NYC Area Rare Bird Alert, 9/27/2024

-RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Sept. 27, 2024
* NYNY2409.27

– Birds Mentioned

CURLEW SANDPIPER+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

AMERICAN AVOCET
AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER
UPLAND SANDPIPER
Whimbrel
HUDSONIAN GODWIT
MARBLED GODWIT
RED-NECKED PHALAROPE
BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER
Parasitic Jaeger
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Cory’s Shearwater
Great Shearwater
Sooty Shearwater
Manx Shearwater
AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN
BROWN PELICAN
Red-headed Woodpecker
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Philadelphia Vireo
SEDGE WREN
CLAY-COLORED SPARROW
Golden-winged Warbler
Connecticut Warbler
BLUE GROSBEAK
DICKCISSEL

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, September 27, 2024 at 11:00 p.m.  

The highlights of today’s tape are CURLEW SANDPIPER, AMERICAN WHITE and BROWN PELICANS, AMERICAN AVOCET, AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER, RED-NECKED PHALAROPE, BUFF-BREASTED and UPLAND SANDPIPERS, HUDSONIAN and MARBLED GODWITS, SEDGE WREN, CLAY-COLORED SPARROW, BLUE GROSBEAK, DICKCISSEL and more.

Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge continues to attract an impressive variety of birds, this week topped by the immature CURLEW SANDPIPER visiting the north end of the East Pond last Saturday, where it was nicely photographed.  The AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN also continued on the East Pond at least up to Wednesday, and other notable species there have included two AMERICAN AVOCETS and a MARBLED GODWIT staying to Monday, a RED-NECKED PHALAROPE stopping by last Sunday, and a lingering variety of other shorebirds, though numbers are diminishing.  A WHIMBREL was also out in Jamaica Bay south of the West Pond Sunday.

Following a report of 4 BROWN PELICANS flying over Island Park in Nassau County last Tuesday afternoon were 3 more seen distantly this morning from Plumb Beach as they moved east along the ocean coastline passed Breezy Point.

Single AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVERS were noted at Crab Meadow Beach in Fort Salonga Wednesday and Thursday and at Plumb Beach Thursday.

A BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER was present Tuesday at Fire Island’s Democrat Point, where other highlights included two WHIMBRELS, a MARBLED GODWIT and 67 LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS, the two WHIMBRELS still there Thursday. Another WHIMBREL visited Jones Beach West End today.

An UPLAND SANDPIPER was a good find in the grass at Floyd Bennett Field today.  Two HUDSONIAN GODWITS were on the flats at Cupsogue Beach County Park last Saturday, and a MARBLED GODWIT was spotted at Oak Beach today.

A sea watch Sunday afternoon from the bluffs at Camp Hero State Park in Montauk recorded two PARASITIC JAEGERS and one MANX, one SOOTY, 3 GREAT and 30 CORY’S SHEARWATERS. “

A RED-HEADED WOODPECKER appeared at Jones Beach West End Monday, while an OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER put in a latish appearance at Prospect Park yesterday.

A SEDGE WREN was photographed at Kissena Park Thursday and followed by a report of one at SUNY Purchase today.

PHILADELPHIA VIREOS have been fairly widespread recently, occurring in several regional parks.

A CLAY-COLORED SPARROW found on Governors Island on Tuesday was still present yesterday and perhaps continues there.

Among the various WARBLERS still moving through were a male GOLDEN-WINGED seen on private property Sunday in Mattituck and a decent number of CONNECTICUT WARBLERS, including since Tuesday a couple in Central Park and singles at Inwood Hill and Kissena Parks, plus one lingering in Bryant Park.

Single BLUE GROSBEAKS were noted on multiple days during the week in Kissena Park and at Jones Beach West End, with one at Middle Village Cemetery in Queens today.

A few DICKCISSELS featured one Saturday in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, one on Governors Island Tuesday, and today birds noted at Randall’s Island, Plumb Beach and Breezy Point.

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

NYC Area Rare Bird Alert, 9/20/2024

* 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

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, 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.

