– RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Apr. 25, 2025
* NYNY2504.25
– Birds mentioned
SWAINSON’S WARBLER+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
CHUCK-WILL’S-WIDOW
Eastern Whip-poor-will
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Sora
LITTLE GULL
GLAUCOUS GULL
Least Tern
CASPIAN TERN
Common Tern
Roseate Tern
LEAST BITTERN
WESTERN CATTLE EGRET
Red-headed Woodpecker
Least Flycatcher
Great Crested Flycatcher
Warbling Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo
Bank Swallow
Veery
Vesper Sparrow
YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT
Worm-eating Warbler
Blue-winged Warbler
PROTHONOTARY WARBLER
Orange-crowned Warbler
Nashville Warbler
KENTUCKY WARBLER
Hooded Warbler
American Redstart
Magnolia Warbler
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
Black-throated Blue Warbler
YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER
BLUE GROSBEAK
Indigo Bunting
– Transcript
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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 25th
2025* at 11pm. The highlights of today’s tape are SWAINSON’S WARBLER,
LITTLE GULL, CHUCK-WILL’S-WIDOW, GLAUCOUS GULL, CASPIAN TERN, WESTERN
CATTLE EGRET, LEAST BITTERN, PROTHONOTARY, YELLOW-THROATED and KENTUCKY
WARBLERS, YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT, BLUE GROSBEAK and Spring migrants and more.
As migration heats up this week’s best find was a SWAINSON’S WARBLER
photographed Tuesday as it foraged around the Dellwater in Green-wood
Cemetery in Brooklyn.
Watching birds moving north along the Hudson River produced another LITTLE
GULL, this one off Jones Point in Rockland County seen Tuesday afternoon
with a flock of Bonaparte’s Gulls.
What appeared to be a CHUCK-WILL’S-WIDOW was seen Wednesday evening in
Forest Park, Queens this following an EASTERN WHIP-POOR-WILL spotted at a
daytime roost Monday and Tuesday in Green-wood Cemetery.
A late GLAUCOUS GULL was seen off Plumb Beach in Brooklyn last Sunday with
another sighting today off Fort Tilden and a CASPIAN TERN was at Willow
Lake in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park last Tuesday.
A WESTERN CATTLE EGRET paid a brief visit to Hempstead Lake State Park last
Sunday while a LEAST BITTERN roosting in an open tree at Marshlands
Conservancy in Rye on Wednesday was followed by one more concealed around
the Upper Pool at Prospect Park Lake yesterday and today.
A SORA was spotted Tuesday rummaging around in leaf litter in Green-wood
Cemetery where the RED-HEADED WOODPECKER was still present today.
Among the more unusual warblers this week were 5 PROTHONOTARY WARBLERS
featuring the carryover to Sunday from last week at Fuch’s Pond Preserve in
Fort Salonga, one at Massapequa Preserve Saturday, in Westchester one at
Rockefeller State Park Preserve Sunday followed by one at Croton Point Park
Tuesday and one at Crocheron Park in Queens today. Single YELLOW-THROATED
WARBLERS included one still at Hempstead Lake State Park on Saturday and
sightings in Central Park Sunday and Monday and again today when it was
joined by the first KENTUCKY WARBLER of the Spring as well as the
YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT in the Ramble. Single ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLERS were
noted Wednesday in Central Park as well as at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden
and in Green-wood Cemetery and other recently arriving warblers have
included WORM-EATING, BLUE-WINGED, NASHVILLE, HOODED, AMERICAN REDSTART,
MAGNOLIA, CHESTNUT-SIDED, BLACKPOLL and BLACK-THROATED BLUE.
VESPER SPARROW was noted in Central Park Saturday and Jamaica Bay Wildlife
Refuge Wednesday and a BLUE GROSBEAK visited Brooklyn Bridge Park Monday.
Among other species appearing this week were also YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO,
RUBY-THROATED HUMMINGBIRD, LEAST and COMMON TERNS, plus the first two
ROSEATE TERNS back at Great Gull Island, GREAT CRESTED and LEAST
FLYCATCHERS, WARBLING and RED-EYED VIREOS, BANK SWALLOW, VEERY and INDIGO
BUNTING.
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.
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