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