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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 12

21Blue-winged Teal
50Green-winged Teal
2Common Gallinule
6American Coot
3Killdeer
16Lesser Yellowlegs
11Bonaparte's Gull
7Ring-billed Gull
5Forster's Tern
1Common Loon
2Northern Gannet
6Double-crested Cormorant
4Little Blue Heron
5Tricolored Heron
18Snowy Egret
7Great Egret
5American White Pelican
16Brown Pelican
3Turkey Vulture
1Osprey
1Bald Eagle
1Red-bellied Woodpecker
2Blue Jay
3American Crow
1Fish Crow
4Carolina Chickadee
4Tufted Titmouse
50Tree Swallow
1Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
5Carolina Wren
2Northern Mockingbird
20Red-winged Blackbird
3Pine Warbler
4Yellow-rumped Warbler
3Northern Cardinal
1Wood Duck
1Hooded Merganser
4Mourning Dove
1Virginia Rail
1Sora
1Willet
1Greater Yellowlegs
1Laughing Gull
8Anhinga
2White Ibis
1Great Blue Heron
1Belted Kingfisher
1Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
2Downy Woodpecker
1Pileated Woodpecker
3Ruby-crowned Kinglet
2Brown-headed Nuthatch
1Brown Thrasher
3Eastern Bluebird
1Hermit Thrush
1Swamp Sparrow
2Brown-headed Cowbird
8Common Grackle
1Yellow-throated Warbler
8Bufflehead
6Ruddy Duck
2Clapper Rail
6Long-billed Dowitcher
12Spotted Sandpiper
14Sanderling
8Dunlin
2Eastern Phoebe
1White-eyed Vireo
2House Finch
4White-throated Sparrow
2Song Sparrow
1Common Yellowthroat

March 11

1Northern Shoveler
3Black-bellied Plover
1Semipalmated Plover
1Short-billed Dowitcher
14Least Sandpiper
2Western Sandpiper
1Pied-billed Grebe
1Red-tailed Hawk
4Dark-eyed Junco
4Black-crowned Night Heron
1Gray Catbird
4American Robin
1Bachman's Sparrow
1Field Sparrow
1Northern Parula

March 10

1Black-and-white Warbler
6European Starling
2White-crowned Sparrow

March 9

1Saltmarsh Sparrow

March 8

11Gadwall
10Mallard
4Royal Tern
1Loggerhead Shrike
1Golden-crowned Kinglet
1Seaside Sparrow
1Orange-crowned Warbler

March 7

XYellow-crowned Night Heron
9Black Scoter
2Long-tailed Duck
1Red-breasted Merganser
1Piping Plover
1Ruddy Turnstone
1American Herring Gull
4Horned Grebe
1White-breasted Nuthatch
1Cedar Waxwing
2Boat-tailed Grackle
1Painted Bunting
2Eurasian Collared-Dove
1Great Horned Owl
1Winter Wren

March 6

XBarred Owl
1American Wigeon
7Red-throated Loon
2Peregrine Falcon
4Chipping Sparrow
1Prairie Warbler