– RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Apr. 26, 2024
* NYNY2404.26
– Birds mentioned
SWAINSON’S WARBLER+
LAZULI BUNTING+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)
Brant
HARLEQUIN DUCK
RED-NECKED GREBE
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Caspian Tern
American Bittern
Little Blue Heron
WESTERN CATTLE EGRET
Red-headed Woodpecker
Least Flycatcher
Red-eyed Vireo
Baltimore Oriole
Blue-winged Warbler
PROTHONOTARY WARBLER
Tennessee Warbler
KENTUCKY WARBLER
Cape May Warbler
CERULEAN WARBLER
Magnolia Warbler
Black-throated Blue Warbler
YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER
Black-throated Green Warbler
SUMMER TANAGER
Scarlet Tanager
BLUE GROSBEAK
– Transcript
If followed by (+) please submit documentation of your report
electronically and use the NYSARC online submission form found at
http://www.nybirds.org/NYSARC/goodreport.htm
You can also send reports and digital image files via email to nysarc44
(at) nybirds{dot}org.
If electronic submission is not possible, hardcopy reports and photos or
sketches are welcome. Hardcopy documentation should be mailed to:
Gary Chapin – Secretary
NYS Avian Records Committee (NYSARC)
125 Pine Springs Drive
Ticonderoga, NY 12883
Hotline: New York City Area Rare Bird Alert
Number: (212) 979-3070
Compiler: Tom Burke
Coverage: New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
Transcriber: Ben Cacace
BEGIN TAPE
Greetings. This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for *Friday, April 26th,
2024* at 11 pm. The highlights of today’s tape are LAZULI BUNTING,
SWAINSON’S WARBLER, HARLEQUIN DUCK, RED-NECKED GREBE, WESTERN CATTLE EGRET,
PROTHONOTARY, YELLOW-THROATED, KENTUCKY and CERULEAN WARBLERS, SUMMER
TANAGER, BLUE GROSBEAK and much more.
Thanks to a posting on Facebook the presence of a LAZULI BUNTING coming to
feeders in a residential section of Flanders just south of Riverhead became
known and as of last Sunday birders were permitted to visit this site and
enjoy this colorful young male as it made periodic appearances there.
Visitors continued through Monday afternoon but unfortunately were not
repeated Tuesday or thereafter. The homeowners and surrounding neighbors
deserve a hardy thank you for welcoming the throng of birders into their
neighborhood. This handsome bird will constitute a second New York State
record after acceptance by NYSARC.
A SWAINSON’S WARBLER found on the 19th at Brooklyn Bridge Park was still
present there Thursday but was not reported today. On Thursday the bird was
foraging actively and would sing occasionally in the overgrown triangle
next to the Pier 5 uplands lawn just south of the public restrooms.
Hopefully, it might remain there.
Among lingering waterfowl, a black-type BRANT was reported Monday out of
Captree State Park and a HARLEQUIN DUCK was still off Orient Point County
Park on Monday. Three RED-NECKED GREBES were still in the waters off Dead
Horse Point just west of Floyd Bennett Field on Saturday and a Staten
Island CASPIAN TERN was at Wolfe’s Pond Park on Wednesday and Freshkills
Park the next day.
The AMERICAN BITTERN in the Central Park Ramble on Wednesday and Thursday
was followed by an even more unusual LITTLE BLUE HERON in the Ramble today
and a WESTERN CATTLE EGRET visited West Mill Pond in Forge River back on
Wednesday.
RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS continue along the Paumanok Trail near Jones Pond in
Manorville and at Croton Point Park.
Single PROTHONOTARY WARBLERS reported one continuing in Prospect Park to
last Saturday, one visiting Alley Pond Park Monday, and one Wednesday
around Turtle Pond in Central Park. YELLOW-THROATED WARBLERS continue at
the Bayard Cutting Arboretum in Great River and one visited Central Park’s
Ramble today. Also today a KENTUCKY WARBLER appeared at Clove Lakes Park on
Staten Island while a CERULEAN WARBLER appeared at the Rockefeller State
Park Preserve in Westchester Monday.
Several reports of SUMMER TANAGER included two birds in Central Park
Thursday as well as singles in Prospect Park Wednesday through today, at
Jones Beach West End Coast Guard Station Tuesday through today and on
Wednesday in Green-wood Cemetery and in Wantagh. Several BLUE GROSBEAKS
have included one moving around Manhattan’s East Village through today, one
in Riverside Park Thursday, one continuing to Thursday in Brooklyn’s Fort
Greene Park, one in Heckscher State Park Thursday and one in Connetquot
River State Park at least to Thursday and one at Montauk’s Camp Hero Sunday.
Other seasonal migrants included YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO, RUBY-THROATED
HUMMINGBIRD, LEAST FLYCATCHER, RED-EYED VIREO, BALTIMORE ORIOLE and SCARLET
TANAGER plus such warblers as BLUE-WINGED, TENNESSEE, CAPE MAY, MAGNOLIA,
BLACK-THROATED BLUE, and BLACK-THROATED GREEN.
To phone in reports, call Tom Burke at (914) 967-4922.
This service is sponsored by the Linnaean Society of New York and the
National Audubon Society. Thank you for calling.
– End transcript