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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.

August 14

1Snowy Egret
1Great Egret
5Mourning Dove
1Ruby-throated Hummingbird
1Semipalmated Plover
2Least Sandpiper
1White Ibis
1Carolina Chickadee
1White-breasted Nuthatch
2Eastern Bluebird
8House Finch
1Northern Cardinal
2Painted Bunting
1Sanderling
15Laughing Gull
1Tricolored Heron
2Osprey
1Blue Jay
3Northern Mockingbird
14Common Gallinule
1Ring-billed Gull
14Wood Stork
2Anhinga
5Little Blue Heron
1Green Heron
3Great Blue Heron
1Belted Kingfisher
1Red-bellied Woodpecker
1Great Crested Flycatcher
1Red-eyed Vireo
1Tufted Titmouse
2Barn Swallow
4Carolina Wren
1Pine Warbler
1Yellow-crowned Night Heron
1Brown Pelican
1Red-headed Woodpecker
1White-eyed Vireo
1Brown-headed Cowbird

August 13

1Clapper Rail
14American Oystercatcher
24Black-bellied Plover
5Wilson's Plover
6Hudsonian Whimbrel
7Short-billed Dowitcher
2Long-billed Dowitcher
9Spotted Sandpiper
2Lesser Yellowlegs
65Willet
14Greater Yellowlegs
17Ruddy Turnstone
1Pectoral Sandpiper
3Western Sandpiper
6Semipalmated Sandpiper
3Great Black-backed Gull
2Black Skimmer
8Least Tern
5Gull-billed Tern
3Caspian Tern
4Black Tern
23Forster's Tern
6Common Tern
4Sandwich Tern
37Royal Tern
9Glossy Ibis
2Red-winged Blackbird
2Chimney Swift

August 12

1Downy Woodpecker
1Turkey Vulture
1Bald Eagle
2Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
1American Redstart
2Roseate Spoonbill
1Brown-headed Nuthatch
3Piping Plover
1Black-crowned Night Heron
2American Crow
1Purple Martin

August 11

1American Herring Gull
1American Coot
2Pied-billed Grebe
4Common Grackle
1Marbled Godwit
1Wood Thrush
1Pileated Woodpecker
2House Sparrow
1Yellow-billed Cuckoo
1Mississippi Kite
4Brown Thrasher
2American Robin
1Seaside Sparrow
1Northern Parula

August 10

2Yellow-throated Warbler
1Solitary Sandpiper
2Double-crested Cormorant
1Prothonotary Warbler
2Stilt Sandpiper
1Black Vulture
1Red-tailed Hawk
1Chipping Sparrow
1Swainson's Warbler

August 9

1Common Yellowthroat
1Lesser Black-backed Gull
1Cooper's Hawk
1Red-shouldered Hawk
3Killdeer
1Chuck-will's-widow
1Eastern Kingbird
4European Starling
1Black-and-white Warbler

August 8

1Loggerhead Shrike
1Fish Crow
7American Avocet
1American Goldfinch
2American White Pelican
1Yellow-throated Vireo
1Indigo Bunting