NYC Area Rare Bird Alert, 8/28/2026

– RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Aug. 28, 2026
* NYNY2608.28

– Birds mentioned
LONG-TAILED JAEGER+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

EARED GREBE
AMERICAN AVOCET
AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER
UPLAND SANDPIPER
Whimbrel
Marbled Godwit
Wilson’s Snipe
Wilson’s Phalarope
BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER
Baird’s Sandpiper
White-rumped Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
Parasitic Jaeger
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Caspian Tern
SANDWICH TERN
Wilson’s Storm-Petrel
Cory’s Shearwater
Scopoli’s Shearwater
Great Shearwater
Sooty Shearwater
Manx Shearwater
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
WESTERN KINGBIRD
SEDGE WREN
LARK SPARROW
Yellow-breasted Chat
GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER
Mourning Warbler
Hooded Warbler
Cape May Warbler
Bay-breasted Warbler
Wilson’s 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, August 28th, 2026, at 11 pm. The highlights of today’s tape are SANDWICH TERN, EARED GREBE, WESTERN KINGBIRD, LONG-TAILED JAEGER and other pelagics, AMERICAN AVOCET, AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER, BUFF-BREASTED, UPLAND, and other sandpipers, SEDGE WREN, LARK SPARROW, GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER, and other warblers DICKCISSEL and more.

A non-breeding SANDWICH TERN was photographed during its brief visit to Plumb Beach Tuesday morning. Unfortunately not lingering as long as the EARED GREBE that was still on the West Pond at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge at least to Tuesday.

A WESTERN KINGBIRD showed up at Caumsett State Park Thursday and continued there through today. The first of hopefully several this Fall.

Seabird diversity offshore in the Atlantic continues while numbers are thinning out. The CRESLI whale watch trip out of Montauk last Monday produced an eye-popping, dark juvenile LONG-TAILED JAEGER along with a PARASITIC JAEGER, over 3,000 WILSON’S STORM-PETRELS, and modest shearwater totals including 19 CORY’S, 4 SCOPOLI’S, 44 GREAT, 8 SOOTY, and 10 MANX.

An exciting week for shorebirds was enhanced nicely thanks to the lowered water levels at Jerome Reservoir in the Bronx. Rarities following last week’s 2 BAIRD’S SANDPIPERS in the reservoir basin, with reports of 1 or 2 more this week, were an AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER visiting there Monday and Tuesday and then 5 BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPERS appearing Thursday increasing to 6 today. Other shorebirds among the over a dozen species visiting there featured WHITE-RUMPED, WESTERN, and PECTORAL SANDPIPERS and WILSON’S SNIPE. The reservoir is viewed best from the fence line along Reservoir Avenue near the intersection with Claflin Avenue. Other shorebirds this week featured an AMERICAN AVOCET visiting the Oceanside Marine Nature Study Area Saturday through Monday, an UPLAND SANDPIPER at Caumsett State Park Saturday, two MARBLED GODWITS lingering around field 10 at Jones Beach at least to Thursday, a WILSON’S PHALAROPE at Heckscher State Park Sunday followed by a BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER and an AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER at field 7 today, another BUFF-BREASTED at Jones Beach field 1 yesterday and 2 HUDSONIAN WHIMBRELS out on Jamaica Bay last Saturday

Two CASPIAN TERNS visited Central Park Wednesday followed by a LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL Thursday, and among the variety of warblers now moving through Central and other parks have been MOURNING, HOODED, CAPE MAY, BAY-BREASTED, and WILSON’S but perhaps the most unexpected was the GOLDEN-WINGED photographed in Central Tuesday.