NYC Area Rare Bird Alert, 9/13/2024

– RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Sep. 13, 2024
* NYNY2409.13

– Birds mentioned
PURPLE GALLINULE+
SCOPOLI’S SHEARWATER+
WHITE IBIS+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

Sora
AMERICAN AVOCET
AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER
HUDSONIAN GODWIT
MARBLED GODWIT
WILSON’S PHALAROPE
BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER
BAIRD’S SANDPIPER
Gull-billed Tern
Caspian Tern
Royal Tern
AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN
Least Bittern
Broad-winged Hawk
Red-headed Woodpecker
Philadelphia Vireo
CLAY-COLORED SPARROW
LARK SPARROW
YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT
CONNECTICUT WARBLER
Mourning Warbler
BLUE GROSBEAK
DICKCISSEL

– Transcript

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: Ben Cacace

BEGIN TAPE

Greetings. This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for *Friday, September 13th
2024* at 11pm. The highlights of today’s tape are PURPLE GALLINULE,
AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN, WHITE IBIS, AMERICAN AVOCET, HUDSONIAN and MARBLED
GODWITS, AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER, BUFF-BREASTED and BAIRD’S SANDPIPERS,
WILSON’S PHALAROPE, LARK and CLAY-COLORED SPARROWS, YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT,
CONNECTICUT WARBLER, BLUE GROSBEAK, DICKCISSEL and more.

Late Sunday afternoon an immature PURPLE GALLINULE was found disoriented in
a grassy strip along 154th Street in Whitestone Queens and taken in for
rehabilitation. Similarly that morning a LEAST BITTERN landed on an upper
floor terrace on East 52nd Street in Manhattan and subsequently flushed
into a nearby window. While such birds have been lingering, MOURNING
WARBLER and YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT in Bryant Park in Manhattan have also
presumably been compromised by flying into alien habitat and suffering the
consequences. Still more obviously needs to be done to provide more
protection for our declining bird populations.

At Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge prime conditions on the East Pond continue
to attract excellent variety including the AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN present
all week usually just north of the Raunt. The AMERICAN AVOCET staying at
the north end of the pond attracted a second one last Sunday and both have
continued through today [while 4] WILSON’S PHALAROPES have also appeared on
the pond. Other shorebirds present include a couple of MARBLED GODWITS last
weekend down to one today, a BAIRD’S SANDPIPER last Monday and many other
expected species. Other birds featured at least 2 SORAS, one seen regularly
at the south end and still up to 6 or so CASPIAN TERNS plus a few ROYAL
TERNS usually at the north end.

At least 3 immature WHITE IBIS were still visiting Cow Meadow Park in
Freeport up to last Monday and the one at Flax Pond in Old Field was seen
again last Sunday.

Other shorebirds include an AMERICAN AVOCET noted Saturday at Flushing
Creek in Queens, one HUDSONIAN and 2 MARBLED GODWITS at Cupsogue Beach
County Park today and a BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER at Fire Island’s Democrat
Point Wednesday and Thursday. An AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER and 3 HUDSONIAN
GODWITS were out at Old Inlet on Fire Island on Wednesday along with a
GULL-BILLED TERN and a BAIRD’S SANDPIPER was reported from Lazy Point at
Napeague last weekend.

A few SCOPOLI’S SHEARWATERS were reported again last Sunday from the Cresli
whale trip aboard the Viking Star out of Montauk.

Single RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS were noted in Central Park Monday and
Tuesday, at Holy Cross Cemetery in Brooklyn Monday and at Lenoir Preserve
in Yonkers Wednesday.

[…] PHILADELPHIA VIREOS were reported while LARK SPARROWS were spotted
Sunday at Randall’s Island, Monday and Tuesday in Green-wood Cemetery and
Tuesday at the Marine Park Salt Marsh Nature Center while a CLAY-COLORED
SPARROW visited the Fire Island hawkwatch at field 5 Monday.

Single YELLOW-BREASTED CHATS occurred in Prospect Park Sunday and at SUNY
Purchase starting Saturday. Some CONNECTICUT WARBLERS during the week
included birds in Central, Prospect and Kissena Parks, Green-wood Cemetery
and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and a good variety of warbler species
continues while numbers have been far from overwhelming.

