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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.

November 17

7Gadwall
1American Wigeon
30Green-winged Teal
9Lesser Scaup
1White-winged Scoter
6Bufflehead
27Hooded Merganser
6Ruddy Duck
1Black-bellied Plover
1Spotted Sandpiper
5Lesser Yellowlegs
3Greater Yellowlegs
13Dunlin
6Least Sandpiper
1Bonaparte's Gull
3Ring-billed Gull
12Pied-billed Grebe
9Wood Stork
10Double-crested Cormorant
8White Ibis
6Roseate Spoonbill
11Little Blue Heron
9Tricolored Heron
14Snowy Egret
11Great Egret
1Great Blue Heron
2Osprey
1Bald Eagle
1Belted Kingfisher
1American Crow
70Tree Swallow
14Red-winged Blackbird

November 16

4Clapper Rail
4Laughing Gull
1Anhinga
2Blue Jay
1Carolina Chickadee
1Barn Swallow
2Ruby-crowned Kinglet
1White-breasted Nuthatch
1Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
1Carolina Wren
1European Starling
1White-throated Sparrow
1Song Sparrow
1Swamp Sparrow
4Yellow-rumped Warbler
6Northern Shoveler
12Ring-necked Duck
1Mourning Dove
6Semipalmated Plover
4Willet
6Common Loon
4American White Pelican
2Eastern Phoebe
1Tufted Titmouse
1Gray Catbird
1American Robin
2Brown-headed Cowbird
1Prairie Warbler
1Piping Plover
2Brown Pelican
1Yellow-billed Cuckoo
4Western Sandpiper
1Red-tailed Hawk
2White-crowned Sparrow
2Common Grackle
4Northern Cardinal
4Common Gallinule
80American Coot
1Ruddy Turnstone
8Sanderling
2Forster's Tern
2Royal Tern
8Northern Gannet
5Black Vulture
3Turkey Vulture
1Northern Harrier
1Red-shouldered Hawk
2Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
3Red-bellied Woodpecker
1Downy Woodpecker
1White-eyed Vireo
1Golden-crowned Kinglet
2Brown-headed Nuthatch
1Eastern Bluebird
6Hermit Thrush
4House Finch
2Black-and-white Warbler
1Pine Warbler

November 15

1Barred Owl
1Red-headed Woodpecker
1Northern Mockingbird
2Saltmarsh Sparrow
2Yellow-throated Warbler
4American Herring Gull

November 14

1Red-throated Loon
1Chipping Sparrow
1Common Yellowthroat
1Lesser Black-backed Gull
4Brown Thrasher
2Rusty Blackbird

November 13

1Blue-headed Vireo
1American Redstart
1Horned Grebe

November 12

3Fish Crow
1Cliff Swallow
2Red-breasted Merganser
1Chuck-will's-widow
1Seaside Sparrow