Among the flycatchers this week were a few OLIVE-SIDED, and YELLOW-BELLIED, and a SEDGE WREN was noted again today at the private parcel in Manhasset. A LARK SPARROW was spotted at Sherman Creek Park last Saturday and another continued at Cliffdale Farm in Westchester Sunday but the bonanza was up to 4 LARK SPARROWS at Jones Beach fields 1 and 2 starting on Wednesday with at least 2 still there today. YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT stayed in Prospect Park to Saturday with singles also in Bryant Park Tuesday and Central Park Ramble Wednesday, and a DICKCISSEL visited Floyd Bennett Field Monday.

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, 8/21/2026

-RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Aug. 21, 2026
* NYNY2608.21

– Birds Mentioned:

EARED GREBE
Common Nighthawk
UPLAND SANDPIPER
Hudsonian Whimbrel
MARBLED GODWIT
Stilt Sandpiper
BAIRD’S SANDPIPER
White-rumped Sandpiper
BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER
Pectoral Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
WILSON’S PHALAROPE
RED-NECKED PHALAROPE
LONG-TAILED JAEGER
Parasitic Jaeger
Caspian Tern
Black Tern
Roseate Tern
Royal Tern
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Wilson’s Storm-Petrel
Cory’s Shearwater
Scopoli’s Shearwater
Sooty Shearwater
Great Shearwater
Manx Shearwater
Olive-sided Flycatcher
SEDGE WREN
LARK SPARROW
YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT
Worm-eating Warbler
Tennessee Warbler
Mourning Warbler
Hooded Warbler
Cape May Warbler
Blackburnian Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
SUMMER TANAGER
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, August 21,
2026 at 11:00 pm.  The highlights of today’s tape are EARED GREBE,
LONG-TAILED JAEGER, RED-NECKED PHALAROPE and other pelagics, UPLAND,
BUFF-BREASTED and BAIRD’S SANDPIPERS, MARBLED GODWIT, WILSON’S
PHALAROPE, SEDGE WREN, LARK SPARROW, YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT, SUMMER
TANAGER, DICKCISSEL and more.

The EARED GREBE continues on the West Pond at Jamaica Bay Wildlife
Refuge, but recent rains have hampered any progress that had been made
to get the water level on the East Pond down to an appropriate level
for shorebirds and birders alike. The shorebird festival last Saturday
did find WILSON’S PHALAROPE and STILT, PECTORAL, WESTERN and WHITE
RUMPED SANDPIPERS among the many more regular species there, but even
then the pond was not traversable.

Shorebird highlights in the region have included a RED-NECKED
PHALAROPE on Westchester’s Kensico Reservoir last Saturday and another
joining 2 WILSON’S PHALAROPES Monday in ponds at Jones Beach West End
located in the dunes between Fields 1 and 2.  Another WILSON’S was at
Sagg Pond Monday.

A private parcel in Manhasset, with no access allowed, did host an
UPLAND SANDPIPER as well as a SEDGE WREN last Tuesday, and a
BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER dropped by Field 5 at Robert Moses State Park
last Monday.  At least 2 BAIRD’S SANDPIPERS have been visiting lowered
Jerome Reservoir in the Bronx since Monday, with another reported from
Plumb Beach on Wednesday.

Up to 3 MARBLED GODWITS have been noted this week off Field 10 at
Jones Beach State Park, with singles at Piermont Pier Thursday and
Plumb Beach today, but the peak was the 8 at Old Inlet in Bellport Bay
last Sunday.  Three HUDSONIAN WHIMBRELS were out in Jamaica Bay last
Saturday, while also out at Old Inlet Sunday, besides loads of
shorebirds, were 1 CASPIAN, 4 ROSEATE, 15 ROYAL and 2 BLACK TERNS and
17 LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS.

Boat trips around Montauk, especially CRESLI whale excursions, are
still also finding pelagic birds – last Friday and Sunday single
LONG-TAILED JAEGERS were reported, and Saturday and Sunday produced 1
or 2 RED-NECKED PHALAROPES, while also continuing were numbers of
WILSON’S STORM-PETRELS and GREAT and CORY’S SHEARWATERS plus a few
SCOPOLI’S, SOOTY and MANX as well, and a PARASITIC JAEGER or two.

