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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 14

8Green-winged Teal ✓
8Hooded Merganser ✓
2Mourning Dove ✓
8Short-billed Dowitcher ✓
4Prairie Willet ✓
6Sanderling ✓
2Western Sandpiper ✓
4American Herring Gull ✓
2Pied-billed Grebe ✓
6Wood Stork ✓
8White Ibis ✓
2Roseate Spoonbill ✓
4Great Egret ✓
12American White Pelican ✓
1Belted Kingfisher ✓
1Peregrine Falcon ✓
1Carolina Chickadee ✓
4Ruby-crowned Kinglet ✓
2Blue-gray Gnatcatcher ✓
1White-throated Sparrow ✓
2Red-winged Blackbird ✓
1Pine Warbler ✓
35Common Gallinule ✓
7American Coot ✓
1Red-shouldered Hawk ✓
2Eastern Phoebe ✓
1Blue-headed Vireo ✓
4American Crow ✓
3Tufted Titmouse ✓
1Brown Creeper ✓
3Swamp Sparrow ✓
1Black-and-white Warbler ✓
14Yellow-rumped Warbler ✓
1Northern Cardinal ✓
1Clapper Rail ✓
3Black-bellied Plover ✓
1Laughing Gull ✓
5Double-crested Cormorant ✓
1Little Blue Heron ✓
1Tricolored Heron ✓
15Snowy Egret ✓
4Great Blue Heron ✓
3Turkey Vulture ✓
1Bald Eagle ✓
1Blue Jay ✓
8Tree Swallow ✓
2Brown-headed Nuthatch ✓
3Carolina Wren ✓
2Northern Mockingbird ✓
2Eastern Bluebird ✓
7House Finch ✓
2Song Sparrow ✓
2Piping Plover ✓
1Ruddy Turnstone ✓
7Red Knot ✓
3Forster's Tern ✓
1Northern Gannet ✓
3Brown Pelican ✓
1Osprey ✓
1Gray Catbird ✓
1Eastern Towhee ✓
1Virginia Rail ✓
1Spotted Sandpiper ✓
2Greater Yellowlegs ✓
1Ring-billed Gull ✓
1Cooper's Hawk ✓
1Yellow-bellied Sapsucker ✓
3Red-bellied Woodpecker ✓
1Pileated Woodpecker ✓
2Northern Flicker ✓
1White-breasted Nuthatch ✓
1Northern House Wren ✓
1Winter Wren ✓
2Hermit Thrush ✓
1Common Grackle ✓
1Western Cattle-Egret ✓
1Bufflehead ✓
2Red-breasted Merganser ✓
2Ruddy Duck ✓
2Killdeer ✓
5Dunlin ✓
9Least Sandpiper ✓
1Northern Harrier ✓
1Red-tailed Hawk ✓
6Blue-winged Teal ✓
2Bonaparte's Gull ✓
2Anhinga ✓
1Savannah Sparrow ✓
1Rusty Blackbird ✓
2American Redstart ✓
8Gadwall ✓
1American Kestrel ✓

November 13

1Eastern Screech-Owl ✓
1Common Loon ✓
1Ruby-throated Hummingbird ✓
1Golden-crowned Kinglet ✓
1White-crowned Sparrow ✓
2Boat-tailed Grackle ✓
2Northern Pintail ✓
2Ring-necked Duck ✓
1Royal Tern ✓
2Fish Crow ✓
1Chipping Sparrow ✓
1Merlin ✓

November 12

2Wilson's Snipe ✓
1Purple Sandpiper ✓
1Brown Thrasher ✓
1Fox Sparrow ✓
2Brown-headed Cowbird ✓
1American Robin ✓
2Palm Warbler ✓
1Green Heron ✓
1Saltmarsh Sparrow ✓

November 11

2Sandwich Tern ✓
1Common Yellowthroat ✓
2American Goldfinch ✓
1Baltimore Oriole ✓
9Semipalmated Plover ✓
1Barn Swallow ✓
2Caspian Tern ✓
4European Starling ✓
1Seaside Sparrow ✓
2Downy Woodpecker ✓

November 10

1Sora ✓
5Black-crowned Night Heron ✓

November 9

2Wilson's Plover ✓
2Northern Shoveler ✓
1Red-headed Woodpecker ✓
4Cedar Waxwing ✓
1Lark Sparrow ✓

November 8

2American Oystercatcher ✓
1Parasitic Jaeger ✓
1Lesser Black-backed Gull ✓
1Orange-crowned Warbler ✓
1Mallard ✓