-RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Aug. 04, 2023
* NYNY2308.04
– Birds Mentioned
NEOTROPIC CORMORANT (extralimital)+
Possible ELAENIA Species+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)
RED-NECKED GREBE
Whimbrel
Stilt Sandpiper
White-rumped Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
Long-billed Dowitcher
WILSON’S PHALAROPE
RED-NECKED PHALAROPE
POMARINE JAEGER
GULL-BILLED TERN
Caspian Tern
Cory’s Shearwater
Great Shearwater
BROWN PELICAN
Red-headed Woodpecker
OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER
RED CROSSBILL
Ovenbird
Worm-eating Warbler
Louisiana Waterthrush
Blue-winged Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler
Tennessee Warbler
Cerulean Warbler
Bay-breasted Warbler
|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: Gail Benson
Greetings! This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for Friday, August 4, 2023 at 11:00 p.m.
The highlights of today’s tape are BROWN PELICAN, extralimital NEOTROPIC CORMORANT, an enigmatic FLYCATCHER, POMARINE JAEGER, RED-NECKED GREBE, RED-NECKED PHALAROPE, WILSON’S PHALAROPE, GULL-BILLED TERN, OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER, RED CROSSBILL and more.
A few BROWN PELICANS continue to visit our Atlantic coastline, with recent sightings including two off Democrat Point at the western end of Robert Moses State Park Thursday and up to six seen off Great Kills Park on Staten Island today.
Some SHEARWATERS were also present off Moses Park yesterday, with at least 3 GREAT and 20 CORY’S seen offshore. Also, a POMARINE JAEGER, present since mid-July on eastern Long Island around Sagg Pond in Bridgehampton, has moved a little west and since Monday has been seen around the bayside or on the beach at Mecox inlet; parking for non-residents there can be problematic.
The slightly extralimital NEOTROPIC CORMORANT remains in the Newburgh-Beacon area along the Hudson, now visiting the Beacon waterfront on a more regular basis but also returning to the area adjacent to the Global Oil Terminal where it had been previously.
Perhaps the week’s actual highlight and most interesting puzzle may never get resolved, but a FLYCATCHER, photographed at Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery last Sunday and entered in eBird as a Least Flycatcher, showed sufficient field characters to indicate it might possibly be an ELAENIA, a rather difficult group of mostly South American birds; this bird resembles the similar looking Small-billed and White-crested Elaenias but will require much more research to arrive at a definitive identification, if possible. Unfortunately, it could not be relocated subsequently.
A RED-NECKED GREBE, in breeding plumage and apparently summering, was seen again off Pelham Bay Park last Monday.
At Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge efforts continue to draw down the East Pond to a desirable level for Shorebirds, and birds are appearing especially around the south end, but the West Pond too has been productive in the interim. Last Monday, a RED-NECKED PHALAROPE was found at the southeast corner of the West Pond and continued there at least through yesterday. It was joined there on Wednesday by a WILSON’S PHALAROPE, which moved over to the East Pond’s south end later on Thursday afternoon. Among the other Shorebirds at the refuge has been a WHIMBREL out in the Bay itself Sunday, where GULL-BILLED TERN also continues, while the ponds have featured such species as STILT, PECTORAL, WHITE-RUMPED, and WESTERN SANDPIPERS and LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER mixed in with the more common migrants.
CASPIAN TERNS have been seen recently along the Hudson River from Piermont Pier to Croton Point as well as at sites such as Jamaica Bay and Sagg Pond.
Two RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS were still along the Paumanok Trail near Jones Pond off Schultz Road in Manorville on Tuesday, and an OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER visited Green-Wood Cemetery Monday.
Six RED CROSSBILLS were recorded in the Walking Dunes section of Hither Hills State Park yesterday, and among some early migrant WARBLERS this week have been OVENBIRD, WORM-EATING, LOUISIANA WATERTHRUSH, BLUE-WINGED, BLACK-AND-WHITE, TENNESSEE and BAY-BREASTED, plus a CERULEAN in Central Park Wednesday.
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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