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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.

January 22

14Northern Shoveler
24Gadwall
33Green-winged Teal
14Bufflehead
49Hooded Merganser
1Sora
11Common Gallinule
48American Coot
2Pied-billed Grebe
5Double-crested Cormorant
1White Ibis
5Black-crowned Night Heron
1Little Blue Heron
2Great Blue Heron
1Belted Kingfisher
3Red-bellied Woodpecker
2Downy Woodpecker
1Northern Flicker
3American Crow
8Carolina Chickadee
2Tufted Titmouse
3Tree Swallow
5Ruby-crowned Kinglet
1Golden-crowned Kinglet
2Brown-headed Nuthatch
2Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
1Northern House Wren
1Carolina Wren
1Northern Mockingbird
13American Robin
7Cedar Waxwing
3House Finch
4White-throated Sparrow
5Swamp Sparrow
12Red-winged Blackbird
4Common Grackle
3Pine Warbler
11Yellow-rumped Warbler
5Northern Cardinal
4Lesser Yellowlegs
4Ring-billed Gull
2Forster's Tern
6Snowy Egret
10Great Egret
6American White Pelican
2Brown Pelican
1Turkey Vulture
1Bald Eagle
1Blue-headed Vireo
2Blue Jay
1Brown Creeper
1Savannah Sparrow
2Yellow-throated Warbler
3Canada Goose
6Blue-winged Teal
20Ruddy Duck
2Mourning Dove
3Greater Yellowlegs
1Eastern Phoebe
1Marsh Wren
2Hermit Thrush
4Ring-necked Duck
2Long-tailed Duck
2Clapper Rail
6Marbled Godwit
8Sanderling
2Caspian Tern
1Common Loon
2Tricolored Heron
1Peregrine Falcon
4European Starling
1Brown Thrasher
1White-crowned Sparrow
1Rusty Blackbird
1Boat-tailed Grackle

January 21

6Lesser Scaup
4Short-billed Dowitcher
4Willet
2Dunlin
4Laughing Gull
2Royal Tern
1Black-and-white Warbler
6American Wigeon
4Least Sandpiper
1Pileated Woodpecker
2Gray Catbird

January 20

1Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
3Bonaparte's Gull
1Osprey
1Cooper's Hawk
1Red-shouldered Hawk
1White-winged Scoter
1Common Goldeneye
10Semipalmated Plover
1Spotted Sandpiper
1Razorbill
3American Herring Gull
1Great Black-backed Gull
1Horned Grebe
10Red-throated Loon
1Hairy Woodpecker
1Merlin
1Eastern Bluebird
1Song Sparrow
1Eastern Towhee
1Northern Pintail
1Common Yellowthroat
1Virginia Rail
1Red-tailed Hawk

January 19

1Eastern Screech-Owl
XMallard
XBlack Scoter
XNorthern Gannet
XBlack Vulture
1Redhead
1Killdeer
1White-breasted Nuthatch

January 18

7American Oystercatcher
19Ruddy Turnstone

January 17

3Black-bellied Plover
12Red Knot
1White-eyed Vireo
1American Goldfinch
2Red-breasted Merganser
1Long-billed Dowitcher
2Western Sandpiper
1Orange-crowned Warbler

January 16

1Tundra Swan
1Lesser Black-backed Gull
1Northern Harrier
1Palm Warbler
1Purple Sandpiper
2Black Skimmer
1Saltmarsh Sparrow