-RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* June 7, 2024
* NYNY2406.07
– Birds Mentioned
BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING-DUCK+
AMERICAN FLAMINGO+
THICK-BILLED MURRE+
ATLANTIC PUFFIN+
BAND-RUMPED STORM-PETREL+
MISSISSIPPI KITE+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)
KING EIDER
SANDHILL CRANE
Whimbrel
HUDSONIAN GODWIT
MARBLED GODWIT
White-rumped Sandpiper
Parasitic Jaeger
DOVEKIE
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Gull-billed Tern
Caspian Tern
Roseate Tern
Royal Tern
Wilson’s Storm-Petrel
Leach’s Storm-Petrel
NORTHERN FULMAR
BLACK-CAPPED PETREL (in New Jersey waters)
FEA’S PETREL (in New Jersey waters)
Cory’s Shearwater
Sooty Shearwater
Great Shearwater
Manx Shearwater
Audubon’s Shearwater
Northern Gannet
BROWN PELICAN
Red-headed Woodpecker
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
Acadian Flycatcher
Alder Flycatcher
Mourning Warbler
Blackburnian Warbler
SUMMER TANAGER
BLUE GROSBEAK
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, June 7, 2024 at
11:00 pm.
The highlights of today’s tape are AMERICAN FLAMINGO, pelagic trip results
including ATLANTIC PUFFIN, DOVEKIE and THICK-BILLED MURRE, BAND-RUMPED
STORM-PETREL and NORTHERN FULMAR as well as FEA’S PETREL and BLACK-CAPPED
PETREL in New Jersey waters, plus BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING-DUCK, MISSISSIPPI
KITE, BROWN PELICAN, SANDHILL CRANE, KING EIDER, HUDSONIAN and MARBLED
GODWITS, SUMMER TANAGER, BLUE GROSBEAK and more.
The adult AMERICAN FLAMINGO found at Georgica Pond in Wainscott last Friday
spent all of Saturday at that location but then moved on, quite possibly
the same bird appearing Sunday up at Dennis on Cape Cod. A few subsequent
scattered but unconfirmed sightings at various sites between Massachusetts
and Long Island after Sunday led to Wednesday, when a FLAMINGO (conceivably
the same one) was spotted well out in the marsh north of Cedar Beach
Marina, staying there until dark but not seen Thursday or today. Where will
it appear next?
A pelagic trip aboard the American Princess left Brooklyn Sunday night and
returned the next evening. The boat diverted early Monday morning into New
Jersey waters due to stormy weather and fortuitously encountered two FEA’S
PETRELS and a BLACK-CAPPED PETREL before steering back towards Hudson
Canyon. With improving weather, the trip tallied a PARASITIC JAEGER, 3
ATLANTIC PUFFINS, 8 DOVEKIES and a THICK-BILLED MURRE, 588 WILSON’S, 1
LEACH’S and 2 BAND-RUMPED STORM-PETRELS, 5 NORTHERN FULMARS, 9 CORY’S, 68
GREAT, 1 AUDUBON’S and 135 SOOTY SHEARWATERS, 7 NORTHERN GANNETS and a
BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER, among others. Certainly a major highlight were the
Cetaceans, including 10 North Atlantic Right Whales as well as one Humpback
Whale and some Risso’s, Striped, Offshore Bottlenose and Common Dolphins.
A BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING DUCK spotted last Sunday on a pond at the Matrix
Global Logistics Park in Bloomfield on Staten Island was seen only up to
Tuesday.
Two sightings of MISSISSIPPI KITE featured one photographed while perched
briefly at the Bayard Cutting Arboretum in Great River last Saturday and
one flying over the Cliffdale Farm section of Teatown Reservation in
northern Westchester today.
A BROWN PELICAN was spotted flying off Fire Island last Tuesday, and on
Wednesday three SANDHILL CRANES were reported moving past Fort Wadsworth on
Staten Island, while two female KING EIDERS were photographed off Great
Gull Island Wednesday.
An HUDSONIAN GODWIT was among the many shorebirds gathered at Old Inlet on
Fire Island west of Smith Point County Park last Sunday, where other birds
included a WHIMBREL, 11 WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPERS, 10 LESSER BLACK-BACKED
GULLS and three ROSEATE TERNS. A MARBLED GODWIT was reported from Cupsogue
Beach County Park Monday, with two WHIMBREL and a GULL-BILLED TERN noted
there Tuesday.
A MANX SHEARWATER and many WILSON’S STORM-PETRELS were present off Robert
Moses State Park Wednesday, and SOOTY SHEARWATERS have also begun to appear
offshore. ROYAL TERN numbers are increasing along the coast, and an
occasional CASPIAN TERN included one reported at Nickerson Beach Tuesday.
A RED-HEADED WOODPECKER was still in the gardens at Jamaica Bay Wildlife
Refuge Tuesday.
Passerine migrants recently have featured OLIVE-SIDED, ACADIAN, ALDER and
YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHERS as well as some MOURNING WARBLERS, including
four in Bryant Park in Manhattan Monday, these hopefully able to continue
moving on.
SUMMER TANAGERS last weekend were noted in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn
and at the Preston Pond Complex out in Calverton, while single BLUE
GROSBEAKS were photographed in Westchester County at Rockefeller State Park
Preserve Wednesday and at Marshlands Conservancy in Rye Thursday.
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