Category: Rare Bird Alerts

– RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Sep. 8, 2023
* NYNY2309.08

– Birds mentioned
COMMON RINGED PLOVER+
BAIRD’S SANDPIPER+
FRANKLIN’S GULL+
WHITE-FACED STORM-PETREL+
BAND-RUMPED STORM-PETREL+
ROSEATE SPOONBILL+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER
Whimbrel
HUDSONIAN GODWIT
MARBLED GODWIT
BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER
Western Sandpiper
Wilson’s Phalarope
RED-NECKED PHALAROPE
LONG-TAILED JAEGER
Caspian Tern
Black Tern
Royal Tern
Wilson’s Storm-Petrel
Cory’s Shearwater
Great Shearwater
AUDUBON’S SHEARWATER
CLAY-COLORED SPARROW
YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT
CONNECTICUT WARBLER
KENTUCKY 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, September 8th, 2023 at 11pm. The highlights of today’s tape are COMMON RINGED PLOVER, ROSEATE SPOONBILL, pelagic trip results including LONG-TAILED JAEGER, WHITE-FACED and BAND-RUMPED STORM-PETRELS, AUDUBON’S SHEARWATER and RED-NECKED PHALAROPE, FRANKLIN’S GULL, AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER, BUFF-BREASTED and BAIRD’S SANDPIPERS, MARBLED and HUDSONIAN GODWITS, CLAY-COLORED SPARROW and YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT, CONNECTICUT and KENTUCKY WARBLERS.

A COMMON RINGED PLOVER continues around Old Inlet in Bellport Bay but the bird seen recently through today is apparently a different individual from the one found initially back on August 19th and may have been present since August 27th when this slightly differently plumaged bird was first noted. Reaching this site requires about a 2-mile walk west along the beach from the parking lot at Smith Point County Park in Shirley and the bird is at times on flats a half-mile or so farther to the northwest depending on the tidal situation but there are lots of birds there to keep one occupied.

This week’s highlights included counts of up to 15 or so MARBLED GODWITS and 13 WHIMBREL, 1 HUDSONIAN GODWIT, 2 AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVERS, a single BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER and WILSON’S PHALAROPE as well as a few CASPIAN TERNS mixed in with the many ROYAL TERNS.

Last Saturday evening a ROSEATE SPOONBILL was found on Willow Pond in Hewlett Bay Park and has been roosting at that location through today. The pond viewing point is along Everit Avenue, a street on which there is no parking. The closest parking is likely at Hewlett High School a couple of blocks away but that could be a problem when the school is open.

A pelagic trip aboard the American Princess left Sheepshead Bay last Monday evening and made its way to the mouth of the Hudson Canyon before returning to Brooklyn Tuesday night. The trip’s avian highlights included 2 LONG-TAILED JAEGERS, 1 WHITE-FACED, 8 BAND-RUMPED and over 4,300 WILSON’S STORM-PETRELS, 14 CORY’S, 34 GREAT and 6 AUDUBON’S SHEARWATERS, 29 RED-NECKED PHALAROPES, 6 BLACK TERNS and a WHIMBREL. Also seen were two Sperm Whales, some Common, Bottle-nosed and Rizzo’s Dolphins, Pilot Whales, some Hammerhead Sharks and quite a few Loggerhead Sea Turtles.

An adult FRANKLIN’S GULL visited the Ossining waterfront on the Hudson River for a while last Saturday before moving south.

Sightings of BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER this week included a couple on sod fields along Route 51 in Eastport just east of Route 111 or on Head of the Neck Road just west of there, these present today, with 2 others at Nickerson Beach yesterday. Single BAIRD’S SANDPIPERS were reported today at Plumb Beach and Nickerson Beach and on Wednesday at the Oceanside Marine Nature Study Area, the Route 51 fields and Croton Point Park. MARBLED GODWIT was still out in Jamaica Bay last Sunday and some WESTERN SANDPIPERS are showing up.

A large gathering of shearwaters a few miles south of Napeague Monday included mostly GREAT and some CORY’S.

Key landbirds this week included CLAY-COLORED SPARROW noted at Floyd Bennett Field to Thursday and at Jamaica Bay and Croton Point Park today. The YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT was spotted in Orient Monday. Single CONNECTICUT WARBLERS were reported in Alley Pond Park and at Conference House Park Monday and at Sunken Meadow State Park Tuesday with a KENTUCKY WARBLER in Forest Park Monday. Two BLUE GROSBEAKS were in the restricted East Hampton town dump last Sunday.

