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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 22

1Mourning Dove
2Ruby-throated Hummingbird
1Spotted Sandpiper
2Willet
4Sanderling
2Least Sandpiper
1Gull-billed Tern
2Forster's Tern
2Wood Stork
2Roseate Spoonbill
2Little Blue Heron
4Snowy Egret
1Great Egret
1Downy Woodpecker
1Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
1Northern Mockingbird
1Black-and-white Warbler
2Painted Bunting
1Chimney Swift
1Common Gallinule
1Killdeer
2Semipalmated Plover
1White-rumped Sandpiper
38Semipalmated Sandpiper
1Anhinga
4Double-crested Cormorant
18White Ibis
3Black-crowned Night Heron
11Tricolored Heron
9Green Heron
3Great Blue Heron
1Red-headed Woodpecker
2Red-bellied Woodpecker
4Great Crested Flycatcher
1White-eyed Vireo
4American Crow
1Carolina Chickadee
3Tufted Titmouse
4Barn Swallow
5Carolina Wren
2Brown Thrasher
1Eastern Bluebird
9Red-winged Blackbird
7Common Grackle
6Northern Cardinal

May 21

1Hudsonian Whimbrel
1Yellow-crowned Night Heron
1Bald Eagle
2Fish Crow
1White-breasted Nuthatch
7House Finch
2American Coot
1Solitary Sandpiper
2Western Sandpiper
1Great Black-backed Gull
1Osprey
2Blue Jay
1Savannah Sparrow
2Black-necked Stilt
1Least Tern
1Least Bittern
1Turkey Vulture
2Prothonotary Warbler
1Clapper Rail
3Boat-tailed Grackle
2Lesser Yellowlegs
8Ring-billed Gull
1Hairy Woodpecker
2Eastern Wood-Pewee
5Northern Parula
5Pine Warbler
1Willow Flycatcher
2Purple Martin
4Brown-headed Cowbird
1Summer Tanager
1Blue Grosbeak
2Red-breasted Merganser
1Eurasian Collared-Dove
1Eastern Whip-poor-will
2Black-bellied Plover
2Pied-billed Grebe
2Glossy Ibis
6Brown Pelican
1Red-tailed Hawk
1Red-eyed Vireo
1Brown-headed Nuthatch
4European Starling
2Gray Catbird
4American Robin
1Blue-winged Warbler

May 20

1Ruddy Turnstone
2Laughing Gull
3Royal Tern
1Barred Owl
1Orchard Oriole
1Red-shouldered Hawk
1Eastern Kingbird
1Gray-cheeked Thrush
1Common Yellowthroat
1American Redstart
20Piping Plover
1Marsh Wren
XKing Rail
3Wilson's Plover
3Greater Yellowlegs

May 19

1Purple Gallinule
1Short-billed Dowitcher
1Belted Kingfisher
1Chipping Sparrow
2Indigo Bunting
3Tree Swallow
2Canada Goose
4Black Scoter
1Yellow-billed Cuckoo
2Chuck-will's-widow
1Great Horned Owl
1Seaside Sparrow
2Wood Duck
1Common Nighthawk
1Pileated Woodpecker
1Yellow-breasted Chat

May 18

1Yellow-throated Vireo
2American Oystercatcher
2American Herring Gull
1Broad-winged Hawk
1Swallow-tailed Kite
1Wood Thrush

May 17

1Eastern Towhee
4Stilt Sandpiper
3Red Knot
5Dunlin
6Black Skimmer
3Caspian Tern
2Sandwich Tern
1Black-throated Blue Warbler

May 16

1American Kestrel
4Wild Turkey

May 15

1Black-bellied Whistling-Duck