-RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Sept. 12, 2025
* NYNY2509.12
– Birds Mentioned
Scopoli’s Shearwater+
(+Details requested by NYSARC)
Sora
American Golden-Plover
UPLAND SANDPIPER
Whimbrel
HUDSONIAN GODWIT
MARBLED GODWIT
Long-billed Dowitcher
BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER
BAIRD’S SANDPIPER
Wilson’s Phalarope
Parasitic Jaeger
Gull-billed Tern
Caspian Tern
Black Tern
Roseate Tern
Royal Tern
Wilson’s Storm-Petrel
Leach’s Storm-Petrel
Cory’s Shearwater
Great Shearwater
Sooty Shearwater
Manx Shearwater
AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
LARK SPARROW
Vesper Sparrow
YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT
GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER
Connecticut Warbler
Mourning Warbler
Hooded Warbler
Bay-breasted Warbler
Wilson’s 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
[~BEGIN RBA TAPE~]
Greetings! This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for Friday, September
12, 2025 at 11:00 pm. The highlights of today’s tape are AMERICAN
WHITE PELICAN, MARBLED and HUDSONIAN GODWITS, BUFF-BREASTED, BAIRD’S
and UPLAND SANDPIPERS, LARK SPARROW, YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT,
GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER, BLUE GROSBEAK, DICKCISSEL and more.
At Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge high water persists, but so does the
AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN, reported today at the north end of the East
Pond. Shorebird numbers have dropped on the two ponds during the
week, but the 2 MARBLED GODWITS stayed around the East Pond at least
to Monday, while the HUDSONIAN GODWITS visiting there peaked at 4
Monday and still featured 2 or 3 at the south end of the East Pond
today. SORA also continues along that pond’s southwest edge, and 2
WILSON’S PHALAROPES were on the West Pond Saturday, just 1 Sunday.
A MARBLED GODWIT also visited Oak Beach Sunday, while out at Old Inlet
west of Smith Point County Park in Shirley, 6 HUDSONIAN GODWITS
counted last Saturday increased to 12 today.
Other highlights among the shorebirds featured an AMERICAN
GOLDEN-PLOVER at Floyd Bennett Field Sunday, following a WHIMBREL
there Saturday, and an UPLAND SANDPIPER seen Sunday on the sod fields
along Route 51 in Eastport. Two BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPERS lingered
around Nickerson Beach from last week through today, while 1 was on
the Route 51 sod fields last Sunday, and another visited Democrat
Point at Robert Moses State Park on Monday. A BAIRD’S SANDPIPER was
encountered on Amawalk Reservoir in Somers last Saturday, and 2
appeared at Nickerson Beach Monday, where a LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER was
spotted the day before.
Gatherings of TERNS at Oak Beach Sunday provided a GULL-BILLED, 2 each
of BLACK and ROSEATE, and 43 ROYAL, while Old Inlet today featured 14
CASPIAN and 45 ROYAL TERNS.
Mini pelagic trips aboard the CRESLI whale boats from Montauk or shore
watches from sites like Montauk Point west to Robert Moses State Park
continue to be productive, this week providing some WILSON’S
STORM-PETRELS and CORY’S and GREAT SHEARWATERS, with other SHEARWATERS
including carefully identified SCOPOLI’S, a late SOOTY or two, an
occasional MANX and often a few PARASITIC JAEGERS. Also photographed
from Montauk Point last Saturday were 2 apparent LEACH’S
STORM-PETRELS.
Several OLIVE-SIDED, YELLOW-BELLIED and other FLYCATCHERS were noted
this week. LARK SPARROWS included 1 or 2 in Green-Wood Cemetery
Saturday to Thursday, another 2 at Robert Moses State Park Field 2
down to 1 by Thursday, singles in Laurel Sunday and on Randalls Island
Monday, and 1 today at Davis Park on Fire Island. A VESPER SPARROW
appeared at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park Monday, while a YELLOW
BREASTED CHAT visited Wellwyn Preserve in Glen Cove yesterday.
Among the two dozen or so WARBLERS currently moving through were
single GOLDEN-WINGEDS at Clove Lakes Park on Staten Island Monday to
Thursday and at Stony Brook University Tuesday, others noted also
including CONNECTICUT, MOURNING, HOODED, BAY-BREASTED and WILSON’S.
A few BLUE GROSBEAKS continue around Calverton, and single DICKCISSELS
were found at Marshlands Conservancy in Rye Sunday and at Inwood Hill
Park in Manhattan 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