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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.

January 31

6Northern Shoveler
5Gadwall
1Mallard
11Green-winged Teal
2Ring-necked Duck
5Lesser Scaup
7Bufflehead
4Hooded Merganser
1Ruddy Duck
2Mourning Dove
1Black-bellied Plover
3Semipalmated Plover
6Sanderling
1American Herring Gull
2Common Loon
1Northern Gannet
3Double-crested Cormorant
3Snowy Egret
1Great Egret
1Great Blue Heron
9American White Pelican
4Brown Pelican
2Turkey Vulture
1Bald Eagle
1Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
1Red-bellied Woodpecker
1Downy Woodpecker
1Blue-headed Vireo
1Blue Jay
4American Crow
3Carolina Chickadee
3Tufted Titmouse
2Ruby-crowned Kinglet
1Golden-crowned Kinglet
1White-breasted Nuthatch
1Brown-headed Nuthatch
1Winter Wren
2Carolina Wren
1Northern Mockingbird
17American Robin
33Cedar Waxwing
3Purple Finch
1White-throated Sparrow
7Red-winged Blackbird
4Black-and-white Warbler
1Pine Warbler
5Yellow-rumped Warbler
2Northern Cardinal
6Canvasback
1American Coot
2Killdeer
4Willet
2Ring-billed Gull
2Forster's Tern
8White Ibis
1Black Vulture
1Horned Lark
2Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
2Brown Thrasher
1Eastern Bluebird
2Rusty Blackbird

January 30

2Clapper Rail
6Greater Yellowlegs
2Pied-billed Grebe
4Anhinga
1Eastern Screech-Owl
1Brown Creeper
4Common Grackle
1Pileated Woodpecker
3House Finch
3Savannah Sparrow
1Swamp Sparrow
4Long-billed Dowitcher
2Spotted Sandpiper
1Royal Tern
4Little Blue Heron
6European Starling
1Seaside Sparrow
2Brown-headed Cowbird

January 29

2Bonaparte's Gull
1Belted Kingfisher
2Eastern Phoebe
16Common Gallinule
1Laughing Gull
1Black-crowned Night Heron
1Tricolored Heron

January 28

6Blue-winged Teal
1Gray Catbird
1Song Sparrow
1Eurasian Collared-Dove
1Sora
2Least Sandpiper
1White-eyed Vireo

January 27

40Dunlin
3Red-throated Loon
1Osprey
1Cooper's Hawk
1Red-shouldered Hawk
7Tree Swallow
2Eastern Towhee
1Nelson's Sparrow
2Western Sandpiper

January 26

2Yellow-throated Warbler
3Northern Pintail
1Redhead
1Common Goldeneye
1Boat-tailed Grackle
1Black Scoter
2Purple Sandpiper
4Horned Grebe
1Northern Harrier
1Baltimore Oriole
1Northern Flicker

January 25

6Ruddy Turnstone
15Red Knot
2Wood Stork
6Chipping Sparrow
1Rock Pigeon
2Short-billed Dowitcher
1Peregrine Falcon