-RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* May 10, 2024
* NYNY2405.10
– Birds Mentioned
SWALLOW-TAILED KITE+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)
HARLEQUIN DUCK
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Black-billed Cuckoo
Common Nighthawk
White-rumped Sandpiper
Parasitic Jaeger
ICELAND GULL
GULL-BILLED TERN
CASPIAN TERN
BLACK TERN
Roseate Tern
Sooty Shearwater
AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN
Cattle Egret
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Acadian Flycatcher
Willow Flycatcher
Grasshopper Sparrow
YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD
Bobolink
PROTHONOTARY WARBLER
Orange-crowned Warbler
Mourning Warbler
KENTUCKY WARBLER
Cerulean Warbler
YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER
SUMMER TANAGER
BLUE GROSBEAK
DICKCISSEL
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: Gail Benson
[~BEGIN RBA TAPE~]
Greetings! This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for Friday, May 10, 2024 at 11:00 pm.
The highlights of today’s tape are SWALLOW-TAILED KITE, AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN, YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD, HARLEQUIN DUCK, ICELAND GULL, GULL-BILLED, BLACK and CASPIAN TERNS, PROTHONOTARY, YELLOW-THROATED and KENTUCKY WARBLERS, SUMMER TANAGER, BLUE GROSBEAK, DICKCISSEL and more.
Following last week’s two brief sightings, another SWALLOW-TAILED KITE appeared this week, this over Brooklyn’s Marine Park Salt Marsh Nature Center last Saturday, fortunately staying in sight long enough to be photographed before disappearing.
The AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN lingering in Upper New York Bay continued to be seen south of Governors Island, often from the Staten Island ferry, until Tuesday but not thereafter.
A female YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD was found today at Sunset Cove Park in Queens, this new park off Crossbay Boulevard on the south side of Broad Channel. This was also the site for a HARLEQUIN DUCK just offshore there in Jamaica Bay on Tuesday and Wednesday.
An ICELAND was still present Monday off Dune Road in the Tiana Beach area west of the Ponquogue Bridge.
At Nickerson Beach activity has been picking up recently with reports of ROSEATE, BLACK and GULL-BILLED TERNS, the latter peaking with nine there last Sunday.
Single CASPIAN TERNS were spotted at Hempstead Lake State Park last Saturday and at Playland Park in Rye today. And pelagic activity has also begun, with a PARASITIC JAEGER as well as two BLACK TERNS off Robert Moses State Park on Wednesday, these following two or more SOOTY SHEARWATERS spotted from the Staten Island Ferry and off Staten Island in New York Harbor last Monday, when another BLACK TERN occurred off Governors Island.
A WESTERN CATTLE EGRET appeared Thursday in Patchogue at the terminal for the ferry over to Watch Hill, Rhode Island, while a GRASSHOPPER SPARROW was in Inwood Hill Park to Monday.
A PROTHONOTARY WARBLER on Randalls Island last Sunday was followed by Wednesday sightings at both Alley Pond Park and at Floyd Bennett Field.
Besides the continuing birds at the Bayard Cutting Arboretum in Great River, other YELLOW-THROATED WARBLERS were spotted at nearby Connetquot River State Park as well as in Prospect Park last Saturday and on Captree Island Wednesday. A KENTUCKY WARBLER was present last weekend at Conference House Park on Staten Island, and another was reported at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge Monday.
Among the many other WARBLER species currently moving through, weather permitting, have been single CERULEANS at Fort Tryon Park last Saturday and in Central Park Thursday, a MOURNING in Central Park Wednesday, and a few ORANGE-CROWNEDS, including in Central and Forest Parks and at Jamaica Bay and Hempstead Lake.
SUMMER TANAGERS were present in Central Park, with two recently, as well as in Forest Park Tuesday and Pelham Bay Park Thursday, and BLUE GROSBEAKS have returned to Calverton, with one also appearing in Green-Wood Cemetery Thursday.
A DICKCISSEL was noted flying over Astoria Wednesday morning, and one was photographed at the Elizabeth A. Morton NWR in Noyack today.
Among the many other recent arrivals have been more of both CUCKOOS, YELLOW-BILLED outnumbering BLACK-BILLED, COMMON NIGHTHAWK, WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER, OLIVE-SIDED, WILLOW and ACADIAN FLYCATCHERS, with the other Empidonax species also due currently, EASTERN WOOD-PEWEE and BOBOLINK.
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