Single BLUE GROSBEAKS were on Monday in Green-wood Cemetery and out at Fire
Island in field 5 and DICKCISSELS, mostly noted during early morning
flights, were reported from Manhattan, Brooklyn and Pelham Bay with 2
passing over Moses Park Sunday.

BROAD-WINGED HAWKS have begun appearing in decent numbers at regional
hawkwatches with over 1,600 over the Greenwich Audubon Center on 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.

– End transcript

NYC Area Rare Bird Alert, 9/6/2024

– RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Sep. 6, 2024
* NYNY2409.06

– Birds mentioned
LONG-TAILED JAEGER+
SCOPOLI’S SHEARWATER+
WHITE IBIS+
LARK BUNTING+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

Eastern Whip-poor-will
AMERICAN AVOCET
American Golden-Plover
Whimbrel
HUDSONIAN GODWIT
MARBLED GODWIT
Long-billed Dowitcher
Stilt Sandpiper
BAIRD’S SANDPIPER
White-rumped Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
Parasitic Jaeger
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Caspian Tern
Black Tern
Wilson’s Storm-Petrel
Cory’s Shearwater
Great Shearwater
Sooty Shearwater
Manx Shearwater
BROWN BOOBY
AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN
BROWN PELICAN
Red-headed Woodpecker
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Philadelphia Vireo
YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT
GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER
CONNECTICUT WARBLER
DICKCISSEL

– Transcript

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: Ben Cacace

BEGIN TAPE

Greetings. This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for *Friday, September 6th
2024* at 11pm. The highlights of today’s tape are LARK BUNTING, BROWN
BOOBY, AMERICAN WHITE and BROWN PELICANS, LONG-TAILED JAEGER, WHITE IBIS,
AMERICAN AVOCET, HUDSONIAN and MARBLED GODWITS, BAIRD’S SANDPIPER,
YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT, GOLDEN-WINGED, CONNECTICUT and other warblers,
DICKCISSEL and much more.

An interesting but puzzling bird spotted midday Monday at Shirley Chisholm
State Park was subsequently identified as a LARK BUNTING and fortunately
continued along the trail there through much of Tuesday morning before
disappearing. A second LARK BUNTING in similar brownish plumage was also
spotted Tuesday morning along the median adjacent to field 2 at Robert
Moses State Park but that bird vanished rather quickly and neither has been
seen subsequently.

Today a seawatch off Shinnecock Inlet produced an adult BROWN BOOBY moving
east not far offshore. Two PARASITIC JAEGERS were also seen off nearby
Tiana Beach and spotted further east off Mecox Bay were one SOOTY and 9
CORY’S SHEARWATERS plus 22 LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS.

At Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge an AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN showed up on the
East Pond last Saturday and has continued there through today, usually
lingering with many Mute Swans just north of Raunt. Shorebirds on the East
Pond this week have included an AMERICAN AVOCET all week at the north end,
2 MARBLED GODWITS today, a BAIRD’S SANDPIPER Monday and small numbers of
PECTORAL, STILT, WHITE-RUMPED and WESTERN SANDPIPERS and a few LONG-BILLED
DOWITCHERS. A BLACK TERN spent Monday regularly circling the pond with up
to 10 CASPIAN TERNS staying mostly at the north end. An AMERICAN
GOLDEN-PLOVER was out in Jamaica Bay Monday.

A boat trip into Long Island Sound last Saturday produced a crisp juvenile
LONG-TAILED JAEGER about one and a half miles off Eaton’s Neck with some
great photos obtained. The four immature WHITE IBIS that have been visiting
Cow Meadow Park in Freeport were still present there as of Wednesday either
roosting on the pond by the parking lot or out feeding in the surrounding
marsh. Another immature spotted about a week ago was seen again today on
Flax Pond in Old Field northwest of Port Jefferson.

Two BROWN PELICANS appeared off Plumb Beach in Brooklyn last Saturday and
the next day 8 were seen off Breezy Point Tip moving out to sea.