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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-RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Sept. 1, 2023
* NYNY2309.01

– Birds Mentioned

COMMON RINGED PLOVER+
GREAT SKUA+
NEOTROPIC CORMORANT+
Mississippi Kite (slightly extralimital)+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

AMERICAN AVOCET
American Golden-Plover
Whimbrel
HUDSONIAN GODWIT
MARBLED GODWIT
Baird’s Sandpiper
BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER
Western Sandpiper
Parasitic Jaeger
LONG-TAILED JAEGER
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Gull-billed Tern
Caspian Tern
Royal Tern
BROWN PELICAN
Philadelphia Vireo
Grasshopper Sparrow
LARK SPARROW
YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT
GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER
PROTHONOTARY WARBLER
CONNECTICUT 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

Greetings! This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for Friday, September 1, 2023 at 11:00 p.m. The highlights of today’s tape are COMMON RINGED PLOVER, NEOTROPIC CORMORANT, GREAT SKUA and LONG-TAILED JAEGER, BROWN PELICAN, AMERICAN AVOCET, MARBLED and HUDSONIAN GODWITS, BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER, LARK SPARROW, YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT, GOLDEN-WINGED, PROTHONOTARY and CONNECTICUT WARBLERS, BLUE GROSBEAK, DICKISSEL and more.

The COMMON RINGED PLOVER found on August 19th out at Old Inlet in Bellport Bay was last seen there around mid-day last Monday. A nice variety of Shorebirds there that day also featured one HUDSONIAN and five MARBLED GODWITS, 7 WHIMBREL, and 1 each of AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER, BUFF-BREASTED and BAIRD’S SANDPIPERS, while among the TERNS there were 3 CASPIAN and around 60 ROYAL. This site is reached by walking west about 2 miles along the beach from the parking lot at Smith Point County Park in Shirley.

The Staten Island NEOTROPIC CORMORANT was seen again Tuesday along Lemon Creek as viewed from the bridge on Hylan Boulevard, and the one along the Newburgh waterfront in Orange County is still present.

Two interesting pelagic birds last weekend began with a Skua photographed early last Saturday moving east off Smith Point County Park, an analysis of the photos pointing to this bird as an immature GREAT SKUA. Then on Sunday morning a Jaeger photographed from a boat off Eaton’s Neck in Long Island Sound proved to be a dark immature LONG-TAILED JAEGER – two great finds.

On Wednesday 7 BROWN PELICANS were lounging on the shore at Jones Beach West End until flushed by a truck, and 3 PARASITIC JAEGERS were spotted offshore.

The 2 lingering AMERICAN AVOCETS were still visiting Mecox Bay near the inlet yesterday, and an HUDSONIAN GODWIT along with 3 WESTERN SANDPIPERS and 3 CASPIAN TERNS were in the Field 7 puddles at Heckscher State Park last Wednesday.

Other BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPERS included one at Jones Beach West End last Saturday and one on the Route 51 Fields in Eastport Wednesday.

At Breezy Point Sunday there were 4 GULL-BILLED TERNS and 18 LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS.

Slightly extralimital, a MISSISSIPPI KITE passed over the Quaker Ridge hawk watch in northwestern Greenwich Thursday, heading for Westchester.

Last Sunday a GRASSHOPPER SPARROW visited Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, and a LARK SPARROW was found at Watch Hill on Fire Island, with another LARK SPARROW appearing on the landfill at Croton Point Park on Wednesday.

Two YELLOW-BREASTED CHATS were banded at the JFK Sanctuary at Tobay last Saturday, and another appeared at Conference House Park on Staten Island Sunday.

Among the rarer fall WARBLERS, a GOLDEN-WINGED visited Central Park Wednesday and Thursday, and another was found in Prospect Park today, while early CONNECTICUTS were reported yesterday in Central Park and at Strack Pond in Forest Park, Queens. Strack Pond also produced a PROTHONOTARY Tuesday, with another in Manhattan’s Bryant Park today, while the one in Green-Wood Cemetery was last seen last Saturday.

At least three BLUE GROSBEAKS were noted last Saturday at the Suffolk County Farm and Education Center off Yaphank Avenue, and a DICKCISSEL was noted in Broad Channel yesterday. A couple of PHILADELPHIA VIREOS were also reported this week.

