– RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Oct. 17, 2025
* NYNY2510.17
– Birds mentioned
BAR-TAILED GODWIT+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)
EARED GREBE
AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER
HUDSONIAN GODWIT
BAIRD’S SANDPIPER
Parasitic Jaeger
BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKE
Royal Tern
Cory’s Shearwater
Great Shearwater
Sooty Shearwater
American Pipit
Purple Finch
Pine Siskin
LAPLAND LONGSPUR
CLAY-COLORED SPARROW
Fox Sparrow
VESPER SPARROW
YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT
Orange-crowned Warbler
Connecticut Warbler
DICKCISSEL
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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, October 17th 2025 at 11pm. The highlights of today’s tape are BAR-TAILED GODWIT, EARED GREBE, AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER, HUDSONIAN GODWIT, BAIRD’S SANDPIPER, BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKE, LAPLAND LONGSPUR, CLAY-COLORED and VESPER SPARROWS, YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT, DICKCISSEL and more.
This week’s superb sighting occurred this morning out at Cupsogue Beach County Park when a BAR-TAILED GODWIT was spotted on the sandbar on the lowering tide. This straggly plumaged individual stayed for a short while but moved east on the rising tide and could not be relocated. Chances are reasonable though that it did remain in that area.
At Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge the EARED GREBE was last reported from the West Pond last Saturday but could remain there. Among the decent variety of shorebirds continuing at the bay were 2 HUDSONIAN GODWITS at the south end of the East Pond Thursday and an AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER seen by kayak out in the bay south of the West Pond last Saturday. The variety of waterfowl at the bay is also increasing daily. Another AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER was spotted last Saturday at Fort Tilden and a late BAIRD’S SANDPIPER was photographed last weekend at the College Point wetlands in Queens.
Single PARASITIC JAEGERS were spotted off Plumb Beach Sunday and Fort Tilden Monday but more unusual by location were single birds reported Monday and Tuesday off Belden Point on City Island in western Long Island Sound.
Out in the Montauk area a BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKE spotted off the point on Sunday was followed by an immature off Ditch Plains on Monday. In the seawatch from the point Sunday reported one SOOTY SHEARWATER, 16 CORY’S and 2 GREAT.
A decent 80 ROYAL TERNS were estimated at Jones Beach field 6 on Tuesday.
An early LAPLAND LONGSPUR was identified today at Pike’s Beach in West Hampton Dunes. Single CLAY-COLORED SPARROWS occurred last Saturday at Central Park’s north end and at Floyd Bennett Field and a VESPER SPARROW visited Brooklyn Bridge Park Thursday.
An accommodating but presumably disadvantaged YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT was still present in Manhattan today around the plantings at the Verizon Plaza just west of Bryant Park between West 41st and 42nd Streets. A CONNECTICUT WARBLER was still at Manhattan’s Trinity Church just west of Wall Street at least to Wednesday and another visited Prospect Park Wednesday and a decent number of later warblers also featured some arriving ORANGE-CROWNEDS including 2 today at Cupsogue Beach County Park and another at Hempstead Lake State Park while last Saturday singles were spotted on Randall’s Island and in Prospect Park.
Several DICKCISSELS included birds noted today at Robert Moses State Park and the Suffolk County Farm and Education Center in Yaphank while other seasonal arrivals of interest have included more AMERICAN PIPITS and PURPLE FINCHES and a very few PINE SISKINS and FOX SPARROWS.
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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