– RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Aug. 9, 2024
* NYNY2408.09
– Birds mentioned
King Eider
AMERICAN AVOCET
UPLAND SANDPIPER
WHIMBREL
Long-billed Dowitcher
WILSON’S PHALAROPE
RED-NECKED PHALAROPE
Stilt Sandpiper
BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER
White-rumped Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Lesser Black-backed Gull
GULL-BILLED TERN
CASPIAN TERN
BLACK TERN
Royal Tern
WHITE-FACED IBIS
Red-headed Woodpecker
Olive-sided Flycatcher
LARK SPARROW
Worm-eating Warbler
Tennessee Warbler
Cape May Warbler
Cerulean Warbler
Wilson’s Warbler
BLUE GROSBEAK
– Transcript
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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
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Greetings. This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for Friday, August 9th 2024 at 11pm. The highlights of today’s tape are WHITE-FACED IBIS, AMERICAN AVOCET, WHIMBREL, UPLAND and BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPERS, RED-NECKED and WILSON’S PHALAROPES, GULL-BILLED, CASPIAN and BLACK TERNS, LARK SPARROW, BLUE GROSBEAK and more.
As we await any unusual rarities from this current storm system Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge does continue to provide a nice variety of seasonal highlights including an AMERICAN AVOCET recently hanging around the south end of the West Pond. The East Pond has been attracting good numbers of shorebirds as well as the WHITE-FACED IBIS now in non-breeding plumage but continuing to frequent the north end of the pond. WILSON’S PHALAROPE at the bay since last Saturday peeked with 2 Wednesday at the north end of the East Pond which has also provided counts of up to 9 LONG-BILLED DOWITCHERS and over 150 STILT SANDPIPERS as well as some PECTORAL and WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPERS plus as many as 12 GULL-BILLED TERNS using the pond. WHIMBREL and BLACK TERN have also been noted south of the West Pond with the latter and 2 each of CASPIAN and ROYAL TERNS on the East Pond today.
Other shorebird highlights this week featured an UPLAND SANDPIPER in the dunes at Jones Beach West End on Monday followed today by a BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER flying by Robert Moses State Park field 2 this afternoon and a RED-NECKED PHALAROPE briefly visiting the Pier i area of Riverside Park South off West 69th Street in Manhattan. Three WHIMBREL also flew by northern Manhattan today.
Two ROYAL TERNS were offshore visitors to Playland Park in Rye last Tuesday and CASPIAN TERNS have been seen fairly regularly along the Hudson River up to Croton Point Park and especially around Piermont Pier on the Rockland County side. BLACK TERNS too have been popping up at various coastal sites.
At Breezy Point a female KING EIDER was seen again today and 13 LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS were counted along the beach Wednesday.
Two RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS were still along the Paumanok Trail near Jones Pond in Manorville last Sunday, this site off Schultz Road.
A LARK SPARROW was a nice find Monday at Bush Terminal Piers Park in Brooklyn and a BLUE GROSBEAK was spotted Sunday at Pine Meadow County Park off Route 51 in Eastport.
Other migrants this week included OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER Monday in Green-wood Cemetery in Brooklyn and at Pelham Bay Park Tuesday while warblers featured a CERULEAN in Central Park Monday as well as a few each of WORM-EATING, TENNESSEE, CAPE MAY and WILSON’S plus others.
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