COMMON NIGHTHAWKS are now coming through during suitable evenings, and
FLYCATCHERS migrating have included OLIVE-SIDED and various Empidonax
species.

An immature LARK SPARROW has been around the entrance parking lot to
Cliffdale Farm off Teatown Road in Westchester since Wednesday, and
single YELLOW-BREASTED CHATS were noted at Hither Hills State Park
Wednesday and in Prospect Park Thursday and today.

An increase in migrating WARBLERS this week included reports of
WORM-EATING, TENNESSEE, MOURNING, HOODED, CAPE MAY, BLACKBURNIAN,
BLACKPOLL, BLACK-THROATED BLUE and YELLOW RUMPED.

A female SUMMER TANAGER was reported today in McGolrick Park in
Greenpoint, Brooklyn, and a few calling DICKCISSELS moving overhead in
the morning were noted this week in central Westchester and at Jerome
Reservoir and Coney Island Creek.

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, 08/07/2026

– RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Aug. 7, 2026
* NYNY2608.07

– Birds mentioned
AUDUBON’S SHEARWATER+ (recent name change: SARGASSO SHEARWATER)
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

Whimbrel
Long-billed Dowitcher
WILSON’S PHALAROPE
RED-NECKED PHALAROPE
Stilt Sandpiper
White-rumped Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Parasitic Jaeger
GLAUCOUS GULL
Gull-billed Tern
Caspian Tern
Wilson’s Storm-Petrel
Cory’s Shearwater
Scopoli’s Shearwater
Great Shearwater
Sooty Shearwater
Manx Shearwater
BROWN PELICAN
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Black-and-white Warbler
Cerulean Warbler
Magnolia Warbler
Bay-breasted Warbler
Prairie Warbler
Canada 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, August 7th 2026 at 11pm. The highlights of today’s tape are BROWN PELICAN, apparent onshore SARGASSO SHEARWATER, and other pelagics, RED-NECKED and WILSON’S PHALAROPES, and other shorebirds, GLAUCOUS GULL, BLUE GROSBEAK, and more.

Continued sightings of BROWN PELICANS this week were mostly confined to coastal waters along the western end of New York’s barrier beaches beginning last weekend with 2 off Breezy Point, both days, and Sunday sightings of one at Plumb Beach, and 2 off Jones Beach, and on Thursday 2 were seen in the bay south of Freeport with one also off Oak Beach today.

A shearwater, photographed close offshore at Jacob Riis Park last Sunday, appears to be an unexpected coastal record of AUDUBON’S SHEARWATER as it appears in your field guides but now conflicted by a recent name change to SARGASSO SHEARWATER. More analysis of this interesting record will follow.

Meanwhile the CRESLI whale trips out of Montauk Harbor continue to produce a nice variety of pelagic birds. Birders on boats on Wednesday and today were treated to up to 7 RED-NECKED PHALAROPES, a PARASITIC JAEGER Friday, a few WILSON’S STORM-PETRELS, and a variety of shearwaters including some GREAT and CORY’S with SCOPOLI’S also reported, and fewer SOOTY and MANX plus some whales and dolphins. A few WILSON’S STORM-PETRELS have also been noted this week off Breezy Point and Riis Park as well as in Lower New York Bay.

With both adult and juvenile shorebirds now moving south, unfortunately the shorebirding opportunities at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge are not at all ideal on the East Pond with high water conditions persisting. Species such as LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER, and PECTORAL, WHITE-RUMPED, and STILT SANDPIPERS are occurring but water levels need to be lower. HUDSONIAN WHIMBRELS appeared this week on Staten Island with one at Great Kills Park Sunday and 2 at Miller Field on Monday, and 3 also visited Plumb Beach Sunday. A WILSON’S PHALAROPE visited the dune pools between fields 1 & 2 at Jones Beach West End today.

