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.

– End transcript

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

– 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, 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

NYC Area Rare Bird Alert, 7/19/2024

– RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Jul. 19, 2024
* NYNY2407.19

– Birds mentioned
AMERICAN FLAMINGO+
WHITE-FACED IBIS+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

WHIMBREL
MARBLED GODWIT
Stilt Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Long-billed Dowitcher
LITTLE GULL
GULL-BILLED TERN
CASPIAN TERN
Wilson’s Storm-Petrel
Cory’s Shearwater
Great Shearwater
Sooty Shearwater
BROWN PELICAN
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, July 19th 2024 at 11 pm. The highlights of today’s vacation shortened tape are AMERICAN FLAMINGO, LITTLE GULL, BROWN PELICAN, WHITE-FACED IBIS, MARBLED GODWIT and WHIMBREL, GULL-BILLED and CASPIAN TERNS, DICKCISSEL and more.

The AMERICAN FLAMINGO did reappear again last Sunday at Georgica Pond in Wainscott, Long Island. We’re assuming this to be a single wandering individual. It was back up in Massachusetts Monday through Wednesday before paying a visit to Rhode Island on Thursday. Next stop, who knows?

An immature LITTLE GULL was a notable find at Plumb Beach in Brooklyn on Tuesday photographed nicely before it moved on.

A recent incursion of BROWN PELICANS started with Sunday sightings of one around Jones Inlet, one off Fire Island and 5 over Dune Road in Quogue heading out to the ocean. On Tuesday one was near the Ponquogue Bridge at Shinnecock continuing in Shinnecock Bay to Wednesday and today singles appeared in Brooklyn flying over into Jamaica Bay and off Robert Moses State Park.

A WHITE-FACED IBIS at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge has been seen around the East Pond most days this week, often in the pond’s north end but also a little south of there. Decent numbers of shorebirds have also returned to the East Pond including some STILT, and a few PECTORAL SANDPIPERS, and a couple of LONG-BILLED DOWITCHERS, and up to 3 GULL-BILLED TERNS continue to visit the East Pond as well. A MARBLED GODWIT was spotted in a marsh in Great South Bay Tuesday and a few WHIMBREL included 9 at Plumb Beach Wednesday and 2 at Fort Tilden the day before. Plumb Beach also featured a GULL-BILLED TERN Tuesday and a CASPIAN TERN Wednesday.

A boat off Montauk last Sunday reported 98 WILSON’S STORM-PETRELS and over 160 CORY’S, 26 GREAT, and 5 SOOTY SHEARWATERS and a DICKCISSEL was reported flying over Jones Beach West End today.

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, 7/12/2024

– RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Jul. 12, 2024
* NYNY2407.12

– Birds mentioned
AMERICAN FLAMINGO+
WHITE-FACED IBIS+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

AMERICAN AVOCET
Semipalmated Plover
Stilt Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
White-rumped Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Short-billed Dowitcher
WILSON’S PHALAROPE
Solitary Sandpiper
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
GULL-BILLED TERN
CASPIAN TERN
Roseate Tern
Common Tern
Least Bittern
YELLOW-THROATED 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

Greetings. This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for *Friday, July 12th 2024*
at 11pm. The highlights of today’s vacation shortened tape are AMERICAN
FLAMINGO, WHITE-FACED IBIS, AMERICAN AVOCET, WILSON’S PHALAROPE, and
southbound shorebirds, GULL-BILLED and CASPIAN TERNS, YELLOW-THROATED
WARBLER, BLUE GROSBEAK and more.

The now famous AMERICAN FLAMINGO which was first spotted at Georgica Pond
in Wainscott back on May 31st was still noted there last Friday July 5th
with likely this same bird making brief trips up to Massachusetts and down
to Delaware during that period may have left our area after one more
Georgica visit last Monday but don’t rule out another reappearance.

A lot of work and effort put into improving the East Pond at Jamaica Bay
Wildlife Refuge has certainly already begun proving its worth, just in time
for the commencement of Fall migration. A WHITE-FACED IBIS has been […]
regularly mixing in with Glossy Ibis feeding either at the north end or
along the east shore down to the Raunt and today 4 AMERICAN AVOCETS
appeared at the pond’s south end joining a variety of other southbound
shorebirds that this week have included SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, SHORT-BILLED
DOWITCHER, GREATER and LESSER YELLOWLEGS, and STILT, PECTORAL,
WHITE-RUMPED, SOLITARY, LEAST and SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPERS. Also watch for
one or more GULL-BILLED TERNS now visiting both ponds and last Saturday a
kayaker also spotted a WILSON’S PHALAROPE out on Ruffle Bar in Jamaica Bay.
It’s shaping up for a great Fall at the bay.

