-RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* June 28, 2024
* NYNY2406.28
– Birds Mentioned
BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING-DUCK
AMERICAN FLAMINGO+
NEOTROPIC CORMORANT+ (extralimital)
WHITE-FACED IBIS+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)
American Avocet
Whimbrel
Stilt Sandpiper
Wilson’s Phalarope
Sabine’s Gull
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Gull-billed Tern
Caspian Tern
Black Tern
Roseate Tern
Arctic Tern
Royal Tern
Wilson’s Storm-Petrel
Brown Pelican
Least Bittern
Glossy Ibis
Red-headed Woodpecker
Acadian Flycatcher
American Pipit
Yellow-throated Warbler
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[~BEGIN RBA TAPE~]
Greetings! This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for Friday, June 28,
2024 at 11:00 pm.
The highlights of today’s tape are American Flamingo, black-bellied
whistling-duck, SABINE’S GULL, white-faced Ibis, Brown Pelican, Arctic
and other TERNS, AMERICAN AVOCET, Wilson’s PHALAROPE, WHIMBREL,
red-headed Woodpecker, Yellow-throated Warbler and more.
The rather accommodating American Flamingo, potentially New York’s
first pending acceptance by NYSARC, continues its residence on
Georgica Pond out in Wainscott, and the best approach to viewing it on
the pond continues to be to park in the small lot at the end of Beach
Lane west of the pond and walk a short distance east along the beach
to the pond overview. For those without local parking permits, plan
your visit for early in the morning, as expensive tickets have been
issued once the beach activity picks up; visiting late in the day
might be another alternative.
A black-bellied whistling-duck made a surprise visit to the lake at
Van Cortlandt Park on Wednesday, staying for the day near the golf
house but moving on overnight.
A nice find Wednesday was a sabine’s Gull quickly photographed as it
flew by Brooklyn’s Plumb Beach, this sub-adult bird continuing east
towards Dead Horse Bay.
There were three reports of white-faced Ibis this week, starting with
one foraging in the marsh at Captree Island on Monday, another seen
again Tuesday at the south end of the East Pond at Jamaica Bay
Wildlife Refuge, and a third flying with Glossy Ibis over the marsh at
the Oceanside Marine Nature Study Area today.
A Brown Pelican was spotted moving east just off Smith Point County
Park Wednesday morning – hopefully more will follow.
Also seen in flight was an adult Arctic TERN spotted over the flats at
Cupsogue Beach County Park Thursday morning, quickly disappearing, but
the good variety of TERNS there also featured 1 GULL-BILLED, 1
CASPIAN, 2 BLACK, 6 ROSEATE and 8 ROYAL, and 10 WILSON’S STORM-PETRELS
were counted offshore. Other CASPIAN TERNS included 2 at Great Kills
Park Thursday and 1 Friday at Breezy Point, where 12 LESSER
BLACK-BACKED GULLS were counted last Sunday.
With the shorebird season now starting to swing towards the southbound
direction, interesting sightings this week included a WHIMBREL flying
by Idlewild Park in Queens Saturday morning and a WILSON’S PHALROPE
and a STILT SANDPIPER appearing at the north end of the East Pond at
Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge yesterday. An AMERICAN AVOCET was also
reported today, but with no details, at Old Inlet on Fire Island, west
of Smith Point County Park.
The LEAST BITTERN at Jamaica Bay was still being seen at Big John’s
Pond at least to Tuesday, and a RED-HEADED WOODPECKER was spotted at
South Haven County Park Wednesday.
An AMERICAN PIPIT was an interesting find at Georgica Pond last
Tuesday, an ACADIAN FLYCATCHER was singing in Central Park last
Sunday, and YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER continues at the Bayard Cutting
Arboretum in Great River.
And also as an extralimital update, the adult NEOTROPIC CORMORANT
continues along the Newburgh waterfront up in Orange County.
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