The Brooklyn lingering immature GLAUCOUS GULL seen today at the Coney Island Beach and Boardwalk between 19th and 21st Streets. A couple of GULL-BILLED TERNS were at Plumb Beach Thursday following a CASPIAN TERN there the day before and a few CASPIANS have also been occurring recently along the Hudson River.

Among the recent landbird migrants an OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER was spotted Wednesday at the Hilltop Hanover Farm in Yorktown in central Westchester and a few scattered warbler migrants featured CERULEAN in both Prospect and Central Parks plus BLACK-AND-WHITE, MAGNOLIA, BAY-BREASTED at Green-wood Cemetery, PRAIRIE and CANADA.

BLUE GROSBEAKS continue at several sites around Calverton including the Preston’s Pond Complex.

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, 7/31/2026

– RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Jul. 31, 2026
* NYNY2607.31

– Birds mentioned
RUFF+
LONG-TAILED JAEGER+
BRIDLED TERN+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

[Removed Ross’s Gull, mistakenly typed ROSS for RUFF with an automatic text
expansion filling in ROSS’S GULL.]

Whimbrel
Long-billed Dowitcher
Wilson’s Phalarope
Stilt Sandpiper
White-rumped Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Parasitic Jaeger
Pomarine Jaeger
LITTLE GULL
GLAUCOUS GULL
Caspian Tern
Black Tern
ARCTIC TERN
Wilson’s Storm-Petrel
Cory’s Shearwater
Scopoli’s Shearwater
Great Shearwater
Sooty Shearwater
Manx Shearwater
BROWN PELICAN
WHITE-FACED IBIS
Tennessee Warbler
CERULEAN WARBLER
Prairie Warbler
Canada 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 31st 2026*
at 11pm. The highlights of today’s tape are BRIDLED TERN, LONG-TAILED
JAEGER, and other pelagics, RUFF, LITTLE GULL, ARCTIC TERN, BROWN PELICAN,
WHITE-FACED IBIS, GLAUCOUS GULL, CERULEAN WARBLER, BLUE GROSBEAK, and more.

An adult BRIDLED TERN made another brief appearance on eastern Long Island
photographed last Monday as it quickly flew out of Mecox Inlet. This
completed a trio of rewarding days at Mecox with an immature LITTLE GULL
visiting there on Saturday and Sunday producing single subadult ARCTIC and
molting adult BLACK TERNS. A private boat visiting the New York and Rhode
Island waters between Block Island Sound and off Montauk east to Block
Island last Monday encountered a continuing bonanza of seabirds including
single LONG-TAILED, PARASITIC and POMARINE JAEGERS all nicely photographed
as well as some WILSON’S STORM-PETRELS, over 1,900 GREAT SHEARWATERS, over
200 CORY’S, and a few SCOPOLI’S SHEARWATERS and over 100 of both SOOTY and
MANX SHEARWATERS. The latter in quite impressive numbers.

A RUFF, almost fully molted into non-breeding plumage, was photographed
again Monday on the East Pond at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. This pond is
unfortunately no where near in ideal condition for the Fall shorebird
migration already underway but southbound birds are visiting and utilizing
what shoreline is suitable. So, if visiting the East Pond please be careful
and do not push feeding shorebirds from the limited habitat available.

A WHITE-FACED IBIS was reported at the north end on Monday and other
shorebirds at the bay this week included WILSON’S PHALAROPE, LONG-BILLED
DOWITCHER, HUDSONIAN WHIMBREL and STILT, WHITE-RUMPED and PECTORAL
SANDPIPERS.

Various BROWN PELICANS along Long Island’s Atlantic shore included one off
Jones Beach last Saturday, two at Plumb Beach Monday, six off Fort Tilden
Wednesday and up to four off Riis Park from Wednesday on and four at Gilgo
Thursday.

An immature GLAUCOUS GULL continues in the Breezy Point to Coney Island
area and CASPIAN TERNS were noted at Jamaica Bay Saturday, Calvert Vaux
Park Wednesday and Plumb Beach Wednesday and Thursday.

