– RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Jul. 19, 2024
* NYNY2407.19
– Birds mentioned
AMERICAN FLAMINGO+
WHITE-FACED IBIS+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)
WHIMBREL
MARBLED GODWIT
Stilt Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Long-billed Dowitcher
LITTLE GULL
GULL-BILLED TERN
CASPIAN TERN
Wilson’s Storm-Petrel
Cory’s Shearwater
Great Shearwater
Sooty Shearwater
BROWN PELICAN
DICKCISSEL
– Transcript
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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, July 19th 2024 at 11 pm. The highlights of today’s vacation shortened tape are AMERICAN FLAMINGO, LITTLE GULL, BROWN PELICAN, WHITE-FACED IBIS, MARBLED GODWIT and WHIMBREL, GULL-BILLED and CASPIAN TERNS, DICKCISSEL and more.
The AMERICAN FLAMINGO did reappear again last Sunday at Georgica Pond in Wainscott, Long Island. We’re assuming this to be a single wandering individual. It was back up in Massachusetts Monday through Wednesday before paying a visit to Rhode Island on Thursday. Next stop, who knows?
An immature LITTLE GULL was a notable find at Plumb Beach in Brooklyn on Tuesday photographed nicely before it moved on.
A recent incursion of BROWN PELICANS started with Sunday sightings of one around Jones Inlet, one off Fire Island and 5 over Dune Road in Quogue heading out to the ocean. On Tuesday one was near the Ponquogue Bridge at Shinnecock continuing in Shinnecock Bay to Wednesday and today singles appeared in Brooklyn flying over into Jamaica Bay and off Robert Moses State Park.
A WHITE-FACED IBIS at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge has been seen around the East Pond most days this week, often in the pond’s north end but also a little south of there. Decent numbers of shorebirds have also returned to the East Pond including some STILT, and a few PECTORAL SANDPIPERS, and a couple of LONG-BILLED DOWITCHERS, and up to 3 GULL-BILLED TERNS continue to visit the East Pond as well. A MARBLED GODWIT was spotted in a marsh in Great South Bay Tuesday and a few WHIMBREL included 9 at Plumb Beach Wednesday and 2 at Fort Tilden the day before. Plumb Beach also featured a GULL-BILLED TERN Tuesday and a CASPIAN TERN Wednesday.
A boat off Montauk last Sunday reported 98 WILSON’S STORM-PETRELS and over 160 CORY’S, 26 GREAT, and 5 SOOTY SHEARWATERS and a DICKCISSEL was reported flying over Jones Beach West End today.
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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