– RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Aug. 16, 2024
* NYNY2408.16
– Birds mentioned
WHITE IBIS+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)
KING EIDER
AMERICAN AVOCET
UPLAND SANDPIPER
Whimbrel
Long-billed Dowitcher
WILSON’S PHALAROPE
RED-NECKED PHALAROPE
Stilt Sandpiper
BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER
White-rumped Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
GULL-BILLED TERN
Caspian Tern
BLACK TERN
Wilson’s Storm-Petrel
Cory’s Shearwater
Great Shearwater
WESTERN CATTLE EGRET
Red-headed Woodpecker
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
LARK SPARROW
Worm-eating Warbler
Golden-winged Warbler
Tennessee Warbler
Mourning Warbler
Hooded Warbler
Cape May Warbler
Bay-breasted Warbler
Canada Warbler
Wilson’s Warbler
BLUE GROSBEAK
DICKCISSEL
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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, August 16th, 2024 at 11 pm. The highlights of today’s tape are WHITE IBIS, AMERICAN AVOCET, RED-NECKED and WILSON’S PHALAROPES, BUFF-BREASTED and UPLAND SANDPIPERS, KING EIDER, GULL-BILLED and BLACK TERNS, WESTERN CATTLE EGRET, LARK SPARROW, BLUE GROSBEAK, DICKCISSEL, Fall warblers and more.
A report from East Patchogue last Monday described an immature WHITE IBIS flying north over Swan Lake Preserve just following an immature photographed back on August 3rd during its brief visit to Brooklyn’s Plumb Beach which report was inadvertently missed on last week’s RBA and today another immature was photographed in the marsh at Watch Hill in the central section of Fire Island. Presumably these birds are originating from the quite successful breeding colonies in southern New Jersey and it would be reasonable to expect that others could be on the way.
With shorebirds moving south through our area for a while now numbers and varieties should continue to increase. The AMERICAN AVOCET recently lingering around the south end of the West Pond at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge was present at least to Monday but not reported lately. Among the decent numbers of shorebirds on the East Pond have been a WILSON’S PHALAROPE since last weekend and a few LONG-BILLED DOWITCHERS plus STILT, PECTORAL, WHITE-RUMPED and WESTERN SANDPIPERS and several other species along with a few GULL-BILLED and up to 4 CASPIAN TERNS. A BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER appeared at Riis Park Saturday but disappeared Sunday morning while an UPLAND SANDPIPER flew over Jones Beach West End Tuesday morning. A RED-NECKED PHALAROPE visited Plumb Beach for a short while Tuesday morning and 4 were seen together from a fishing boat off Montauk on Thursday this venture also producing some WILSON’S STORM-PETRELS plus 3 CORY’S and 8 GREAT SHEARWATERS. Additional single WILSON’S PHALAROPES were spotted at Captree Island on Monday and at Jones Beach West End Tuesday and a few WHIMBREL were noted by boat out in Great South Bay on Saturday.
A female KING EIDER continues around the Breezy Point tip often on the bayside. A GULL-BILLED TERN visited Plumb Beach Monday and Tuesday with a BLACK TERN there Wednesday.
Two WESTERN CATTLE EGRETS were spotted moving up the Hudson River from Manhattan’s Riverside Park on Monday.
Four RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS were still present along the Paumanok Trail near Jones Pond in Manorville on Tuesday and one was spotted Wednesday at the Blue Mountain Reservation in northern Westchester.
Single OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHERS were noted Wednesday at Jones Beach West End and in Prospect and Pelham Bay Parks and several YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHERS and other empidonax flycatchers were also reported.
A LARK SPARROW visited the landfill at Croton Point Park from Saturday through Monday.
Increasing numbers of warblers featured single GOLDEN-WINGED in lower Manhattan Monday and Alley Pond Park Thursday and single MOURNINGS in Central Park Sunday and on Wednesday in Alley Pond Park, the Bayard Cutting Arboretum in Great River and in Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge’s North Garden. Other notable warblers included WORM-EATING, TENNESSEE, HOODED, CAPE MAY, BAY-BREASTED, CANADA and WILSON’S.
Four BLUE GROSBEAKS were noted in the Calverton area Sunday and another was reported at the Rockefeller State Park Preserve in Westchester starting on Tuesday. Flyover DICKCISSELS were at Breezy Point Sunday and near Shinnecock Inlet Thursday.
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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