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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.

March 19

1Northern Bobwhite
2Mourning Dove
1Virginia Rail
1Common Gallinule
6Semipalmated Plover
4Short-billed Dowitcher
6Sanderling
2Dunlin
2Ring-billed Gull
2Pied-billed Grebe
2Double-crested Cormorant
4White Ibis
1Little Blue Heron
6Snowy Egret
4Great Egret
1Turkey Vulture
1Bald Eagle
2Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
2Downy Woodpecker
1White-eyed Vireo
2Blue Jay
2American Crow
1Ruby-crowned Kinglet
2Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
4European Starling
2House Finch
1Field Sparrow
1Saltmarsh Sparrow
4Red-winged Blackbird
2Rusty Blackbird
1Northern Parula
2Northern Cardinal

March 18

2Clapper Rail
2American Coot
4Black-bellied Plover
1Spotted Sandpiper
4Willet
4Western Sandpiper
1Forster's Tern
18Common Loon
4Brown Pelican
1Osprey
1Northern Mockingbird
10Chipping Sparrow
2Brown-headed Cowbird
2Yellow-rumped Warbler
1Chuck-will's-widow
1Ruby-throated Hummingbird
4Greater Yellowlegs
1Purple Sandpiper
2Laughing Gull
2Black-crowned Night Heron
2Great Blue Heron
1Red-shouldered Hawk
1Red-bellied Woodpecker
1Eastern Kingbird
1Golden-crowned Kinglet
2Brown Creeper
1Carolina Wren
18White-throated Sparrow
2Common Grackle
1Yellow-throated Warbler

March 17

2American White Pelican
1Tricolored Heron
1Carolina Chickadee
2Tufted Titmouse
2Tree Swallow
2Eastern Bluebird
4Least Sandpiper
2Anhinga
2Green Heron
1Peregrine Falcon
1White-breasted Nuthatch
1Marsh Wren
1Palm Warbler
2Red-throated Loon
XFish Crow
4Cedar Waxwing
XPine Warbler
1Sora
2American Avocet
2Wilson's Snipe
2Bonaparte's Gull
1Yellow-crowned Night Heron
1Belted Kingfisher
2Eastern Phoebe
1Blue-headed Vireo
1Brown-headed Nuthatch
1Brown Thrasher
8American Robin
1Pine Siskin
2Savannah Sparrow
5Blue-winged Teal
2Mallard
1Northern Harrier
1Gray Catbird
4Hermit Thrush
1Song Sparrow
1Swamp Sparrow
1Eastern Towhee

March 16

1Sedge Wren
2American Pipit
1Dark-eyed Junco
1Eurasian Collared-Dove
1Parasitic Jaeger
1Barred Owl
1American Kestrel
1American Goldfinch

March 15

1Marbled Godwit
2American Herring Gull
1Nelson's Sparrow
1Orchard Oriole
3Gadwall
5Green-winged Teal
1Red-tailed Hawk
8American Wigeon
1Killdeer
1Lesser Yellowlegs
1Northern Flicker
1Rock Pigeon
1Horned Grebe
1Seaside Sparrow

March 14

3Bufflehead
2Mottled Duck
2Red-breasted Merganser
2Wilson's Plover
1Ruddy Turnstone

March 13

1Common Eider
1Wild Turkey
1Western Cattle-Egret
1White-crowned Sparrow
1Prairie Warbler
1Black-and-white Warbler
1Great Black-backed Gull
1Black Skimmer
1Northern Gannet
1Merlin