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

NYC Area Rare Bird Alert, 6/14/2024

– RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Jun. 14, 2024
* NYNY2406.14

– Birds mentioned
BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING-DUCK+
AMERICAN FLAMINGO+
ARCTIC TERN+
SANDWICH TERN+
PACIFIC LOON+
WHITE-FACED IBIS+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

Common Eider
Eastern Whip-poor-will
White-rumped Sandpiper
WILSON’S PHALAROPE
Least Tern
Gull-billed Tern
Caspian Tern
Roseate Tern
Common Tern
Black Skimmer
Least Bittern
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Acadian Flycatcher
Alder Flycatcher
Hooded Warbler
YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER
SUMMER TANAGER
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, June 14th 2024*
at 11pm. The highlights of today’s tape are AMERICAN FLAMINGO,
BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING-DUCK, SANDWICH and ARCTIC TERNS, WHITE-FACED IBIS,
PACIFIC LOON, WILSON’S PHALAROPE, YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER, BLUE GROSBEAK,
SUMMER TANAGER and more.

After wandering about the northeast for a short time, by Monday the
AMERICAN FLAMINGO had returned to Georgica Pond in Wainscott where it has
remained through today. Since Georgica Pond is surrounded by private
property except along the beachfront the best approach for looking for the
Flamingo seems to be parking in a small lot at the end of Beach Lane west
of the pond and walking east on the beach to view the pond. The issue there
is the potential for a parking ticket so best to be there early before the
beach crowd starts building up.

Two BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING-DUCKS found on the East Pond at Jamaica Bay
Wildlife Refuge last Sunday continued around the pond’s south end through
Thursday but today flew over to the south end of the West Pond. An adult
WHITE-FACED IBIS has also been noted occasionally along the southeast
shoreline of the East Pond starting on Monday and Tuesday this area
attracting a revolving set of Ibis constantly coming in and staying for a
short while. The southern section of the East Pond has also produced a
couple of sightings of LEAST BITTERN usually in flight and some lingering
shorebirds including 50 or more WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPERS gathered there
Wednesday. A female COMMON EIDER remains on the West Pond and one or two
GULL-BILLED TERNS continue to appear at both the West and East Ponds.

An adult SANDWICH TERN was spotted Tuesday morning at the Fire Island Old
Inlet in Bellport Bay west of Smith Point County Park and single ARCTIC
TERNS were photographed at Nickerson Beach last Sunday, this an adult,
followed by an immature at Cupsogue Beach County Park on Tuesday.

A CASPIAN TERN in Pelham Bay Park’s Orchard Beach last Saturday was
followed by one today flying over the Cliffdale Farm’s section of Teatown
Reservation in northern Westchester.

PACIFIC LOON was photographed and identified as it flew by a boat off Jones
Beach last Saturday.

A WILSON’S PHALAROPE was found Sunday at Nickerson Beach and unexpected was
an EASTERN WHIP-POOR-WILL calling at Jones Beach Sunday evening.

ACADIAN FLYCATCHERS were on Saturday at Heckscher State Park and Connetquot
River State Park and Wednesday and Thursday in Prospect Park and
YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER continues at the Bayard Cutting Arboretum in Great
River.

A SUMMER TANAGER was spotted in Cunningham Park Monday and single BLUE
GROSBEAKS were present at Bayswater Point State Park including Saturday and
at Cliffdale Farm on Tuesday while nesting pairs are also in residence out
in the Calverton area.

The Captree Summer Bird Count last Saturday netted 129 species including an
OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER and YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER at the Bayard Cutting
Arboretum and a healthy gathering of nesting birds at Democrat Point with
good numbers of COMMON and LEAST TERNS and BLACK SKIMMERS plus a few
ROSEATE TERNS.

The Greenwich-Stamford Summer Bird Count including much of eastern
Westchester recorded 130 species last weekend including WHITE-RUMPED
SANDPIPER, ACADIAN FLYCATCHER and ALDER FLYCATCHERS, HOODED WARBLER and
count period BLUE GROSBEAK.

