatcher ✓
1White-crowned Sparrow ✓
2Common Grackle ✓
2American Redstart ✓
1Spotted Sandpiper ✓
3Brown-headed Nuthatch ✓
1Gray Catbird ✓
1Sora ✓
2Greater Yellowlegs ✓
1Black-crowned Night Heron ✓
3Red-shouldered Hawk ✓
45Fish Crow ✓
XWinter Wren ✓
1Seaside Sparrow ✓
1Common Yellowthroat ✓

November 6

1Lesser Yellowlegs ✓
2Dunlin ✓
1Chipping Sparrow ✓
1Prairie Warbler ✓
1Pileated Woodpecker ✓
2Blue-headed Vireo ✓
1Virginia Rail ✓
1Merlin ✓
1Eastern Towhee ✓
4Ruddy Duck ✓
1Anhinga ✓
1Savannah Sparrow ✓
1Peregrine Falcon ✓
1Nelson's Sparrow ✓

November 5

71Ruddy Turnstone ✓
350Black Skimmer ✓
50Royal Tern ✓
1Green-winged Teal ✓
1Short-billed Dowitcher ✓
2Western Sandpiper ✓
2Bonaparte's Gull ✓
1Brown Creeper ✓
1American Goldfinch ✓
26Semipalmated Plover ✓
8Caspian Tern ✓
4Sandwich Tern ✓
1Northern Waterthrush
4Red Knot ✓
1Ruby-throated Hummingbird ✓
1Long-billed Dowitcher ✓
1Cooper's Hawk ✓
1Sedge Wren ✓
2European Starling ✓
1American Pipit ✓
1Saltmarsh Sparrow ✓
1Rusty Blackbird ✓

November 4

1White-eyed Vireo ✓
1Brown-headed Cowbird ✓
1Hooded Merganser ✓
1Black Vulture ✓
1Field Sparrow ✓
1Black-and-white Warbler ✓
1American Robin ✓

November 3

1Great Horned Owl ✓
11Black Scoter ✓
2Loggerhead Shrike ✓
8Canada Goose ✓

November 2

1Black-throated Blue Warbler ✓
1Lesser Black-backed Gull ✓
1Northern Harrier ✓
1Surf Scoter ✓
1Green Heron ✓

November 1

2Wild Turkey ✓
1Purple Finch ✓
1Chuck-will's-widow ✓
1Lesser Scaup ✓
2Great Black-backed Gull ✓
1Common Loon ✓