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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 13

2Northern Pintail ✓
4Hooded Merganser ✓
1Laughing Gull ✓
1Forster's Tern ✓
5Wood Stork ✓
6Double-crested Cormorant ✓
1Little Blue Heron ✓
3Snowy Egret ✓
20Great Egret ✓
1Great Blue Heron ✓
18American White Pelican ✓
10Brown Pelican ✓
1Turkey Vulture ✓
1Bald Eagle ✓
1Red-tailed Hawk ✓
1Blue Jay ✓
2American Crow ✓
4Carolina Chickadee ✓
1Northern House Wren ✓
1Northern Mockingbird ✓
1Hermit Thrush ✓
3White-throated Sparrow ✓
5Red-winged Blackbird ✓
3Yellow-rumped Warbler ✓
1Northern Cardinal ✓
6Blue-winged Teal ✓
2Gadwall ✓
2Green-winged Teal ✓
2Ring-necked Duck ✓
1Bufflehead ✓
6Prairie Willet ✓
15Greater Yellowlegs ✓
3Sanderling ✓
1Dunlin ✓
2Least Sandpiper ✓
1Bonaparte's Gull ✓
1American Herring Gull ✓
1Royal Tern ✓
9Pied-billed Grebe ✓
1Tricolored Heron ✓
1Osprey ✓
1Northern Harrier ✓
3Belted Kingfisher ✓
1Eastern Phoebe ✓
2Fish Crow ✓
1Tufted Titmouse ✓
2Ruby-crowned Kinglet ✓
1Carolina Wren ✓
2Gray Catbird ✓
1Eastern Bluebird ✓
1Chipping Sparrow ✓
3Song Sparrow ✓
1Swamp Sparrow ✓
1Eastern Towhee ✓
1Common Grackle ✓
4American Coot ✓
2Ring-billed Gull ✓
1Merlin ✓
2Brown Creeper ✓

November 12

4Ruddy Duck ✓
4Clapper Rail ✓
2Killdeer ✓
2Wilson's Snipe ✓
1Spotted Sandpiper ✓
2Common Loon ✓
4White Ibis ✓
1Blue-gray Gnatcatcher ✓
1Brown Thrasher ✓
1Fox Sparrow ✓
2Brown-headed Cowbird ✓
2American Redstart ✓
7Common Gallinule ✓
1Red-bellied Woodpecker ✓
1American Robin ✓
1House Finch ✓
2Palm Warbler ✓
1Mourning Dove ✓
6Short-billed Dowitcher ✓
4Western Sandpiper ✓
2Roseate Spoonbill ✓
1Green Heron ✓
1Saltmarsh Sparrow ✓

November 11

2Sandwich Tern ✓
12Brown-headed Nuthatch ✓
1White-crowned Sparrow ✓
1Common Yellowthroat ✓
2Northern Flicker ✓
1Cooper's Hawk ✓
1White-breasted Nuthatch ✓
1Red-shouldered Hawk ✓
2American Goldfinch ✓
1Baltimore Oriole ✓
1Anhinga ✓
9Semipalmated Plover ✓
9Red Knot ✓
1Pileated Woodpecker ✓
1Barn Swallow ✓
2Caspian Tern ✓
1Eastern Screech-Owl ✓
4European Starling ✓
1Seaside Sparrow ✓
2Downy Woodpecker ✓
1Blue-headed Vireo ✓
8Tree Swallow ✓
4Golden-crowned Kinglet ✓

November 10

1Red-breasted Merganser ✓
3Black-bellied Plover ✓
3Ruddy Turnstone ✓
1Sora ✓
5Black-crowned Night Heron ✓
1Rusty Blackbird ✓

November 9

2Wilson's Plover ✓
1Peregrine Falcon ✓
2Northern Shoveler ✓
1Yellow-bellied Sapsucker ✓
2Northern Gannet ✓
1Red-headed Woodpecker ✓
4Cedar Waxwing ✓
1Lark Sparrow ✓
1Savannah Sparrow ✓
2Boat-tailed Grackle ✓
2Pine Warbler ✓

November 8

1Piping Plover ✓
2American Oystercatcher ✓
1Parasitic Jaeger ✓
1Lesser Black-backed Gull ✓
1Virginia Rail ✓
2Winter Wren ✓
1Orange-crowned Warbler ✓
1Mallard ✓
1Ruby-throated Hummingbird ✓

November 7

1Western Kingbird ✓

November 6

1Lesser Yellowlegs ✓
1Prairie Warbler ✓