Birds of Huntington Beach State Park

SPECIES A M J J A S O N D J F M SPECIES A M J J A S O N D J F M SPECIES A M J J A S O N D J F M SPECIES A M J J A S O N D J F M

W ATERFOW L Double-crested Cormorant C C C C C A A C C C C C PLOVERS-AVOCET Lesser Black-backed Gull * * * * * *

Fulvous Whistling Duck * * * Anhinga R R U U R Black-bellied Plover C C U U C C C C C C C C Glaucous Gull *

Snow Goose R R R FRIGATEBIRDS American Golden Plover * R * * Great Black-backed Gull U R R R R R R U U U U U

Brant * Magnificant Frigatebird * * * Wilson's Plover R U C C C U R Black-legged Kittiwake * * *

Canada Goose R R R R R R R R R R R R HERONS & BITTERNS Semipalmated Plover A U U U C C C A A A A A TERNS

Mute Swan * * * American Bittern R R R R R R R R R R Piping Plover U R U U U U U U U U U Gull-billed Tern R R R R R R R *

Tundra Swan R U U R Least Bittern U U U U R * * Killdeer U R U U U U U U U U U U Caspian Tern U U U U C C C U U U U U

Wood Duck R R R R R R U U U U U R Great Blue Heron C C C C C C C C C C C C American Oystercatcher U U U U U U U U U U U U Royal Tern C C C C C C C U U U U R

Gadwall U R U C C U U Great Egret C C C C C C C C C C C C Black-necked Stilt U U U U R Sandwich Tern R U U U C C C R R R R R

Eurasian Wigeon * Snowy Egret U C C C C C C U U U U U American Avocet * R * * * * * Roseate Tern * * *

American Wigeon U C C C C C C Little Blue Heron U U U U C C C U U U U U SANDPIPERS Common Tern R U U U R R C

American Black Duck R U U U U U R Tricolored Heron C C C C C C C C C C C C Greater Yellowlegs C C R C C C C C U U U U Forster's Tern C U U U U U C C C C C

Mottled Duck * * Reddish Egret * * R R R R R Lesser Yellowlegs C U U U C C U U U U U Least Tern U C C C U U R

Mallard U U U U U U U Cattle Egret R R R R U U R Spotted Redshank * * * Black Tern R R U U R

Blue-winged Teal C U R R U C C C C C C C Green Heron C C C C C C C U R R R R Solitary Sandpiper R R R R R Black Skimmer U C C C C C C U U U U U

Green-winged Teal C U U C C C C C C Black-crowned Night Heron U U U U U U C C U U U U Willet C C C C C C C C C C C C ALCIDS

Cinnamon Teal * Yellow-crowned Night Heron U U U C C C C U U R R R Spotted Sandpiper U C R C U U * * Razorbill * * *

Northern Shoveler U * U U U U U U IBISES to STORKS Whimbrel U U * U U U R Black Guillemot * * * * *

Northern Pintail R U U U U U U White Ibis C C C C C C C C C C C C Long-billed Curlew * Long-billed Murrelet *

Canvasback R U C C C C C Glossy Ibis R R R U U U U R * * Hudsonian Godwit * * * Dovekie *

Redhead R U U U U U U Roseate Spoonbill * * * Marbled Godwit U U U U U DOVES

Ring-necked Duck U U C C C C C Wood Stork U U U U C C U R Ruddy Turnstone C C U C C C C U U U U U Rock Dove R R R R R R R R R R R R

Greater Scaup * R R R R R AMERICAN VULTURES Red Knot U C R R U C C U U U U U Eurasian Collared Dove *

Lesser Scaup U U C C C C U Black Vulture R R Sanderling C C U C C C C C C C C U White-winged Dove *

Common Eider * * * * R * Turkey Vulture C C C C C C C C C C C C Semipalmated Sandpiper U C R U C C U C Mourning Dove C C C C C C C C C C C C

King Eider * EAGLES, KITES AND HAW KS Western Sandpiper U C R U C C C U U U U U Common Ground Dove U U U U U U U U U U U U Harlequin Duck * * * * Osprey C C C U U C C C C R R R Least Sandpiper C C R U C C C U U U U U CUCKOOS - OW LS Surf Scoter R R U U U U R Swallow-tailed Kite * * * White-rumped Sandpiper R R R Yellow-billed Cuckoo R U U U U U R

White-winged Scoter R R U U U U R Mississippi Kite * * Baird‘s Sandpiper * * Barn Owl

Black Scoter U * U C C C C U Bald Eagle R R R R U U U U R R R R Pectoral Sandpiper R U U U R` Eastern Screech Owl U U U U U U U U U U U U

Long-tailed Duck * R R R R R Golden Eagle * * Purple Sandpiper U U R U C C C C Great Horned Owl U U U U U U U U U U U U