Old Inlet on Fire Island, 2 miles west of Smith Point County Park, has
featured […] 2 HUDSONIAN GODWITS through Thursday with 2 MARBLED GODWITS
also stopping by Sunday, with 3 HUDSONIANS visiting Mecox Bay Monday.

The Cresli whale watching trip on the Viking Star out of Montauk have been
productive for seabirds recently. The trip last Sunday produced a WHIMBREL,
6 PARASITIC JAEGERS, 15 WILSON’S STORM-PETRELS, 50 plus CORY’S and
SCOPOLI’S SHEARWATERS along with 12 GREAT, one SOOTY and 7 MANX
SHEARWATERS. With the AOS recently recognizing the split of SCOPOLI’S
SHEARWATER from CORY’S and NYSARC now revealing the implications of this on
the New York list it’s time to sharpen one’s skills to recognize the subtle
differences between the two. Not necessarily a simple task.

An EASTERN WHIP-POOR-WILL was in Central Park Monday and an immature
RED-HEADED WOODPECKER in Inwood Hill Park Sunday.

Notable landbirds recently have featured OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER,
PHILADELPHIA VIREO, at least 5 YELLOW-BREASTED CHATS and various warblers
including reports in Central Park of GOLDEN-WINGED and CONNECTICUT and
DICKCISSELS over at Jamaica Bay, Coney Island Creek and out in the Bronx.

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

NYC Area Rare Bird Alert, 8/30/2024

-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.

– End transcript

NYC Area Rare Bird Alert, 8/23/2024

-RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Aug. 23, 2024
* NYNY2408.23

– Birds Mentioned

RED-FOOTED BOOBY+
WHITE IBIS+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

KING EIDER
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Black-billed Cuckoo
Common Nighthawk
AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER
HUDSONIAN GODWIT
MARBLED GODWIT
BAIRD’S SANDPIPER.
RED-NECKED PHALAROPE
BLACK-HEADED GULL
Caspian Tern
Black Tern
Olive-sided Flycatcher
PHILADELPHIA VIREO
YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT
Worm-eating Warbler
Golden-winged Warbler
Tennessee Warbler
Nashville Warbler
Mourning Warbler
Hooded Warbler
Cape May Warbler
Bay-breasted Warbler
YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER
Canada Warbler
Wilson’s Warbler
DICKCISSEL

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 23,
2024 at 11:00 p.m.

The highlights of today’s tape are RED-FOOTED BOOBY, WHITE IBIS, KING
EIDER, AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER, HUDSONIAN and MARBLED GODWITS,
RED-NECKED PHALAROPE, BAIRD’S SANDPIPER, BLACK-HEADED GULL,
PHILADELPHIA VIREO, YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT, YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER,
DICKCISSEL and more.

Perhaps one of the most fortuitous sightings of a potential new NYS
record occurred early Thursday morning when a dawn rooftop watch from
an Astoria, Queens, apartment building produced a flyby sighting of
what appears to be an immature RED-FOOTED BOOBY.  Several photos were
obtained as the bird headed in a northeasterly direction, low enough
to provide reasonable detail for study and NYSARC review.

The incursion of WHITE IBIS continues, with two birds found this
morning at Cow Meadow Park Preserve in Freeport.  By late afternoon at
least two more had joined the original pair, but photos of the birds
in flight might indicate they did change location.

The female KING EIDER at Breezy Point was still present last weekend
and, in flightless condition, could be around a while longer.

At Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge an adult AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER was
identified today at the north end of the East Pond, where up to three
RED-NECKED PHALAROPES have been present since one appeared there on
Tuesday.  Another RED-NECKED was spotted yesterday by boat in Post
Marsh east of Lawrence in Nassau.

An HUDSONIAN GODWIT paid a brief visit to Oak Beach Tuesday afternoon,
and three MARBLED GODWITS flew by Twin Island at Pelham Bay Park last
Sunday around noon.