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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-RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Aug. 25, 2023
* NYNY2308.25

– Birds Mentioned

COMMON RINGED PLOVER+
NEOTROPIC CORMORANT+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

AMERICAN AVOCET
Semipalmated Plover
Whimbrel
HUDSONIAN GODWIT
MARBLED GODWIT
BAIRD’S SANDPIPER
BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER
Western Sandpiper
Wilson’s Phalarope
RED-NECKED PHALAROPE
Parasitic Jaeger
Gull-billed Tern
Caspian Tern
Black Tern
Wilson’s Storm-Petrel
Cory’s Shearwater
Great Shearwater
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Philadelphia Vireo
CLAY-COLORED SPARROW
LARK SPARROW
YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT
Golden-winged Warbler
PROTHONOTARY WARBLER
Cerulean Warbler
DICKCISSEL

|If followed by (+) please submit documentation of your report electronically and use the NYSARC online submission form found at http://www.nybirds.org/NYSARC/goodreport.htm

You can also send reports and digital image files via email to nysarc44<at>nybirds<dot>org

If electronic submission is not possible, hardcopy reports and photos or sketches are welcome. Hardcopy documentation should be mailed to:

Gary Chapin – Secretary
NYS Avian Records Committee (NYSARC)
125 Pine Springs Drive
Ticonderoga, NY 12883

Hotline: New York City Area Rare Bird Alert
Number: (212) 979-3070
Compiler: Tom Burke
Coverage: New York City, Long Island, Westchester County

Transcriber: Gail Benson

Greetings! This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for Friday, August 25, 2023 at 11:00 p.m. The highlights of today’s tape are COMMON RINGED PLOVER, NEOTROPIC CORMORANT, AMERICAN AVOCET, MARBLED and HUDSONIAN GODWITS, BUFF-BREASTED and BAIRD’S SANDPIPERS, RED-NECKED PHALAROPE, YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT, PROTHONOTARY WARBLER, LARK and CLAY-COLORED SPARROWS, DICKCISSEL and more.

Last Saturday out at Old Inlet in Bellport Bay, a COMMON RINGED PLOVER was identified among a large group of SEMIPALMATED PLOVERS and nicely photographed to support the identification. This bird has continued there through today, usually seen along the flats on the east side of
Old Inlet – to reach this location does require about a 2 mile walk along the beach, going west from the parking lot at Smith Point County Park in Shirley.

Among the other shorebirds seen around Old Inlet have been up to five MARBLED GODWITS, an HUDSONIAN GODWIT Wednesday, and an occasional WHIMBREL, plus a BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER spotted there Tuesday.

A NEOTROPIC CORMORANT, likely the same bird found on Staten Island on June 11th, was seen Monday evening perched in a tree over Lemon Creek as viewed from the Hylan Boulevard Bridge. Another NEOTROPIC continues up in the Newburgh area.

This good week for shorebird variety included two AMERICAN AVOCETS continuing around Mecox Inlet at least through Wednesday, and a group of 11 MARBLED GODWITS counted on the Cupsogue Beach County Park flats on Monday. Single MARBLEDS were also noted out in Jamaica Bay last Saturday and at Lido Beach on Tuesday, while three HUDSONIAN GODWITS were present briefly on the spit off the Coast Guard Station at Jones Beach West End last Monday. A WHIMBREL was also in Jamaica Bay Wednesday. The water levels at the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge itself remain too high on the East Pond for major shorebirds concentrations, but a BAIRD’S SANDPIPER did visit the West Pond Sunday, and other highlights there did include one BLACK and two CASPIAN TERNS Saturday and up to three continuing GULL-BILLED TERNS.

A BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER was a nice find at Plumb Beach yesterday, and during the week up to 3 WESTERN SANDPIPERS visited the Field 7 puddles at Heckscher State Park, where a WILSON’S PHALAROPE also dropped in on Monday. Two RED-NECKED PHALAROPES were spotted Sunday evening off Pier 57 in Manhattan but did not stay, and five more were seen Wednesday from the CRESLI whale watching boat out of Montauk.

Numbers of seabirds have been present recently in the waters off Montauk Point, today for instance providing over 500 CORY’S and 250 GREAT SHEARWATERS, some WILSON’S STORM-PETRELS, and a couple of PARASITIC JAEGERS.

In the shrubbery around the Montauk Point circle road this week were a CLAY-COLORED SPARROW at least to Thursday and two LARK SPARROWS seen Tuesday, with one through today. Other LARK SPARROWS included one at Watch Hill on Fire Island Saturday and one at Breezy Point Tuesday.

A PHILADELPHIA VIREO visited Central Park Tuesday, and a few YELLOW-BREASTED CHATS this week included singles in Central Park Sunday and Green-Wood Cemetery Monday.

Among the good variety of WARBLERS this week were single PROTHONOTARIES in Green-Wood Cemetery from Sunday through today, in Northville Monday, and in Central Park Wednesday, while unusual were several reports of GOLDEN-WINGED, including in Central and Alley Pond Parks, and a CERULEAN also from Alley Saturday. Other migrants included OLIVE-SIDED and all five eastern EMPIDONAX FLYCATCHERS, as well as a few DICKCISSELS – these usually detected by their overheard flight calls.

