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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.

March 30

2Blue-winged Teal
1Virginia Rail
2Sora
50Common Gallinule
50American Coot
1Lesser Yellowlegs
3Pied-billed Grebe
1Little Blue Heron
6Snowy Egret
2Green Heron
12Great Egret
1Great Blue Heron
1White-eyed Vireo
3Blue Jay
3American Crow
4Carolina Wren
1Gray Catbird
1Brown Thrasher
1Northern Mockingbird
1White-throated Sparrow
10Red-winged Blackbird
2Common Grackle
4Northern Cardinal
4Gadwall
2Mallard
2Green-winged Teal
4Mourning Dove
2Black-bellied Plover
12Killdeer
35Semipalmated Plover
25Short-billed Dowitcher
15Willet
14Greater Yellowlegs
20Stilt Sandpiper
45Dunlin
30Least Sandpiper
2Pectoral Sandpiper
12Western Sandpiper
12Double-crested Cormorant
4Tricolored Heron
1Bald Eagle
1Belted Kingfisher
1Red-bellied Woodpecker
1Northern Flicker
2Carolina Chickadee
6Ruby-crowned Kinglet
1Hermit Thrush
2Swamp Sparrow
3Eastern Towhee
1Black-and-white Warbler
1Northern Parula
2Yellow-rumped Warbler
1Chuck-will's-widow
2Clapper Rail
4Sanderling
2Ring-billed Gull
2Forster's Tern
2Common Loon
6Brown Pelican
1Red-tailed Hawk
1Downy Woodpecker
1Great Crested Flycatcher
1Blue-headed Vireo
1Brown-headed Nuthatch
2Brown Creeper
2Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
6American Robin
4Chipping Sparrow
1Savannah Sparrow
2Canada Goose
1American Oystercatcher
23Laughing Gull
6Anhinga
1White Ibis
1Osprey
3Fish Crow
5Tufted Titmouse
12Tree Swallow
1Northern House Wren
1Marsh Wren
1Eastern Bluebird
1Cedar Waxwing
5House Finch
6Brown-headed Cowbird
4Pine Warbler

March 29

1Bonaparte's Gull
1American Herring Gull
2Wood Stork
2Turkey Vulture
1Northern Harrier
3Northern Rough-winged Swallow
2Marbled Godwit
1Semipalmated Sandpiper
2Royal Tern
1Yellow-crowned Night Heron
2Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
1American Kestrel
1Yellow-throated Vireo
1White-breasted Nuthatch
2Boat-tailed Grackle
1Ruby-throated Hummingbird
2Spotted Sandpiper
1Red Knot
1Eastern Kingbird
1Hooded Warbler
1Yellow-throated Warbler

March 28

1Long-billed Dowitcher
1Sandwich Tern
1Peregrine Falcon
1Sedge Wren
1Pine Siskin
1Saltmarsh Sparrow
2Rusty Blackbird
1Great Black-backed Gull
1Seaside Sparrow

March 27

1Wild Turkey
1Barred Owl
2Eastern Phoebe
1Prairie Warbler
1Solitary Sandpiper
2Ruddy Turnstone
1Horned Grebe

March 26

2Least Tern

March 25

4European Starling
1Piping Plover
2Wilson's Snipe
1American Bittern
1Cooper's Hawk
6Song Sparrow
1Orange-crowned Warbler

March 24

1Red-throated Loon
1Merlin
1Palm Warbler

March 23

1Eurasian Collared-Dove