NYC Area Rare Bird Alert, 6/13/2025

– RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Jun. 13, 2025
* NYNY2506.13

– Birds mentioned
FRANKLIN’S GULL+
WHITE IBIS+
SWALLOW-TAILED KITE+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

White-winged Scoter
Red-necked Grebe
BLACK-NECKED STILT
Black-bellied Plover
Semipalmated Plover
Whimbrel
Ruddy Turnstone
LITTLE GULL
Iceland Gull
Caspian Tern
Black Tern
Forster’s Tern
ARCTIC TERN
Royal Tern
AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN
BROWN PELICAN
Glossy Ibis
WHITE-FACED IBIS
MISSISSIPPI KITE
Acadian Flycatcher
Alder Flycatcher
Mourning Warbler
Hooded Warbler
Black-throated Blue 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 13th 2025 at 11pm. The highlights of today’s tape are SWALLOW-TAILED and MISSISSIPPI KITES, AMERICAN WHITE and BROWN PELICANS, FRANKLIN’S and LITTLE GULLS, WHITE and WHITE-FACED IBIS, ARCTIC TERN, BLACK-NECKED STILT, SUMMER TANAGER, BLUE GROSBEAK and more.

A decent week for rarities with for instance two species of kites reported while neither stayed for long. A SWALLOW-TAILED KITE was seen briefly a few times over Rockefeller State Park Preserve in Westchester Tuesday afternoon before moving on and a MISSISSIPPI KITE was reported Wednesday afternoon near Great Kills Park on Staten Island.

The AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN visiting Mecox Bay since Wednesday the 4th was still present this morning but may have decided to later change locations while perhaps the same adult BROWN PELICAN as noted back on the 5th off Breezy Point was photographed Wednesday afternoon off Nickerson Beach.

An adult FRANKLIN’S GULL was photographed loafing with Laughing Gulls on the bar off the Coast Guard Station at Jones Beach West End Thursday morning while an immature LITTLE GULL first spotted June 5th on the West Pond at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge was still being seen there through today though it has ventured occasionally as far north as the Cross Bay Boulevard Bridge to Howard Beach.

A WHITE-FACED IBIS has also been present with Glossy Ibis feeding on the West Pond since Monday though the BLACK-NECKED STILT also frequenting the refuge’s West Pond since June 5th was last noted there on Wednesday. Three immature WHITE IBIS were reported moving over central Staten Island last Monday but not noted since.

A WHIMBREL was out at Jamaica Bay Monday.

An ICELAND GULL was noted at field 7 at Heckscher State Park from Monday through Thursday and various terns included an ARCTIC TERN at Nickerson Beach Sunday, one or two adults at Pike’s Beach and Cupsogue Beach County Park early in the week and an immature on Democrat Point at Robert Moses State Park Thursday along with one or more CASPIAN and BLACK TERNS along the coast and a few ROYALS arriving.

YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER continues at the Bayard Cutting Arboretum in Great River while both SUMMER TANAGER and BLUE GROSBEAK are still present around the Preston’s Pond Complex in Calverton.

The 50th Annual Greenwich-Stamford Summer Bird Count including much of eastern Westchester last weekend recorded 135 species, rarities including RED-NECKED GREBE, GLOSSY IBIS, WHITE-WINGED SCOTER, BLACK-BELLIED and SEMIPALMATED PLOVERS, RUDDY TURNSTONE, FORSTER’S TERN, ACADIAN and ALDER FLYCATCHERS and BLACK-THROATED BLUE, MOURNING, and HOODED WARBLERS.

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, 6/6/2025

-RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* June 6, 2025
* NYNY2506.06

– Birds Mentioned

LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Black-billed Cuckoo
BLACK-NECKED STILT
AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER
Parasitic Jaeger
LITTLE GULL
Gull-billed Tern
Caspian Tern
Royal Tern
AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN
BROWN PELICAN
WESTERN CATTLE EGRET
Acadian Flycatcher
Alder Flycatcher
Bank Swallow
Mourning 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 6,
2025 at 11:00 pm.

The highlights of today’s tape are LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE, AMERICAN WHITE
and BROWN PELICANS, BLACK-NECKED STILT, LITTLE GULL, AMERICAN
GOLDEN-PLOVER, WESTERN CATTLE EGRET, SUMMER TANAGER, BLUE GROSBEAK and
more.

A LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE paid a surprise visit to Heckscher State Park last
Monday, but unfortunately had disappeared by Tuesday morning.

An AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN spotted on Mecox Bay Wednesday was still
present today at the east end of the bay, and a CASPIAN TERN has also
been visiting Mecox through today.