A few migrant warblers reported recently featured TENNESSEE, a couple of
CERULEANS in Central Park, PRAIRIE and CANADA and BLUE GROSBEAKS remain in
decent numbers at the Preston’s Pond Complex and elsewhere 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.

– End transcript

NYC Area Rare Bird Alert, 7/24/2026

-RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* July 24, 2026
* NYNY2607.24

– Birds Mentioned:

RUFF+
FRANKLIN’S GULL+

(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING-DUCK
Sora
Hudsonian Whimbrel
Parasitic Jaeger
Laughing Gull
Glaucous Gull
Wilson’s Storm-Petrel
Cory’s Shearwater
Scopoli’s Shearwater
Great Shearwater
Sooty Shearwater
Manx Shearwater
BROWN PELICAN
SEDGE WREN
SUMMER TANAGER
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, July 24,
2026 at 11:00 pm.
The highlights of this late vacation-shortened tape are FRANKLIN’S
GULL, BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING-DUCK, RUFF, BROWN PELICAN, continuing
seabirds off Montauk Point, SEDGE WREN, BLUE GROSBEAK, SUMMER TANAGER,
DICKCISSEL and more.

On Thursday afternoon an adult FRANKLIN’S GULL was spotted feeding
with LAUGHING GULLS off Crooke’s Point at Great Kills Park on Staten
Island, staying there long enough to be nicely photographed.

The two BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING-DUCKS visiting the College Point
Wetlands in Queens since July 14th were last noted at that site last
Saturday.

A RUFF, conceivably the same individual previously out at Jones Beach,
was photographed on the East Pond at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge last
Tuesday, the bird at the south end of the East Pond, where other
migrant shorebirds and a SORA have also been seen recently.

Several sightings of BROWN PELICANS this week peaked with 14 counted
off Oak Beach inside Fire Island Inlet last Wednesday, 1 also there
Thursday; others included a couple off Breezy Point Thursday, 1
Friday, and 2 off Watch Hill on Fire Island last Saturday.

Good numbers of pelagic seabirds continue off Eastern Long Island,
including a large flight reported from Montauk Point last Saturday
that featured high numbers of CORY’S and some accompanying SCOPOLI’S
SHEARWATERS, numerous GREAT and some SOOTY SHEARWATERS and also a few
MANX SHEARWATERS.  WILSON’S STORM-PETREL and PARASITIC JAEGER were
also noted.  Half-day
whale-watching trips sponsored by CRESLI from Montauk harbor are a
good way to enjoy these birds and some exciting whales.

Various migrating shorebirds lately have included 4 HUDSONIAN WHIMBREL
at Breezy Point Sunday and 2 out in Jamaica Bay Thursday as well as
other expected species.

An immature GLAUCOUS GULL continues in the Breezy Point to Coney Island area.

A SEDGE WREN Wednesday in Freshkills Park on Staten Island was heard
from the Bird Tower in the North Pond section.

SUMMER TANAGERS and BLUE GROSBEAKS continue in the Prestons Pond
Complex out in the Calverton area, and a DICKCISSEL was photographed
Friday at the Arden Avenue Beach on Staten Island.

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, 7/17/2026

-RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* July 17, 2026
* NYNY2607.17

– Birds Mentioned:

RUFF+
CURLEW SANDPIPER+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING-DUCK
Stilt Sandpiper
Baird’s Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
Parasitic Jaeger
LITTLE GULL
Glaucous Gull
ARCTIC TERN
Wilson’s Storm-Petrel
Cory’s Shearwater
Scopoli’s Shearwater
Great Shearwater
Sooty Shearwater
Manx Shearwater
BROWN PELICAN
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, July 17,
2026 at 11:00 pm.

The highlights of today’s vacation-shortened tape are BLACK-BELLIED
WHISTLING-DUCK, RUFF, CURLEW SANDPIPER, LITTLE GULL, ARCTIC TERN,
BROWN PELICAN, BLUE GROSBEAK, SUMMER TANAGER and more.

