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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.

April 17

2Canada Goose
2Mourning Dove
1Chimney Swift
10Common Gallinule
8American Coot
2Killdeer
1Willet
2Anhinga
12Double-crested Cormorant
2Black-crowned Night Heron
6Tricolored Heron
1Green Heron
20Great Egret
4Brown Pelican
5Black Vulture
1Osprey
1Sharp-shinned Hawk
1Red-bellied Woodpecker
1Downy Woodpecker
1Pileated Woodpecker
2Great Crested Flycatcher
1Eastern Kingbird
1White-eyed Vireo
2Red-eyed Vireo
2Blue Jay
2American Crow
2Fish Crow
5Carolina Chickadee
4Tufted Titmouse
2Tree Swallow
2Purple Martin
4Barn Swallow
2Ruby-crowned Kinglet
1Brown-headed Nuthatch
1Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
1Marsh Wren
6Carolina Wren
2European Starling
3Gray Catbird
2Northern Mockingbird
1Eastern Bluebird
1Hermit Thrush
5Cedar Waxwing
2House Finch
2American Goldfinch
3White-throated Sparrow
3Song Sparrow
1Swamp Sparrow
12Red-winged Blackbird
1Brown-headed Cowbird
2Common Grackle
5Boat-tailed Grackle
2Black-and-white Warbler
1Prothonotary Warbler
1Northern Parula
5Pine Warbler
10Yellow-rumped Warbler
10Northern Cardinal
1Chuck-will's-widow
2Clapper Rail
1American Golden-Plover
4Piping Plover
2Short-billed Dowitcher
2Lesser Yellowlegs
4Sanderling
2Lesser Black-backed Gull
1Pied-billed Grebe
2White Ibis
4Least Bittern
1Little Blue Heron
4Snowy Egret
2Great Blue Heron
1American White Pelican
1Belted Kingfisher
1White-breasted Nuthatch
1Brown Thrasher
2Chipping Sparrow
1Yellow-throated Warbler
1Painted Bunting
1Sora
3Spotted Sandpiper
5Greater Yellowlegs
15Least Sandpiper
2Laughing Gull
1Least Tern
2Yellow-crowned Night Heron
1Bald Eagle
2Red-headed Woodpecker
1Northern House Wren
2American Robin
1Common Yellowthroat
1Northern Yellow Warbler
1Wood Duck
3Blue-winged Teal
3American Oystercatcher
110Black-bellied Plover
11Semipalmated Plover
2Wilson's Plover
3Long-billed Dowitcher
6Ruddy Turnstone
19Dunlin
1Western Sandpiper
7Bonaparte's Gull
6Ring-billed Gull
42Forster's Tern
30Sandwich Tern
42Royal Tern
9Turkey Vulture
1Savannah Sparrow
1Eastern Towhee

April 16

2Bufflehead
5Hudsonian Whimbrel
10Wood Stork
1Glossy Ibis
1Yellow-billed Cuckoo
2Wilson's Snipe
2Semipalmated Sandpiper
1Roseate Spoonbill
1Saltmarsh Sparrow
1Northern Waterthrush
1Tennessee Warbler
3Wild Turkey
1King Rail
3Black Skimmer
1Common Loon
8Northern Gannet
1Cooper's Hawk
1Red-shouldered Hawk
2Red-tailed Hawk
1Hairy Woodpecker
1Blue Grosbeak
1Ruby-throated Hummingbird
1Field Sparrow

April 15

1Blue-headed Vireo
2Summer Tanager
2Virginia Rail
1Purple Gallinule
1Black Tern
1Swallow-tailed Kite
1Blue-winged Warbler
4Gadwall
80Black Scoter
1American Herring Gull
3American Flamingo
4Stilt Sandpiper
1Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
1Northern Flicker

April 14

1Black-throated Blue Warbler
1Eastern Whip-poor-will
2Solitary Sandpiper
1Peregrine Falcon
1Seaside Sparrow

April 13

1Eurasian Collared-Dove
1Northern Harrier
1Wood Thrush
1Palm Warbler
1House Sparrow
2Marbled Godwit
1Eastern Wood-Pewee
1Orange-crowned Warbler
1Red-throated Loon

April 12

1Yellow-throated Vireo
1Green-winged Teal
3Red-breasted Merganser

April 11

8Common Tern
1Brown Creeper
1Chestnut-sided Warbler
1Caspian Tern
4Gull-billed Tern