* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Sept. 20, 2024
* NYNY2409.20
– Birds Mentioned
WHITE IBIS+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)
Sora
AMERICAN AVOCET
AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER
Whimbrel
HUDSONIAN GODWIT
MARBLED GODWIT
Long-billed Dowitcher
Wilson’s Phalarope
Stilt Sandpiper
BAIRD’S SANDPIPER
BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER
White-rumped Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
Wilson’s Snipe
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Caspian Tern
Royal Tern
AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN
Western Cattle Egret
Red-headed Woodpecker
Philadelphia Vireo
LARK SPARROW
YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT
PROTHONOTARY WARBLER
CONNECTICUT WARBLER
Mourning Warbler
BLUE GROSBEAK
DICKCISSEL
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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, September
20, 2024 at 11:00 p.m.
The highlights of today’s tape are AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN, WHITE IBIS,
AMERICAN AVOCET, HUDSONIAN and MARBLED GODWITS, AMERICAN
GOLDEN-PLOVER, BUFF-BREASTED and BAIRD’S SANDPIPERS, LARK SPARROW,
YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT, PROTHONOTARY and CONNECTICUT WARBLERS, BLUE
GROSBEAK, DICKCISSEL and more.
Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge continues to provide an excellent variety
of interesting birds, perhaps topped by the AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN
lingering on the East Pond all week, though moving around a bit. Two
AMERICAN AVOCETS, also present all week, have been consistently at the
pond’s north end, where a MARBLED GODWIT from the previous week was
joined by a second as of Tuesday, both continuing through today. An
immature AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER visited the East Pond Tuesday and
Wednesday, and a WILSON’S PHALAROPE was reported there Saturday and
Wednesday, while other shorebirds also noted there have included
STILT, PECTORAL, WHITE-RUMPED and WESTERN SANDPIPERS and LONG-BILLED
DOWITCHER, plus a WILSON’S SNIPE Sunday. Up to 15 CASPIAN TERNS and 5
ROYAL TERNS have also been counted gathering up at the north end, and
a SORA continues to frequent the edge of a small pond at the south
end. A WHIMBREL was noted at the West Pond Sunday and Tuesday, and
two immature WHITE IBIS were seen Monday in flight, passing over the
parking lot and then circling around the West Pond before flying off
to the southwest just after 2:00 p.m.
A single immature WHITE IBIS was seen again Monday on the pond at Cow
Meadow Park in Freeport but not reported thereafter, while the
previous Saturday a WESTERN CATTLE EGRET visited this pond.
Out at Old Inlet on Fire Island, 2 miles west along the beach from
Smith Point County Park, on Sunday were an AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER plus
one MARBLED and six HUDSONIAN GODWITS, with four HUDSONIANS there on
Monday. Also counted there Sunday were 65 LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS,
while on Tuesday a LARK SPARROW was found at Smith Point County Park
itself.
Other shorebirds featured single AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVERS at Great
Kills Park on Staten Island Sunday and Heckscher State Park Sunday and
Monday, a MARBLED GODWIT and two WHIMBREL at Democrat Point on Fire
Island Saturday followed by a BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER there Tuesday,
single WHIMBREL at Great Kills Monday and Breezy Point Tuesday, and a
BAIRD’S SANDPIPER at Blydenburgh Park in Smithtown Sunday and Monday.
Single RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS were found Saturday on Governor’s Island
and at Croton Point Park.
Various PHILADELPHIA VIREOS included multiples in Central Park last
Saturday and several elsewhere, including in Prospect Park and
Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn as well as at Sunken Meadow State Park
Tuesday.
A YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT has continued in Bryant Park in Manhattan,
joined by the longer lingering MOURNING WARBLER as well as a
CONNECTICUT WARBLER on Wednesday. Other CONNECTICUTS occurring in
several of the major parks also included one in the Floyd Bennett
Field Community Garden last Sunday and one at Brooklyn Bridge Park
today.
More surprising, though, were single PROTHONOTARY WARBLERS
photographed Monday in Green-Wood Cemetery and Tuesday at Brooklyn
Bridge Park. Warblers in general, though, continue in decent variety
but somewhat low numbers.
A BLUE GROSBEAK was spotted in Kissena Park in Queens today, and among
a few DICKCISSELS was one at Pelham Bay Park Tuesday.
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.