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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.

November 4

1American Coot ✓
2Spotted Sandpiper ✓
4Sanderling ✓
1Dunlin ✓
1Least Sandpiper ✓
2Forster's Tern ✓
6Wood Stork ✓
1Anhinga ✓
6White Ibis ✓
4Snowy Egret ✓
1Great Egret ✓
1Great Blue Heron ✓
2Brown Pelican ✓
1Bald Eagle ✓
1White-eyed Vireo ✓
4American Crow ✓
1Carolina Chickadee ✓
1Golden-crowned Kinglet ✓
2Carolina Wren ✓
4Northern Mockingbird ✓
2House Finch ✓
1White-crowned Sparrow ✓
1Nelson's Sparrow ✓
1Brown-headed Cowbird ✓
1Rusty Blackbird ✓
2American Redstart ✓
1Prairie Warbler ✓
2Northern Cardinal ✓
1Mourning Dove ✓
2Red-bellied Woodpecker ✓
1Blue Jay ✓
1Tufted Titmouse ✓
1Winter Wren ✓
3Yellow-rumped Warbler ✓
1Hooded Merganser ✓
1Prairie Willet ✓
6Laughing Gull ✓
2Clapper Rail ✓
1American Oystercatcher ✓
6Black-bellied Plover ✓
2Killdeer ✓
11Semipalmated Plover ✓
3Greater Yellowlegs ✓
15Ruddy Turnstone ✓
85Western Sandpiper ✓
3Ring-billed Gull ✓
2American Herring Gull ✓
9Caspian Tern ✓
4Royal Tern ✓
2Double-crested Cormorant ✓
2Osprey ✓
1Long-billed Dowitcher ✓
2Pied-billed Grebe ✓
1Roseate Spoonbill ✓
2Tricolored Heron ✓
1Black Vulture ✓
10Red-shouldered Hawk ✓
2Belted Kingfisher ✓
1Northern Flicker ✓
1Eastern Phoebe ✓
6Tree Swallow ✓
1Ruby-crowned Kinglet ✓
2Blue-gray Gnatcatcher ✓
1Field Sparrow ✓
1White-throated Sparrow ✓
1Seaside Sparrow ✓
1Savannah Sparrow ✓
1Black-and-white Warbler ✓
1Common Yellowthroat ✓
2Yellow-bellied Sapsucker ✓
2Downy Woodpecker ✓
1Brown Creeper ✓
1Northern House Wren ✓
2Eastern Bluebird ✓
1American Robin ✓
1Song Sparrow ✓
1Pine Warbler ✓
16Common Gallinule ✓
3Brown-headed Nuthatch ✓
3Gray Catbird ✓
1Brown Thrasher ✓
1Hermit Thrush ✓
5Red-winged Blackbird ✓
5Little Blue Heron ✓
7Fish Crow ✓
1European Starling ✓
17Boat-tailed Grackle ✓

November 3

1Ruby-throated Hummingbird ✓
1Great Horned Owl ✓
1Common Grackle ✓
11Black Scoter ✓
5Northern Gannet ✓
5Saltmarsh Sparrow ✓
1Eastern Towhee ✓
4Turkey Vulture ✓
1Bonaparte's Gull ✓
2Loggerhead Shrike ✓
2Swamp Sparrow ✓
8Canada Goose ✓
1Merlin ✓

November 2

2Short-billed Dowitcher ✓
1Black-throated Blue Warbler ✓
1Ruddy Duck ✓
1Lesser Black-backed Gull ✓
1Northern Harrier ✓
1Palm Warbler ✓
1Surf Scoter ✓
1Blue-headed Vireo ✓
2Gadwall ✓
1Green Heron ✓

November 1

2Wild Turkey ✓
1Peregrine Falcon ✓
1Purple Finch ✓
1Red Knot ✓
1White-breasted Nuthatch ✓
1Chuck-will's-widow ✓
1Virginia Rail ✓
1Lesser Scaup ✓
2Great Black-backed Gull ✓
6Sandwich Tern ✓
1Common Loon ✓
1Chipping Sparrow ✓

October 31

1Snow Goose ✓
1Hairy Woodpecker
10Green-winged Teal ✓
3Lesser Yellowlegs ✓
1Cooper's Hawk ✓
1Cape May Warbler ✓
2Painted Bunting ✓
2Eurasian Collared-Dove ✓
1Eastern Marsh Wren ✓
3Pileated Woodpecker ✓
1Orange-crowned Warbler ✓
1Blackpoll Warbler ✓

October 30

1Red-tailed Hawk ✓
1Red-eyed Vireo ✓

October 29

1Bay-breasted Warbler ✓
2Red-breasted Merganser ✓
1Common Tern ✓
1Northern Parula ✓
3Blue-winged Teal ✓
1Black-crowned Night Heron ✓