-RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Aug. 30, 2024
* NYNY2408.30
– Birds Mentioned
WHITE-WINGED DOVE+
WHITE IBIS+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)
King Eider
Mourning Dove
Common Nighthawk
AMERICAN AVOCET
Whimbrel
HUDSONIAN GODWIT
MARBLED GODWIT
Stilt Sandpiper
Baird’s Sandpiper
White-rumped Sandpiper
BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER
Pectoral Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
Long-billed Dowitcher
RED-NECKED PHALAROPE
Gull-billed Tern
Caspian Tern
Black Tern
Roseate Tern
Royal Tern
BROWN PELICAN
Red-headed Woodpecker
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Philadelphia Vireo
LARK SPARROW
YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT
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, August 30, 2024 at 11:00 p.m.
The highlights of today’s tape are WHITE-WINGED DOVE, WHITE IBIS, BROWN PELICAN, AMERICAN AVOCET, HUDSONIAN and MARBLED GODWITS, RED-NECKED PHALAROPE, BUFF- BREASTED SANDPIPER, LARK SPARROW, YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT and more.
Last Saturday morning at Blue Point Beach out on central Fire Island a WHITE-WINGED DOVE was nicely photographed as it visited a private feeder with MOURNING DOVES, something to watch for, especially along the coast.
The four immature WHITE IBIS found last Friday at Cow Meadow Park in Freeport were still visiting the pond and surrounding salt marsh at least through Thursday, though not reported today. The park is at the end of South Main Street – check the roosting pond just east of the parking lot or the surrounding marsh, viewable from an observation tower along the trail south of the lot.
A BROWN PELICAN was spotted last Sunday in the bay off Crooke’s Point at Great Kills Park on Staten Island.
On Thursday at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge an AMERICAN AVOCET visited the north end of the East Pond, where conditions for shorebirds are quite good. Other species using the pond during the week featured RED-NECKED PHALAROPE, with two there today, plus as many as ten LONG-BILLED DOWITCHERS, mostly at the north end, and among the more common waders, small numbers of STILT, WHITE-RUMPED, PECTORAL and WESTERN SANDPIPERS, with BAIRD’S also reported during the week. A few WHIMBREL were on islands in Jamaica Bay south of the West Pond last weekend, when one or two GULL-BILLED TERNS were also reported from the East Pond, joining up to eight CASPIANS there.
Other interesting shorebirds featured single BUFF- BREASTED SANDPIPERS at Breezy Point Saturday and Cupsogue Beach County Park Wednesday and coastal WHIMBRELS at Breezy Point, Cupsogue and Mecox, while GODWITS included four MARBLED at Cupsogue to Wednesday, with another at Pelham Bay Park that day, and a few HUDSONIAN, including one at Cupsogue last weekend, a peak of two at Mecox Wednesday, with singles before and after, and at Old Inlet on Fire Island a count of four last Saturday, down to two today.
Other scattered notables were a BAIRD’S SANDPIPER at Freshkills Park Tuesday and WESTERN SANDPIPERS at Breezy Point Saturday and Cupsogue Wednesday.
On Wednesday 177 ROYAL TERNS were counted at Old Inlet, located about 2 miles west of Smith Point County Park along the beach, while Cupsogue also featured one BLACK and eight ROSEATE TERNS last Sunday.
COMMON NIGHTHAWKS are now flying in decent numbers on appropriate evenings, and a RED-HEADED WOODPECKER appeared in Central Park Thursday.
The flightless female KING EIDER was still off Breezy Point Sunday.
OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHERS appeared during the week at several locations, and PHILADELPHIA VIREO was noted at Hempstead Lake State Park Monday and in Prospect Park Tuesday.
A LARK SPARROW was spotted at Robert Moses State Park last Tuesday and was still moving around Field 2 today, and another was spotted at Wertheim NWR in Brookhaven today.
Single YELLOW-BREASTED CHATS were found at Croton Point Park Sunday, in East Quogue Monday and at Pier 44 in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn Wednesday, and local parks are currently featuring a decent variety of Warblers and other passerines, weather permitting.
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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