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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.

April 4

1Wild Turkey
1Mourning Dove
4Chimney Swift
1Sora
2American Coot
1Spotted Sandpiper
4Willet
2Stilt Sandpiper
6Sanderling
4Ring-billed Gull
4Forster's Tern
1Red-throated Loon
1Tricolored Heron
4Great Egret
2Great Blue Heron
1Northern Harrier
1Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
1Downy Woodpecker
1Merlin
2Eastern Phoebe
1Loggerhead Shrike
4American Crow
1White-breasted Nuthatch
1Northern House Wren
1Marsh Wren
20House Finch
4Chipping Sparrow
1Seaside Sparrow
2Red-winged Blackbird
1Worm-eating Warbler
1Prothonotary Warbler
4Northern Cardinal
2Wood Duck
4Gadwall
1Green-winged Teal
23Black Scoter
1Bufflehead
1King Rail
1Clapper Rail
27Common Gallinule
2Black-bellied Plover
3Killdeer
67Semipalmated Plover
2Wilson's Plover
25Short-billed Dowitcher
2Lesser Yellowlegs
6Greater Yellowlegs
3Dunlin
34Least Sandpiper
1Pectoral Sandpiper
8Western Sandpiper
19Bonaparte's Gull
17Laughing Gull
7Least Tern
1Sandwich Tern
3Royal Tern
2Common Loon
11Anhinga
21Double-crested Cormorant
27Glossy Ibis
1Little Blue Heron
10Snowy Egret
51Brown Pelican
6Turkey Vulture
2Osprey
1Sharp-shinned Hawk
1Belted Kingfisher
7Red-bellied Woodpecker
1Pileated Woodpecker
2White-eyed Vireo
4Blue Jay
4Fish Crow
5Carolina Chickadee
6Tufted Titmouse
39Tree Swallow
2Ruby-crowned Kinglet
4Brown-headed Nuthatch
3Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
7Carolina Wren
6Gray Catbird
1Northern Mockingbird
1American Robin
4Cedar Waxwing
8White-throated Sparrow
2Song Sparrow
4Swamp Sparrow
4Eastern Towhee
4Brown-headed Cowbird
6Common Grackle
2Boat-tailed Grackle
2Northern Parula
6Pine Warbler
3Yellow-rumped Warbler

April 3

2Horned Grebe
2Green Heron
1Bald Eagle
1Blue-headed Vireo
1Yellow-throated Warbler
1Great Crested Flycatcher
2Blue-winged Teal
2Pied-billed Grebe
4Barn Swallow
4Eastern Bluebird
1Hermit Thrush
2Red-breasted Merganser
4White Ibis
1Red-shouldered Hawk
1Brown Creeper
1Savannah Sparrow
1Common Yellowthroat

April 2

2Chuck-will's-widow
1Marbled Godwit
1American Bittern
1Broad-winged Hawk
1Peregrine Falcon
1Brown Thrasher
1Chestnut-sided Warbler
1Red-eyed Vireo
5European Starling
1Hooded Warbler
1Summer Tanager
1Northern Flicker
1Northern Bobwhite
4American Avocet
6Piping Plover
1American Woodcock
1Wilson's Phalarope
2Solitary Sandpiper
2Red Knot
1Lesser Black-backed Gull
1Caspian Tern
2Northern Gannet
1Black-crowned Night Heron

April 1

1Ruby-throated Hummingbird
1Great Black-backed Gull
2Common Tern
2Least Bittern
1Eastern Kingbird
3Black Vulture
4Wilson's Snipe
2Black Skimmer
2Gull-billed Tern
1Black Tern
1Saltmarsh Sparrow

March 30

4Hooded Merganser
2Long-billed Dowitcher
1Prairie Warbler
3American Herring Gull
1Virginia Rail
2Mallard
1Black-and-white Warbler
1Red-tailed Hawk
2Canada Goose
1American Oystercatcher

March 29

2Wood Stork
3Northern Rough-winged Swallow
1Semipalmated Sandpiper
1Yellow-crowned Night Heron
1American Kestrel
1Yellow-throated Vireo