– RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Nov. 6, 2020
* NYNY2011.06
– Birds mentioned
BROWN BOOBY+
AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN+
RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD+
PACIFIC-SLOPE FLYCATCHER+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)
EARED GREBE
EURASIAN WIGEON
GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE
TUNDRA SWAN
Common Gallinule
AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER
GOLDEN EAGLE
Red-headed Woodpecker
Evening Grosbeak
LAPLAND LONGSPUR
Vesper Sparrow
CLAY-COLORED SPARROW
BLUE GROSBEAK
DICKCISSEL
PHILADELPHIA VIREO
YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT
– 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/…
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, November 6th 2020 at 10pm. The highlights of today’s tape are PACIFIC-SLOPE FLYCATCHER, RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD, EARED GREBE, BROWN BOOBY, AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN, TUNDRA SWAN, GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE, EURASIAN WIGEON, GOLDEN EAGLE, AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER, PHILADELPHIA VIREO, LAPLAND LONGSPUR, CLAY-COLORED SPARROW, YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT, BLUE GROSBEAK, DICKCISSEL and more.
Last Saturday a western type empidonax flycatcher was found at Kissena Park in Queens where the bird has continued through today. Attempts to determine whether this bird was a PACIFIC-SLOPE or a closely related Cordilleran Flycatcher fortunately resulted in some recordings of its call notes and these point to the bird’s identity as PACIFIC-SLOPE of which there is a previous New York record. To look for this bird park along 164th Street near Underhill Avenue. Enter the western side of the park on the bridal path and continue a short distance to where both sides of the trail are covered by heavy growth. Search here and also continue a little further to a narrow path on the left and take this path over 3 fallen logs to an enclosed clearing also favored by the flycatcher or ask any birders you see.
The selasphorus hummingbird found last Friday at Bayard Cutting Arboretum in Great River was today still visiting the hummingbird feeder put up for it. Some good photos of its spread tail pattern seem to indicate this bird is a RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD rather than Allen’s. However, as in the case of the western flycatchers, sometimes in hand measurements or DNA samples are the only sure means of a positive ID.
At Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge an EARED GREBE spotted on the East Pond last Saturday was still present today often best viewed from the Big John’s Pond overlook. Also at Jamaica Bay, where waterfowl numbers continue to increase, a TUNDRA SWAN and a drake EURASIAN WIGEON were both seen on the West Pond last Saturday the swan also spotted Sunday. Another EURASIAN WIGEON was still on West Lake in Patchogue at least to Tuesday and a GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE has been around Wolfe’s Pond Park on Staten Island since last Saturday. The immature BROWN BOOBY was still present last weekend off Bay Avenue in East Quogue and the AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN was seen last Saturday and Sunday at Jamaica Bay though only briefly.
With a few GOLDEN EAGLES currently moving by local hawkwatches, interesting on Tuesday morning was possibly the same immature first seen moving south by Inwood Hill Park then a little later by Battery Park City, both on Manhattan, and then finally over the Cemetery of the Resurrection on Staten Island.
An AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER in Brooklyn was seen at Plumb Beach today.
Other notable non-passerines included a COMMON GALLINULE in Prospect Park to Wednesday and a RED-HEADED WOODPECKER flying over Southard’s Pond in Babylon Saturday. A late PHILADELPHIA VIREO was interesting at Canarsie Beach Park Wednesday and a LAPLAND LONGSPUR was at Theodore Roosevelt County Park in Montauk Saturday. CLAY-COLORED SPARROW visited Roosevelt Beach on Staten Island Tuesday with a VESPER SPARROW on Central Park’s north end the same day. Today a YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT was found in Manhattan’s Union Square Park. A BLUE GROSBEAK was present on Randall’s Island Sunday to Tuesday and Saturday DICKCISSELS were noted at Floyd Bennett Field and Lemon Creek Pier. Small numbers of EVENING GROSBEAKS are now appearing.
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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