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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.

December 4

7Northern Shoveler
42Gadwall
2Northern Pintail
37Green-winged Teal
3Lesser Scaup
9Bufflehead
19Hooded Merganser
2Ruddy Duck
35Common Gallinule
48American Coot
1Killdeer
13Dunlin
5Least Sandpiper
4Ring-billed Gull
1Forster's Tern
13Pied-billed Grebe
9Wood Stork
35Double-crested Cormorant
7White Ibis
6Black-crowned Night Heron
2Little Blue Heron
3Tricolored Heron
4Snowy Egret
14Great Egret
9Great Blue Heron
52American White Pelican
2Osprey
1Cooper's Hawk
2Bald Eagle
1Red-shouldered Hawk
1Eastern Screech-Owl
1Belted Kingfisher
1Eastern Phoebe
1White-eyed Vireo
1Blue-headed Vireo
2American Crow
1Carolina Chickadee
20Tree Swallow
1Northern Mockingbird
2White-throated Sparrow
8Red-winged Blackbird
14Common Grackle
13Yellow-rumped Warbler
2Northern Cardinal
2Ring-necked Duck
1Mourning Dove
1King Rail
1Sora
1Wilson's Snipe
6Lesser Yellowlegs
XWillet
1Downy Woodpecker
1Blue Jay
XTufted Titmouse
XCarolina Wren
1American Robin

December 3

3Turkey Vulture
1Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
1Red-bellied Woodpecker
1Northern Flicker
2Ruby-crowned Kinglet
1Golden-crowned Kinglet
1White-breasted Nuthatch
2Brown-headed Nuthatch
1Northern House Wren
6House Finch
2Laughing Gull
2Brown Pelican
1Eastern Bluebird
1Hermit Thrush
1Common Yellowthroat

December 2

2Blue-winged Teal
1Clapper Rail
1Gray Catbird
2Swamp Sparrow
2Short-billed Dowitcher
2Greater Yellowlegs
1American Herring Gull
2Roseate Spoonbill

December 1

1Black-bellied Plover
1Greater Scaup
88Black Scoter
42Ruddy Turnstone
1Red Knot
11Sanderling
1Purple Sandpiper
4Western Sandpiper
1Parasitic Jaeger
200Black Skimmer
1Red-throated Loon
5Common Loon
24Northern Gannet
1Loggerhead Shrike
1Nelson's Sparrow
1Song Sparrow
1Orange-crowned Warbler
2Anhinga
1Winter Wren
7Wood Duck
1Black-and-white Warbler

November 30

2Black Vulture
3Bonaparte's Gull
1Northern Harrier
2Marsh Wren
2Chipping Sparrow
4Boat-tailed Grackle

November 29

11Semipalmated Plover
1Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
1American Goldfinch
2Pine Warbler
4Redhead
3Red-breasted Merganser
1Eastern Towhee
10Canada Goose
3Barn Swallow

November 28

1Red-tailed Hawk
4White-winged Scoter
1Lesser Black-backed Gull
1Sandwich Tern
1Royal Tern
1Saltmarsh Sparrow
1Purple Finch
2Pileated Woodpecker
3Cave Swallow
1Brown Thrasher