– RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Dec. 27, 2024
* NYNY2412.27
– Birds mentioned
RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)
GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE
Cackling Goose
EURASIAN WIGEON
HARLEQUIN DUCK
Common Goldeneye (Barrow’s / Common hybrid)
BARROW’S GOLDENEYE
Red-necked Grebe
MARBLED GODWIT
BLACK-HEADED GULL
GLAUCOUS GULL
Iceland Gull
Bald Eagle
Red-headed Woodpecker
House Wren
CLAY-COLORED SPARROW
Baltimore Oriole
Orange-crowned Warbler
Northern Parula
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Wilson’s Warbler
PAINTED BUNTING
DICKCISSEL
– 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, December 27th
2024* at 11pm. The highlights of today’s tape are PAINTED BUNTING, RUFOUS
HUMMINGBIRD, GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE, EURASIAN WIGEON, HARLEQUIN DUCK,
BARROW’S GOLDENEYE, MARBLED GODWIT, BLACK-HEADED and GLAUCOUS GULLS,
CLAY-COLORED SPARROW, DICKCISSEL and more.
The female plumaged PAINTED BUNTING and the nearby CLAY-COLORED SPARROW
both continue along the beach in Far Rockaway. Today the PAINTED BUNTING
was in the underbrush off the boardwalk near Beach 24th Street often
requiring more patience than the CLAY-COLORED SPARROW spotted today around
the corner of Beach 26th Street a little west of the BUNTING. Another
CLAY-COLORED SPARROW was found today at Powell’s Cove Park at College Point
in Queens but park at the south end of Powell’s Cove.
The RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD continues in Eastport at 353 Old Country Road and
the homeowners continue to welcome visitors. Park along Union Street just
east of the home, walk back to 353 and enter the backyard just past the
house near the marked shrubs. Also watch for the ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER
still visiting feeders today. The RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD at a private home in
Rocky Point was also still present today.
A GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE visited Great Pond in Southold for a few days
at least to Tuesday and another was seen again Wednesday on Tung Ting Pond
in Centerport while the one in lower Westchester, currently frozen out of
the Bowman Avenue pond, was spotted on a local private golf course Sunday
and on Playland Lake in Rye on Tuesday. Among the several reported CACKLING
GEESE this week have been one Flushing Meadows-Corona Park to Thursday and
singles Sunday in Prospect Park and Van Cortlandt Park. A drake EURASIAN
WIGEON was reported on the West Pond at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
Thursday and today. A female HARLEQUIN DUCK has been present on Staten
Island since Tuesday off the Ocean Breeze fishing pier at Franklin D.
Roosevelt Boardwalk and Beach while others should still be around Jones
Inlet. Following last week’s report of a drake BARROW’S GOLDENEYE returning
again to the waters off Crab Meadow Beach in Northport comes this Tuesday a
sighting of an apparent hybrid BARROW’S / COMMON GOLDENEYE at that location
with hopefully more to come on this
A MARBLED GODWIT was seen yesterday in the channel across from Jones Beach
State Park field 10 and one or two BLACK-HEADED GULLS were also noted
Thursday and today at the same location. An immature GLAUCOUS GULL
continues at the Brooklyn Army Terminal Pier 4 and a young ICELAND GULL was
spotted along Newtown Creek in Brooklyn last Sunday. During the week
lingering RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS were noted in Green-wood Cemetery in
Brooklyn, at Caumsett State Park, and Sunken Meadow State Park on Long
Island, and at Blue Mountain Reservation in Westchester.
Occurring among the later lingering warblers this week have been NORTHERN
PARULA at Inwood Hill Park, BLACK-THROATED BLUE in Brooklyn and WILSON’S in
Prospect Park as well as quite a few ORANGE-CROWNEDS.
A DICKCISSEL continues in Riverside Park in northern Manhattan often seen
at the suet feeder just south of the tennis courts at about West 119th
Street.
The Bronx-Westchester Christmas Count last Sunday recorded 120 species
including GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE, RED-NECKED GREBE, a record 33 BALD
EAGLES, 3 HOUSE WRENS, 4 BALTIMORE ORIOLES and 2 ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLERS.
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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