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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 RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Aug. 18, 2023
* NYNY2308.18

– Birds mentioned
BAIRD’S SANDPIPER+
BRIDLED TERN+
SANDWICH TERN+
WHITE-FACED STORM-PETREL+
BAND-RUMPED STORM-PETREL+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

American Avocet
Black-bellied Plover
Whimbrel
Marbled Godwit
Least Sandpiper
Wilson’s Phalarope
Red-necked Phalarope
Solitary Sandpiper
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Gull-billed Tern
Caspian Tern
Black Tern
Wilson’s Storm-Petrel
Cory’s Shearwater
Great Shearwater
Audubon’s Shearwater
Downy Woodpecker
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
Eastern Kingbird
Barn Swallow
Cliff Swallow
Cedar Waxwing
Red Crossbill
Lark Sparrow
Worm-eating Warbler
Prothonotary Warbler
Mourning Warbler
Hooded Warbler
Cape May Warbler
Bay-breasted Warbler
Wilson’s Warbler
Dickcissel

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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, August 18th 2023 at 11pm. The highlights of today’s tape are pelagic trip results including RED-NECKED PHALAROPE, BRIDLED TERN, WHITE-FACED and BAND-RUMPED STORM-PETRELS and AUDUBON’S SHEARWATER plus SANDWICH TERN, AMERICAN AVOCET, MARBLED GODWIT, BAIRD’S SANDPIPER, WILSON’S PHALAROPE, GULL-BILLED TERN, RED CROSSBILL, LARK SPARROW, PROTHONOTARY WARBLER, DICKCISSEL and more.

A pelagic trip leaving Sheepshead Bay Sunday evening aboard the American Princess by dawn was in deep water over McMaster Canyon then working southwesterly to Hudson Canyon before returning Monday night. Pelagic birds seen during the day included 42 RED-NECKED PHALAROPES, a BRIDLED and 2 BLACK TERNS, about 4,300 WILSON’S, one WHITE-FACED and 21 BAND-RUMPED STORM-PETRELS and 32 CORY’S, 32 GREAT and 38 AUDUBON’S SHEARWATERS. Other migrating birds included BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER and LEAST and SOLITARY SANDPIPERS, a DOWNY WOODPECKER, an EASTERN KINGBIRD, BARN and CLIFF SWALLOWS and CEDAR WAXWING all well offshore. Also spectacular were the cetaceans and other sea creatures including 2 Cuvier’s and 4 Sowerby’s Beaked Whales, 20 Pilot Whales, pods of Common Bottlenose and Rizzo’s Dolphins, 6 Fin and Minke and 2 Humpback Whales as well as 3 Loggerhead Sea Turtles, a Whale Shark, 3 species of Rays and more.

Back on shore a SANDWICH TERN seen on the flats at Cupsogue Beach County Park Sunday and Monday was followed by an adult SANDWICH accompanied by a juvenile noted yesterday along the north side of Moriches Bay seen off Speonk and then off Shore Road and West Hampton. Fifty-two LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS were counted at a breeding point Thursday while other terns featured a few CASPIAN around as well as up to 6 GULL-BILLED seen out at Yellow Bar Hassock in Jamaica Bay and occasionally visiting the Wildlife Refuge with 2 more at Plumb Beach today.

Among the shorebirds 2 AMERICAN AVOCETS were uncovered on the flats at Mecox Bay Inlet on Wednesday and were still present Thursday but not reported today. A MARBLED GODWIT on the East Pond at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge last Saturday was seen Wednesday up at the north end where walking can be treacherous due to fairly high water levels. Two other MARBLED GODWITS were present out on Yellow Bar Hassock south of the West Pond both Sunday and Thursday; these joined by 6 WHIMBRELS last Sunday, just 1 on Thursday. This area can be visited by boat. A BAIRD’S SANDPIPER was reported flying past the Fire Island Hawkwatch site at Robert Moses State Park Tuesday morning and a juvenile WILSON’S PHALAROPE was on the Cupsogue flats last Sunday.

RED CROSSBILL was noted at the Quogue Wildlife Refuge Tuesday morning and the LARK SPARROW first spotted at Shinnecock Inlet a week ago Friday was still present today in vegetation around the parking lot on the west side of the inlet.

