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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.

December 27

4Blue-winged Teal
8Northern Shoveler
4Lesser Scaup
6Bufflehead
8Hooded Merganser
4Ruddy Duck
1Wild Turkey
1Mourning Dove
2American Coot
2Short-billed Dowitcher
2Ruddy Turnstone
4Least Sandpiper
2Western Sandpiper
6Ring-billed Gull
1Little Blue Heron
4Snowy Egret
10Great Egret
8American White Pelican
1Bald Eagle
1Belted Kingfisher
1Tufted Titmouse
2Ruby-crowned Kinglet
1House Finch
2Red-winged Blackbird
4Yellow-rumped Warbler
4Northern Cardinal

December 26

7Canvasback
2Redhead
4Ring-necked Duck
1Clapper Rail
8Lesser Yellowlegs
2American Herring Gull
6Pied-billed Grebe
8Wood Stork
1Downy Woodpecker
4Blue Jay
2American Crow
1Carolina Chickadee
1Brown Creeper
2Northern Mockingbird
2White-crowned Sparrow
6Common Grackle
30Green-winged Teal
1Common Gallinule
1Semipalmated Plover
6Double-crested Cormorant
12White Ibis
1Black-crowned Night Heron
1Tricolored Heron
1Great Blue Heron
8Brown Pelican
1Turkey Vulture
2Osprey
1Savannah Sparrow
4Gadwall
7Greater Yellowlegs
15Dunlin
1Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
2Red-bellied Woodpecker
1Pileated Woodpecker
11Tree Swallow
1Brown-headed Nuthatch
2Marsh Wren
1Carolina Wren
3Gray Catbird
3Eastern Bluebird
7White-throated Sparrow
2Swamp Sparrow
3Black-and-white Warbler
1Pine Warbler

December 25

1Virginia Rail
1American Oystercatcher
1Spotted Sandpiper
1Horned Grebe
1American Kestrel
1Purple Finch
10Song Sparrow
1Common Yellowthroat

December 24

2Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
8Mallard
2Red-breasted Merganser
2American Woodcock
1Northern Flicker
1Blue-headed Vireo
2Fish Crow
1Golden-crowned Kinglet
2Brown-headed Cowbird
4Boat-tailed Grackle

December 23

2Killdeer
1Red-throated Loon
1Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
XAmerican Robin
2Long-tailed Duck
4Piping Plover
1Forster's Tern

December 22

1Eastern Screech-Owl
1Winter Wren
1Prairie Warbler
2Cedar Waxwing
4Northern Pintail
2Eastern Phoebe

December 21

4Bonaparte's Gull

December 20

1Sanderling
6Laughing Gull