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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.

May 30

2Killdeer
30Semipalmated Plover
3Semipalmated Sandpiper
4Least Tern
12Wood Stork
3Double-crested Cormorant
1White Ibis
2Roseate Spoonbill
4Tricolored Heron
5Snowy Egret
6Great Egret
2Great Blue Heron
1Tufted Titmouse
1Carolina Wren
3Canada Goose
2Mourning Dove
1Common Nighthawk
3Chimney Swift
1Ruby-throated Hummingbird
4Common Gallinule
2American Coot
1Purple Gallinule
2American Oystercatcher
4Willet
9Ruddy Turnstone
4Sanderling
2Laughing Gull
8Royal Tern
4Anhinga
1Little Blue Heron
1Green Heron
1Osprey
2Bald Eagle
2Mississippi Kite
2Great Crested Flycatcher
1Blue Jay
2American Crow
2Barn Swallow
1Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
1Northern House Wren
1Marsh Wren
1Brown Thrasher
2Northern Mockingbird
9Red-winged Blackbird
2Common Grackle
4Boat-tailed Grackle
2Prothonotary Warbler
1Northern Parula
1Northern Cardinal
1Painted Bunting
2Black-bellied Plover
4Spotted Sandpiper
4Least Sandpiper
1Forster's Tern
2Pied-billed Grebe
2Belted Kingfisher
1Carolina Chickadee
4Brown-headed Cowbird
1Common Yellowthroat
2Red-headed Woodpecker
1Downy Woodpecker
1Summer Tanager
1Yellow-billed Cuckoo
1Hudsonian Whimbrel
1Wilson's Phalarope
4Ring-billed Gull
2Great Black-backed Gull
1Broad-winged Hawk
1Red-bellied Woodpecker
1White-eyed Vireo
2House Finch
1Chipping Sparrow
1Orange-crowned Warbler
4Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
1Least Bittern
1Black-crowned Night Heron
2Fish Crow

May 29

10Glossy Ibis
2Pileated Woodpecker
1White-breasted Nuthatch
1Pine Warbler
6Black-necked Stilt
1Gull-billed Tern
1Swallow-tailed Kite
1Yellow-throated Vireo
1Black-and-white Warbler
1Blackpoll Warbler
5Wilson's Plover
1Yellow-crowned Night Heron
15Brown Pelican
2Turkey Vulture
1Purple Martin
1Wood Duck
2Brown-headed Nuthatch
2Eastern Bluebird
2Clapper Rail
1Hairy Woodpecker
1Eurasian Collared-Dove
2Chuck-will's-widow
1Red-shouldered Hawk
1Bay-breasted Warbler
1Dunlin

May 28

1Red-tailed Hawk
1Hooded Warbler
1Chestnut-sided Warbler
4Caspian Tern
10Sandwich Tern
1Red-breasted Merganser
17Short-billed Dowitcher
2American Herring Gull
3Black Skimmer
2Tree Swallow
1Red-eyed Vireo
1Gray Catbird
1Northern Rough-winged Swallow
2Blue Grosbeak

May 27

1Cooper's Hawk
1Blue-winged Warbler

May 26

1Eastern Kingbird
4American Robin

May 25

2Western Sandpiper
6European Starling
1Seaside Sparrow
2White-rumped Sandpiper
5Greater Yellowlegs
1Lesser Yellowlegs

May 24

1Eastern Wood-Pewee
2Black Vulture
1House Sparrow
1Mallard
1Orchard Oriole
1Stilt Sandpiper