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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 21

1Mourning Dove
1Clapper Rail
2Killdeer
2Semipalmated Plover
XSemipalmated Sandpiper
4Anhinga
1Double-crested Cormorant
2Roseate Spoonbill
1Yellow-crowned Night Heron
1Little Blue Heron
1Tricolored Heron
3Snowy Egret
4Great Egret
3Great Blue Heron
2American Crow
2Carolina Chickadee
2Carolina Wren
5Red-winged Blackbird
3Boat-tailed Grackle
1Northern Cardinal
1Ruby-throated Hummingbird
3Red-headed Woodpecker
2Red-bellied Woodpecker
1Willow Flycatcher
5Great Crested Flycatcher
3Blue Jay
1Fish Crow
1Tufted Titmouse
2Purple Martin
1White-breasted Nuthatch
1Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
2Brown Thrasher
2Northern Mockingbird
1Eastern Bluebird
4Brown-headed Cowbird
2Pine Warbler
1Summer Tanager
1Blue Grosbeak
1Painted Bunting
2Red-breasted Merganser
1Eurasian Collared-Dove
1Eastern Whip-poor-will
4American Coot
2Black-bellied Plover
1Spotted Sandpiper
2Solitary Sandpiper
2Western Sandpiper
2Ring-billed Gull
4Gull-billed Tern
2Pied-billed Grebe
6White Ibis
2Glossy Ibis
6Brown Pelican
1Red-tailed Hawk
1Red-eyed Vireo
1Brown-headed Nuthatch
4European Starling
2Gray Catbird
4American Robin
1House Finch
1Blue-winged Warbler

May 20

8Common Gallinule
1Willet
1Ruddy Turnstone
4Sanderling
2Laughing Gull
30Least Tern
3Royal Tern
2Wood Stork
1Least Bittern
2Green Heron
1Osprey
1Barred Owl
1Eastern Wood-Pewee
2Barn Swallow
1Orchard Oriole
10Common Grackle
2Prothonotary Warbler
2Downy Woodpecker
2Black-necked Stilt
1Red-shouldered Hawk
1Eastern Kingbird
1Gray-cheeked Thrush
1Savannah Sparrow
1Common Yellowthroat
1American Redstart
20Piping Plover
1White-eyed Vireo
1Marsh Wren
1Turkey Vulture
1Bald Eagle
XKing Rail
3Wilson's Plover
3Greater Yellowlegs
4Least Sandpiper

May 19

1Purple Gallinule
1Chimney Swift
1Short-billed Dowitcher
1Belted Kingfisher
1Chipping Sparrow
2Indigo Bunting
1Black-crowned Night Heron
3Tree Swallow
2Canada Goose
1Hudsonian Whimbrel
1Lesser Yellowlegs
4Black Scoter
1Yellow-billed Cuckoo
2Chuck-will's-widow
2White-rumped Sandpiper
2Forster's Tern
1Great Horned Owl
1Seaside Sparrow
2Wood Duck
1Common Nighthawk
1Pileated Woodpecker
1Yellow-breasted Chat
1Northern Parula

May 18

1Yellow-throated Vireo
1Black-and-white Warbler
2American Oystercatcher
2American Herring Gull
1Broad-winged Hawk
1Swallow-tailed Kite
1Wood Thrush

May 17

1Eastern Towhee
4Stilt Sandpiper
3Red Knot
5Dunlin
6Black Skimmer
3Caspian Tern
2Sandwich Tern
1Black-throated Blue Warbler

May 16

1American Kestrel
4Wild Turkey

May 15

1Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
1Mallard
3Pectoral Sandpiper
1Magnolia Warbler
1Northern Yellow Warbler