An adult BROWN PELICAN was photographed Thursday afternoon from the
American Princess boat, sitting in the water just southeast of the
Breezy Point jetty.

A BLACK-NECKED STILT spotted on the West Pond at Jamaica Bay Wildlife
Refuge on Wednesday was still present today, and also visiting the
West Pond for the last two days has been an immature LITTLE GULL

A recent substantial push of shorebirds through our region included an
AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER spotted Monday at Heckscher State Park opposite
Field 8.

A WESTERN CATTLE EGRET appeared at Point Lookout last Saturday.

A couple of GULL-BILLED TERNS have been seen at Jamaica Bay Wildlife
Refuge the last few days, with one or two others and a few ROYAL TERNS
also present recently at Nickerson Beach, where a PARASITIC JAEGER was
seen offshore on Thursday.

Both SUMMER TANAGERS and BLUE GROSBEAKS have been noted recently
around the Prestons Pond Complex in Calverton, but please remember not
to disturb, especially, localized breeding birds such as these.

Small numbers of spring migrants continue to trickle through, but not
for long, these including both YELLOW-BILLED and BLACK-BILLED CUCKOOS.
ACADIAN and ALDER FLYCATCHERS, BANK SWALLOWS and various WARBLERS
including MOURNING.

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, 5/30/2025

-RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* May 30, 2025
* NYNY2505.30

– Birds Mentioned
BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING-DUCK+
FORK-TAILED FLYCATCHER+
+ Details requested by NYSARC)

KING EIDER
Common Eider
Whimbrel
RED PHALAROPE
RED-NECKED PHALAROPE
Caspian Tern
ARCTIC TERN
Royal Tern
Sooty Shearwater
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
Acadian Flycatcher
Gray-cheeked Thrush
Bicknell’s Thrush
Yellow-breasted Chat
Mourning 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 30,
2025 at 11:00 pm.

The highlights of today’s tape are FORK-TAILED FLYCATCHER,
BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING-DUCK, ARCTIC TERN, RED and RED-NECKED
PHALAROPES, KING EIDER, SUMMER TANAGER, BLUE GROSBEAK and more.

Very fortunately, the FORK-TAILED FLYCATCHER found on Randalls Island
on Wednesday, May 21st, continued feeding along the overgrown former
golf driving range through the weekend, providing many with the
opportunity to enjoy it before it finally moved on late Sunday.

Also surprising were two BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING-DUCKS found last
Saturday on a small stretch of stream at Columbus Park in Mamaroneck,
Westchester County, these ducks lounging for the day just behind the
Metro-North train station but disappearing overnight.

A few pelagic northbound rarities spotted during the week featured a
first summer ARCTIC TERN present briefly Wednesday at Nickerson Beach,
this in recent years a decent location to look for this species among
the breeding TERNS there, and also a couple of PHALAROPES, firstly a
non-breeding plumaged RED PHALAROPE seen around Mecox Inlet from
Saturday through Monday, followed by a breeding plumaged female
RED-NECKED PHALAROPE present along Dune Road west of Shinnecock Inlet
from Tuesday through today, last noted in a small wet area near light
pole number 438 near 28 Dune Road.

Today three WHIMBRELS were out at Yellow Bar Hassock in Jamaica Bay
and another visited Brooklyn’s Plumb Beach.  A CASPIAN TERN flew up
the Hudson River past Croton Point Park Tuesday, and a few arriving
ROYAL TERNS have been seen along the coast recently.

A female KING EIDER was still off Great Gull Island Wednesday along
with some COMMON EIDER.

As landbird migration, enduring despite the unfavorable weather
conditions we’ve encountered recently, draws towards its conclusion,
still moving through are a variety of WARBLERS, including MOURNING, as
well as OLIVE-SIDED and some Empidonax FLYCATCHERS, featuring
YELLOW-BELLIED and ACADIAN, plus both BICKNELL’S and GRAY-CHEEKED
THRUSHES, and a few unpredictable regional breeders like
YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT, with two, for instance, present recently on
Staten Island.

SUMMER TANAGERS, still quite rare as regional nesters, now are present
at various eastern Long Island sites, while one was still at
Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn Tuesday. BLUE GROSBEAKS in recent
years have been nesting fairly successfully in the Calveron area of
eastern Long Island, and migrants were also noted this week in
Prospect Park and Green-Wood Cemetery.

With SOOTY SHEARWATER noted off Long Island recently, now is a good
time to begin ocean watching for pelagics along the south shore; the
productivity of sites generally improves the farther east you go, and,
with weather a variable to take into account, productive watches are
often possible from Robert Moses State Park and other coastal sites
out to Montauk Point.  Good luck!

