-RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* July 5, 2024
* NYNY2407.05
– Birds Mentioned
AMERICAN FLAMINGO+
WHITE-FACED IBIS+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)
MARBLED GODWIT
POMARINE JAEGER
Lesser Black-backed Gull
GULL-BILLED TERN
ARCTIC TERN
Wilson’s Storm-Petrel
Cory’s Shearwater
Great Shearwater
Sooty Shearwater
Glossy Ibis
RED-HEADED WOODPECKER
Acadian Flycatcher
PROTHONOTARY WARBLER
YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER
BLUE GROSBEAK
|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 5, 2024 at 11:00 p.m.
The highlights of today’s tape are AMERICAN FLAMINGO, WHITE-FACED IBIS, POMARINE JAEGER, ARCTIC and GULL-BILLED TERNS, MARBLED GODWIT, RED-HEADED WOODPECKER, PROTHONOTARY and YELLOW-THROATED WARBLERS, BLUE GROSBEAK and more.
The AMERICAN FLAMINGO residing recently out on Georgica Pond in Wainscott was seen last Saturday but apparently not again until Wednesday, perhaps accounting for a report from Delaware on Monday. Whatever the case, it was still present on Georgica today. With summer now in full swing, parking for non-residents near Georgica Pond is probably more problematical. One could still try the small lot at the end of Beach Lane, then walking east on the beach to the pond, but the chances of a ticket even at earlier hours has apparently risen.
A decently marked WHITE-FACED IBIS continues its visits to the East Pond at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, where it has mostly been seen around the north end with GLOSSY IBIS. GULL-BILLED TERN also continues to be seen at the Bay, occurring around either Pond.
Birders on a boat Wednesday out in Block Island Sound off Montauk spotted a POMARINE JAEGER along with roughly 125 WILSON’S STORM-PETRELS and 150 CORY’S, 225 GREAT and 100 SOOTY SHEARWATERS plus a nice assortment of cetaceans.
An immature ARCTIC TERN was photographed on the flats out at Cupsogue Beach County Park last Saturday, and the next day a MARBLED GODWIT was spotted flying west past Robert Moses State Park Field 2.
Nine LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS were counted out at Breezy Point last Saturday.
A RED-HEADED WOODPECKER was present in Prospect Park from Saturday to at least Monday, and two continue along the Paumanok Trail near Jones Pond off Schultz Road in Manorville.
An ACADIAN FLYCATCHER was seen again in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn on Monday. |
YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER continues at the Bayard Cutting Arboretum in Great River, and multiple BLUE GROSBEAKS remain in the Calverton area.
And slightly extralimital, certainly a very notable record involved a pair of PROTHONOTARY WARBLERS fledging two young from a weaved basket bird cavity situated on a balcony at a private residence in Tuxedo Park, 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