A male PROTHONOTARY WARBLER was photographed today at the North Fork Preserve in Northville and a DICKCISSEL was heard at Croton Point Park last Tuesday. A decent variety of migrating warblers this week most still in quite low numbers have featured some WORM-EATING, HOODED and CAPE MAY, as well as occasional MOURNING, BAY-BREASTED and WILSON’S with other notable migrants including OLIVE-SIDED and YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHERS

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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– RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Aug. 11, 2023
* NYNY2308.11

– Birds mentioned
RED-NECKED GREBE
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Black-billed Cuckoo
Piping Plover
Whimbrel
MARBLED GODWIT
Stilt Sandpiper
White-rumped Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
WILSON’S PHALAROPE
RED-NECKED PHALAROPE
GULL-BILLED TERN
Caspian Tern
Roseate Tern
Royal Tern
Wilson’s Storm-Petrel
Cory’s Shearwater
Great Shearwater
MANX SHEARWATER
BROWN PELICAN
RED-HEADED WOODPECKER
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
LARK SPARROW
Worm-eating Warbler
Tennessee Warbler
Mourning Warbler
Hooded Warbler
Cape May Warbler
Cerulean Warbler
Magnolia Warbler
Bay-breasted Warbler
Blackburnian Warbler
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
Canada 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 11th 2023 at 11pm. The highlights of today’s tape are BROWN PELICAN, MARBLED GODWIT, RED-NECKED and WILSON’S PHALAROPES, RED-NECKED GREBE, GULL-BILLED TERN, MANX SHEARWATER, RED-HEADED WOODPECKER, LARK SPARROW, fall warblers, DICKCISSEL and more.

Last Sunday morning up to six BROWN PELICANS were fishing for awhile in waters north of Breezy Point as viewed from Plumb and Manhattan Beaches but otherwise there have been no recent reports.

As the shorebird migration continues to build, a MARBLED GODWIT showed up on the flats at Cupsogue Beach County Park Thursday and was seen there again today. At Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge last week’s RED-NECKED PHALAROPE was still around the southeast corner of the West Pond last Saturday where it was joined by up to 4 WILSON’S PHALAROPES as well as good numbers of other shorebirds and two WHIMBREL were out in Jamaica Bay proper on Sunday. A harassing Peregrine Falcon was constantly putting up the birds causing major reshuffling both on the West and East Ponds. The East Pond is still dealing with higher than desired water levels but a decent number of birds have been gathering at the south end of the Raunt and there’s a few roosting sites up towards the north end. There’s some WHITE-RUMPED, PECTORAL and STILT SANDPIPERS among them. Two WILSON’S PHALAROPES were seen on the East Pond Saturday were likely part of a group pushed from the West Pond but the PHALAROPES have not been reported there recently. A RED-NECKED PHALAROPE was photographed today out at Mecox Inlet.

The summering RED-NECKED GREBE was still present Wednesday off Pelham Bay Park in the Bronx where an off course PIPING PLOVER showed up last Tuesday.

A couple of GULL-BILLED TERNS have been around the West Pond area at Jamaica Bay recently occasionally visiting the East Pond and a few CASPIAN TERNS continue along the Hudson River including at Piermont Pier with one also at Heckscher State Park Monday. Also watch for increasing numbers of ROYAL TERN and one or two scattered ROSEATE TERNS along the southern beaches and inlets.

Two RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS were still along the Paumanok Trail near Jones Pond last Saturday, this area off Schultz Road in Manorville. An immature LARK SPARROW showed up today along the north side of the parking lot on the west side of Shinnecock Inlet. On Thursday at Montauk Point a DICKCISSEL was recorded as it flew by and seen offshore were 30 WILSON’S STORM-PETRELS and 1 MANX, 1 GREAT and 3 CORY’S SHEARWATERS.

Recent migrants have included both YELLOW-BILLED and BLACK-BILLED CUCKOOS, OLIVE-SIDED and YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER and a selection of roughly 2 dozen warblers including WORM-EATING, TENNESSEE, MOURNING in Central Park and Green-wood Cemetery, HOODED, CAPE MAY, a CERULEAN in Prospect Park Saturday, MAGNOLIA, BAY-BREASTED, BLACKBURNIAN, BLACK-THROATED BLUE, BLACK-THROATED GREEN, CANADA and WILSON’S.

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

-RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Aug. 04, 2023
* NYNY2308.04

– Birds Mentioned

NEOTROPIC CORMORANT (extralimital)+
Possible ELAENIA Species+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

RED-NECKED GREBE
Whimbrel
Stilt Sandpiper
White-rumped Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
Long-billed Dowitcher
WILSON’S PHALAROPE
RED-NECKED PHALAROPE
POMARINE JAEGER
GULL-BILLED TERN
Caspian Tern
Cory’s Shearwater
Great Shearwater
BROWN PELICAN
Red-headed Woodpecker
OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER
RED CROSSBILL
Ovenbird
Worm-eating Warbler
Louisiana Waterthrush
Blue-winged Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler
Tennessee Warbler
Cerulean Warbler
Bay-breasted Warbler

|If followed by (+) please submit documentation of your report electronically and use the NYSARC online submission form found at http://www.nybirds.org/NYSARC/goodreport.htm

You can also send reports and digital image files via email to nysarc44<at>nybirds<dot>org

If electronic submission is not possible, hardcopy reports and photos or sketches are welcome. Hardcopy documentation should be mailed to:

Gary Chapin – Secretary
NYS Avian Records Committee (NYSARC)
125 Pine Springs Drive
Ticonderoga, NY 12883

Hotline: New York City Area Rare Bird Alert
Number: (212) 979-3070
Compiler: Tom Burke
Coverage: New York City, Long Island, Westchester County

Transcriber:  Gail Benson

Greetings! This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for Friday, August 4, 2023 at 11:00 p.m.

