– RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* May. 21, 2021
* NYNY2105.21
– Birds mentioned
WESTERN GREBE+
RUFF+
ATLANTIC PUFFIN+
WOOD STORK+
BROWN BOOBY+
BICKNELL’S THRUSH+
BLACK-THROATED GRAY WARBLER+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)
KING EIDER
CHUCK-WILL’S-WIDOW
Common Gallinule
Stilt Sandpiper
WILSON’S PHALAROPE
Parasitic Jaeger
Dovekie
Razorbill
ICELAND GULL
GLAUCOUS GULL
GULL-BILLED TERN
Black Tern
Roseate Tern
Royal Tern
Wilson’s Storm-Petrel
Northern Fulmar
Sooty Shearwater
Manx Shearwater
Least Bittern
Red-headed Woodpecker
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Acadian Flycatcher
Alder Flycatcher
Philadelphia Vireo
Gray-cheeked Thrush
Purple Finch
Red Crossbill
Pine Siskin
PROTHONOTARY WARBLER
Orange-crowned Warbler
Mourning Warbler
Kentucky Warbler
Cerulean Warbler
Bay-breasted Warbler
YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER
SUMMER TANAGER
BLUE GROSBEAK
– Transcript
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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, May 21st 2021 at 11pm. The highlights of today’s tape are WOOD STORK, RUFF, a NOAA offshore boat report including BROWN BOOBY and ATLANTIC PUFFIN, KING EIDER, CHUCK-WILL’S-WIDOW, WILSON’S PHALAROPE, GLAUCOUS GULL, ICELAND GULL, GULL-BILLED TERN, PROTHONOTARY WARBLER, YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER, SUMMER TANAGER, BLUE GROSBEAK and more.
Of last Friday’s three exceptional rarities only the WOOD STORK was seen subsequently and this only Saturday morning off Baycrest Avenue in West Hampton with no reports of the WESTERN GREBE or BLACK-THROATED GRAY WARBLER. However on Monday and Tuesday a RUFF in changing plumage was photographed on Moriches Island in East Moriches. We have no subsequent reports.
A NOAA research vessel last Saturday made a transect through New York waters 50 or so miles offshore and among the birds recorded were an adult BROWN BOOBY, a PARASITIC JAEGER, 5 DOVEKIES, a RAZORBILL and 9 ATLANTIC PUFFINS, 3 NORTHERN FULMAR, 76 SOOTY and 7 MANX SHEARWATERS and 18 WILSON’S STORM-PETRELS.
Lingering KING EIDER included the pair at Great Kills Park last weekend and a female off Nickerson Beach Wednesday to today. Also at Nickerson this week among the Common Terns and Black Skimmers were 2 GULL-BILLED TERNS and a BLACK TERN Wednesday and 1 or 2 ROSEATE TERNS. Another GULL-BILLED TERN was noted Wednesday at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge but surprising on Thursday were a single immature GLAUCOUS and ICELAND GULLS roosting on the mudflats south of the West Pond. A COMMON GALLINULE has also been on the East Pond at the refuge lately. A ROYAL TERN flew by Hewlett Hassock in Hewlett Bay Tuesday.
A LEAST BITTERN was a nice find in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden Wednesday and Thursday.
Shorebirds visiting Miller Field in New Dorp on Staten Island recently featured a WILSON’S PHALAROPE on Wednesday and a STILT SANDPIPER Thursday.
A CHUCK-WILL’S-WIDOW has been heard calling recently near the tip of Breezy Point.
A RED-HEADED WOODPECKER visited the Rockefeller State Park Preserve in Westchester today.
With most of the spring’s migrant warblers hustling through our area in recent days due to the consistently good conditions, numbers locally have been in sharp decline. This week’s rarer warblers did include a YELLOW-THROATED in lower Manhattan’s Canal Park Saturday followed by one in Central Park Sunday as well as the continuing bird at Bayard Cutting Arboretum in Great River while a PROTHONOTARY WARBLER was seen around the lake in Central Park Sunday through Tuesday. A KENTUCKY WARBLER was photographed Monday in Laurel Hollows south of Cold Spring. Also coming through were a nice number of BAY-BREASTED and several MOURNING WARBLERS plus a CERULEAN in Central Park Thursday and an ORANGE-CROWNED reported from Prospect Park last Saturday.
Other migrants have featured OLIVE-SIDED and various empidonax flycatchers including ALDER and ACADIAN and various thrushes including GRAY-CHEEKED / BICKNELL’S types.
A PHILADELPHIA VIREO was photographed Wednesday in Central Park where a couple of SUMMER TANAGERS and up to 3 BLUE GROSBEAKS were present to Tuesday and beyond and there still have been small numbers of PINE SISKINS and PURPLE FINCHES while RED CROSSBILLS included 5 at Hunter’s Garden in Eastport Monday and 2 still along Paumanok Trail near Jones Pond off Schultz Road in Manorville today.
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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