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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 11

1Semipalmated Plover
2Short-billed Dowitcher
6Willet
10Greater Yellowlegs
9Least Sandpiper
2Forster's Tern
10Anhinga
1Double-crested Cormorant
3Little Blue Heron
1Tricolored Heron
1Snowy Egret
4Great Egret
2Great Blue Heron
3Turkey Vulture
5Fish Crow
2Carolina Chickadee
4Tufted Titmouse
7Barn Swallow
1Carolina Wren
1Eastern Bluebird
1House Finch
5White-throated Sparrow
15Red-winged Blackbird
6Common Grackle
6Northern Cardinal
44Chimney Swift
1Clapper Rail
10Piping Plover
8Sanderling
8Ring-billed Gull
12American Herring Gull
8Common Tern
4Pied-billed Grebe
1Northern Harrier
1Northern Flicker
1Peregrine Falcon
2Yellow-throated Vireo
6Blue Jay
2American Crow
1Ruby-crowned Kinglet
1Brown Creeper
2Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
4European Starling
1Gray Catbird
1Brown Thrasher
1Wood Thrush
1Song Sparrow
1Common Yellowthroat
1Chestnut-sided Warbler
4Blue-winged Teal
2Gadwall
1Green-winged Teal
2Bufflehead
5Mourning Dove
2Sora
19Common Gallinule
8American Coot
1American Oystercatcher
6Black-bellied Plover
2Killdeer
2Wilson's Plover
7Hudsonian Whimbrel
1Spotted Sandpiper
7Lesser Yellowlegs
3Ruddy Turnstone
2Dunlin
6Bonaparte's Gull
8Laughing Gull
26Least Tern
1Caspian Tern
7Sandwich Tern
27Royal Tern
2Common Loon
5Northern Gannet
2Black-crowned Night Heron
2Green Heron
10Brown Pelican
1Black Vulture
2Osprey
1Bald Eagle
3Red-bellied Woodpecker
1Downy Woodpecker
1Pileated Woodpecker
3Great Crested Flycatcher
2Blue-headed Vireo
150Tree Swallow
1Brown-headed Nuthatch
1Northern House Wren
1Marsh Wren
1Northern Mockingbird
2Hermit Thrush
2American Robin
3Cedar Waxwing
2Chipping Sparrow
1Swamp Sparrow
2Eastern Towhee
2Brown-headed Cowbird
4Boat-tailed Grackle
1Black-and-white Warbler
1Prothonotary Warbler
1Northern Parula
6Pine Warbler
31Yellow-rumped Warbler
4Stilt Sandpiper
1Western Sandpiper
4Gull-billed Tern
4White Ibis
1Belted Kingfisher
1Eastern Kingbird
2Saltmarsh Sparrow

April 10

1Marbled Godwit
4Wilson's Snipe
4Semipalmated Sandpiper
1Red-eyed Vireo
1Blue-winged Warbler
2Ruby-throated Hummingbird
2Virginia Rail
1Tennessee Warbler
19Yellow-throated Warbler
6Red-breasted Merganser
21Glossy Ibis
1Western Cattle-Egret
1Purple Martin
1White-breasted Nuthatch
3Seaside Sparrow
1Nelson's Sparrow
2Savannah Sparrow
1Orange-crowned Warbler

April 9

1Yellow-billed Cuckoo
1Red-shouldered Hawk
1Red-tailed Hawk
2White-eyed Vireo
2Canada Goose
5Mallard
1Common Nighthawk
2Solitary Sandpiper
1Lesser Black-backed Gull
1Black Tern
1Blackburnian Warbler
1Scarlet Tanager

April 8

1Chuck-will's-widow
2Yellow-crowned Night Heron
2Rock Pigeon
1Purple Finch

April 7

1House Sparrow
8Black Scoter
1King Rail
1Long-billed Dowitcher
2Horned Grebe
1Least Bittern

April 6

1Eurasian Collared-Dove
1Eastern Whip-poor-will
6Wood Stork
1Hooded Warbler