-RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Jan. 20, 2023
* NYNY2301.20
– Birds Mentioned
SHORT-BILLED GULL+
PACIFIC LOON+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)
GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE
Trumpeter Swan
Tundra Swan
EURASIAN WIGEON
GREEN-WINGED TEAL (Eurasian form)
KING EIDER
HARLEQUIN DUCK
BARROW’S GOLDENEYE
Red-necked Grebe
EARED GREBE
DOVEKIE
COMMON MURRE
Razorbill
BLACK GUILLEMOT
Black-legged Kittiwake
BLACK-HEADED GULL
Iceland Gull
Lesser Black-backed Gull
GLAUCOUS GULL
Northern Gannet
Rough-legged Hawk
Red-headed Woodpecker
Red Crossbill
Lapland Longspur
DICKCISSEL
If followed by (+) please submit documentation of your report electronically and use the NYSARC online submission form found athttp://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, January 20, 2023 at 11:00 pm.
The highlights of today’s tape are pelagic trip results, including PACIFIC LOON and COMMON MURRE, SHORT-BILLED GULL, EARED GREBE,DOVEKIE and BLACK GUILLEMOT, GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE, EURASIAN WIGEON and EURASIAN GREEN-WINGED TEAL, KING EIDER, HARLEQUIN DUCK and BARROW’S GOLDENEYE, BLACK-HEADED and GLAUCOUS GULLS, DICKCISSEL and more.
An eight-hour inshore pelagic trip aboard the American Princess left Sheepshead Bay Saturday morning and immediately came across a PACIFIC LOON off Breezy Point, while other later highlights included 5 COMMON MURRES, 73 RAZORBILLS, a BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKE, 20 LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS, and over 400 NORTHERN GANNETS.
With Thursday providing another bad weather day, the SHORT-BILLED GULL showed up again on the Randall’s Island fields, the third time it has followed this scenario.
An EARED GREBE continues in Hendrix Creek off Shirley Chisholm State Park at the north end of Jamaica Bay, seen there today.
A few DOVEKIES continue to be seen, with birds this week reported from Shinnecock Inlet today, Jones Beach Wednesday, and Montauk Point Monday.
Out in Montauk, 2 BLACK GUILLEMOTS were present this week: an adult continuing around Fort Pond Bay and seen today from Culloden Point, and an immature spotted off Montauk Point Thursday. A major RAZORBILL early morning flight around Montauk Point on Thursday produced a rough estimate of 3,500, many congregating around the Point, where other Thursday highlights included around 320 BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKES and 440 NORTHERN GANNETS, one of 8 RED-NECKED GREBES seen in the Montauk area that day, an ICELAND GULL, and a fly-over LAPLAND LONGSPUR. Three HARLEQUIN DUCKS were also off Ditch Plains in Montauk Thursday, and the TRUMPETER SWAN was still around the west side of Fort Pond on Wednesday.
Single GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GEESE included one in the Rye area all week, one each at Tung Ting Pond in Centerport Sunday and the Northport High School Monday, and another along Oregon Road in Cutchogue today.
Three TUNDRA SWANS were seen at distance flying northerly past Great Kills Park on Monday afternoon.
Two drake EURASIAN WIGEONS were still on Mattituck Creek Sunday, with one on the West Pond at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge Monday and another on the Sayville Mill Pond Tuesday, while a drake EURASIAN GREEN-WINGED TEAL was photographed on Santapogue Creek in West Babylon Tuesday.
Female KING EIDERS were noted at Point Lookout Saturday and off Governor’s Island Tuesday, with a drake still around Shinnecock Inlet Thursday and today.
The drake BARROW’S GOLDENEYE remains off Crab Meadow Beach in Northport.
Single BLACK-HEADED GULLS were noted Monday and Wednesday at Jones Beach West End, on Tuesday and Wednesday at Flax Pond in Old Field, and again at Randall’s Island Thursday, while single ICELAND GULLS on Monday appeared in Prospect Park, at Coney Island and in Astoria Park, Queens. A GLAUCOUS GULL was spotted at Goldsmiths Inlet County Park in Southold Sunday.
A light ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK, very unusual this winter, appeared Sunday at Gilgo.
An immature RED-HEADED WOODPECKER remains in Marine Park, Brooklyn, near the Stuart Street and Avenue T intersection.
Some RED CROSSBILLS continue at Jones Beach West End and along the Paumanok Trail off Schultz Road in Manorville, and a DICKCISSSEL was found Thursday at Southards Pond Park in Babylon.
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