Bufflehead U U C C C C C Northern Harrier U R U C C C C C U Dunlin C C R * R C C C A A A A Burrowing Owl *

Common Goldeneye R R R Sharp-shinned Hawk U R U U U U U U U U Stilt Sandpiper R R Barred Owl U U U U U U U U U U U U

Hooded Merganser U C C C C C C Cooper's Hawk R R R R R U U U U U U R Buff-breasted Sandpiper R R Short-eared Owl R R R

Common Merganser * * Red-shouldered Hawk R R R R U U U U R R R R DOW ITCHER- NIGHT JARS

Red-breasted Merganser U R C C A A A C Broad-winged Hawk * * PHALAROPE Common Nighthawk R R R R R

Ruddy Duck R U C C C C U Red-tailed Hawk R R R R R R R R R R R R Short-billed Dowitcher C C R C C C C C A A A A Chuck-will's widow C C C C C C

LOONS-GREBES FALCONS Long-billed Dowitcher * * * * * Whip-poor œwill *

Red-throated Loon U R U C C C C U American Kestrel R R R C C U U U U R Common Snipe SW IFTS - KINGFISHERS

Pacific Loon * * * * Merlin R U U U U U U R Wilson‘s Snipe R R R R R R R Chimney Swift U C C C C C C C U * * * U C C C C C Common Loon Peregrine Falcon R R R R R R American Woodcock * * * * * * Ruby-throated Hummingbird C C C C C C R * C U R R R U C C C C C C Pied-billed Grebe QUAILS Wilson's Phalarope * * * * * Belted Kingfisher C U U U U C C C C C C C Horned Grebe U * U U C C C C Northern Bobwhite R R R R R R R R R R R R Red Phalarope * W OODPECKERS Red-necked Grebe R R R R R RAILS, GALLINULES AND Red-necked Phalarope * * * Red-headed Woodpecker U U U U U U U U U U U U Eared Grebe * R R R COOTS JAEGERS Red-bellied Woodpecker C C C C C C C C C C C C Western Grebe * Clapper Rail C C C C C C C C C C C C Pomarine Jaeger * * Yellow-bellied Sapsucker U R R C C C C C FULMAR-SHEARW ATERS Yellow Rail * * Parasitic Jaeger * * * * Downy Woodpecker C C C C C C C C C C C C Northern Fulmar * Black Rail * * * * * Long-tailed Jaeger * * Hairy Woodpecker R R R R R R R R R R R R Greater Shearwater * * King Rail * R R R R R GULLS Northern Flicker C C U U U C C C C C C C Audubon's Shearwater * Virginia Rail R R R R R R R R Laughing Gull C C C C C C C C U U U U Pileated Woodpecker BOOBIES,GANNETS, PELICANS Sora U U U U U U U U Little Gull * FLYCATCHERS Northern Gannet C U R * U C C C C C Purple Gallinule * Black-headed Gull * * Eastern Wood Pewee U U U U U U U American White Pelican * R R * * * Common Moorhen C C C C C C C U U U U U Bonaparte's Gull U R * U C C C A Acadian Flycatcher U U U U U U Brown Pelican C C C C C C C C C C C C American Coot C U R R R R R C A A A C Ring-billed Gull U U U U U U U C C A A C Eastern Phoebe R C C C C C C CORMORANTS & ANHINGA CRANES Herring Gull U R R R R U C C C C C C

Great Cormorant U * R U U U U Sandhill Crane * * * Iceland Gull * SPECIES A M J J A S O N D J F M SPECIES A M J J A S O N D J F M SPECIES A M J J A S O N D J F M

Great-Crested Flycatcher C C C C C C U U W ARBLERS Dark-eyed Junco C C C C C C C

Western Kingbird * * Blue-winged Warbler * Lapland Longspur R R R R R

Eastern Kingbird C C U U U C C Tennessee Warbler * * Smith‘s Longspur * *

Scissor-tailed Flycatcher * Orange-crowned Warbler R R R R R R R R Snow Bunting * *

SHRIKES to CROW S Nashville Warbler * * CARDINAL - DICKCISSEL

Loggerhead Shrike R R R R R R R R R R R R Northern Parula U U U U U U U R Northern Cardinal C C C C C C C C C C C C

White-eyed Vireo C C C C C C C U R R R R Yellow Warbler Rose-breasted Grosbeak * Yellow-throated Vireo R U U U U U U R Chestnut-sided Warbler * Blue Grosbeak R R R R of Blue-headed Vireo U R U U U U U Magnolia Warbler R R Indigo Bunting R R R R R U U

Warbling Vireo * Cape May Warbler * Painted Bunting U U U U U U U R * Red-eyed Vireo C C U U U C C R Black-throated Blue Warbler * U Dickcissel * Huntington Blue Jay C C C C C C C C C C C C Yellow-rumped Warbler A C U A A A A A A ICTERIDS

