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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 18

30Bufflehead
1Greater Yellowlegs
3Pied-billed Grebe
40White Ibis
2Tricolored Heron
10Great Blue Heron
9American White Pelican
1Carolina Chickadee
1Tufted Titmouse
2Brown-headed Nuthatch
1Carolina Wren
6Pine Warbler
1Yellow-rumped Warbler

January 17

1Northern Shoveler
1Gadwall
14Green-winged Teal
48Hooded Merganser
6Great Egret
10Tree Swallow
2Common Gallinule
1American Coot
1Lesser Yellowlegs
1Sanderling
1Ring-billed Gull
1Royal Tern
1Double-crested Cormorant
1Little Blue Heron
1Brown Pelican
1Osprey
1Downy Woodpecker
1Pileated Woodpecker
1Ruby-crowned Kinglet
1House Finch
1White-crowned Sparrow
1Red-winged Blackbird
1White-winged Scoter
3Black-bellied Plover
2Semipalmated Plover
3Ruddy Turnstone
1Dunlin
14Bonaparte's Gull
12Laughing Gull
4American Herring Gull
2Forster's Tern
1Horned Grebe
2Red-throated Loon
4Common Loon
1Bald Eagle
1Eastern Screech-Owl
1Black Scoter
2Red-breasted Merganser
1Long-billed Dowitcher
3Red Knot
5Least Sandpiper
4Turkey Vulture
1Belted Kingfisher
1Red-bellied Woodpecker
4Blue Jay
8Savannah Sparrow
2Song Sparrow
3Northern Cardinal
2Mourning Dove
1Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
1Gray Catbird
6Ring-necked Duck
1Sora
2Spotted Sandpiper
4Willet
2Western Sandpiper
1Red-tailed Hawk
1Blue-headed Vireo
2American Crow
2Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
6Northern Mockingbird
4Common Grackle
2Yellow-throated Warbler
2Ruddy Duck
2Eastern Phoebe
1Golden-crowned Kinglet
1Brown Thrasher
1Orange-crowned Warbler

January 16

1Tundra Swan
2Killdeer
1Lesser Black-backed Gull
1Brown Creeper
2American Wigeon
2Northern Pintail
1Lesser Scaup
4Short-billed Dowitcher
3Northern Gannet
1Black-crowned Night Heron
6Snowy Egret
1Northern Harrier
2White-breasted Nuthatch
4Cedar Waxwing
12White-throated Sparrow
2Swamp Sparrow
1Eastern Towhee
1Palm Warbler
1Clapper Rail
3American Oystercatcher
1Purple Sandpiper
1Great Black-backed Gull
2Black Skimmer
1Saltmarsh Sparrow

January 15

6Mallard
8Canvasback
1Red-shouldered Hawk
1Redhead
1Razorbill
4Eastern Bluebird
2Hermit Thrush
12American Robin
3Purple Finch
4American Goldfinch
1Sharp-shinned Hawk
1Chipping Sparrow
1Fox Sparrow

January 14

1Loggerhead Shrike
1Rusty Blackbird
2Blue-winged Teal
2Virginia Rail
3Wilson's Snipe
1Marsh Wren

January 13

1Barred Owl
1Eurasian Collared-Dove

January 12

4Mottled Duck
1Black Vulture
1Peregrine Falcon
1Seaside Sparrow
4Boat-tailed Grackle
1Common Goldeneye
1Wood Stork
1Fish Crow
12Brown-headed Cowbird
1Common Yellowthroat
1Common Eider
1Red-headed Woodpecker
1Northern Flicker
1Northern House Wren

January 11

1Canada Goose