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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.

August 18

5Mourning Dove
15Common Gallinule
1Willet
2Sanderling
13Laughing Gull
1Royal Tern
1White Ibis
2Black-crowned Night Heron
23Great Egret
1Great Blue Heron
1Osprey
4Red-headed Woodpecker
2Red-bellied Woodpecker
1Pileated Woodpecker
1Great Crested Flycatcher
1White-eyed Vireo
2American Crow
4Carolina Chickadee
2Tufted Titmouse
2Barn Swallow
1Brown-headed Nuthatch
1Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
5Carolina Wren
2Brown Thrasher
6Northern Mockingbird
1Red-winged Blackbird
1Black-and-white Warbler
1Northern Parula
5Northern Cardinal

August 17

33Wood Stork
1Yellow-crowned Night Heron
1Little Blue Heron
1Tricolored Heron
2Snowy Egret
3Painted Bunting
1Belted Kingfisher
1Ruby-throated Hummingbird
1Caspian Tern
1Anhinga
1Least Bittern
2Green Heron
1Red-shouldered Hawk
1Red-eyed Vireo
2Blue Jay
1Louisiana Waterthrush

August 16

1Mississippi Kite
3House Finch
4American Oystercatcher
2Ruddy Turnstone
1Forster's Tern
2Common Tern
4Sandwich Tern
4Brown Pelican
1Black Skimmer
5Black-bellied Plover
18Semipalmated Plover
8Least Sandpiper
2Western Sandpiper
3Ring-billed Gull
2Least Tern
2Black Tern
4Double-crested Cormorant
16Tree Swallow
3Cliff Swallow

August 15

1Downy Woodpecker
1White-breasted Nuthatch
2Eastern Bluebird
1Short-billed Dowitcher
1Blue-winged Teal
1Common Yellowthroat
2Chimney Swift
1Prothonotary Warbler
1Swainson's Warbler
1Prairie Warbler

August 14

1Pine Warbler
1Red-tailed Hawk
1Brown-headed Cowbird

August 13

1Clapper Rail
5Wilson's Plover
6Hudsonian Whimbrel
2Long-billed Dowitcher
9Spotted Sandpiper
2Lesser Yellowlegs
14Greater Yellowlegs
1Pectoral Sandpiper
6Semipalmated Sandpiper
3Great Black-backed Gull
5Gull-billed Tern
9Glossy Ibis

August 12

1Turkey Vulture
1Bald Eagle
1American Redstart
2Roseate Spoonbill
3Piping Plover
1Purple Martin

August 11

1American Herring Gull