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, 5/23/2025

– RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* May. 23, 2025
* NYNY2505.23

– Birds mentioned
SWALLOW-TAILED KITE+
FORK-TAILED FLYCATCHER+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

KING EIDER
CHUCK-WILL’S-WIDOW
SANDHILL CRANE
BLACK-NECKED STILT
WHIMBREL
RED-NECKED PHALAROPE
Iceland Gull
Caspian Tern
MISSISSIPPI KITE
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT
KENTUCKY WARBLER
YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER
SUMMER TANAGER
WESTERN 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 23rd 2025*
at 11pm. The highlights of today’s tape are FORK-TAILED FLYCATCHER,
SWALLOW-TAILED and MISSISSIPPI KITES, SANDHILL CRANE, BLACK-NECKED STILT,
RED-NECKED PHALAROPE and WHIMBREL, KING EIDER, CHUCK-WILL’S-WIDOW, WESTERN
and SUMMER TANAGERS, YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT, YELLOW-THROATED and KENTUCKY
WARBLERS, BLUE GROSBEAK and more.

Another great bird found on Randall’s Island involves a FORK-TAILED
FLYCATCHER spotted Wednesday at a former golf driving range on the
northwest corner of the island. The FORK-TAILED along with several Eastern
Kingbirds have been foraging around this overgrown field through today,
perhaps lingering due to the recent unpleasant weather. To reach the site
park in Lot E and walk under the overhead parkway to a wide macadam path
which certainly comes to the old driving range on the right side of the
path. Walk into the field through a big opening in the fence marked by a
large boulder. Please stay along the path already created into the field so
as to not further damage the vegetation. The FORK-TAILED might disappear
for a short while so be patient.

Two species of KITE this week involve a SWALLOW-TAILED KITE photographed
last Saturday as it soared briefly over Mattituck on eastern Long Island
and what was possibly just a single MISSISSIPPI KITE seen Monday over
Green-wood Cemetery and then Prospect Park before travelling over Jerome
Reservoir and Wave Hill in the Bronx then returning to Prospect Park on
Tuesday.

A SANDHILL CRANE was spotted Sunday flying over Conference House Park on
southern Staten Island.

Two nice shorebirds reported today out on the Mecox flats included a
BLACK-NECKED STILT followed by a RED-NECKED PHALAROPE. A WHIMBREL seen at
Marshlands Conservancy in Rye on Tuesday was followed by a surprising flock
of 32 WHIMBREL grounded by the weather along the north shore of Piermont
Pier in Rockland County, a rising tide finally forcing them to reluctantly
continue their northward journey.

A female KING EIDER was photographed out on Great Gull Island last Tuesday
the same day a CHUCK-WILL’S-WIDOW was nicely photographed as it sat on a
house’s front railing along a street in Brooklyn.

A young ICELAND GULL was sitting at Manhattan Beach Park in Brooklyn last
Saturday and a CASPIAN TERN visited Cupsogue Beach County Park this morning.

Out on Fire Island a male WESTERN TANAGER was seen briefly Sunday at Watch
Hill while several reports of SUMMER TANAGER featured one in Central Park
Monday and one at St. John’s Cemetery in Queens Saturday but with most out
on eastern Long Island including at Caumsett State Park Monday and others
noted in Brookhaven and Manorville Hills County Park as well as at
Connetquot River State Park and the Preston’s Pond complex in Calverton.

YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT was spotted at Floyd Bennett Field Saturday with
another recently in the New Creek Watershed on Staten Island. A
YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER was found Tuesday at Shore Road Park in Brooklyn
and they continue at the Bayard Cutting Arboretum in Great River while a
KENTUCKY WARBLER appeared in Central Park last Saturday. A BLUE GROSBEAK
visited a restricted Yonkers reservoir today and another was at Brooklyn’s
Calvert Vaux Park to Tuesday with one also visiting Green-wood Cemetery
last Sunday but most are on territory out on eastern Long Island.

A late recent arrival has been a YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER.

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, 5/16/2025

– RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* May. 16, 2025
* NYNY2505.16

– Birds mentioned
WHITE-WINGED DOVE+
FRANKLIN’S GULL+
ANHINGA+
BICKNELL’S THRUSH+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

Brant (black form)
King Eider
Red-necked Grebe
Chuck-will’s-widow
SANDHILL CRANE
AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER
Red Knot
Stilt Sandpiper
White-rumped Sandpiper
Dovekie
Common Murre
LITTLE GULL
BLACK-HEADED GULL
Iceland Gull
Caspian Tern
Wilson’s Storm-Petrel
White-faced Storm-Petrel
Great Shearwater
Sooty Shearwater
MISSISSIPPI KITE
Red-headed Woodpecker
Olive-sided Flycatcher
PROTHONOTARY 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 16th 2025*
at 11pm. The highlights of today’s tape are ANHINGA, SANDHILL CRANE,
MISSISSIPPI KITE, WHITE-WINGED DOVE, FRANKLIN’S, LITTLE and BLACK-HEADED
GULLS, AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER, PROTHONOTARY and YELLOW-THROATED WARBLERS,
SUMMER TANAGER, BLUE GROSBEAK, Spring migrants and more.

