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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.

October 29

2Red-breasted Merganser ✓
6Mourning Dove ✓
3Red-bellied Woodpecker ✓
5Northern Flicker ✓
1Blue Jay ✓
3Carolina Chickadee ✓
2Tufted Titmouse ✓
23Tree Swallow ✓
3Ruby-crowned Kinglet ✓
2Brown-headed Nuthatch ✓
1Blue-gray Gnatcatcher ✓
1Carolina Wren ✓
1Gray Catbird ✓
2Northern Mockingbird ✓
8Eastern Bluebird ✓
8House Finch ✓
2Chipping Sparrow ✓
4Song Sparrow ✓
7Red-winged Blackbird ✓
1Black-and-white Warbler ✓
1Palm Warbler ✓
38Yellow-rumped Warbler ✓
1Northern Cardinal ✓
2Clapper Rail ✓
1Black-bellied Plover ✓
1Short-billed Dowitcher ✓
6Sanderling ✓
1Western Sandpiper ✓
2Laughing Gull ✓
1Common Tern ✓
6Wood Stork ✓
1Double-crested Cormorant ✓
4White Ibis ✓
1Roseate Spoonbill ✓
4Snowy Egret ✓
2Great Egret ✓
2Turkey Vulture ✓
2Belted Kingfisher ✓
1Downy Woodpecker ✓
1White-crowned Sparrow ✓
2Saltmarsh Sparrow ✓
1Boat-tailed Grackle ✓
1Northern Parula ✓
3Blue-winged Teal ✓
11Common Gallinule ✓
1Black-crowned Night Heron ✓
2Great Blue Heron ✓
3Brown Pelican ✓
1Cooper's Hawk ✓
1Red-shouldered Hawk ✓
1Pileated Woodpecker ✓
4American Crow ✓
1White-breasted Nuthatch ✓
1Northern House Wren ✓
1Brown Thrasher ✓
3White-throated Sparrow ✓
1Swamp Sparrow ✓
1Common Yellowthroat ✓

October 28

2American Robin ✓
1Northern Gannet ✓
1Killdeer ✓
3Caspian Tern ✓
4Forster's Tern ✓
5Pied-billed Grebe ✓
3Little Blue Heron ✓
4Tricolored Heron ✓
1Eastern Screech-Owl ✓
1Eastern Phoebe ✓
2Seaside Sparrow ✓
1Pine Warbler ✓
4American Pipit ✓

October 27

2Greater Yellowlegs ✓
2Ruddy Turnstone ✓
1Dunlin ✓
2Ring-billed Gull ✓
1American Herring Gull ✓
2Great Black-backed Gull ✓
4Sandwich Tern ✓
20Royal Tern ✓
3Osprey ✓
2Blue-headed Vireo ✓
1Prairie Warbler ✓
8Semipalmated Plover ✓
2Spotted Sandpiper ✓
2Prairie Willet ✓
2Black Vulture ✓
2Brown-headed Cowbird ✓
1American Coot ✓
1Barn Swallow ✓
2Hermit Thrush ✓
1Least Sandpiper ✓
2Yellow-bellied Sapsucker ✓

October 26

5Red Knot ✓
1Bald Eagle ✓
17Black Scoter ✓
4Common Grackle ✓
1Merlin ✓

October 25

1Anhinga ✓
1Northern Harrier ✓
1Golden-crowned Kinglet ✓
4Northern Shoveler ✓
2Semipalmated Sandpiper
2Green-winged Teal ✓
1Red-tailed Hawk ✓

October 24

1Ruddy Duck ✓
1Nelson's Sparrow ✓
1Green Heron ✓
1Fish Crow ✓
1Sora ✓
1Eastern Marsh Wren ✓
1Swainson's Thrush ✓

October 23

4Wood Duck ✓
4Gadwall ✓
35American White Pelican ✓
1Peregrine Falcon ✓
1White-eyed Vireo ✓
1Veery
1Cape May Warbler ✓
1Painted Bunting ✓
2Bonaparte's Gull ✓

October 22

1American Redstart ✓