American Crow U U U U U U U U U U U C Black-throated Green Warbler R Bobolink R R R R

Fish Crow C C C C C C C C C C C C Blackburnian Warbler R Red-winged Blackbird C C C C C C C C C C C C SW ALLOW S Yellow-throated Warbler U U U U U U U U Eastern Meadowlark U U U U U U U U Beach Purple Martin U U C C C C U Pine Warbler C C C C C C C C C C C C Rusty Blackbird U U U U

Tree Swallow C C U R R C A A U R R R Prairie Warbler U U R R U U U * Boat-tailed Grackle C C C C C C C C C C C C

Northern Rough-winged Swallow R R U U U * Palm Warbler U C C C C C U Common Grackle C C C C C C C C C C C C Cliff Swallow R R R R Blackpoll Warbler * Shiny Cowbird State Park Cave Swallow * * * Cerulean Warbler * Northern Oriole

Barn Swallow U C C C C C C C R Black and White Warbler U U U U Brown-headed Cowbird C C C U U U U U U U U U

CHICKADEES, NUTHATCHES, & American Redstart U U R C C R Orchard Oriole U U C C C C

CREEPERS Prothonotary Warbler R R R Baltimore Oriole R R R R Carolina Chickadee C C C C C C C C C C C C Swainson's Warbler R FINCHES

Tufted Titmouse C C C C C C C C C C C C Ovenbird R R Purple Finch R R R R R R R

Red-breasted Nuthatch * Northern Waterthrush U House Finch U U U U U U U U U U U U

White-breasted Nuthatch R R R R R R R R R R R R Louisiana Waterthrush * Pine Siskin *

Brown-headed Nuthatch U U U U U U U U U U U U Kentucky Warbler * American Goldfinch C C R R R R U C C C C C

Brown Creeper Mourning Warbler * Evening Grosbeak W RENS Common Yellowthroat C C C C C C C C C C C C OLD W ORLD FINCHES

Carolina Wren C C C C C C C C C C C C Hooded Warbler R U U U House Sparrow R R R R R R R R R R R R House Wren U R U U U U U U U Wilson's Warbler * * R * * * * Winter Wren R R U U U U U U U Yellow-breasted Chat U R R A - Abundant - greatest relative numbers. Sedge Wren R R R U U U U R R TANAGERS Marsh Wren C U U U U U C C C C C C Summer Tanager C - Common. U U U U U U U The 2500 acres which comprise Huntington Beach KINGLETS - GNATCATCHERS SPARROW S U - Uncommon. State Park include 1060 acres of salt marsh and tidal Golden-crowned Kinglet U U U U U U U U Eastern Towhee C C C C C C C C C C C C waters, 750 acres of forests, 90 acres of freshwater Ruby-crowned Kinglet C U C C C C C C C Chipping Sparrow U R U U C C C U R - Rare - lowest relative numbers. and brackish marshes, 400 acres of maritime shrub Blue-gray Gnatcatcher C A A C C C U R R R R R Clay-colored Sparrow * * Exceptional - seen only once or twice. thicket and 200 acres of sandy beach and dunes. THRUSHES Field Sparrow R Eastern Bluebird U U U U U U U U U U U U Vesper Sparrow * The diversity of habitat at the park provides for a Veery R R * Lark Sparrow * * * This checklist of 313 species is based upon corresponding diversity of bird life. A full day of bird Gray-cheeked/ Bicknell‘s Thrush R Lark Bunting * sightings within the park boundaries since 1966. It watching can yield 100 or more species. Swainson‘s Thrush R Savannah Sparrow C U U C C C C C C C was last revised in 2006.

Hermit Thrush C U C C C C C C Grasshopper Sparrow * Please report any sightings of birds not listed or out Wood Thrush C C U U U U U Le Conte's Sparrow R of season to: American Robin U U U C C C C C Nelson‘s Sharp-tailed Sparrow U U U U U U MIMICS to W AXW INGS Saltmarsh Sharp-tailed Sparrow R C C C C C C Huntington Beach State Park Gray Catbird C C U U U C C C C C C C Seaside Sparrow C C U U C C C C C C C C Education Center Northern Mockingbird C C C C C C C C C C C C Fox Sparrow R R U U U U U 16148 Ocean Hwy. Brown Thrasher C C C C C C C C C C C C Song Sparrow C U C C C C C C Murrells inlet, SC 29576 European Starling C C C C C C C C C C C C Lincoln‘s Sparrow * * * (843) 235-8755 White Wagtail * Swamp Sparrow * huntingtonbeacheducation@ scprt.com American Pipit * White-throated Sparrow C C C C C C C *Special thanks to Jack Peachey, Phil and Sharon Sprague's Pipit * * * White-crowned Sparrow * * * Turner, and the Waccamaw Audubon Society. Cedar Waxwing C U U U C C C C Harris Sparrow *