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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.

December 24

2Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
6Northern Shoveler
8Mallard
4Redhead
8Ring-necked Duck
8Bufflehead
6Hooded Merganser
2Red-breasted Merganser
4Ruddy Duck
2American Woodcock
4Spotted Sandpiper
6Lesser Yellowlegs
4Dunlin
12Ring-billed Gull
4Double-crested Cormorant
4Little Blue Heron
12Great Blue Heron
1Bald Eagle
2Belted Kingfisher
1Northern Flicker
1Blue-headed Vireo
6Blue Jay
2Fish Crow
1Carolina Chickadee
1Tufted Titmouse
1Ruby-crowned Kinglet
1Golden-crowned Kinglet
1Carolina Wren
2House Finch
1White-crowned Sparrow
2Brown-headed Cowbird
4Boat-tailed Grackle
6Yellow-rumped Warbler
4Northern Cardinal
1Common Gallinule
2American Coot
1Black-crowned Night Heron
1American Crow
1Black-and-white Warbler

December 23

2Mourning Dove
2Killdeer
2Least Sandpiper
4Western Sandpiper
1Red-throated Loon
6Wood Stork
8White Ibis
8Great Egret
8American White Pelican
1Downy Woodpecker
1Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
2White-throated Sparrow
20Common Grackle
6Green-winged Teal
6Lesser Scaup
3Greater Yellowlegs
2Red-bellied Woodpecker
2Marsh Wren
6Eastern Bluebird
XAmerican Robin
10Pine Warbler
6Blue-winged Teal
4Gadwall
2Canvasback
2Long-tailed Duck
4Piping Plover
1Forster's Tern
4Pied-billed Grebe
6Snowy Egret
1Turkey Vulture
1Brown-headed Nuthatch
2Northern Mockingbird
1Common Yellowthroat

December 22

1Eastern Screech-Owl
1Winter Wren
2Red-winged Blackbird
1Prairie Warbler
XTricolored Heron
1Brown Pelican
3Osprey
XYellow-bellied Sapsucker
XTree Swallow
2Brown Creeper
2Cedar Waxwing
4Northern Pintail
4Semipalmated Plover
2Eastern Phoebe

December 21

4Bonaparte's Gull

December 20

1Sanderling
6Laughing Gull
1Song Sparrow
1Virginia Rail
1Hermit Thrush
1American Wigeon
1Clapper Rail
1Willet
3White-breasted Nuthatch
1Gray Catbird
1Brown Thrasher
1Eastern Towhee
1Chipping Sparrow
2Saltmarsh Sparrow
1Palm Warbler
XCommon Loon

December 19

6Wood Duck
16Canada Goose
2Greater Scaup

December 18

1Barred Owl
2Rusty Blackbird
2Wilson's Snipe
4Swamp Sparrow