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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.

August 28

1Eastern Whip-poor-will
2Ruby-throated Hummingbird
1Purple Gallinule
4Willet
2Sanderling
2Forster's Tern
8Wood Stork
2Little Blue Heron
4Great Egret
1Red-headed Woodpecker
1Eastern Kingbird
2Blue Jay
1Tufted Titmouse
2Brown Thrasher
4Northern Cardinal
2Painted Bunting
6Mourning Dove
2Clapper Rail
6Common Gallinule
3Spotted Sandpiper
2Least Sandpiper
12Laughing Gull
1Ring-billed Gull
1Least Tern
2Royal Tern
3Anhinga
3Double-crested Cormorant
8White Ibis
3Snowy Egret
1Green Heron
1Great Blue Heron
1Osprey
1Red-shouldered Hawk
1Belted Kingfisher
2Red-bellied Woodpecker
2Downy Woodpecker
1Pileated Woodpecker
1Great Crested Flycatcher
2White-eyed Vireo
1American Crow
3Carolina Chickadee
1White-breasted Nuthatch
5Carolina Wren
4Northern Mockingbird
3House Finch

August 27

2American Herring Gull
1Turkey Vulture
1Acadian Flycatcher
2Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
2Brown-headed Cowbird
2Common Grackle
1Chuck-will's-widow
1American Coot
2Black-bellied Plover
1Western Sandpiper
1Common Tern
4Red-winged Blackbird
1Kentucky Warbler
1American Redstart
3Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
1Killdeer
12Black Skimmer
2Caspian Tern
1Least Bittern
3Black-crowned Night Heron
3Tricolored Heron
2Bald Eagle
2Brown-headed Nuthatch
3Eastern Bluebird
1Black-and-white Warbler

August 26

1Common Nighthawk
11Semipalmated Plover
1Black Tern
1Yellow-crowned Night Heron
8Barn Swallow
1Roseate Spoonbill
1Orchard Oriole
1Pine Warbler
4Sandwich Tern
3Brown Pelican
2American Goldfinch
1Marsh Wren
1Gray Catbird
3American Robin
1Eastern Towhee
1Prairie Warbler
9Semipalmated Sandpiper
2Black-necked Stilt
2Lesser Yellowlegs
1Lesser Black-backed Gull
1Gull-billed Tern
1Cooper's Hawk
1Northern Harrier
1Chimney Swift
2Stilt Sandpiper
1Northern Flicker
1Common Yellowthroat
1Merlin

August 25

2Glossy Ibis
1Chipping Sparrow
2American Oystercatcher
1Hudsonian Whimbrel
2Short-billed Dowitcher
1Fish Crow
1Seaside Sparrow
3Red-eyed Vireo
1Ovenbird
1Prothonotary Warbler
1Northern Parula
1Summer Tanager
1Northern Waterthrush

August 24

1Yellow-billed Cuckoo
1Dunlin
1Yellow-throated Vireo
1Western Cattle-Egret
1Mississippi Kite
2Purple Martin

August 23

2Northern Bobwhite
3Rock Pigeon
1Solitary Sandpiper
1Greater Yellowlegs
2Ruddy Turnstone
2Tree Swallow
2Boat-tailed Grackle
2Piping Plover
3Worm-eating Warbler
1Northern Yellow Warbler

August 22

1Blue Grosbeak
1Eurasian Collared-Dove
1Black Vulture
6European Starling
1Louisiana Waterthrush