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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.

January 12

2Northern Shoveler
2Gadwall
4Mottled Duck
6Green-winged Teal
8Hooded Merganser
2Killdeer
1Semipalmated Plover
1Spotted Sandpiper
2Greater Yellowlegs
2Ring-billed Gull
8White Ibis
1Little Blue Heron
1Tricolored Heron
1Snowy Egret
1Great Egret
2Great Blue Heron
3American White Pelican
1Black Vulture
2Turkey Vulture
2Belted Kingfisher
1Red-bellied Woodpecker
1Brown-headed Nuthatch
1Carolina Wren
5Red-winged Blackbird
1Northern Cardinal
4Ring-necked Duck
2American Coot
6Short-billed Dowitcher
4Sanderling
2Bonaparte's Gull
1Bald Eagle
1Pileated Woodpecker
1Peregrine Falcon
2Blue Jay
1Carolina Chickadee
1Tufted Titmouse
2Ruby-crowned Kinglet
2Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
1Gray Catbird
2House Finch
1White-throated Sparrow
1Seaside Sparrow
4Boat-tailed Grackle
6Yellow-rumped Warbler
1Northern Pintail
11Bufflehead
1Common Goldeneye
1Sora
1Willet
5Forster's Tern
3Pied-billed Grebe
1Wood Stork
2American Crow
1Fish Crow
1Fox Sparrow
1Red-tailed Hawk
1Eastern Phoebe
1Northern Mockingbird
2Eastern Bluebird
1Hermit Thrush
1American Robin
3Swamp Sparrow
12Brown-headed Cowbird
5Common Grackle
1Common Yellowthroat
8Lesser Scaup
4White-winged Scoter
6Ruddy Duck
1Mourning Dove
4Clapper Rail
6Lesser Yellowlegs
6American Herring Gull
10Double-crested Cormorant
2Black-crowned Night Heron
1Song Sparrow
4Rusty Blackbird

January 11

1Canada Goose
4Western Sandpiper
1Eastern Screech-Owl
1Downy Woodpecker
2Saltmarsh Sparrow
1Black-bellied Plover
2Osprey
5Tree Swallow
1Pine Warbler
3Common Gallinule
3Ruddy Turnstone
1Horned Grebe
3Common Loon
7Brown Pelican
1Northern Harrier
1Northern Flicker
1Red-shouldered Hawk
2Brown Thrasher
3Cedar Waxwing
2Blue-winged Teal
1Virginia Rail
2Dunlin
1Northern House Wren
4Marsh Wren

January 10

2Laughing Gull
1Sharp-shinned Hawk
2White-breasted Nuthatch
1Chipping Sparrow
1White-crowned Sparrow
4Mallard
4American Oystercatcher
1Least Sandpiper
3Northern Gannet
3Savannah Sparrow
1Blue-headed Vireo
1Winter Wren
1Brown Creeper
1Red-throated Loon
1Wilson's Snipe
1Red-headed Woodpecker
2Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

January 9

1Barred Owl
2Yellow-throated Warbler
4Chimney Swift
1King Rail
1Lesser Black-backed Gull
2Anhinga
1Loggerhead Shrike
2Golden-crowned Kinglet
2European Starling
1House Sparrow
1Black-and-white Warbler

January 8

1Cooper's Hawk
1Great Horned Owl
1American Kestrel
1American Pipit
1Royal Tern

January 7

1Eastern Towhee
9Black Scoter
8Red-breasted Merganser
7Red Knot
2Purple Finch
1American Goldfinch
1Sedge Wren
1Long-tailed Duck

January 6

2Piping Plover
1Orange-crowned Warbler