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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.

May 19

5Common Gallinule
1Purple Gallinule
2Anhinga
5Green Heron
1Eastern Wood-Pewee
10Red-winged Blackbird
6Common Grackle
1Painted Bunting
1Chimney Swift
2Ruby-throated Hummingbird
1Clapper Rail
2Semipalmated Plover
1Short-billed Dowitcher
1Spotted Sandpiper
2Sanderling
1Ring-billed Gull
2Pied-billed Grebe
4Double-crested Cormorant
2White Ibis
4Roseate Spoonbill
1Little Blue Heron
2Great Egret
2Great Blue Heron
1Belted Kingfisher
1Eastern Kingbird
4American Crow
1Carolina Chickadee
1Tufted Titmouse
2Barn Swallow
2European Starling
1Gray-cheeked Thrush
1Chipping Sparrow
1Common Yellowthroat
4Northern Cardinal
2Indigo Bunting
2Killdeer
7Semipalmated Sandpiper
1Wood Stork
1Black-crowned Night Heron
1Tricolored Heron
3Snowy Egret
1Turkey Vulture
1Bald Eagle
2Red-bellied Woodpecker
2Great Crested Flycatcher
1White-eyed Vireo
2Blue Jay
3Tree Swallow
3Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
4Carolina Wren
1Northern Mockingbird
5House Finch
1Brown-headed Cowbird
2Prothonotary Warbler
1Pine Warbler
1Summer Tanager
2Canada Goose
1Mourning Dove
1American Coot
2Black-necked Stilt
1Hudsonian Whimbrel
1Lesser Yellowlegs
4Laughing Gull
2Least Tern
1Least Bittern
1Yellow-crowned Night Heron
1Osprey
1Downy Woodpecker
1Fish Crow
1Boat-tailed Grackle
4Black Scoter
1Yellow-billed Cuckoo
2Chuck-will's-widow
2White-rumped Sandpiper
2Forster's Tern
2Glossy Ibis
1Great Horned Owl
1Willow Flycatcher
1Eastern Bluebird
1Seaside Sparrow
1Orchard Oriole
2Wood Duck
1Common Nighthawk
1Black-bellied Plover
1Willet
2Least Sandpiper
3Red-headed Woodpecker
1Pileated Woodpecker
1Red-eyed Vireo
2Brown-headed Nuthatch
1Gray Catbird
1Brown Thrasher
1Yellow-breasted Chat
1Northern Parula

May 18

2Greater Yellowlegs
1Yellow-throated Vireo
1American Robin
1Black-and-white Warbler
1Blue Grosbeak
2American Oystercatcher
2American Herring Gull
1Broad-winged Hawk
1American Redstart
1Brown Pelican
1Swallow-tailed Kite
1Eurasian Collared-Dove
4Solitary Sandpiper
4Western Sandpiper
1Wood Thrush
1Savannah Sparrow
1Blue-winged Warbler
4White-breasted Nuthatch

May 17

1Eastern Towhee
4Stilt Sandpiper
2Gull-billed Tern
12Wilson's Plover
7Ruddy Turnstone
3Red Knot
5Dunlin
6Black Skimmer
3Caspian Tern
2Sandwich Tern
11Royal Tern
4Purple Martin
1Marsh Wren
1Red-tailed Hawk
1Black-throated Blue Warbler

May 16

1American Kestrel
1Red-shouldered Hawk
4Wild Turkey

May 15

1Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
1Mallard
3Pectoral Sandpiper
1Magnolia Warbler
1Northern Yellow Warbler

May 13

1Mississippi Kite
XAmerican Bittern