But first, a very saddening note that earlier this week Guy Tudor
passed away suddenly but peacefully.  Guy was an exceptionally gifted
artist, portraying birds with amazing lifelike accuracy.  A great
friend, but always uniquely himself, Mr. Guy will never be duplicated
but will be deeply missed.

Two BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING-DUCKS appeared Tuesday at the College
Point Wetlands in Queens and have continued there through today, this
the site of the former Flushing Airport just west of route 678.

The molting RUFF and nicely plumaged CURLEW SANDPIPER, both showing up
last Friday at Jones Beach West End, continued into this week, though
the CURLEW was not seen today.  The RUFF moves between dune pools
located between West End Fields 1 and 2 and the flats off the Coast
Guard Station.  Interestingly, the CURLEW was seen at West End each
day except last Saturday, when one was reported farther east out at
Tiana Beach.

An immature LITTLE GULL was present Monday and Tuesday out on eastern
Long Island at Georgica Inlet, and up to four ARCTIC TERNS were
present Monday at Mecox, with singles spotted there Saturday and
Thursday, while the GLAUCOUS GULL was seen again Tuesday off the Coney
Island Pier.

Several sightings of BROWN PELICANS on Monday featured 2 at Breezy
Point, 5 off Jones Beach, and 4 off Fire Island, with 1 at Mecox Inlet
the previous Saturday.

The half -day CRESLI whale-watching boat trips out of Montauk were
again this week also good for pelagic birds, including WILSON’S
STORM-PETREL, CORY’S, GREAT, SOOTY, and MANX SHEARWATERS, with
SCOPOLI’S also reported, plus small numbers of PARASITIC JAEGERS.

Some shorebirds showing up recently have included a few WESTERN and
STILT SANDPIPERS plus a BAIRD’S SANDPIPER identified out at Mecox
yesterday.

Some BLUE GROSBEAKS and a SUMMER TANAGER continue at the Prestons Pond
Complex, the GROSBEAKS also at other sites 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, 7/10/2026

– RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Jul. 10, 2026
* NYNY2607.10

– Birds mentioned
RUFF+
CURLEW SANDPIPER+
SABINE’S GULL+
SOUTH POLAR SKUA+
WHITE IBIS+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

Whimbrel
Short-billed Dowitcher
Stilt Sandpiper
White-rumped Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Parasitic Jaeger
Glaucous Gull
BRIDLED TERN
Gull-billed Tern
Black Tern
ARCTIC TERN
Roseate Tern
Wilson’s Storm-Petrel
Cory’s Shearwater
Scopoli’s Shearwater
Great Shearwater
Sooty Shearwater
Manx Shearwater
BROWN PELICAN
WHITE-FACED IBIS
BLUE GROSBEAK

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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, July 10th 2026 at 11pm. The highlights of today’s tape are BRIDLED TERN, RUFF and CURLEW SANDPIPER, SABINE’S GULL, SOUTH POLAR SKUA and other pelagics, BROWN PELICAN, WHITE IBIS and WHITE-FACED IBIS, ARCTIC TERN, BLUE GROSBEAK and more.

A notably good week for unexpected birds began last Saturday when a dog-walker out on the beach by Mecox Inlet spotted an unusual bird that turned out to be an adult BRIDLED TERN which fortunately stayed around the inlet long enough to be enjoyed and photographed by a few lucky birders.

Two exceptional shorebirds appeared together today out at Jones Beach State Park West End, found in one of the dune pools a little west of field 1. First a RUFF in somewhat faded adult plumage was spotted followed soon after by an adult CURLEW SANDPIPER in vibrant plumage, both continuing for a while at least.

Other shorebirds reported on the move this week featured SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER and STILT, PECTORAL and WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPERS plus 2 HUDSONIAN WHIMBRELS along Dune Road Thursday.

