– RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Mar. 1, 2024
* NYNY2403.01
– Birds mentioned
RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD+
THICK-BILLED MURRE+
SWAINSON’S HAWK+
PAINTED BUNTING+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)
GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE
TUFTED DUCK
KING EIDER
HARLEQUIN DUCK
Red-necked Grebe
SANDHILL CRANE
DOVEKIE
Razorbill
Black-legged Kittiwake
BLACK-HEADED GULL
Iceland Gull
GLAUCOUS GULL
Red-headed Woodpecker
LAPLAND LONGSPUR
YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER (western subspecies “Audubon’s” form)
SUMMER TANAGER
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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
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Greetings. This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for Friday, March 1st, 2024 at 11 pm. The highlights of today’s tape are RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD, PAINTED BUNTING, SWAINSON’S HAWK, SANDHILL CRANE, DOVEKIE and THICK-BILLED MURRE, TUFTED DUCK along with GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE, KING EIDER and HARLEQUIN DUCK, BLACK-HEADED and GLAUCOUS GULLS, LAPLAND LONGSPUR, “Audubon’s” YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER, SUMMER TANAGER and more.
Brooklyn’s first RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD continues in Prospect Park still today visiting a hummingbird feeder as well as nearby honeysuckle plants near the hairpin turn on the Prospect Park Lake side of Breeze Hill.
Also remaining around its chosen area this week has been the female type PAINTED BUNTING at Hempstead Lake State Park. This bird continues through today feeding around the tall grasses on the downward slope of Lake Drive as it transverses the southern end of Hempstead Lake. Park in field 3 across from the southwest corner of the lake and take a path that goes along the bottom of the downward slope below Lake Drive. Watch for the BUNTING in the often accompanying sparrow flock especially as the path gets closer to McDonald’s Pond.
And likely returning for its second late winter in Brooklyn the immature SWAINSON’S HAWK was first spotted last Monday over Green-wood Cemetery but since then has moved a little west over to the area around the Sim’s Municipal Recycling Center, a favorite area last winter, located at the end of 29th Street just west of 2nd Avenue. Watch for the hawk sitting on buildings, structures, or garbage piles in this area though it might also fly around the surrounding neighborhood or back towards Green-wood Cemetery.
Getting their return into the northeast on Tuesday a flock of 7 SANDHILL CRANES were first spotted midday over Green-wood Cemetery and then a little later over Brooklyn’s Park Slope as the birds continued in a northerly direction.
A DOVEKIE was a nice find off the Coast Guard Station at Jones Beach West End last Saturday, the bird moving out Jones Inlet. A THICK-BILLED MURRE was photographed Sunday morning at Crooke’s Point at Great Kills Park on Staten Island and coastal RAZORBILLS continuing locally included 58 off Breezy Point last Saturday and 34 around Jones Inlet Sunday.
A TUFTED DUCK was found this morning at the Ludlow’s Creek Tidal Wetlands in Oakdale on Long Island. The duck has been moving along the creek with a flock of scaup. There’s a small parking area near the end of Franklin Road that is next to the trail giving access to the creek. Other waterfowl feature 2 GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GEESE seen again Tuesday at the Buffalo Farm off Reeves Avenue in Riverhead and another still on the pond off Bowman Avenue in Rye Brook. A drake KING EIDER was again present in Gardiners Bay on Monday and a peak of 26 HARLEQUIN DUCKS were counted off the Jones Beach West End jetties Sunday with 4 more still off Orient Point Tuesday. Three RED-NECKED GREBES were off Pelham Bay Park Saturday.
The immature BLACK-HEADED GULL was still around the beach at Jones Beach West End last weekend and a BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKE was off Montauk Point Saturday. A GLAUCOUS GULL has continued around the Fulton Fish Market at Hunts Point in the Bronx this week occasionally joined by an ICELAND GULL with another ICELAND still at Bush Terminal Piers Park last Saturday.
RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS remain in Westchester at Croton Point Park and Marshlands Conservancy. Last Sunday a LAPLAND LONGSPUR was reported in a Horned Lark flock at Jones Beach West End and the “Audubon’s” YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER was also seen there that day. A female SUMMER TANAGER again visited a private feeder in Commack today.
Our sympathies for Flaco the Eurasian Eagle-Owl recently found deceased in Manhattan.
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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