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, 6/7/2024

-RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* June 7, 2024
* NYNY2406.07

– Birds Mentioned

BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING-DUCK+
AMERICAN FLAMINGO+
THICK-BILLED MURRE+
ATLANTIC PUFFIN+
BAND-RUMPED STORM-PETREL+
MISSISSIPPI KITE+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

KING EIDER
SANDHILL CRANE
Whimbrel
HUDSONIAN GODWIT
MARBLED GODWIT
White-rumped Sandpiper
Parasitic Jaeger
DOVEKIE
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Gull-billed Tern
Caspian Tern
Roseate Tern
Royal Tern
Wilson’s Storm-Petrel
Leach’s Storm-Petrel
NORTHERN FULMAR
BLACK-CAPPED PETREL (in New Jersey waters)
FEA’S PETREL (in New Jersey waters)
Cory’s Shearwater
Sooty Shearwater
Great Shearwater
Manx Shearwater
Audubon’s Shearwater
Northern Gannet
BROWN PELICAN
Red-headed Woodpecker
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
Acadian Flycatcher
Alder Flycatcher
Mourning Warbler
Blackburnian Warbler
SUMMER TANAGER
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

[~BEGIN RBA TAPE~]

Greetings! This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for Friday, June 7, 2024 at
11:00 pm.

The highlights of today’s tape are AMERICAN FLAMINGO, pelagic trip results
including ATLANTIC PUFFIN, DOVEKIE and THICK-BILLED MURRE, BAND-RUMPED
STORM-PETREL and NORTHERN FULMAR as well as FEA’S PETREL and BLACK-CAPPED
PETREL in New Jersey waters, plus BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING-DUCK, MISSISSIPPI
KITE, BROWN PELICAN, SANDHILL CRANE, KING EIDER, HUDSONIAN and MARBLED
GODWITS, SUMMER TANAGER, BLUE GROSBEAK and more.

The adult AMERICAN FLAMINGO found at Georgica Pond in Wainscott last Friday
spent all of Saturday at that location but then moved on, quite possibly
the same bird appearing Sunday up at Dennis on Cape Cod.  A few subsequent
scattered but unconfirmed sightings at various sites between Massachusetts
and Long Island after Sunday led to Wednesday, when a FLAMINGO (conceivably
the same one) was spotted well out in the marsh north of Cedar Beach
Marina, staying there until dark but not seen Thursday or today. Where will
it appear next?

A pelagic trip aboard the American Princess left Brooklyn Sunday night and
returned the next evening.  The boat diverted early Monday morning into New
Jersey waters due to stormy weather and fortuitously encountered two FEA’S
PETRELS and a BLACK-CAPPED PETREL before steering back towards Hudson
Canyon.  With improving weather, the trip tallied a PARASITIC JAEGER, 3
ATLANTIC PUFFINS, 8 DOVEKIES and a THICK-BILLED MURRE, 588 WILSON’S, 1
LEACH’S and 2 BAND-RUMPED STORM-PETRELS, 5 NORTHERN FULMARS, 9 CORY’S, 68
GREAT, 1 AUDUBON’S and 135 SOOTY SHEARWATERS, 7 NORTHERN GANNETS and a
BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER, among others.  Certainly a major highlight were the
Cetaceans, including 10 North Atlantic Right Whales as well as one Humpback
Whale and some Risso’s, Striped, Offshore Bottlenose and Common Dolphins.

A BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING DUCK spotted last Sunday on a pond at the Matrix
Global Logistics Park in Bloomfield on Staten Island was seen only up to
Tuesday.

Two sightings of MISSISSIPPI KITE featured one photographed while perched
briefly at the Bayard Cutting Arboretum in Great River last Saturday and
one flying over the Cliffdale Farm section of Teatown Reservation in
northern Westchester today.

A BROWN PELICAN was spotted flying off Fire Island last Tuesday, and on
Wednesday three SANDHILL CRANES were reported moving past Fort Wadsworth on
Staten Island, while two female KING EIDERS were photographed off Great
Gull Island Wednesday.

An HUDSONIAN GODWIT was among the many shorebirds gathered at Old Inlet on
Fire Island west of Smith Point County Park last Sunday, where other birds
included a WHIMBREL, 11 WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPERS, 10 LESSER BLACK-BACKED
GULLS and three ROSEATE TERNS.  A MARBLED GODWIT was reported from Cupsogue
Beach County Park Monday, with two WHIMBREL and a GULL-BILLED TERN noted
there Tuesday.

