-RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Oct. 25, 2024
* NYNY2410.25
– Birds Mentioned
PURPLE GALLINULE+
WOOD STORK+
SAGE THRASHER+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)
AMERICAN AVOCET
AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER
Whimbrel
MARBLED GODWIT
Caspian Tern
Cory’s/Scopoli’s Shearwater
Great Shearwater
Manx Shearwater
AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN
Red-headed Woodpecker
WESTERN KINGBIRD
American Pipit
Purple Finch
Pine Siskin
Grasshopper Sparrow
CLAY-COLORED SPARROW
White-crowned Sparrow (Gambel’s type)
Vesper Sparrow
Orange-crowned Warbler
DICKCISSEL
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: Gail Benson
Greetings! This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for Friday, October 25, 2024 at 11:00 p.m.
The highlights of today’s tape are SAGE THRASHER, WOOD STORK, PURPLE GALLINULE, WESTERN KINGBIRD, AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN, AMERICAN AVOCET, AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER, MARBLED GODWIT, CLAY-COLORED SPARROW, DICKCISSEL and more.
Last Tuesday morning a SAGE THRASHER was spotted and photographed near the campground at Smith Point County Park in Shirley but soon disappeared; later in the afternoon it was refound nearer the main parking lot, but searches on subsequent days were unsuccessful in relocating the bird.
The immature WOOD STORK continues on Staten Island, present today in a small wetland in North Mount Loretto State Forest. To reach the site, from Hylan Boulevard adjacent to the Mount Loretto Unique Area, take Cunningham Road north and park in a gravel lot on the left side of the road opposite the school. Walk north on the extension of Cunningham Road past a gate and take the first path on the right. Watch for the wetland on the right side of the path, and please approach quietly.
Last Saturday an immature PURPLE GALLINULE was found at the north end of Fort Pond in Montauk, spending much of its time on the grassy edge of Industrial Road. It continued its precarious existence there through Monday afternoon but was not seen thereafter.
A WESTERN KINGBIRD spotted last Saturday at the Suffolk County Farm and Education Center off Yaphank Avenue in Yaphank stayed there at least through Wednesday but has not been reported since. It had favored the northwest corner of the field complex there, adjacent to the Long Island Expressway.
At Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge the AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN was still present on the East Pond both days last weekend but not reported since, while an AMERICAN AVOCET was still being seen at the East Pond’s north end through today, with an AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER also continuing there along with a variety of other shorebirds. Two AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVERS and a WHIMBREL were also present out in Jamaica Bay south of the West Pond last Sunday.
One or two MARBLED GODWITS were still present last weekend on the sandbars off the Jones Beach West End Coast Guard Station, and lingering CASPIAN TERNS included two each on Jamaica Bay’s East Pond Sunday and at Mecox Inlet Tuesday.
Good numbers of SHEARWATERS off Montauk Point last Sunday were estimated at 300 GREAT, 150 CORY’S/SCOPOLI’S types and 16 MANX.
A few RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS included one in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn all week, one at Jones Beach West End Saturday to Monday, and another at Caumsett State Park Tuesday and Wednesday, with one in Westchester at Siscowit Reservoir in Pound Ridge for a while to Thursday.
With many SPARROWS now on the move, single CLAY-COLOREDS were seen today at Ferry Point Park in the Bronx and a lingering one in Prospect Park, with others during the week noted on Governors Island and at Fort Tilden plus elsewhere. A GRASSHOPPER SPARROW was found Monday in Stillwell Woods Park in Woodbury, with singles also found today at the South Fork Natural History Museum in Bridgehampton and the Dwarf Pine Barrens Preserve in Westhampton. A few VESPER SPARROWS were also noted during the week, and a Gambel’s type WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW was photographed today at Gilgo Beach.
Among the lingering WARBLERS have been a few ORANGE-CROWNEDS, and among the DICKCISSELS on the move were birds noted yesterday at Fort Totten Park and Croton Point Park. Recent migrants have also featured some AMERICAN PIPITS, PURPLE FINCHES and even a few PINE SISKINS.
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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