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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 23

2Mourning Dove
1Ruby-throated Hummingbird
2Clapper Rail
4American Oystercatcher
2Semipalmated Plover
2Piping Plover
1Spotted Sandpiper
2Willet
2Sanderling
1Western Sandpiper
2Ring-billed Gull
1Least Tern
8Wood Stork
4Double-crested Cormorant
4White Ibis
2Little Blue Heron
2Green Heron
1Great Egret
1Great Blue Heron
2Belted Kingfisher
1Northern Flicker
1Great Crested Flycatcher
2Yellow-throated Vireo
2Blue Jay
1Carolina Chickadee
1Tufted Titmouse
1Brown-headed Nuthatch
2Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
1Carolina Wren
4Northern Mockingbird
1American Goldfinch
1Orchard Oriole
4Brown-headed Cowbird
2American Redstart
2Pine Warbler
2Northern Cardinal
2Painted Bunting
1Yellow-billed Cuckoo
5Common Gallinule
5Laughing Gull
2Black Skimmer
1Royal Tern
2Anhinga
3Black-crowned Night Heron
6Snowy Egret
1Red-headed Woodpecker
3Red-bellied Woodpecker
1Pileated Woodpecker
1White-eyed Vireo
1Red-eyed Vireo
1White-breasted Nuthatch
1Brown Thrasher
1Eastern Bluebird
1Prothonotary Warbler
2Summer Tanager

August 22

1American Crow
1Tricolored Heron
3House Finch
1Semipalmated Sandpiper
1Sandwich Tern
2Yellow-crowned Night Heron
1Turkey Vulture
1Downy Woodpecker
1Fish Crow
4Red-winged Blackbird
1Blue Grosbeak
1Eurasian Collared-Dove
4Chimney Swift
1Purple Gallinule
2Common Tern
1Black Vulture
6European Starling
2Gray Catbird
1Chipping Sparrow
1Common Yellowthroat
1Black-bellied Plover
29Short-billed Dowitcher
XGreater Yellowlegs
5Least Sandpiper
1American Herring Gull
3Caspian Tern
3Black Tern
2Brown Pelican
1Osprey
2Barn Swallow
1Glossy Ibis
5Tree Swallow
1Louisiana Waterthrush

August 21

1American Coot
1Seaside Sparrow
2Hooded Warbler
5Forster's Tern
2Chuck-will's-widow
2Lesser Yellowlegs
1Stilt Sandpiper
1Gull-billed Tern
1Blue-winged Warbler

August 20

2Least Bittern
1Swallow-tailed Kite
2Common Grackle
1Boat-tailed Grackle
1Marbled Godwit
1Ruddy Turnstone
1Pectoral Sandpiper

August 19

1Solitary Sandpiper
1Bald Eagle
1Eastern Whip-poor-will
1Pied-billed Grebe
1Mississippi Kite
1Black-and-white Warbler
1Northern Waterthrush
8Black-necked Stilt
1Prairie Warbler

August 18

1Northern Parula
1Red-shouldered Hawk
3American Robin