– RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Apr. 7, 2023
* NYNY2304.07
– Birds mentioned
MOTTLED DUCK+
GLAUCOUS-WINGED GULL+
WESTERN MEADOWLARK+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)
Chimney Swift
Least Sandpiper
Lesser Yellowlegs
Razorbill
BLACK-HEADED GULL
Iceland Gull
CASPIAN TERN
Forster’s Tern
Northern Gannet
Little Blue Heron
Tricolored Heron
Green Heron
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
Glossy Ibis
Broad-winged Hawk
RED-HEADED WOODPECKER
White-eyed Vireo
Blue-headed Vireo
Bank Swallow
House Wren
Purple Finch
LAPLAND LONGSPUR
LARK SPARROW
FOX SPARROW (“Sooty” type)
Vesper Sparrow
YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD
Boat-tailed Grackle
Black-and-white Warbler
Northern Parula
YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER
– 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 7th 2023 at 11pm. The highlights of today’s tape are an apparent GLAUCOUS-WINGED GULL, MOTTLED DUCK, WESTERN MEADOWLARK, “SOOTY” FOX SPARROW, YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD, BLACK-HEADED GULL, CASPIAN TERN, RED-HEADED WOODPECKER, LAPLAND LONGSPUR, LARK SPARROW, YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER, spring migrants and more.
An interesting gull was photographed last Friday afternoon March 31st in the parking lot at Orchard Beach in Pelham Bay Park and over last weekend was analyzed by several birders who came to the conclusion that this was an immature GLAUCOUS-WINGED GULL. Unfortunately once this information was circulated subsequent searches were unsuccessful in refinding this gull. If accepted by NYSARC this would be a first NYS record.
The drake MOTTLED DUCK continues in Amityville where it is usually seen around the southern end of Avon Lake often hiding in shrubbery along the west side and thus best viewed from East Lake Drive.
The apparent WESTERN MEADOWLARK was still present yesterday at Brooklyn’s Bush Terminal Piers Park. Look for it around the […] vacant lot on the left as you walk into the park where it does perch in trees before flying over to the shoreline vegetation along the cove on the right side of the walkway.
The SOOTY-type FOX SPARROW was last reported on Monday in Brooklyn Bridge Park where it’s seen usually in the denser vegetation around the southwest corner of the Pier 3 lawn.
Today at Croton Point Park up in Westchester a female YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD was spotted feeding with other birds on the eastern side of the landfill as you enter the park but could not be relocated later among hundreds of icterids gathering there. However, there were also one or two male LAPLAND LONGSPURS in decent plumage circulating around the landfill area.
A BLACK-HEADED GULL was photographed yesterday at the Bellport Bay Yacht Club and late ICELAND GULLS were spotted in northern Manhattan Saturday, Queens on Sunday and in the Bronx Wednesday.
Single CASPIAN TERNS appeared at Meadow Lake in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park Wednesday and at Alley Pond Park Thursday. Recently NORTHERN GANNETS have been present in high numbers off Long Island’s south shore some also visiting western Long Island Sound where a RAZORBILL was seen off Rye last Saturday and visiting Marshlands Conservancy yesterday and today have been a BOAT-TAILED GRACKLE and 5 GLOSSY IBIS.
The previously noted LARK and VESPER SPARROWS at Pelham Bay Park were seen together there on Monday but not since.
The RED-HEADED WOODPECKER was still at Marine Park in Brooklyn last Sunday near the intersection of Stewart Street and Avenue T.
YELLOW-THROATED WARBLERS were back at the Bayard Cutting Arboretum in Great River as of Tuesday with another on Shelter Island today.
Among an increasing number of new arrivals this week have been CHIMNEY SWIFT, LEAST SANDPIPER, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, FORSTER’S TERN, LITTLE BLUE, TRICOLORED and GREEN HERONS, YELLOW-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON and BROAD-WINGED HAWK. Among the passerines BLUE-HEADED and WHITE-EYED VIREOS, BANK SWALLOW, HOUSE WREN, BLACK-AND-WHITE WARBLER and NORTHERN PARULA plus some PURPLE FINCHES.
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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