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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.

June 19

14Mourning Dove
3Common Gallinule
1Killdeer
2Wood Stork
3Anhinga
2Roseate Spoonbill
2Least Bittern
1Green Heron
6Great Egret
3Great Blue Heron
2Osprey
4Red-headed Woodpecker
2Pileated Woodpecker
1Eastern Wood-Pewee
4Great Crested Flycatcher
2Fish Crow
1Carolina Chickadee
5Tufted Titmouse
5Purple Martin
1Barn Swallow
1White-breasted Nuthatch
6Brown Thrasher
2Northern Mockingbird
3Eastern Bluebird
3House Finch
9Red-winged Blackbird
5Brown-headed Cowbird
2Pine Warbler
8Northern Cardinal
1Painted Bunting

June 18

2Clapper Rail
2Semipalmated Plover
1Little Blue Heron
1Tricolored Heron
1Snowy Egret
1Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
1Boat-tailed Grackle
XRuby-throated Hummingbird
XLaughing Gull
XRed-bellied Woodpecker
1Double-crested Cormorant
1Black-crowned Night Heron
1Downy Woodpecker
1Brown-headed Nuthatch
2American Coot
1Sanderling
1Forster's Tern
2Pied-billed Grebe
1Common Loon
4White Ibis
4Blue Jay
2American Crow
2Gray Catbird
1Common Yellowthroat
1Indigo Bunting
1Willet
2American Herring Gull
1Red-eyed Vireo
1Seaside Sparrow

June 17

1Common Nighthawk
3Eastern Screech-Owl
1Least Tern
2Royal Tern
1Bald Eagle
2Black-necked Stilt
1Eastern Kingbird
1Carolina Wren
2Common Grackle
1Prairie Warbler
1American Goldfinch
1Prothonotary Warbler
1Yellow-billed Cuckoo
2Northern Parula
3Glossy Ibis
1White-eyed Vireo
2Chimney Swift
1Turkey Vulture
1Black Skimmer
2Least Sandpiper
1Ring-billed Gull
1Belted Kingfisher
1Acadian Flycatcher
2Yellow-throated Vireo
4European Starling
1Chipping Sparrow

June 16

1Red-tailed Hawk
1Summer Tanager
11Wilson's Plover
7Sandwich Tern
3American Oystercatcher
3Black-bellied Plover
3Ruddy Turnstone
1Common Tern
4Brown Pelican

June 15

1Hooded Warbler
1Yellow-crowned Night Heron
2American Robin
4House Sparrow
1Ovenbird
1Swainson's Warbler

June 14

1Purple Gallinule
2Northern Rough-winged Swallow
1Eurasian Collared-Dove
1Chuck-will's-widow
2Short-billed Dowitcher
1Semipalmated Sandpiper
1Yellow-breasted Chat

June 13

2Gull-billed Tern
1Swallow-tailed Kite
1Red-shouldered Hawk
1Greater Yellowlegs

June 12

1Orchard Oriole