A CASPIAN TERN was seen last Monday out at Great Gull Island and 12 Common
Eider are also lingering there but the great news is that the Great Gull
tern colony now contains about 40,000 COMMON and 6,000 ROSEATE TERNS.

YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER continues at the Bayard Cutting Arboretum and BLUE
GROSBEAKS seem to be doing nicely in the Calverton area.

Apparently already on the move a LEAST BITTERN needing assistance in
Manhattan was retrieved Tuesday at West 125th Street and Broadway and taken
to the Wild Bird Fund for rehabilitation.

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, 7/5/2024

-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

NYC Area Rare Bird Alert, 6/28/2024

-RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* June 28, 2024
* NYNY2406.28

– Birds Mentioned

BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING-DUCK
AMERICAN FLAMINGO+
NEOTROPIC CORMORANT+ (extralimital)
WHITE-FACED IBIS+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

American Avocet
Whimbrel
Stilt Sandpiper
Wilson’s Phalarope
Sabine’s Gull
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Gull-billed Tern
Caspian Tern
Black Tern
Roseate Tern
Arctic Tern
Royal Tern
Wilson’s Storm-Petrel
Brown Pelican
Least Bittern
Glossy Ibis
Red-headed Woodpecker
Acadian Flycatcher
American Pipit
Yellow-throated 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[~BEGIN RBA TAPE~]

Greetings! This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for Friday, June 28,
2024 at 11:00 pm.

The highlights of today’s tape are American Flamingo, black-bellied
whistling-duck, SABINE’S GULL, white-faced Ibis, Brown Pelican, Arctic
and other TERNS, AMERICAN AVOCET, Wilson’s PHALAROPE, WHIMBREL,
red-headed Woodpecker, Yellow-throated Warbler and more.

The rather accommodating American Flamingo, potentially New York’s
first pending acceptance by NYSARC, continues its residence on
Georgica Pond out in Wainscott, and the best approach to viewing it on
the pond continues to be to park in the small lot at the end of Beach
Lane west of the pond and walk a short distance east along the beach
to the pond overview.  For those without local parking permits, plan
your visit for early in the morning, as expensive tickets have been
issued once the beach activity picks up; visiting late in the day
might be another alternative.

A black-bellied whistling-duck made a surprise visit to the lake at
Van Cortlandt Park on Wednesday, staying for the day near the golf
house but moving on overnight.

A nice find Wednesday was a sabine’s Gull quickly photographed as it
flew by Brooklyn’s Plumb Beach, this sub-adult bird continuing east
towards Dead Horse Bay.

There were three reports of white-faced Ibis this week, starting with
one foraging in the marsh at Captree Island on Monday, another seen
again Tuesday at the south end of the East Pond at Jamaica Bay
Wildlife Refuge, and a third flying with Glossy Ibis over the marsh at
the Oceanside Marine Nature Study Area today.

A Brown Pelican was spotted moving east just off Smith Point County
Park Wednesday morning – hopefully more will follow.

Also seen in flight was an adult Arctic TERN spotted over the flats at
Cupsogue Beach County Park Thursday morning, quickly disappearing, but
the good variety of TERNS there also featured 1 GULL-BILLED, 1
CASPIAN, 2 BLACK, 6 ROSEATE and 8 ROYAL, and 10 WILSON’S STORM-PETRELS
were counted offshore.  Other CASPIAN TERNS included 2 at Great Kills
Park Thursday and 1 Friday at Breezy Point, where 12 LESSER
BLACK-BACKED GULLS were counted last Sunday.

With the shorebird season now starting to swing towards the southbound
direction, interesting sightings this week included a WHIMBREL flying
by Idlewild Park in Queens Saturday morning and a WILSON’S PHALROPE
and a STILT SANDPIPER appearing at the north end of the East Pond at
Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge yesterday.  An AMERICAN AVOCET was also
reported today, but with no details, at Old Inlet on Fire Island, west
of Smith Point County Park.

The LEAST BITTERN at Jamaica Bay was still being seen at Big John’s
Pond at least to Tuesday, and a RED-HEADED WOODPECKER was spotted at
South Haven County Park Wednesday.

An AMERICAN PIPIT was an interesting find at Georgica Pond last
Tuesday, an ACADIAN FLYCATCHER was singing in Central Park last
Sunday, and YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER continues at the Bayard Cutting
Arboretum in Great River.

And also as an extralimital update, the adult NEOTROPIC CORMORANT
continues along the Newburgh waterfront up in 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