A MANX SHEARWATER and many WILSON’S STORM-PETRELS were present off Robert
Moses State Park Wednesday, and SOOTY SHEARWATERS have also begun to appear
offshore.  ROYAL TERN numbers are increasing along the coast, and an
occasional CASPIAN TERN included one reported at Nickerson Beach Tuesday.

A RED-HEADED WOODPECKER was still in the gardens at Jamaica Bay Wildlife
Refuge Tuesday.

Passerine migrants recently have featured OLIVE-SIDED, ACADIAN, ALDER and
YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHERS as well as some MOURNING WARBLERS, including
four in Bryant Park in Manhattan Monday, these hopefully able to continue
moving on.

SUMMER TANAGERS last weekend were noted in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn
and at the Preston Pond Complex out in Calverton, while single BLUE
GROSBEAKS were photographed in Westchester County at Rockefeller State Park
Preserve Wednesday and at Marshlands Conservancy in Rye 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, 5/31/24

-RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* May 31, 2024
* NYNY2405.31

– Birds Mentioned

AMERICAN FLAMINGO+
BLACK-NECKED STILT+
BLACK-THROATED GRAY WARBLER+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

Common Eider
HARLEQUIN DUCK
RED-NECKED PHALAROPE
BLACK-HEADED GULL
Gull-billed Tern
Caspian Tern
Black Tern
Royal Tern
BROWN PELICAN
Red-headed Woodpecker
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
Acadian Flycatcher
Alder Flycatcher
YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT
PROTHONOTARY WARBLER
KENTUCKY WARBLER
YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER
SUMMER TANAGER
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

[~BEGIN RBA TAPE~]

Greetings! This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for Friday, May 31,
2024 at 11:00 pm.

The highlights of today’s tape are AMERICAN FLAMINGO, BLACK-THROATED
GRAY WARBLER, BLACK-NECKED STILT, BROWN PELICAN, HARLEQUIN DUCK,
RED-NECKED PHALAROPE, BLACK-HEADED GULL, YELLOW BREASTED CHAT,
PROTHONOTARY, KENTUCKY and YELLOW-THROATED WARBLERS, SUMMER TANAGER,
BLUE GROSBEAK, and more.

And adult AMERICAN FLAMINGO was found today out on Eastern Long Island
at Georgica Pond in Wainscott, where it has continued into this
evening.  This residential area has quite restricted access, and the
pond is generally viewable only from the Atlantic Ocean beachfront.
Parking is very limited, with small lots on the east side of Georgica
Pond off Lily Pond Lane and on the west side off Beach Lane, but the
restrictions on these lots are not currently known.  Either lot
requires a hike along the beach to the pond. This would be a first New
York State record if accepted by NYSARC.

A BLACK-THROATED GRAY WARBLER, singing an odd song for this species,
was found Wednesday at Heckscher State Park around Forty Foot Road and
ultimately photographed as it wandered about.  It was only heard a
couple of times early Thursday morning but then disappeared.  A
KENTUCKY WARBLER first heard at the same location on Tuesday was
confirmed visually on Wednesday and still singing there today.

Two kayakers out in Jamaica Bay on Sunday spotted a BLACK-NECKED STILT
flying by Ruffle Bar southwest of the West Pond at Jamaica Bay
Wildlife Refuge and managed to get a few photos before the bird
disappeared; perhaps this is the individual present recently in
Connecticut.

An adult BROWN PELICAN was photographed Wednesday flying west off Fire
Island south of Shirley.

A female HARLEQUIN DUCK was still present off Sunset Cove Park on the
south side off Broad Channel on Sunday, while excitement at Jamaica
Bay Wildlife Refuge just to the north featured a RED-NECKED PHALAROPE
continuing at least to Saturday on the West Pond, where a female
COMMON EIDER also remains.  A RED-HEADED WOODPECKER was still around
the north end of the South Garden today, and four GULL-BILLED TERNS
present Saturday on Yellow Bar Hassock out in the Bay are likely the
source of the birds seen occasionally at the Refuge.

An immature BLACK-HEADED GULL was spotted Tuesday on the bar off the
Jones Beach West End Coast Guard Station.

Among the TERNS, a CASPIAN at Great Kills Park on Staten Island
Saturday was followed by two at nearby Wolfe’s Pond Park Tuesday, a
BLACK was seen at Nickerson Beach from Sunday through Wednesday, and
some ROYALS included four at Nickerson Sunday and six at Mecox Bay
Tuesday.