A good opportunity recently to see a variety of pelagic birds has been to take a CRESLI whale watching boat trip out of Montauk Harbor. These half-day trips focus on cetaceans and their feeding activities do attract numbers of birds. Wednesday afternoon’s trip produced a well photographed adult SABINE’S GULL and both Sunday and Wednesday had multiple encounters with SOUTH POLAR SKUAS. Each of these trips also provided good numbers of WILSON’S STORM-PETRELS, and CORY’S, GREAT and SOOTY SHEARWATERS, small numbers of MANX SHEARWATERS and a few good candidates for SCOPOLI’S SHEARWATERS among the CORY’S group. Also reported Wednesday were a couple of PARASITIC JAEGERS and an ARCTIC TERN.

A BROWN PELICAN was spotted crossing Robert Moses State Park towards the ocean Wednesday evening, another moving west off Jones Beach field 6 this evening.

An adult WHITE IBIS was seen flying into the marsh south of the West Pond at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge last Sunday and the WHITE-FACED IBIS was still visiting the south end of the East Pond last Sunday.

A GLAUCOUS GULL was seen again at Breezy Point last Sunday. Single ARCTIC TERNS were reported during the week from Cupsogue Beach County Park, Mecox and Georgica Inlet with one also visiting Great Gull Island last Sunday. GULL-BILLED TERNS continue at Jamaica Bay and one was noted at Plumb Beach last Saturday and a BLACK TERN and some ROSEATES continue to be seen along the coast.

BLUE GROSBEAKS remain around the Preston’s Pond Complex and other Calverton sites.

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, 7/3/2026

– RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Jul. 3, 2026
* NYNY2607.03

– Birds mentioned
WOOD STORK+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

Short-billed Dowitcher
Lesser Yellowlegs
Red Knot
Stilt Sandpiper
Dunlin
Least Sandpiper
Semipalmated Sandpiper
GLAUCOUS GULL
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Black Tern
ARCTIC TERN
Roseate Tern
SANDWICH TERN
Royal Tern
Wilson’s Storm-Petrel
Cory’s Shearwater
Scopoli’s Shearwater
Great Shearwater
Sooty Shearwater
BROWN PELICAN
WHITE-FACED IBIS
ACADIAN FLYCATCHER
BLUE GROSBEAK

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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, July 3rd 2026 at 11pm. The highlights of today’s tape are WOOD STORK, SANDWICH and ARCTIC TERNS, WHITE-FACED IBIS, BROWN PELICAN, GLAUCOUS GULL, offshore pelagics, ACADIAN FLYCATCHER, BLUE GROSBEAK and more.

Quite surprising were 2 WOOD STORKS seen flying east together over Breezy Point late Tuesday morning, these followed 5 minutes later by a third headed in the same direction. There have been no subsequent reports of these birds. Also notable at Breezy Point were up to 6 BROWN PELICANS seen midday Saturday off the point and visiting the nearby sandbar these followed Sunday by 10 or more WILSON’S STORM-PETRELS moving offshore.

Two SANDWICH TERNS were spotted among the birds gathered today around Mecox Inlet. This congregation also featuring 2 ARCTIC TERNS as well as 18 ROSEATE and 12 ROYAL TERNS plus 26 LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS. Other ARCTIC TERNS during the week included 2 at Democrat Point at Fire Island last Sunday and 1 on Tuesday, 1 at Old Inlet in Bellport Bay on Monday and 1 at Cupsogue Beach County Park today while a BLACK TERN also visited Old Inlet Monday.

Lingering WHITE-FACED IBIS were seen again Monday and Tuesday mornings around the south end of the East Pond at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge and the also lingering immature GLAUCOUS GULL was noted over last weekend and on Tuesday at the Coney Island Beach & Boardwalk.

Among the small number of southbound shorebirds seen recently have been a STILT SANDPIPER at Jamaica Bay Wednesday, and a few SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHERS, LEAST and SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPERS, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, DUNLIN and RED KNOT.

