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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.

July 17

1Mourning Dove
4Semipalmated Plover
8Hudsonian Whimbrel
5Spotted Sandpiper
2Lesser Yellowlegs
4Least Sandpiper
5Least Tern
6Royal Tern
20Wood Stork
6White Ibis
5Roseate Spoonbill
4Tricolored Heron
5Snowy Egret
10Green Heron
6Great Egret
3Great Blue Heron
2Osprey
2Carolina Chickadee
2Red-winged Blackbird
2Northern Cardinal
1Ruby-throated Hummingbird
1American Coot
4Sanderling
4American Herring Gull
2Forster's Tern
4Brown Pelican
2Belted Kingfisher
1Downy Woodpecker
2Blue Jay
2American Crow
1Tufted Titmouse
1Marsh Wren
2Brown Thrasher
6American Robin
2Chipping Sparrow
1Common Yellowthroat
1Pine Warbler
2Painted Bunting
1Anhinga
2Red-bellied Woodpecker
1Carolina Wren
2Eastern Bluebird
2House Finch
2Summer Tanager
9Common Gallinule
2Killdeer
7Willet
2Laughing Gull
1Least Bittern
3Yellow-crowned Night Heron
2Black-crowned Night Heron
6Little Blue Heron
2Turkey Vulture
1Red-headed Woodpecker
3Great Crested Flycatcher
1White-eyed Vireo
2Fish Crow
10Purple Martin
9Barn Swallow
1White-breasted Nuthatch
1Northern Mockingbird
4Common Grackle
7Boat-tailed Grackle
1Eastern Whip-poor-will
1Black-bellied Plover
4Pied-billed Grebe
2Double-crested Cormorant
1Red-tailed Hawk
2Red-eyed Vireo
1Brown-headed Nuthatch

July 16

1Common Nighthawk
1Clapper Rail
6Short-billed Dowitcher
2Western Sandpiper
5Semipalmated Sandpiper
1Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
2Chimney Swift
1American Oystercatcher
1Reddish Egret
1American White Pelican
5Brown-headed Cowbird
1Lesser Black-backed Gull
2Black Skimmer
2Red-shouldered Hawk

July 15

2Marbled Godwit
2American Woodcock
1Great Black-backed Gull
1Gull-billed Tern
2Glossy Ibis
2Seaside Sparrow
1Swainson's Warbler
3Caspian Tern
3Common Tern
3Sandwich Tern
1Indigo Bunting
12Rock Pigeon
11Wilson's Plover
7Greater Yellowlegs
9Ruddy Turnstone
4Ring-billed Gull
1Yellow-throated Vireo
1Eastern Meadowlark
1Yellow-throated Warbler
1Bald Eagle
1Northern Flicker
1Northern Parula

July 14

1Mississippi Kite
2Eurasian Collared-Dove
1Pileated Woodpecker
1Hooded Warbler
1Prairie Warbler

July 12

6European Starling
2Orchard Oriole
1Blue Grosbeak

July 11

1Eastern Kingbird