Last Sunday morning a soaring ANHINGA was spotted circling over Green-wood
Cemetery in Brooklyn and shortly after that was seen fairly low over a
school at 114th Street in northern Manhattan before appearing over Prospect
Park a half hour later and then moving on.

In showing that it does pay to keep looking up, a SANDHILL CRANE on Monday
was observed flying over Green-wood Cemetery and soon thereafter over St.
Josaphat’s Monastery in Nassau County while single MISSISSIPPI KITES were
noted last Saturday at Prospect Park and on Sunday over Green-wood Cemetery
and then just this afternoon over Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx.

On City Island Thursday morning a WHITE-WINGED DOVE was spotted visiting a
feeder at a private home appearing there sporadically through Friday
morning.

An adult FRANKLIN’S GULL appeared Thursday in the Hudson River just north
of Piermont Pier in Rockland County, this sighting following another adult
last Monday off Dockside Park in Putnam County. An immature LITTLE GULL was
seen again Monday on Staten Island, this time in Lemon Creek Park where a
BLACK-HEADED GULL was present both last Saturday and today.

Among the waterfowl a black form of BRANT was photographed Tuesday at Floyd
Bennett Field and a female KING EIDER was still around Gravesend Bay in
Brooklyn Tuesday. A RED-NECKED GREBE was off Plumb Beach today while a
CHUCK-WILL’S-WIDOW was photographed in Central Park Saturday as it roosted
in the Ramble.

Among the shorebirds an AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER was midday Thursday on the
bar off the Jones Beach West End Coast Guard Station, another unusual
species among the gathering coastal numbers have included one or two STILT
and WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPERS and RED KNOTS.

A young ICELAND GULL was still at Plumb Beach Thursday along with a CASPIAN
TERN, another of which visited Croton Point Park last Saturday. A boat last
Tuesday about 50 miles beyond the continental shelf encountered 6 DOVEKIES
and a COMMON MURRE along with one GREAT and 3 SOOTY SHEARWATERS plus a
single WHITE-FACED and 15 WILSON’S STORM-PETRELS.

RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS are still being seen last weekend at Green-wood
Cemetery and Hempstead Lake State Park.

A PROTHONOTARY WARBLER visited Canal Park in southern Manhattan Monday and
another was found today at Roosevelt Preserve State Park in Westchester
along Old Sleepy Hollow trail. YELLOW-THROATED WARBLERS continue at the
Bayard Cutting Arboretum in Great River and a KENTUCKY WARBLER was in
Prospect Park last Saturday.

A male SUMMER TANAGER was in Central Park’s north end to Thursday while
BLUE GROSBEAKS continue in the Calverton area with one also at Preston’s
Pond in Manorville Tuesday.

Recent arrivals have included OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER and BICKNELL’S THRUSH
with the latter reported in Prospect Park 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, 5/9/2025

– RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* May. 16, 2025
* NYNY2505.16

– Birds mentioned
WHITE-WINGED DOVE+
FRANKLIN’S GULL+
ANHINGA+
BICKNELL’S THRUSH+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

Brant (black form)
King Eider
Red-necked Grebe
Chuck-will’s-widow
SANDHILL CRANE
AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER
Red Knot
Stilt Sandpiper
White-rumped Sandpiper
Dovekie
Common Murre
LITTLE GULL
BLACK-HEADED GULL
Iceland Gull
Caspian Tern
Wilson’s Storm-Petrel
White-faced Storm-Petrel
Great Shearwater
Sooty Shearwater
MISSISSIPPI KITE
Red-headed Woodpecker
Olive-sided Flycatcher
PROTHONOTARY 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 16th 2025*
at 11pm. The highlights of today’s tape are ANHINGA, SANDHILL CRANE,
MISSISSIPPI KITE, WHITE-WINGED DOVE, FRANKLIN’S, LITTLE and BLACK-HEADED
GULLS, AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER, PROTHONOTARY and YELLOW-THROATED WARBLERS,
SUMMER TANAGER, BLUE GROSBEAK, Spring migrants and more.

