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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.

May 29

1Mourning Dove
8Common Gallinule
2American Coot
1Purple Gallinule
9Anhinga
1Double-crested Cormorant
10Glossy Ibis
1Least Bittern
4Black-crowned Night Heron
2Little Blue Heron
1Snowy Egret
2Green Heron
7Great Egret
2Red-bellied Woodpecker
2Pileated Woodpecker
1White-breasted Nuthatch
1Brown Thrasher
4Red-winged Blackbird
1Prothonotary Warbler
1Pine Warbler
3Northern Cardinal
6Black-necked Stilt
1Killdeer
5Least Sandpiper
3Laughing Gull
31Wood Stork
3White Ibis
3Roseate Spoonbill
9Tricolored Heron
1Great Blue Heron
1Tufted Titmouse
2Barn Swallow
1Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
5Brown-headed Cowbird
1Painted Bunting
1Ruby-throated Hummingbird
2Spotted Sandpiper
4Willet
2Sanderling
1Gull-billed Tern
1Swallow-tailed Kite
2Belted Kingfisher
1Great Crested Flycatcher
1Yellow-throated Vireo
4Blue Jay
2American Crow
4Northern Mockingbird
1Chipping Sparrow
1Black-and-white Warbler
1Blackpoll Warbler
4Chimney Swift
5American Oystercatcher
1Black-bellied Plover
5Wilson's Plover
2Hudsonian Whimbrel
13Ruddy Turnstone
32Least Tern
4Royal Tern
1Yellow-crowned Night Heron
15Brown Pelican
2Turkey Vulture
1Osprey
2Bald Eagle
1Downy Woodpecker
1Carolina Chickadee
1Purple Martin
1Carolina Wren
1House Finch
2Boat-tailed Grackle
1Northern Parula
1Wood Duck
7Semipalmated Plover
5Semipalmated Sandpiper
1Red-headed Woodpecker
2Brown-headed Nuthatch
2Eastern Bluebird
2Common Grackle
2Clapper Rail
1Hairy Woodpecker
1Fish Crow
1Eurasian Collared-Dove
2Chuck-will's-widow
4Ring-billed Gull
1Forster's Tern
2Pied-billed Grebe
1Red-shouldered Hawk
1White-eyed Vireo
1Common Yellowthroat
1Bay-breasted Warbler
1Dunlin

May 28

1Red-tailed Hawk
1Hooded Warbler
1Chestnut-sided Warbler
1Summer Tanager
4Caspian Tern
10Sandwich Tern
1Red-breasted Merganser
17Short-billed Dowitcher
2American Herring Gull
3Black Skimmer
2Tree Swallow
1Red-eyed Vireo
1Gray Catbird
3Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
1Northern Rough-winged Swallow
2Blue Grosbeak

May 27

1Cooper's Hawk
1Blue-winged Warbler

May 26

1Eastern Kingbird
4American Robin
1Marsh Wren

May 25

2Western Sandpiper
6European Starling
1Seaside Sparrow
2White-rumped Sandpiper
5Greater Yellowlegs
1Lesser Yellowlegs

May 24

1Mississippi Kite
1Eastern Wood-Pewee
2Black Vulture
1House Sparrow
1Mallard
1Orchard Oriole
1Stilt Sandpiper

May 23

1American Goldfinch
1Wood Thrush