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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 3

2Wood Duck
1Bufflehead
21Common Gallinule
21American Coot
1Forster's Tern
16Anhinga
28Double-crested Cormorant
1Little Blue Heron
7Snowy Egret
1Green Heron
4Great Egret
1Great Blue Heron
1Osprey
1Red-bellied Woodpecker
1Downy Woodpecker
1Great Crested Flycatcher
1White-eyed Vireo
2Blue Jay
2American Crow
2Carolina Chickadee
2Tufted Titmouse
1Ruby-crowned Kinglet
1Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
1Marsh Wren
6Carolina Wren
3Gray Catbird
1House Finch
2White-throated Sparrow
4Red-winged Blackbird
8Common Grackle
1Northern Parula
5Northern Cardinal
2Red-breasted Merganser
2Mourning Dove
1Clapper Rail
2Semipalmated Plover
1Spotted Sandpiper
2Willet
4Sanderling
6Ring-billed Gull
2Pied-billed Grebe
4White Ibis
1Tricolored Heron
1Red-shouldered Hawk
2Eastern Phoebe
1Brown Creeper
4Chipping Sparrow
1Savannah Sparrow
1Common Yellowthroat

April 2

4Green-winged Teal
2Chuck-will's-widow
1Marbled Godwit
1Common Loon
1American Bittern
1Broad-winged Hawk
1Peregrine Falcon
1White-breasted Nuthatch
1Brown Thrasher
2American Robin
1Worm-eating Warbler
1Chestnut-sided Warbler
4Blue-winged Teal
1Sora
1Glossy Ibis
1Pileated Woodpecker
1Red-eyed Vireo
5European Starling
1Northern Mockingbird
1Hermit Thrush
5Cedar Waxwing
1Swamp Sparrow
1Eastern Towhee
1Prothonotary Warbler
1Hooded Warbler
8Pine Warbler
1Summer Tanager
1Greater Yellowlegs
26Tree Swallow
6Barn Swallow
1Northern Bobwhite
4American Avocet
6Piping Plover
6Short-billed Dowitcher
1American Woodcock
1Wilson's Phalarope
2Solitary Sandpiper
2Red Knot
2Dunlin
4Pectoral Sandpiper
1Lesser Black-backed Gull
2Least Tern
1Caspian Tern
8Brown Pelican
1Bald Eagle
1Fish Crow
1Brown-headed Nuthatch
1Gadwall
8Black Scoter
1Wilson's Plover
1Lesser Yellowlegs
33Bonaparte's Gull
7Laughing Gull
2Royal Tern
2Northern Gannet
1Black-crowned Night Heron
8Turkey Vulture
1Seaside Sparrow
1Song Sparrow
1Brown-headed Cowbird
5Boat-tailed Grackle
4Yellow-rumped Warbler

April 1

1Ruby-throated Hummingbird
1Black-bellied Plover
2Western Sandpiper
1Great Black-backed Gull
2Common Tern
2Least Bittern
1Eastern Kingbird
3Black Vulture
1Belted Kingfisher
1Hairy Woodpecker
1Northern House Wren
1Eastern Bluebird
4Wilson's Snipe
2Black Skimmer
2Gull-billed Tern
1Black Tern
2Sandwich Tern
1Saltmarsh Sparrow

March 31

1Blue-headed Vireo
1Yellow-throated Warbler

March 30

4Hooded Merganser
2Long-billed Dowitcher
1Prairie Warbler
2Killdeer
3American Herring Gull
1Virginia Rail
2Mallard
20Stilt Sandpiper
30Least Sandpiper
1Northern Flicker
1Black-and-white Warbler
1Red-tailed Hawk
2Canada Goose
1American Oystercatcher

March 29

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

March 28

1Sedge Wren
1Pine Siskin
2Rusty Blackbird

March 27

1Wild Turkey
1Barred Owl