Last Sunday morning a soaring ANHINGA was spotted circling over Green-wood
Cemetery in Brooklyn and shortly after that was seen fairly low over a
school at 114th Street in northern Manhattan before appearing over Prospect
Park a half hour later and then moving on.

In showing that it does pay to keep looking up, a SANDHILL CRANE on Monday
was observed flying over Green-wood Cemetery and soon thereafter over St.
Josaphat’s Monastery in Nassau County while single MISSISSIPPI KITES were
noted last Saturday at Prospect Park and on Sunday over Green-wood Cemetery
and then just this afternoon over Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx.

On City Island Thursday morning a WHITE-WINGED DOVE was spotted visiting a
feeder at a private home appearing there sporadically through Friday
morning.

An adult FRANKLIN’S GULL appeared Thursday in the Hudson River just north
of Piermont Pier in Rockland County, this sighting following another adult
last Monday off Dockside Park in Putnam County. An immature LITTLE GULL was
seen again Monday on Staten Island, this time in Lemon Creek Park where a
BLACK-HEADED GULL was present both last Saturday and today.

Among the waterfowl a black form of BRANT was photographed Tuesday at Floyd
Bennett Field and a female KING EIDER was still around Gravesend Bay in
Brooklyn Tuesday. A RED-NECKED GREBE was off Plumb Beach today while a
CHUCK-WILL’S-WIDOW was photographed in Central Park Saturday as it roosted
in the Ramble.

Among the shorebirds an AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER was midday Thursday on the
bar off the Jones Beach West End Coast Guard Station, another unusual
species among the gathering coastal numbers have included one or two STILT
and WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPERS and RED KNOTS.

A young ICELAND GULL was still at Plumb Beach Thursday along with a CASPIAN
TERN, another of which visited Croton Point Park last Saturday. A boat last
Tuesday about 50 miles beyond the continental shelf encountered 6 DOVEKIES
and a COMMON MURRE along with one GREAT and 3 SOOTY SHEARWATERS plus a
single WHITE-FACED and 15 WILSON’S STORM-PETRELS.

RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS are still being seen last weekend at Green-wood
Cemetery and Hempstead Lake State Park.

A PROTHONOTARY WARBLER visited Canal Park in southern Manhattan Monday and
another was found today at Roosevelt Preserve State Park in Westchester
along Old Sleepy Hollow trail. YELLOW-THROATED WARBLERS continue at the
Bayard Cutting Arboretum in Great River and a KENTUCKY WARBLER was in
Prospect Park last Saturday.

A male SUMMER TANAGER was in Central Park’s north end to Thursday while
BLUE GROSBEAKS continue in the Calverton area with one also at Preston’s
Pond in Manorville Tuesday.

Recent arrivals have included OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER and BICKNELL’S THRUSH
with the latter reported in Prospect Park 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, 5/16/2025

– RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* May. 16, 2025
* NYNY2505.16

– Birds mentioned
WHITE-WINGED DOVE+
FRANKLIN’S GULL+
ANHINGA+
BICKNELL’S THRUSH+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

Brant (black form)
King Eider
Red-necked Grebe
Chuck-will’s-widow
SANDHILL CRANE
AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER
Red Knot
Stilt Sandpiper
White-rumped Sandpiper
Dovekie
Common Murre
LITTLE GULL
BLACK-HEADED GULL
Iceland Gull
Caspian Tern
Wilson’s Storm-Petrel
White-faced Storm-Petrel
Great Shearwater
Sooty Shearwater
MISSISSIPPI KITE
Red-headed Woodpecker
Olive-sided Flycatcher
PROTHONOTARY 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 16th 2025*
at 11pm. The highlights of today’s tape are ANHINGA, SANDHILL CRANE,
MISSISSIPPI KITE, WHITE-WINGED DOVE, FRANKLIN’S, LITTLE and BLACK-HEADED
GULLS, AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER, PROTHONOTARY and YELLOW-THROATED WARBLERS,
SUMMER TANAGER, BLUE GROSBEAK, Spring migrants and more.

Last Sunday morning a soaring ANHINGA was spotted circling over Green-wood
Cemetery in Brooklyn and shortly after that was seen fairly low over a
school at 114th Street in northern Manhattan before appearing over Prospect
Park a half hour later and then moving on.

In showing that it does pay to keep looking up, a SANDHILL CRANE on Monday
was observed flying over Green-wood Cemetery and soon thereafter over St.
Josaphat’s Monastery in Nassau County while single MISSISSIPPI KITES were
noted last Saturday at Prospect Park and on Sunday over Green-wood Cemetery
and then just this afternoon over Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx.

On City Island Thursday morning a WHITE-WINGED DOVE was spotted visiting a
feeder at a private home appearing there sporadically through Friday
morning.

