-RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* July 26, 2024
* NYNY2407.26
– Birds Mentioned
WHITE-FACED IBIS+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)
Common Eider
AMERICAN AVOCET
WHIMBREL
Stilt Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Short-billed Dowitcher
Long-billed Dowitcher
Lesser Black-backed Gull
GULL-BILLED TERN
CASPIAN TERN
Wilson’s Storm-Petrel
Cory’s Shearwater
BROWN PELICAN
Glossy Ibis
Ovenbird
Worm-eating Warbler
Louisiana Waterthrush
Northern Waterthrush
Blue-winged Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler
Northern Parula
Prairie 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
Greetings! This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for Friday, July 26,
2024 at 11:00 p.m.
The highlights of today’s tape are AMERICAN AVOCET, BROWN PELICAN,
WHITE-FACED IBIS, WHIMBREL and other migrating shorebirds, GULL-BILLED
and CASPIAN TERNS and more.
Conditions on the East Pond at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge are
rounding into great shape for the southbound shorebird migration, and
birds have been arriving in decent numbers. A nicely plumaged
AMERICAN AVOCET last Saturday relocated from the West Pond to the
north end of the East Pond but was not seen there on following days,
though a good variety of birds has been present there, including
decent numbers of STILT SANDPIPERS and a few PECTORAL SANDPIPERS, plus
two LONG-BILLED DOWITCHERS joining the many SHORT-BILLEDS. A
WHITE-FACED IBIS also continues to visit the north end but has become
more difficult to pick out among the GLOSSY IBIS, having lost its
white facial feathering but retaining its red eye and facial color.
Also among the birds using the pond, which is best around high tide,
have been some GULL-BILLED TERNS, with up to seven counted there
today, including a few young. A female COMMON EIDER was still on the
West Pond as of Tuesday, that day also producing five WHIMBRELS on the
west side as well.
Last Saturday, one or two BROWN PELICANS were seen in the Plumb Beach
area of Brooklyn as well as in the Riis Park area along the Atlantic
Coast, and a lingering COMMON EIDER was still off Riis Park Tuesday.
A WHIMBREL was around Plumb Beach Sunday and Monday, and others have
been noted off Robert Moses State Park recently among a typical
variety of migrating shorebirds.
A CASPIAN TERN was spotted at Plumb Beach last Saturday, and another
occurred today off Breezy Point, where 16 LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS
were counted.
A few CORY’S SHEARWATERS and some WILSON’S STORM-PETRELS appeared off
Cupsogue County Park early in the week; these offshore pelagics have
been rather sparse coastally this year but do tend to improve in
numbers the farther east towards Montauk you go.
On the landbird front, some recent southbound WARBLERS, all species
not unexpected by late July, have included OVENBIRD, WORM-EATING,
LOUISIANA and NORTHERN WATERTHRUSHES, BLUE-WINGED, BLACK-AND-WHITE,
NORTHERN PARULA and PRAIRIE, among others, with more expected soon.
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