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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.

April 23

1Wood Duck
5Common Gallinule
3American Coot
43Anhinga
5Double-crested Cormorant
2Roseate Spoonbill
3Least Bittern
2Black-crowned Night Heron
6Little Blue Heron
7Tricolored Heron
9Snowy Egret
4Green Heron
5Great Egret
1Great Blue Heron
2American Crow
1Orchard Oriole
3Northern Cardinal
1Mourning Dove
1Chimney Swift
2Purple Gallinule
4Piping Plover
2Wilson's Snipe
4Lesser Yellowlegs
2Least Sandpiper
4Ring-billed Gull
2Gull-billed Tern
4White Ibis
1Black Vulture
1Bald Eagle
1Red-bellied Woodpecker
1American Kestrel
1Great Crested Flycatcher
4Blue Jay
2Tufted Titmouse
1Tree Swallow
1White-breasted Nuthatch
2Carolina Wren
2Northern Mockingbird
1Red-winged Blackbird
1Brown-headed Cowbird
1Pine Warbler
1Painted Bunting
1Ruby-throated Hummingbird
1Sora
2Greater Yellowlegs
1Downy Woodpecker
1Eastern Bluebird
2American Robin
2House Finch
3Boat-tailed Grackle
1Prothonotary Warbler
1Palm Warbler
1Black-necked Stilt
1Pileated Woodpecker
3Fish Crow
1Carolina Chickadee
2Clapper Rail
2Black-bellied Plover
1Marbled Godwit
1Spotted Sandpiper
1Western Sandpiper
4American Herring Gull
1Northern Gannet
2Glossy Ibis
1Yellow-crowned Night Heron
4Brown Pelican
1Red-tailed Hawk
2Merlin
4Barn Swallow
1Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
1Brown Thrasher
1Veery
1Wood Thrush
1Swamp Sparrow
1Black-and-white Warbler
1Black Scoter
2Red-breasted Merganser
1American Oystercatcher
6Killdeer
24Semipalmated Plover
5Wilson's Plover
8Hudsonian Whimbrel
105Short-billed Dowitcher
2Long-billed Dowitcher
1Solitary Sandpiper
20Willet
3Ruddy Turnstone
43Sanderling
3Dunlin
14Laughing Gull
150Least Tern
5Forster's Tern
2Sandwich Tern
100Royal Tern
3Turkey Vulture
2Osprey
1Red-shouldered Hawk
1Red-headed Woodpecker
3White-eyed Vireo
1Blue-headed Vireo
1Ruby-crowned Kinglet
1Brown-headed Nuthatch
1Northern House Wren
1Marsh Wren
4Gray Catbird
1Hermit Thrush
4White-throated Sparrow
1Seaside Sparrow
2Savannah Sparrow
1Song Sparrow
3Eastern Towhee
11Common Grackle
1Common Yellowthroat
2Northern Parula
8Yellow-rumped Warbler
1Yellow-throated Warbler
1Summer Tanager

April 22

1Yellow-billed Cuckoo
1Pied-billed Grebe
1Cape May Warbler
1Prairie Warbler
1Eastern Kingbird
1Chipping Sparrow
1Saltmarsh Sparrow
2Stilt Sandpiper
120Semipalmated Sandpiper
4Bonaparte's Gull
1Black Skimmer
1Common Tern
1Northern Bobwhite
1Chuck-will's-widow
1Wilson's Phalarope
1Blue-winged Warbler
1Hairy Woodpecker
2Cedar Waxwing

April 21

1Common Eider
6Purple Martin
1Virginia Rail
4Canada Goose
1Common Nighthawk
1Brown Creeper
4European Starling
1Hooded Warbler
1American Redstart
1Blue-winged Teal
1Cooper's Hawk

April 20

1Swallow-tailed Kite
2Baltimore Oriole
1Belted Kingfisher
1American Goldfinch
1Western Cattle-Egret

April 19

1Blue Grosbeak
1House Sparrow
1Yellow-throated Vireo
1Wild Turkey
1Red-eyed Vireo
1Northern Yellow Warbler
12Caspian Tern
1Northern Rough-winged Swallow
1Nelson's Sparrow
1Yellow-breasted Chat
1Rock Pigeon
2American Woodcock
2American White Pelican

April 18

1Peregrine Falcon
1Mallard
1Wood Stork
1Scarlet Tanager
1Sharp-shinned Hawk
1American Golden-Plover

April 17

1Bank Swallow
3Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
2Horned Lark
1Northern Harrier
2Lesser Black-backed Gull
1Indigo Bunting