An adult FRANKLIN’S GULL appeared Thursday in the Hudson River just north
of Piermont Pier in Rockland County, this sighting following another adult
last Monday off Dockside Park in Putnam County. An immature LITTLE GULL was
seen again Monday on Staten Island, this time in Lemon Creek Park where a
BLACK-HEADED GULL was present both last Saturday and today.

Among the waterfowl a black form of BRANT was photographed Tuesday at Floyd
Bennett Field and a female KING EIDER was still around Gravesend Bay in
Brooklyn Tuesday. A RED-NECKED GREBE was off Plumb Beach today while a
CHUCK-WILL’S-WIDOW was photographed in Central Park Saturday as it roosted
in the Ramble.

Among the shorebirds an AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER was midday Thursday on the
bar off the Jones Beach West End Coast Guard Station, another unusual
species among the gathering coastal numbers have included one or two STILT
and WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPERS and RED KNOTS.

A young ICELAND GULL was still at Plumb Beach Thursday along with a CASPIAN
TERN, another of which visited Croton Point Park last Saturday. A boat last
Tuesday about 50 miles beyond the continental shelf encountered 6 DOVEKIES
and a COMMON MURRE along with one GREAT and 3 SOOTY SHEARWATERS plus a
single WHITE-FACED and 15 WILSON’S STORM-PETRELS.

RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS are still being seen last weekend at Green-wood
Cemetery and Hempstead Lake State Park.

A PROTHONOTARY WARBLER visited Canal Park in southern Manhattan Monday and
another was found today at Roosevelt Preserve State Park in Westchester
along Old Sleepy Hollow trail. YELLOW-THROATED WARBLERS continue at the
Bayard Cutting Arboretum in Great River and a KENTUCKY WARBLER was in
Prospect Park last Saturday.

A male SUMMER TANAGER was in Central Park’s north end to Thursday while
BLUE GROSBEAKS continue in the Calverton area with one also at Preston’s
Pond in Manorville Tuesday.

Recent arrivals have included OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER and BICKNELL’S THRUSH
with the latter reported in Prospect Park 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, 5/2/2025

-RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* May 2, 2025
* NYNY2505.02

– Birds Mentioned

SWALLOW-TAILED KITE+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

TUFTED DUCK
Black-billed Cuckoo
BLACK-NECKED STILT
LITTLE GULL
Bonaparte’s Gull
BLACK-HEADED GULL
Caspian Tern
Least Bittern
American Bittern
Red-headed Woodpecker
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Swainson’s Thrush
Lincoln’s Sparrow
YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT
Bobolink
PROTHONOTARY WARBLER
Tennessee Warbler
Orange-crowned Warbler
KENTUCKY WARBLER
Cerulean Warbler
Bay-breasted Warbler
Blackburnian Warbler
YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER
Canada Warbler
Wilson’s 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 2,
2025 at 11:00 pm.

The highlights of today’s tape are SWALLOW-TAILED KITE, BLACK-NECKED
STILT, TUFTED DUCK, LITTLE and BLACK-HEADED GULLS, YELLOW-BREASTED
CHAT, PROTHONOTARY, YELLOW-THROATED and KENTUCKY WARBLERS, SUMMER
TANAGER, BLUE GROSBEAK, spring migrants and more.

Following a decent recent influx of SWALLOW-TAILED KITES into the Cape
May area and a report lacking details of one over Forest Park in
Queens last Saturday, a SWALLOW-TAILED KITE was nicely photographed
hunting around Jones Beach West End near the Coast Guard Station
Wednesday morning, and hopefully other sightings will be forthcoming .

A BLACK-NECKED STILT was present last weekend at Georgica Cove on
Eastern Long Island, perhaps the prior Jones Beach bird continuing to
move around.

A drake TUFTED DUCK was found last Saturday on Great Pond in Southold
and still present Sunday but not noted again until spotted on the same
pond on this Thursday.

A flock of BONAPARTE’S GULLS seen Saturday on the Hudson River from
Conference House Park on southern Staten Island also contained three
LITTLE GULLS, and an immature LITTLE GULL was spotted on the Hudson
this morning with BONAPARTE’S from lower Manhattan, while a
BLACK-HEADED GULL appeared along the Newtown Creek Nature Walk in
Brooklyn this Wednesday morning.  Two CASPIAN TERNS were seen Sunday
at Georgica Beach in Easthampton, and another was noted as recently as
today at Werthheim NWR in Shirley.

Interestingly, both LEAST and AMERICAN BITTERNS were noted along
Prospect Park Lake this week.