BAIRD’S SANDPIPERS were found last Monday on sod fields off Depot Lane
in Cutchogue, with three on one field and two on another nearby, and
another was noted flying by Robert Moses State Park Wednesday morning.
Also at Moses Park a BLACK-HEADED GULL in decent plumage was present
at Field 2 last weekend.

A few CASPIAN TERNS included five last Saturday on the East Pond at
Jamaica Bay Refuge, with two there today, and a BLACK TERN visited
Plumb Beach last Saturday.

A PHILADELPHIA VIREO was photographed at Strack Pond in Forest Park
today, and a few reports of YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT included singles at
the Salt Marsh Nature Center Monday, at Snug Harbor Cultural Center on
Staten Island Tuesday, at Tiana Beach off Dune Road Wednesday, and at
Croton Point Park today.

A GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER was in Forest Park Wednesday and Thursday, and
a YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER was spotted in Arshamomaque Preserve in
Greenport West on Wednesday. Other migrant WARBLERS recently have
included WORM-EATING, TENNESSEE, NASHVILLE. MOURNING, HOODED, good
numbers of CAPE MAY, BAY-BREASTED, CANADA and WILSON’S.

Other recent migrants have included both YELLOW-BILLED and
BLACK-BILLED CUCKOOS, COMMON NIGHTHAWK, with 45 over Rye Thursday, and
OLIVE-SIDED and various Empidonax FLYCATCHERS, plus single DICKCISSELS
reported moving over lower Manhattan Wednesday morning and Robert
Moses State Park early 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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NYC Area Rare Bird Alert, 8/16/2024

– 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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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: 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.

– End transcript

NYC Area Rare Bird Alert, 8/9/2024

– RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Aug. 9, 2024
* NYNY2408.09

– Birds mentioned
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
Lesser Black-backed Gull
GULL-BILLED TERN
CASPIAN TERN
BLACK TERN
Royal Tern
WHITE-FACED IBIS
Red-headed Woodpecker
Olive-sided Flycatcher
LARK SPARROW
Worm-eating Warbler
Tennessee Warbler
Cape May Warbler
Cerulean Warbler
Wilson’s Warbler
BLUE GROSBEAK

– Transcript

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: Ben Cacace

BEGIN TAPE

(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

Greetings. This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for Friday, August 9th 2024 at 11pm. The highlights of today’s tape are WHITE-FACED IBIS, AMERICAN AVOCET, WHIMBREL, UPLAND and BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPERS, RED-NECKED and WILSON’S PHALAROPES, GULL-BILLED, CASPIAN and BLACK TERNS, LARK SPARROW, BLUE GROSBEAK and more.

As we await any unusual rarities from this current storm system Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge does continue to provide a nice variety of seasonal highlights including an AMERICAN AVOCET recently hanging around the south end of the West Pond. The East Pond has been attracting good numbers of shorebirds as well as the WHITE-FACED IBIS now in non-breeding plumage but continuing to frequent the north end of the pond. WILSON’S PHALAROPE at the bay since last Saturday peeked with 2 Wednesday at the north end of the East Pond which has also provided counts of up to 9 LONG-BILLED DOWITCHERS and over 150 STILT SANDPIPERS as well as some PECTORAL and WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPERS plus as many as 12 GULL-BILLED TERNS using the pond. WHIMBREL and BLACK TERN have also been noted south of the West Pond with the latter and 2 each of CASPIAN and ROYAL TERNS on the East Pond today.

Other shorebird highlights this week featured an UPLAND SANDPIPER in the dunes at Jones Beach West End on Monday followed today by a BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER flying by Robert Moses State Park field 2 this afternoon and a RED-NECKED PHALAROPE briefly visiting the Pier i area of Riverside Park South off West 69th Street in Manhattan. Three WHIMBREL also flew by northern Manhattan today.

Two ROYAL TERNS were offshore visitors to Playland Park in Rye last Tuesday and CASPIAN TERNS have been seen fairly regularly along the Hudson River up to Croton Point Park and especially around Piermont Pier on the Rockland County side. BLACK TERNS too have been popping up at various coastal sites.

At Breezy Point a female KING EIDER was seen again today and 13 LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS were counted along the beach Wednesday.

