– RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Apr. 18, 2025
* NYNY2504.18
– Birds mentioned
EURASIAN WIGEON
HARLEQUIN DUCK
BLACK-NECKED STILT
BLACK-HEADED GULL
GLAUCOUS GULL
Black Skimmer
CASPIAN TERN
Broad-winged Hawk
RED-HEADED WOODPECKER
White-eyed Vireo
Yellow-throated Vireo
Wood Thrush
GRASSHOPPER SPARROW
Vesper Sparrow
Seaside Sparrow
Orchard Oriole
Baltimore Oriole
Ovenbird
PROTHONOTARY WARBLER
Orange-crowned Warbler
Cape May Warbler
YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER
Prairie Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
Scarlet Tanager
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
– 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 18th
2025* at 11pm. The highlights of today’s tape are BLACK-NECKED STILT,
PROTHONOTARY and YELLOW-THROATED WARBLERS, EURASIAN WIGEON and HARLEQUIN
DUCK, BLACK-HEADED and GLAUCOUS GULLS, CASPIAN TERN, RED-HEADED WOODPECKER,
GRASSHOPPER SPARROW, Spring migrants and more.
Spring continues to move forward, though slowly, but it’s nice to have a
BLACK-NECKED STILT again appear along Long Island’s south shore early in
the season. This year’s bird was spotted Sunday around the dune pools off
the Roosevelt Nature Center at Jones Beach West End moving around that area
at least through Tuesday.
A male PROTHONOTARY WARBLER found yesterday at Fuch’s Pond Preserve in Fort
Salonga was still present there today. This area a favored location of this
species so please do nothing to disturb this bird’s activities. A mini
invasion of YELLOW-THROATED WARBLERS this week produced sightings today at
Hempstead Lake State Park and out at the Quogue Wildlife Refuge with
another in Brooklyn’s Green-wood Cemetery Tuesday and one the day before at
the Massapequa Preserve while one present last week at Patriot’s Preserve
in Shirley was still present Sunday.
The drake EURASIAN WIGEON viewable in New Jersey waters from Hudson River
Park in lower Manhattan was last reported Monday while a HARLEQUIN DUCK in
Brooklyn was still present off Coney Island last weekend.
A BLACK-HEADED GULL was seen off Conference House Park in southern Staten
Island today with another photographed Wednesday in Sheepshead Bay
Brooklyn. A GLAUCOUS GULL was still at Brooklyn Army Terminal Pier 4 last
Saturday. Single CASPIAN TERNS were seen along the Hudson River off
Westchester on both Monday and Wednesday as these birds continue their
journey north.
Lingering RED-HEADED WOODPECKER were still in Green-wood Cemetery today
while the one at Sunken Meadow State Park was present at least to last
Sunday.
A GRASSHOPPER SPARROW was uncovered Tuesday at Fort Washington Park in
northern Manhattan and several VESPER SPARROWS were again found in various
local parks while single ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLERS were noted in Manhattan’s
Carl Schurz Park and in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park and Green-wood Cemetery
during the week.
A growing number of arrivals this week featured BLACK SKIMMER, BROAD-WINGED
HAWK, WHITE-EYED and YELLOW-THROATED VIREOS, WOOD THRUSH, SEASIDE SPARROW,
ORCHARD and BALTIMORE ORIOLES, various warblers including OVENBIRD, CAPE
MAY, PRAIRIE and BLACK-THROATED GREEN and SCARLET TANAGER and ROSE-BREASTED
GROSBEAK and we await many more.
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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