A few RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS featured one still at Green-Wood
Cemetery, plus singles near Shinnecock Tuesday, at Fort Tryon Park
Wednesday and on Thursday in Central Park and at Larchmont Reservoir
in Westchester.

A YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT was found in Prospect Park yesterday.

A welcome but seasonally expected increase in Warbler numbers and
variety during the week produced one or two PROTHONOTARY WARBLERS in
Central Park starting Monday, following one last Sunday at Mount
Loretto Unique Area on Staten Island and one continuing at Crocheron
Park in Queens to today.  Single YELLOW-THROATED WARBLERS were in
Central Park Sunday and Wednesday and at Inwood Hill Park Thursday,
with one returning to the Bayard Cutting Arboretum in Great River as
of today.  KENTUCKY WARBLERS visited Prospect Park Saturday to Monday
and Central Park Sunday to Tuesday plus Hasting-on-Hudson in
Westchester on Thursday, and three ORANGE-CROWNEDS were reported.
Other arriving WARBLERS included TENNESSEE, CERULEAN, BAY-BREASTED,
BLACKBURNIAN, CANADA and WILSON’S.

A few reports of SUMMER TANAGER this week included birds in Kissena
Park, Queens, on Sunday, Central Park and the Bayard Cutting Arboretum
Wednesday as well as Prospect Park today, while a female BLUE GROSBEAK
was found yesterday at Cunningham Park in Queens.  Other species
making appearances this week featured BLACK-BILLED CUCKOO, EASTERN
WOOD-PEWEE, SWAINSON’S THRUSH, LINCOLN’S SPARROW and BOBOLINK.

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, 4/25/2025

– RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Apr. 25, 2025
* NYNY2504.25

– Birds mentioned
SWAINSON’S WARBLER+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

Yellow-billed Cuckoo
CHUCK-WILL’S-WIDOW
Eastern Whip-poor-will
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Sora
LITTLE GULL
GLAUCOUS GULL
Least Tern
CASPIAN TERN
Common Tern
Roseate Tern
LEAST BITTERN
WESTERN CATTLE EGRET
Red-headed Woodpecker
Least Flycatcher
Great Crested Flycatcher
Warbling Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo
Bank Swallow
Veery
Vesper Sparrow
YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT
Worm-eating Warbler
Blue-winged Warbler
PROTHONOTARY WARBLER
Orange-crowned Warbler
Nashville Warbler
KENTUCKY WARBLER
Hooded Warbler
American Redstart
Magnolia Warbler
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
Black-throated Blue Warbler
YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER
BLUE GROSBEAK
Indigo Bunting

– 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, April 25th
2025* at 11pm. The highlights of today’s tape are SWAINSON’S WARBLER,
LITTLE GULL, CHUCK-WILL’S-WIDOW, GLAUCOUS GULL, CASPIAN TERN, WESTERN
CATTLE EGRET, LEAST BITTERN, PROTHONOTARY, YELLOW-THROATED and KENTUCKY
WARBLERS, YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT, BLUE GROSBEAK and Spring migrants and more.

As migration heats up this week’s best find was a SWAINSON’S WARBLER
photographed Tuesday as it foraged around the Dellwater in Green-wood
Cemetery in Brooklyn.

Watching birds moving north along the Hudson River produced another LITTLE
GULL, this one off Jones Point in Rockland County seen Tuesday afternoon
with a flock of Bonaparte’s Gulls.

What appeared to be a CHUCK-WILL’S-WIDOW was seen Wednesday evening in
Forest Park, Queens this following an EASTERN WHIP-POOR-WILL spotted at a
daytime roost Monday and Tuesday in Green-wood Cemetery.

A late GLAUCOUS GULL was seen off Plumb Beach in Brooklyn last Sunday with
another sighting today off Fort Tilden and a CASPIAN TERN was at Willow
Lake in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park last Tuesday.

A WESTERN CATTLE EGRET paid a brief visit to Hempstead Lake State Park last
Sunday while a LEAST BITTERN roosting in an open tree at Marshlands
Conservancy in Rye on Wednesday was followed by one more concealed around
the Upper Pool at Prospect Park Lake yesterday and today.

A SORA was spotted Tuesday rummaging around in leaf litter in Green-wood
Cemetery where the RED-HEADED WOODPECKER was still present today.