Several OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHERS were noted during the week, as were
such Empidonax as YELLOW-BELLIED, ACADIAN, and ALDER FLYCATCHERS.

A YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT was heard Sunday in fields south of Water Mill,
while rarer WARBLERS for the week included a PROTHONOTARY reported at
Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge Saturday, a KENTUCKY in Prospect Park
Wednesday, and a YELLOW-THROATED at Pine Neck Sanctuary in East Quogue
Sunday.

SUMMER TANAGERS were reported in Central Park and Maple Swamp County
Park in Flanders on Sunday and at the Preston Ponds Complex in
Calverton today, while BLUE GROSBEAKS were noted Monday at Randalls
Island and yesterday at Heckscher State Park as well as out in
Calverton.

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, 5/24/24

– RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* May. 24, 2024
* NYNY2405.24

– Birds mentioned
ARCTIC TERN+
SANDWICH TERN+
PACIFIC LOON+
MISSISSIPPI KITE+
BICKNELL’S THRUSH+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

Common Eider
HARLEQUIN DUCK
CHUCK-WILL’S-WIDOW
AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER
Whimbrel
White-rumped Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
RED-NECKED PHALAROPE
GULL-BILLED TERN
CASPIAN TERN
Roseate Tern
Royal Tern
Common Loon
Red-headed Woodpecker
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
Acadian Flycatcher
Alder Flycatcher
Philadelphia Vireo
Gray-cheeked Thrush
Mourning Warbler
KENTUCKY WARBLER
YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER
SUMMER TANAGER
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, May 24th, 2024 at 11 pm. The highlights of today’s tape are SANDWICH and ARCTIC TERNS, PACIFIC LOON, MISSISSIPPI KITE, CHUCK-WILL’S-WIDOW, RED-NECKED PHALAROPE and AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER, HARLEQUIN DUCK, GULL-BILLED and CASPIAN TERNS, YELLOW-THROATED and KENTUCKY WARBLERS, SUMMER TANAGER, BLUE GROSBEAK and more.

With migration winding down and overall numbers continuing to be on the low side some terns are now showing up to make things more interesting. This morning at Nickerson Beach and Lido Beach an adult SANDWICH TERN paid a brief visit to the eastern Black Skimmer and Common Tern nesting area before moving on. Other terns occurring there include ROSEATE and GULL-BILLED with two early ROYAL TERNS reported Tuesday. Nickerson has in recent Springs been a good location to search for ARCTIC TERNS with the only reports so far this Spring has been an adult photographed last Sunday at Plumb Beach in Brooklyn.

A surprise last Saturday was a PACIFIC LOON photographed as it flew by Randall’s Island as part of a small COMMON LOON flight.

MISSISSIPPI KITES appeared this week over three NYC parks. The first a subadult spotted over Brooklyn’s Prospect Park Monday evening followed shortly thereafter by presumably the same one over nearby Green-wood Cemetery and then one occurred Thursday over Forest Park in Queens.

Rather unexpected was a CHUCK-WILL’S-WIDOW recorded singing for a short while last Monday evening at Hilltop Hanover Farm and Environmental Center in Yorktown Heights one of very few Westchester records.

A variety of interesting birds at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge have included a nicely plumaged RED-NECKED PHALAROPE around the south end of the West Pond from Monday through today. With other shorebirds there including 2 WHIMBREL out on the bay Sunday as well as WHITE-RUMPED and PECTORAL SANDPIPERS also present on the West Pond today. GULL-BILLED and CASPIAN TERNS have been reported there recently while a female COMMON EIDER was still there last Sunday with a female HARLEQUIN DUCK continuing off Sunset Cove Park just south of the refuge at least to Wednesday. A lingering RED-HEADED WOODPECKER was also seen in the South Garden today.

Breeding plumaged AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER was photographed at the Lido Beach Passive Nature Area last Monday.

Among the flycatchers a few OLIVE-SIDED include one at Strack Pond at the west end of Forest Park Saturday and one at Green-wood Cemetery Wednesday. Some currently migrating species including ACADIAN, ALDER and YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHERS, BICKNELL’S and GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSHES and PHILADELPHIA VIREO can require extra scrutiny to ensure proper identification.