Offshore pelagic birds moving along our Atlantic coast under proper conditions, especially off locations like Montauk Point, have recently included decent numbers of SOOTY, GREAT, and CORY’S SHEARWATERS with SCOPOLI’S also possible but requiring careful identification and other species also possible.

An ACADIAN FLYCATCHER was still in the middle of Prospect Park on Saturday and BLUE GROSBEAKS remain out in the Calverton area around the Preston’s Pond Complex and the old Grumman airport.

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, 6/26/2026

-RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* June 26, 2026
* NYNY2606.26

– Birds Mentioned:

WILSON’S PHALAROPE
RED-NECKED PHALAROPE
Parasitic Jaeger
Gull-billed Tern
Caspian Tern
Black Tern
ARCTIC TERN
Roseate Tern
Royal Tern
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Glaucous Gull
Wilson’s Storm-Petrel
Cory’s Shearwater
Scopoli’s Shearwater
Sooty Shearwater
Great Shearwater
MANX SHEARWATER
Glossy Ibis
WHITE-FACED IBIS
BROWN PELICAN
WESTERN CATTLE EGRET
Acadian Flycatcher
YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT
SUMMER TANAGER
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, June 26,
2026 at 11:00 pm. The highlights of today’s tape are WHITE-FACED IBIS,
BROWN PELICAN, ARCTIC TERN, various seabirds including MANX
SHEARWATER, RED-NECKED and WILSON’S PHALAROPES, WESTERN CATTLE EGRET,
YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT, SUMMER TANAGER, BLUE GROSBEAK, DICKCISSEL and
more.

The adult WHITE-FACED IBIS continues its visits to the East Pond at
Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, usually seen with GLOSSY IBIS at the
south end of the East Pond, where a WILSON’S PHALAROPE was also still
present last Saturday.

One or two BROWN PELICANS were spotted in Brooklyn from Tuesday on off
the Coney Island Pier as well as around Breezy Point through today,
but more unusual from the Pier were a MANX SHEARWATER seen cruising
offshore from Tuesday through Thursday and a WILSON’S STORM-PETREL
also frequenting that area from Tuesday and still there today.  Other
BROWN PELICANS included 2 visiting Moriches Bay around Cupsogue Beach
County Park Saturday to Monday and also 2 off Robert Moses State Park
on Monday.

An exciting sea watch from Robert Moses State Park Field 2 for much of
the morning today produced a flock of 10 RED-NECKED PHALAROPES flying
by in a westerly direction, a PARASITIC JAEGER, a dozen WILSON’S
STORM-PETRELS, and among the SHEARWATERS, 57 SOOTY and 6 GREAT as well
as a couple of SCOPOLI’S identified among the 90 CORY’S/SCOPOLI’S
individuals counted, the majority of this recently split complex
certainly mostly CORY’S but providing quite an identification
challenge until definitive useable separating field marks can be
developed and reliably applied under field conditions.  Also noted at
Moses were 1 or 2 ARCTIC TERNS during the week, often seen out at
Democrat Point, as well as a couple of BLACK, ROSEATE, and ROYAL
TERNS, a CASPIAN TERN Sunday and a few LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS.

Some GULL-BILLED TERNS have been frequenting Jamaica Bay Wildlife
Refuge recently, with another at Cupsogue Beach County Park Tuesday,
and a lingering GLAUCOUS GULL was at Breezy Point at least to Monday.
A WESTERN CATTLE EGRET flew by Idlewild Park east of the JFK Airport
on Monday.

Continuing are an ACADIAN FLYCATCHER in Prospect Park and a
YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT on Staten Island near the Graham Boulevard Bridge
at the New Creek Watershed.  On Long Island both SUMMER TANAGER and
BLUE GROSBEAK can still be found around the Prestons Pond Complex in
Calverton, and a DICKCISSEL was reported on Governors Island last
Saturday.

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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