The highlights of today’s tape are BROWN PELICAN, extralimital NEOTROPIC CORMORANT, an enigmatic FLYCATCHER, POMARINE JAEGER, RED-NECKED GREBE, RED-NECKED PHALAROPE, WILSON’S PHALAROPE, GULL-BILLED TERN, OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER, RED CROSSBILL and more.

A few BROWN PELICANS continue to visit our Atlantic coastline, with recent sightings including two off Democrat Point at the western end of Robert Moses State Park Thursday and up to six seen off Great Kills Park on Staten Island today.

Some SHEARWATERS were also present off Moses Park yesterday, with at least 3 GREAT and 20 CORY’S seen offshore.  Also, a POMARINE JAEGER, present since mid-July on eastern Long Island around Sagg Pond in Bridgehampton, has moved a little west and since Monday has been seen around the bayside or on the beach at Mecox inlet; parking for non-residents there can be problematic.

The slightly extralimital NEOTROPIC CORMORANT remains in the Newburgh-Beacon area along the Hudson, now visiting the Beacon waterfront on a more regular basis but also returning to the area adjacent to the Global Oil Terminal where it had been previously.

Perhaps the week’s actual highlight and most interesting puzzle may never get resolved, but a FLYCATCHER, photographed at Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery last Sunday and entered in eBird as a Least Flycatcher, showed sufficient field characters to indicate it might possibly be an ELAENIA, a rather difficult group of mostly South American birds; this bird resembles the similar looking Small-billed and White-crested Elaenias but will require much more research to arrive at a definitive identification, if possible.  Unfortunately, it could not be relocated subsequently.

A RED-NECKED GREBE, in breeding plumage and apparently summering, was seen again off Pelham Bay Park last Monday.

At Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge efforts continue to draw down the East Pond to a desirable level for Shorebirds, and birds are appearing especially around the south end, but the West Pond too has been productive in the interim.  Last Monday, a RED-NECKED PHALAROPE was found at the southeast corner of the West Pond and continued there at least through yesterday.  It was joined there on Wednesday by a WILSON’S PHALAROPE, which moved over to the East Pond’s south end later on Thursday afternoon.  Among the other Shorebirds at the refuge has been a WHIMBREL out in the Bay itself Sunday, where GULL-BILLED TERN also continues, while the ponds have featured such species as STILT, PECTORAL, WHITE-RUMPED, and WESTERN SANDPIPERS and LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER mixed in with the more common migrants.

CASPIAN TERNS have been seen recently along the Hudson River from Piermont Pier to Croton Point as well as at sites such as Jamaica Bay and Sagg Pond.

Two RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS were still along the Paumanok Trail near Jones Pond off Schultz Road in Manorville on Tuesday, and an OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER visited Green-Wood Cemetery Monday.

Six RED CROSSBILLS were recorded in the Walking Dunes section of Hither Hills State Park yesterday, and among some early migrant WARBLERS this week have been OVENBIRD, WORM-EATING, LOUISIANA WATERTHRUSH, BLUE-WINGED, BLACK-AND-WHITE, TENNESSEE and BAY-BREASTED, plus a CERULEAN in Central Park Wednesday.

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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-RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* July 28, 2023
* NYNY2307.28

– Birds Mentioned

NEOTROPIC CORMORANT (extralimital)+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

WHIMBREL
Stilt Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
POMARINE JAEGER
LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL
GULL-BILLED TERN
CASPIAN TERN
Roseate Tern
Royal Tern
BROWN PELICAN
Acadian Flycatcher
Purple Martin
Bank Swallow
Cliff Swallow
RED CROSSBILL
|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 28, 2023 at 11:00 p.m.

The highlights of today’s tape are BROWN PELICAN, POMARINE JAEGER, WHIMBREL, GULL-BILLED and CASPIAN TERNS, LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL, RED CROSSBILL and more.

But first, we very sadly mention the sudden passing last Sunday of Tom Johnson at his home in Cape May.  Tom has significantly enriched the birding community in so many ways with his vast knowledge, expertise and enthusiasm, which he so willingly shared, and he will be deeply missed.

As for birds, this past week was not an overwhelming one, with the continuing appearance of some BROWN PELICANS probably our most interesting local highlight.  Recent sightings included two in
Moriches Bay and another moving west off Smith Point County Park on Wednesday, three eastbound Tuesday and two westbound Sunday off Fire Island, and at Great Kills Park on Staten Island, five perching on an offshore shoal on Monday.