A KENTUCKY WARBLER lingered on Governors Island from Saturday at least through Wednesday and YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER continues at the Bayard Cutting Arboretum in Great River while MOURNING WARBLERS have been found in several parks.

A few SUMMER TANAGERS include birds in Central Park last week and Forest Park Wednesday and Planting Fields Arboretum in Oyster Bay Thursday and a BLUE GROSBEAK was at Green-wood Cemetery last Saturday others continuing out around Calverton.

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, 5/17/24

– RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* May. 17, 2024
* NYNY2405.17
– Birds mentioned

BICKNELL’S THRUSH+
WESTERN TANAGER+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

HARLEQUIN DUCK
Stilt Sandpiper
White-rumped Sandpiper
Parasitic Jaeger
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Caspian Tern
Roseate Tern
Sooty Shearwater
RED-HEADED WOODPECKER
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
Acadian Flycatcher
Alder Flycatcher
Gray-cheeked Thrush
Grasshopper Sparrow
LARK SPARROW
YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD
GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER
Tennessee Warbler
Mourning Warbler
KENTUCKY WARBLER
Hooded Warbler
Cape May Warbler
Bay-breasted Warbler
Blackburnian Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER
Canada Warbler
Wilson’s Warbler
SUMMER TANAGER
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, May 17th, 2024 at 11 pm. The highlights of today’s tape are WESTERN TANAGER, YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD, HARLEQUIN DUCK, RED-HEADED WOODPECKER, LARK SPARROW, YELLOW-THROATED, GOLDEN-WINGED and KENTUCKY WARBLERS, SUMMER TANAGER, BLUE GROSBEAK, other Spring migrants and more.

Not a dynamic week thanks to the weather but a male WESTERN TANAGER was found and photographed Wednesday afternoon in Hudson River Park in the Chelsea section of downtown Manhattan where it was also reported calling early Thursday morning but could not be relocated thereafter.

A YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD found last Friday in Queens was still present today at Sunset Cove Park which is located off Cross Bay Boulevard on the southwest side of Broad Channel. The female HARLEQUIN DUCKS spotted offshore at this park last week has continued there at least through Thursday. Another female HARLEQUIN DUCK was seen last Sunday off Robert Moses State Park where a seawatch also produced a PARASITIC JAEGER and a SOOTY SHEARWATER plus 15 LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS and 5 ROSEATE TERNS. Two CASPIAN TERNS were spotted off Breezy Point Tuesday and 2 also reported off the lower West Side of Manhattan Tuesday and Wednesday.

A STILT SANDPIPER visited the dune pools at Jones Beach West End field 2 at least to Tuesday joined there by a WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER.

A RED-HEADED WOODPECKER appeared in Central Park last Saturday with another in Manhattan noted Tuesday and Thursday in a small park east of 1st Avenue between 58th and 59th Streets. Another RED-HEADED spent the week at least to Thursday in the North Garden at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge with one also at Connetquot River State Park on Tuesday. They also continue along the Paumanok Trail near Jones Pond in Manorville.

A LARK SPARROW was found Monday on the East Pond side of Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge and a GRASSHOPPER SPARROW visited Bayswater Point State Park in Queens last Sunday while thrushes now feature a few GRAY-CHEEKED and BICKNELL’S these requiring careful effort for separation.

The flycatcher mix has improved with the arrival of more OLIVE-SIDEDS and was as ACADIAN, ALDER and YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHERS.

A YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER was seen in Green-wood Cemetery yesterday and this morning and a GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER visited Prospect Park last Saturday while today single KENTUCKY WARBLERS were found in Cabrini Woods at the south end of Fort Tryon Park in northern Manhattan and at Strack Pond at the western end of Forest Park in Queens. A good variety of other warblers this week, many in fairly low numbers, did feature some TENNESSEE, a few MOURNING and HOODED, some CAPE MAY, BAY-BREASTED and BLACKBURNIAN and increasing BLACKPOLL, CANADA and WILSON’S.

Several SUMMER TANAGERS this week included multiples in Central Park with others in Forest Park Monday and Inwood Hill Park and on Staten Island today as well as a few on eastern Long Island and appropriate breeding areas. BLUE GROSBEAKS have also settled into desired eastern Long Island nesting territories so please make sure not to disturb these birds during this critical time in their life-cycle.

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