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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.

March 24

1Mourning Dove
1Chuck-will's-widow
1Clapper Rail
1Virginia Rail
4Willet
10Sanderling
6Bonaparte's Gull
4Ring-billed Gull
2Least Tern
1Forster's Tern
2Pied-billed Grebe
1Red-throated Loon
2Double-crested Cormorant
6Snowy Egret
2Green Heron
4Great Egret
1Great Blue Heron
12Brown Pelican
1Osprey
1Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
1Merlin
1Eastern Kingbird
4Blue Jay
1Carolina Chickadee
1Tufted Titmouse
1White-breasted Nuthatch
2Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
2Brown Thrasher
6Cedar Waxwing
10Chipping Sparrow
6Red-winged Blackbird
1Palm Warbler
1Pine Warbler
2Northern Cardinal

March 23

1Eurasian Collared-Dove
1American Coot
1Wilson's Snipe
2Least Sandpiper
10Common Loon
2Bald Eagle
1Belted Kingfisher
2Downy Woodpecker
2Fish Crow
1Gray Catbird
1Saltmarsh Sparrow
2Common Grackle
2Yellow-rumped Warbler
2Common Gallinule
1Killdeer
2Greater Yellowlegs
5Anhinga
1Red-bellied Woodpecker
1White-eyed Vireo
1American Crow
35Tree Swallow
1Barn Swallow
1Brown-headed Nuthatch
4Carolina Wren
2Eastern Bluebird
1Hermit Thrush
3House Finch
1Brown-headed Cowbird
1Ruby-throated Hummingbird
2Short-billed Dowitcher
4White Ibis
1Turkey Vulture
1Northern Flicker
2Ruby-crowned Kinglet
1Marsh Wren
1Black-and-white Warbler
8Gadwall
6Laughing Gull
1Black-crowned Night Heron
4Tricolored Heron
1Northern House Wren
2Northern Mockingbird
2American Robin
1Dark-eyed Junco
13White-throated Sparrow
1Swamp Sparrow
1Eastern Towhee

March 22

3Little Blue Heron
3Boat-tailed Grackle
1Blue-headed Vireo
2Pine Siskin
4Rusty Blackbird
11Black-bellied Plover
13Semipalmated Plover
3Spotted Sandpiper
25Dunlin
1Royal Tern
1Northern Parula
3Lesser Yellowlegs
1Northern Harrier
6Bufflehead
2Sora
6American Herring Gull
1American Bittern
1Cooper's Hawk
1Red-shouldered Hawk
1Pileated Woodpecker
2Eastern Phoebe
1Ovenbird

March 21

1Hudsonian Whimbrel
1Sandwich Tern
1Brown Creeper
2Blue-winged Teal
1Common Yellowthroat
3Green-winged Teal
1Seaside Sparrow
2European Starling
1Song Sparrow
1Yellow-throated Warbler

March 20

4Ruddy Duck
4Piping Plover
1Horned Grebe
1Sedge Wren
3Wilson's Plover
5Ruddy Turnstone
24Western Sandpiper
2Savannah Sparrow
1Hooded Merganser
2Lesser Black-backed Gull
2Yellow-crowned Night Heron
1Baltimore Oriole

March 19

1Northern Rough-winged Swallow
1Northern Bobwhite
1Field Sparrow
1American Woodcock
4Wood Stork

March 18

1Purple Sandpiper
1Golden-crowned Kinglet

March 17

2American White Pelican
1Peregrine Falcon