– RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Jun. 16, 2023
* NYNY2306.16
– Birds mentioned
BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING-DUCK+
ARCTIC TERN+
SANDWICH TERN+
NEOTROPIC CORMORANT+
MISSISSIPPI KITE+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)
WILSON’S PHALAROPE
RED-NECKED PHALAROPE
POMARINE JAEGER
Parasitic Jaeger
BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKE
Gull-billed Tern
Caspian Tern
Black Tern
Roseate Tern
Royal Tern
Wilson’s Storm-Petrel
Cory’s Shearwater
Sooty Shearwater
AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN
BROWN PELICAN
Glossy Ibis
Red-headed Woodpecker
Acadian Flycatcher
Alder Flycatcher
Brown Creeper
Winter Wren
RED CROSSBILL
Northern Waterthrush
Hooded Warbler
Magnolia Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER
SUMMER 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, June 16th 2023 at 11pm. The highlights of today’s tape are NEOTROPIC CORMORANT, BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING-DUCK, MISSISSIPPI KITE, AMERICAN WHITE and BROWN PELICANS, SANDWICH and ARCTIC TERNS, POMARINE JAEGER, RED-NECKED and WILSON’S PHALAROPES, BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKE, RED CROSSBILL, YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER, SUMMER TANAGER, BLUE GROSBEAK and much more.
Last Sunday afternoon an immature NEOTROPIC CORMORANT was spotted sitting with Double-crested Cormorants on the west side of the pond at Wolfe’s Pond Park on Staten Island. The bird was relocated there on Tuesday midday and again Wednesday morning but has not been found there since. Also on Staten Island last Saturday 3 BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING-DUCKS were photographed in the later afternoon at a pond off Freedom Street in the New Creek Watershed but were not seen the following days.
An immature MISSISSIPPI KITE passing over the Lenoir Preserve in Yonkers last Saturday was today followed by another spotted over Blue Heron Park in the southeast Annadale section of Staten Island.
An AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN, first noted off Sandy Hook in New Jersey on Thursday, could later that day be seen from Staten Island around Raritan Bay and today was still lingering in the same area moving into Lower Bay south of the Verrazzano Bridge where it was also visible from Brooklyn sites at Gravesend Bay. A few continuing sightings of BROWN PELICANS offshore on the Atlantic Ocean included 3 off Jones Beach and one off Staten Island Sunday, 6 off Nickerson Beach Monday and one moving by Fire Island today.
At Breezy Point today an adult SANDWICH TERN came in and sat on the beach in a mixed tern flock but moved on shortly thereafter. Nickerson Beach this week provided good tern variety with single ARCTIC TERNS reported there Saturday through Monday along with a peak of 3 BLACK TERNS last Saturday and continual sightings of GULL-BILLED, ROSEATE and ROYAL TERNS around the colony. Two GULL-BILLED TERNS were also off the West Pond at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge last Saturday. A CASPIAN TERN visited Wolfe’s Pond Park Monday, a BLACK TERN appeared at Breezy Point Monday and an adult BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKE passed by Mecox Inlet Sunday.
A POMARINE JAEGER was photographed Sunday on the beach east of Smith Point County Park and other pelagics featured some WILSON’S STORM-PETRELS offshore including 9 off Breezy Point Monday as well as a few SOOTY and CORY’S SHEARWATERS and PARASITIC JAEGERS.
A RED-NECKED PHALAROPE was also reported moving off Cupsogue Beach County Park last Sunday. The female WILSON’S PHALAROPE visited Jamaica Bay’s West Pond last Friday.
Two RED CROSSBILLS were noted again in the Paumanok Trail and surrounding area in Calverton on Wednesday with RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS also in that region. Two YELLOW-THROATED WARBLERS continue at the Bayard Cutting Arboretum, single SUMMER TANAGERS were noted in Central Park Tuesday and at Brooklyn Bridge Park Thursday and BLUE GROSBEAKS continue at the Calverton Grasslands.
The Greenwich-Stamford Summer Bird Count held last weekend including much of eastern Westchester tallying 132 species including GLOSSY IBIS, 2 BLACK TERNS, ACADIAN and ALDER FLYCATCHERS, BROWN CREEPER, WINTER WREN, MAGNOLIA, BLACKPOLL and HOODED WARBLERS and NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH.
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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