Two RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS were still along the Paumanok Trail near Jones Pond in Manorville last Sunday, this site off Schultz Road.

A LARK SPARROW was a nice find Monday at Bush Terminal Piers Park in Brooklyn and a BLUE GROSBEAK was spotted Sunday at Pine Meadow County Park off Route 51 in Eastport.

Other migrants this week included OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER Monday in Green-wood Cemetery in Brooklyn and at Pelham Bay Park Tuesday while warblers featured a CERULEAN in Central Park Monday as well as a few each of WORM-EATING, TENNESSEE, CAPE MAY and WILSON’S plus others.

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

NYC Area Rare Bird Alert, 8/2/2024

-RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Aug. 2, 2024
* NYNY2408.02

– Birds Mentioned

SANDWICH TERN+
WHITE-FACED IBIS+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

KING EIDER
Common Eider
AMERICAN AVOCET
WHIMBREL
Stilt Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER
Parasitic Jaeger
GULL-BILLED TERN
Caspian Tern
Black Tern
Wilson’s Storm-Petrel
Cory’s Shearwater
Great Shearwater
Sooty Shearwater
Manx Shearwater
BROWN PELICAN
Glossy Ibis
RED-HEADED WOODPECKER
OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER
Tennessee Warbler
Magnolia Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
DICKCISSEL

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 2,
2024 at 11:00 p.m.

The highlights of today’s tape are BROWN PELICAN, SANDWICH TERN,
WHITE-FACED IBIS, AMERICAN AVOCET. KING EIDER, WHIMBREL and
LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER, GULL-BILLED TERN, RED-HEADED WOODPECKER,
OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER, DICKCISSEL and more.

BROWN PELICANS early in the week featured one flying by Fort Tilden
Saturday followed by up to five hanging around Breezy Point Monday and
into Tuesday before moving on.  Also at Breezy Point, a female KING
EIDER was seen Monday to Wednesday and may still be around, and
Tuesday there also produced a WHIMBREL and a GULL-BILLED TERN among a
good selection of birds.

More surprising, though, was a SANDWICH TERN photographed Thursday as
it flew by Plumb Beach, only identified during subsequent review of
photos taken;

Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge continues to provide exciting birds,
including a WHITE-FACED IBIS lingering around the north end of the
East Pond, usually with GLOSSY IBIS but now somewhat faded and
requiring closer scrutiny to spot its red eye and facial skin.  An
AMERICAN AVOCET visited the West Pond at the Bay today, where a
summering COMMON EIDER was still present Sunday.  Five WHIMBREL were
spotted Sunday at Yellow Bar Hassock south of the West Pond, and a
WESTERN SANDPIPER was photographed on the West Pond Monday.  Good
numbers of shorebirds on the East Pond have featured up to 8
LONG-BILLED DOWITCHERS and close to 80 STILT SANDPIPERS, these counted
Thursday, when a dozen GULL-BILLED TERNS were also noted at the north
end.

Other WHIMBREL this week included two Monday at Smith Point County
Park in Shirley and three Wednesday at Miller Field beach on Staten
Island.

On the Hudson River 2 CASPIAN TERNS visited Harbor Square Park in
Ossining Wednesday and Thursday, while across the Hudson at Piermont
Pier in Rockland County on Wednesday a lingering group of up to 15
CASPIAN TERNS were also joined for a short while by a group of 6 BLACK
TERNS.

Birders on a CRESLI whale-watching boat out of Montauk last Sunday
noted a PARASITIC JAEGER and some WILSON’S STORM-PETRELS, while
SHEARWATERS included some CORY’S and GREAT plus three SOOTY and a
MANX.

RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS continue in the Calverton area, including along
the Paumanok Trail near Jones Pond off Schultz Road in Manorville.

Various early migrants among the passerines this week have included an
OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER appearing in Rye last Sunday, such WARBLERS as
TENNESSEE, MAGNOLIA and BLACK-THROATED GREEN, and a DICKCISSEL flying
over northern Staten Island Wednesday morning.

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

NYC Area Rare Bird Alert, 7/26/2024

-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