– RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Jul. 12, 2024
* NYNY2407.12
– Birds mentioned
AMERICAN FLAMINGO+
WHITE-FACED IBIS+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)
AMERICAN AVOCET
Semipalmated Plover
Stilt Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
White-rumped Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Short-billed Dowitcher
WILSON’S PHALAROPE
Solitary Sandpiper
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
GULL-BILLED TERN
CASPIAN TERN
Roseate Tern
Common Tern
Least Bittern
YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER
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, July 12th 2024*
at 11pm. The highlights of today’s vacation shortened tape are AMERICAN
FLAMINGO, WHITE-FACED IBIS, AMERICAN AVOCET, WILSON’S PHALAROPE, and
southbound shorebirds, GULL-BILLED and CASPIAN TERNS, YELLOW-THROATED
WARBLER, BLUE GROSBEAK and more.
The now famous AMERICAN FLAMINGO which was first spotted at Georgica Pond
in Wainscott back on May 31st was still noted there last Friday July 5th
with likely this same bird making brief trips up to Massachusetts and down
to Delaware during that period may have left our area after one more
Georgica visit last Monday but don’t rule out another reappearance.
A lot of work and effort put into improving the East Pond at Jamaica Bay
Wildlife Refuge has certainly already begun proving its worth, just in time
for the commencement of Fall migration. A WHITE-FACED IBIS has been […]
regularly mixing in with Glossy Ibis feeding either at the north end or
along the east shore down to the Raunt and today 4 AMERICAN AVOCETS
appeared at the pond’s south end joining a variety of other southbound
shorebirds that this week have included SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, SHORT-BILLED
DOWITCHER, GREATER and LESSER YELLOWLEGS, and STILT, PECTORAL,
WHITE-RUMPED, SOLITARY, LEAST and SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPERS. Also watch for
one or more GULL-BILLED TERNS now visiting both ponds and last Saturday a
kayaker also spotted a WILSON’S PHALAROPE out on Ruffle Bar in Jamaica Bay.
It’s shaping up for a great Fall at the bay.
A CASPIAN TERN was seen last Monday out at Great Gull Island and 12 Common
Eider are also lingering there but the great news is that the Great Gull
tern colony now contains about 40,000 COMMON and 6,000 ROSEATE TERNS.
YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER continues at the Bayard Cutting Arboretum and BLUE
GROSBEAKS seem to be doing nicely in the Calverton area.
Apparently already on the move a LEAST BITTERN needing assistance in
Manhattan was retrieved Tuesday at West 125th Street and Broadway and taken
to the Wild Bird Fund for rehabilitation.
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