Among the more unusual warblers this week were 5 PROTHONOTARY WARBLERS
featuring the carryover to Sunday from last week at Fuch’s Pond Preserve in
Fort Salonga, one at Massapequa Preserve Saturday, in Westchester one at
Rockefeller State Park Preserve Sunday followed by one at Croton Point Park
Tuesday and one at Crocheron Park in Queens today. Single YELLOW-THROATED
WARBLERS included one still at Hempstead Lake State Park on Saturday and
sightings in Central Park Sunday and Monday and again today when it was
joined by the first KENTUCKY WARBLER of the Spring as well as the
YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT in the Ramble. Single ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLERS were
noted Wednesday in Central Park as well as at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden
and in Green-wood Cemetery and other recently arriving warblers have
included WORM-EATING, BLUE-WINGED, NASHVILLE, HOODED, AMERICAN REDSTART,
MAGNOLIA, CHESTNUT-SIDED, BLACKPOLL and BLACK-THROATED BLUE.

VESPER SPARROW was noted in Central Park Saturday and Jamaica Bay Wildlife
Refuge Wednesday and a BLUE GROSBEAK visited Brooklyn Bridge Park Monday.

Among other species appearing this week were also YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO,
RUBY-THROATED HUMMINGBIRD, LEAST and COMMON TERNS, plus the first two
ROSEATE TERNS back at Great Gull Island, GREAT CRESTED and LEAST
FLYCATCHERS, WARBLING and RED-EYED VIREOS, BANK SWALLOW, VEERY and INDIGO
BUNTING.

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, 4/18/2025

– RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Apr. 18, 2025
* NYNY2504.18

– Birds mentioned
EURASIAN WIGEON
HARLEQUIN DUCK
BLACK-NECKED STILT
BLACK-HEADED GULL
GLAUCOUS GULL
Black Skimmer
CASPIAN TERN
Broad-winged Hawk
RED-HEADED WOODPECKER
White-eyed Vireo
Yellow-throated Vireo
Wood Thrush
GRASSHOPPER SPARROW
Vesper Sparrow
Seaside Sparrow
Orchard Oriole
Baltimore Oriole
Ovenbird
PROTHONOTARY WARBLER
Orange-crowned Warbler
Cape May Warbler
YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER
Prairie Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
Scarlet Tanager
Rose-breasted 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, April 18th
2025* at 11pm. The highlights of today’s tape are BLACK-NECKED STILT,
PROTHONOTARY and YELLOW-THROATED WARBLERS, EURASIAN WIGEON and HARLEQUIN
DUCK, BLACK-HEADED and GLAUCOUS GULLS, CASPIAN TERN, RED-HEADED WOODPECKER,
GRASSHOPPER SPARROW, Spring migrants and more.

Spring continues to move forward, though slowly, but it’s nice to have a
BLACK-NECKED STILT again appear along Long Island’s south shore early in
the season. This year’s bird was spotted Sunday around the dune pools off
the Roosevelt Nature Center at Jones Beach West End moving around that area
at least through Tuesday.

A male PROTHONOTARY WARBLER found yesterday at Fuch’s Pond Preserve in Fort
Salonga was still present there today. This area a favored location of this
species so please do nothing to disturb this bird’s activities. A mini
invasion of YELLOW-THROATED WARBLERS this week produced sightings today at
Hempstead Lake State Park and out at the Quogue Wildlife Refuge with
another in Brooklyn’s Green-wood Cemetery Tuesday and one the day before at
the Massapequa Preserve while one present last week at Patriot’s Preserve
in Shirley was still present Sunday.

The drake EURASIAN WIGEON viewable in New Jersey waters from Hudson River
Park in lower Manhattan was last reported Monday while a HARLEQUIN DUCK in
Brooklyn was still present off Coney Island last weekend.

A BLACK-HEADED GULL was seen off Conference House Park in southern Staten
Island today with another photographed Wednesday in Sheepshead Bay
Brooklyn. A GLAUCOUS GULL was still at Brooklyn Army Terminal Pier 4 last
Saturday. Single CASPIAN TERNS were seen along the Hudson River off
Westchester on both Monday and Wednesday as these birds continue their
journey north.

Lingering RED-HEADED WOODPECKER were still in Green-wood Cemetery today
while the one at Sunken Meadow State Park was present at least to last
Sunday.

A GRASSHOPPER SPARROW was uncovered Tuesday at Fort Washington Park in
northern Manhattan and several VESPER SPARROWS were again found in various
local parks while single ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLERS were noted in Manhattan’s
Carl Schurz Park and in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park and Green-wood Cemetery
during the week.

A growing number of arrivals this week featured BLACK SKIMMER, BROAD-WINGED
HAWK, WHITE-EYED and YELLOW-THROATED VIREOS, WOOD THRUSH, SEASIDE SPARROW,
ORCHARD and BALTIMORE ORIOLES, various warblers including OVENBIRD, CAPE
MAY, PRAIRIE and BLACK-THROATED GREEN and SCARLET TANAGER and ROSE-BREASTED
GROSBEAK and we await many more.

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