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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 23

1Eurasian Collared-Dove
1Chuck-will's-widow
2Ruby-throated Hummingbird
1Clapper Rail
2Black-bellied Plover
1Killdeer
2Spotted Sandpiper
4Sanderling
2Ring-billed Gull
2Wood Stork
2Roseate Spoonbill
1Little Blue Heron
2Great Egret
1Great Blue Heron
1Bald Eagle
1Red-bellied Woodpecker
1White-eyed Vireo
4Blue Jay
1Carolina Chickadee
1Tufted Titmouse
2Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
1Carolina Wren
1Wood Thrush
4American Robin
2Red-winged Blackbird
4Common Grackle
2Northern Cardinal
2Painted Bunting

May 22

6Semipalmated Plover
4Solitary Sandpiper
2Stilt Sandpiper
2Dunlin
2Royal Tern
1Anhinga
6White Ibis
4Snowy Egret
1Red-tailed Hawk
1Willow Flycatcher
1Red-eyed Vireo
2Northern Mockingbird
1Chipping Sparrow
1Seaside Sparrow
1Black-and-white Warbler
1Mourning Dove
2Willet
2Least Sandpiper
1Gull-billed Tern
2Forster's Tern
1Downy Woodpecker
3Chimney Swift
5Common Gallinule
1American Coot
2Hudsonian Whimbrel
2Semipalmated Sandpiper
1Least Bittern
3Green Heron
1Osprey
3Red-headed Woodpecker
6Great Crested Flycatcher
2American Crow
1Fish Crow
4Barn Swallow
1Brown-headed Nuthatch
1Eastern Bluebird
2House Finch
1Prothonotary Warbler
3Pine Warbler
1Summer Tanager
1White-rumped Sandpiper
4Double-crested Cormorant
3Black-crowned Night Heron
11Tricolored Heron
2Brown Thrasher

May 21

1Yellow-crowned Night Heron
1White-breasted Nuthatch
2Western Sandpiper
1Great Black-backed Gull
1Savannah Sparrow
2Black-necked Stilt
1Least Tern
1Turkey Vulture
3Boat-tailed Grackle
2Lesser Yellowlegs
2Eastern Wood-Pewee
5Northern Parula
2Purple Martin
4Brown-headed Cowbird
1Blue Grosbeak
2Red-breasted Merganser
1Eastern Whip-poor-will
2Pied-billed Grebe
2Glossy Ibis
6Brown Pelican
4European Starling
2Gray Catbird
1Blue-winged Warbler

May 20

1Ruddy Turnstone
2Laughing Gull
1Barred Owl
1Orchard Oriole
1Red-shouldered Hawk
1Eastern Kingbird
1Gray-cheeked Thrush
1Common Yellowthroat
1American Redstart
1Marsh Wren
3Wilson's Plover
3Greater Yellowlegs

May 19

1Purple Gallinule
1Short-billed Dowitcher
1Belted Kingfisher
2Indigo Bunting
3Tree Swallow
2Canada Goose
4Black Scoter
1Yellow-billed Cuckoo
1Great Horned Owl
2Wood Duck
1Common Nighthawk
1Pileated Woodpecker
1Yellow-breasted Chat

May 18

1Yellow-throated Vireo
2American Oystercatcher
2American Herring Gull
1Broad-winged Hawk
1Swallow-tailed Kite

May 17

1Eastern Towhee
3Red Knot
6Black Skimmer
3Caspian Tern
2Sandwich Tern
1Black-throated Blue Warbler

May 16

1American Kestrel