A POMARINE JAEGER noted on the beach at Sagaponack Pond in Bridgehampton back on the 15th was seen again there on Wednesday and noted walking on the beach near the inlet this afternoon, this bird hanging around, presumably due to health issues .

Among the shorebirds, there were several reports of WHIMBREL during the week, including four out in Jamaica Bay last Saturday, that day also finding birds around Riis Park and Fort Tilden, one at Plumb Beach Wednesday and Thursday, and another in Jamaica Bay Thursday.

Unfortunately the recent rains have offset the progress the East Pond at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge had made in water level reduction, but hopefully conditions will improve going forward.

Other recent shorebirds locally have included STILT, PECTORAL and WESTERN SANDPIPERS.

Up to three GULL-BILLED TERNS have been around the West Pond area at Jamaica Bay, with another at Plumb Beach Thursday, while a few CASPIAN TERNS include sightings at Jones Beach Tuesday and Pelham Bay Park
Monday, with two at Croton Point Tuesday to Thursday.  A few ROSEATE and several ROYAL TERNS have also been along the Atlantic Coast, where looking for LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS can also pay off, with about 25 estimated at Breezy Point last Saturday.

As an extralimital note, the NEOTROPIC CORMORANT continues in the Newburgh- Beacon area, moving back and forth across the Hudson River.

Among the landbirds, an ACADIAN FLYCATCHER continues in Prospect Park, and two RED CROSSBILLS were still around the Paumanok Trail off Schultz Road in Manorville last Saturday.  Some migrants recently have included BANK and CLIFF SWALLOWS and PURPLE MARTIN.

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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– RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Jul. 21, 2023
* NYNY2307.21

– Birds mentioned
FRANKLIN’S GULL+ (Putnam County)
BROWN BOOBY+
NEOTROPIC CORMORANT+ (Orange County)
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

AMERICAN AVOCET
Whimbrel
Stilt Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
Long-billed Dowitcher
POMARINE JAEGER
Caspian Tern
BROWN PELICAN
WESTERN KINGBIRD
LARK SPARROW
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

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Greetings. This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for Friday, July 21st 2023 at 11pm in a shortened vacation format. The highlights of today’s tape are BROWN BOOBY, slightly extralimital NEOTROPIC CORMORANT, FRANKLIN’S GULL, AMERICAN AVOCET, BROWN PELICAN, POMARINE JAEGER, WESTERN KINGBIRD, LARK SPARROW, BLUE GROSBEAK and more.

Yesterday a boat party off Little Gull Island at the entrance to Long Island Sound encountered a juvenile BROWN BOOBY which was nicely photographed as it circled about and then headed over towards Great Gull Island.

Interesting birds just to our north are the NEOTROPIC CORMORANT continuing around the Newburgh waterfront in Orange County and an adult FRANKLIN’S GULL photographed on Wednesday, only, at Dockside Park in Cold Spring, Putnam County where an AMERICAN AVOCET was present briefly today before flying north.

BROWN PELICANS were noted this week at numerous sites along the Atlantic shore from Staten Island to Fire Island with peak numbers including 19 at Great Kills Park on Staten Island and 12 off Plumb Beach in Brooklyn both on Tuesday.

Another report of a beached POMARINE JAEGER involved a bird on Sagg Main Town Beach out in Sagaponack last Saturday.

Shorebirds this week included a WESTERN SANDPIPER at Plumb Beach early in the week, STILT SANDPIPER and LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER at Heckscher State Park last weekend and a WHIMBREL at Fort Tilden today.

Single CASPIAN TERNS were spotted at Edgemere in Queens this Saturday and at Kensico Lake in Westchester yesterday.

A WESTERN KINGBIRD was photographed at O’Hara Nature Center in Irvington, Westchester County on Wednesday but like many of these early Fall season strays, such as last week’s KINGBIRD in Prospect Park, these are often one day wonders.

A LARK SPARROW plus 2 BLUE GROSBEAKS were reported last Saturday at Mount Loretto 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.

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– RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Jul. 14, 2023
* NYNY2307.14

– Birds mentioned
WHITE-FACED IBIS+
TROPICAL/COUCH’S KINGBIRD+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

AMERICAN AVOCET
WHIMBREL
Stilt Sandpiper
White-rumped Sandpiper
BROWN PELICAN
Red-headed Woodpecker
RED CROSSBILL
Yellow-throated Warbler

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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 14th 2023 at 11pm in a shortened vacation format. The highlights of today’s tape are a TROPICAL or a COUCH’S type KINGBIRD, WHITE-FACED IBIS, BROWN PELICAN, AMERICAN AVOCET, WHIMBREL, RED CROSSBILL and more.

