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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.

October 31

1Snow Goose ✓
4Laughing Gull ✓
2American Herring Gull ✓
4Double-crested Cormorant ✓
1Little Blue Heron ✓
15Snowy Egret ✓
10Great Egret ✓
1Great Blue Heron ✓
5Brown Pelican ✓
1Osprey ✓
1Blue Jay ✓
2American Crow ✓
2Carolina Chickadee ✓
2Tufted Titmouse ✓
1Golden-crowned Kinglet ✓
1Brown-headed Nuthatch ✓
2Eastern Bluebird ✓
5House Finch ✓
1Song Sparrow ✓
3Red-winged Blackbird ✓
2Pine Warbler ✓
1Yellow-rumped Warbler ✓
7Pied-billed Grebe ✓
1Red-shouldered Hawk ✓
1Canada Goose ✓
10Green-winged Teal ✓
1Mourning Dove ✓
1Clapper Rail ✓
3Common Gallinule ✓
4American Coot ✓
1Black-bellied Plover ✓
1Killdeer ✓
1Short-billed Dowitcher ✓
2Spotted Sandpiper ✓
3Lesser Yellowlegs ✓
1Prairie Willet ✓
1Sanderling ✓
3Dunlin ✓
1Ring-billed Gull ✓
1Caspian Tern ✓
4Forster's Tern ✓
10Wood Stork ✓
13White Ibis ✓
1Tricolored Heron ✓
1Turkey Vulture ✓
1Cooper's Hawk ✓
1Bald Eagle ✓
1Belted Kingfisher ✓
1Yellow-bellied Sapsucker ✓
1Red-bellied Woodpecker ✓
1Downy Woodpecker ✓
1Northern Flicker ✓
2Tree Swallow ✓
1Ruby-crowned Kinglet ✓
1Carolina Wren ✓
1Gray Catbird ✓
1Northern Mockingbird ✓
1Hermit Thrush ✓
1Nelson's Sparrow ✓
1Swamp Sparrow ✓
6Common Grackle ✓
1Cape May Warbler ✓
1Northern Cardinal ✓
2Painted Bunting ✓
2Eurasian Collared-Dove ✓
1Eastern Phoebe ✓
1Eastern Marsh Wren ✓
1White-throated Sparrow ✓
1Western Sandpiper ✓
7Royal Tern ✓
2Blue-gray Gnatcatcher ✓
1Common Yellowthroat ✓
3Pileated Woodpecker ✓
2White-breasted Nuthatch ✓
1Black-and-white Warbler ✓
1Winter Wren ✓
2Northern House Wren ✓
2American Robin ✓

October 30

2Ruby-throated Hummingbird ✓
1Red-tailed Hawk ✓
1Blue-headed Vireo ✓
2Brown Creeper ✓
2European Starling ✓
1Savannah Sparrow ✓
2Brown-headed Cowbird ✓
2Boat-tailed Grackle ✓
1Black-throated Blue Warbler ✓
6Black Vulture ✓
4Semipalmated Plover ✓
1Least Sandpiper ✓
1Anhinga ✓
1Northern Harrier ✓
2Wild Turkey ✓
1Merlin ✓
1Red-eyed Vireo ✓
1American Redstart ✓
1Brown Thrasher ✓

October 29

1Saltmarsh Sparrow ✓
1Bay-breasted Warbler ✓
2Red-breasted Merganser ✓
2Chipping Sparrow ✓
1Palm Warbler ✓
1Common Tern ✓
1Roseate Spoonbill ✓
1White-crowned Sparrow ✓
1Northern Parula ✓
3Blue-winged Teal ✓
1Black-crowned Night Heron ✓

October 28

1Northern Gannet ✓
1Eastern Screech-Owl ✓
2Seaside Sparrow ✓
4American Pipit ✓

October 27

2Greater Yellowlegs ✓
2Ruddy Turnstone ✓
2Great Black-backed Gull ✓
4Sandwich Tern ✓
1Prairie Warbler ✓
1Barn Swallow ✓

October 26

5Red Knot ✓
17Black Scoter ✓

October 25

4Northern Shoveler ✓
2Semipalmated Sandpiper