Today, about 2pm, a yellow bellied kingbird having the features of a TROPICAL or a COUCH’S KINGBIRD including a large bill and notched brownish tail was spotted in Prospect Park Brooklyn initially around the peninsula meadow. Later it was refound along Breeze Hill but ultimately disappeared again. If present Saturday try to record any vocalizations as these could be key in determining this bird’s specific identity.

Last Saturday at Captree Island a WHITE-FACED IBIS was uncovered among the Glossy’s there. This bird had not retained its white facial feathering but did have red eyes and pink facial skin as well as red knees.

BROWN PELICANS had a good week along the coast being spotted every day and from at least 9 different locations from Staten Island east to Cupsogue Beach County Park. Higher numbers featured 7 in Fire Island Inlet today and up to 8 off southern Staten Island last weekend.

Shorebirds now heading south included an AMERICAN AVOCET visiting the south end of the East Pond at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge Monday, 3 WHIMBREL at Breezy Point last Sunday and another at Cupsogue Tuesday and 4 STILT SANDPIPERS at Jamaica Bay’s West Pond as of Saturday with a WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER there Tuesday.

Out along the Paumanok Trail on Thursday were 3 continuing RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS and 7 RED CROSSBILLS. This area is reached off Schultz Road in Manorville near Jones Pond.

YELLOW-THROATED WARBLERS remain at the Bayard Cutting Arboretum in Great River.

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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-RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* July 7, 2023
* NYNY2307.07

– Birds Mentioned

SANDWICH TERN+
NEOTROPIC CORMORANT+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

KING EIDER
RED-NECKED GREBE
Black-bellied Plover
Least Sandpiper
Short-billed Dowitcher
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Gull-billed Tern
Caspian Tern
ARCTIC TERN
Royal Tern
Cory’s Shearwater
Great Shearwater
BROWN PELICAN
Red-headed Woodpecker
Acadian Flycatcher
RED CROSSBILL
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 7,
2023 at 11:00 p.m.

The highlights of today’s tape are NEOTROPIC CORMORANT, SANDWICH and ARCTIC TERNS, BROWN PELICAN, KING EIDER, RED-NECKED GREBE, RED CROSSBILL, YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER, BLUE GROSBEAK and more.  The immature NEOTROPIC CORMORANT has continued its irregular visits to Wolfe’s Pond Park on Staten Island at least to Wednesday, being seen there late last Sunday, both Monday morning and mid-afternoon, and again Wednesday afternoon, while the adult NEOTROPIC has continued up along the Hudson River in the Newburgh-Beacon area, usually on the Newburgh side near the Ferry Terminal or a little south of there near the Global Oil Terminal, but occasionally also visiting the Beacon waterfront.

With ROYAL TERNS now moving north along our coast for the summer, not unexpectedly a few SANDWICH TERNS have also appeared recently; certainly welcome last Tuesday was one visiting the breakwaters off Conference House Park at the southern end of Staten Island, and then on Wednesday two were found on the flats north of Cupsogue Beach County Park, where an immature ARCTIC TERN had occurred last Sunday, with an adult ARCTIC also reported there yesterday.

Other TERNS this week also featured a GULL-BILLED around the West Pond at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge Sunday and a few CASPIANS, including five Wednesday at Conference House Park.

BROWN PELICANS had a decent week coastally, especially off southern Staten Island, where  up to fifteen or more were counted around the breakwaters off Conference House Park and nearby.  Moving eastward, three were also seen off Breezy Point Monday, with one off Plumb Beach today, six were on the Oak Beach sandbar Sunday, and four visited Mecox Bay Inlet Tuesday.

A female KING EIDER was photographed last Sunday in Fire Island Inlet off Robert Moses State Park, and a RED-NECKED GREBE has apparently also continued in the bay off Pelham Bay Park, seen there Tuesday.

Small numbers of offshore pelagics recently included eight CORY’S SHEARWATERS seen off Cupsogue last Sunday and a GREAT SHEARWATER off Breezy Point last Saturday.  Better conditions should produce increased numbers of shearwaters, especially off eastern Long Island.

Scattered LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS included 18 counted at Breezy Point Monday, and various arriving southbound shorebirds have already included some BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS, LEAST SANDPIPERS, GREATER and LESSER YELLOWLEGS, SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHERS and others.

Some RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS continue around the Paumanok Trail near Jones Pond in Manorville, and this area also produced three RED CROSSBILLS last Saturday, including a juvenile.

An ACADIAN FLYCATCHER continues in Prospect Park, and YELLOW-THROATED WARBLERS remain at the Bayard Cutting Arboretum in Great River, while BLUE GROSBEAKS continue to hold territories in the Brookhaven to
Calverton region.

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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