-RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Sept. 1, 2023
* NYNY2309.01
– Birds Mentioned
COMMON RINGED PLOVER+
GREAT SKUA+
NEOTROPIC CORMORANT+
Mississippi Kite (slightly extralimital)+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)
AMERICAN AVOCET
American Golden-Plover
Whimbrel
HUDSONIAN GODWIT
MARBLED GODWIT
Baird’s Sandpiper
BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER
Western Sandpiper
Parasitic Jaeger
LONG-TAILED JAEGER
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Gull-billed Tern
Caspian Tern
Royal Tern
BROWN PELICAN
Philadelphia Vireo
Grasshopper Sparrow
LARK SPARROW
YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT
GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER
PROTHONOTARY WARBLER
CONNECTICUT WARBLER
BLUE GROSBEAK
DICKCISSEL
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, September 1, 2023 at 11:00 p.m. The highlights of today’s tape are COMMON RINGED PLOVER, NEOTROPIC CORMORANT, GREAT SKUA and LONG-TAILED JAEGER, BROWN PELICAN, AMERICAN AVOCET, MARBLED and HUDSONIAN GODWITS, BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER, LARK SPARROW, YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT, GOLDEN-WINGED, PROTHONOTARY and CONNECTICUT WARBLERS, BLUE GROSBEAK, DICKISSEL and more.
The COMMON RINGED PLOVER found on August 19th out at Old Inlet in Bellport Bay was last seen there around mid-day last Monday. A nice variety of Shorebirds there that day also featured one HUDSONIAN and five MARBLED GODWITS, 7 WHIMBREL, and 1 each of AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER, BUFF-BREASTED and BAIRD’S SANDPIPERS, while among the TERNS there were 3 CASPIAN and around 60 ROYAL. This site is reached by walking west about 2 miles along the beach from the parking lot at Smith Point County Park in Shirley.
The Staten Island NEOTROPIC CORMORANT was seen again Tuesday along Lemon Creek as viewed from the bridge on Hylan Boulevard, and the one along the Newburgh waterfront in Orange County is still present.
Two interesting pelagic birds last weekend began with a Skua photographed early last Saturday moving east off Smith Point County Park, an analysis of the photos pointing to this bird as an immature GREAT SKUA. Then on Sunday morning a Jaeger photographed from a boat off Eaton’s Neck in Long Island Sound proved to be a dark immature LONG-TAILED JAEGER – two great finds.
On Wednesday 7 BROWN PELICANS were lounging on the shore at Jones Beach West End until flushed by a truck, and 3 PARASITIC JAEGERS were spotted offshore.
The 2 lingering AMERICAN AVOCETS were still visiting Mecox Bay near the inlet yesterday, and an HUDSONIAN GODWIT along with 3 WESTERN SANDPIPERS and 3 CASPIAN TERNS were in the Field 7 puddles at Heckscher State Park last Wednesday.
Other BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPERS included one at Jones Beach West End last Saturday and one on the Route 51 Fields in Eastport Wednesday.
At Breezy Point Sunday there were 4 GULL-BILLED TERNS and 18 LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS.
Slightly extralimital, a MISSISSIPPI KITE passed over the Quaker Ridge hawk watch in northwestern Greenwich Thursday, heading for Westchester.
Last Sunday a GRASSHOPPER SPARROW visited Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, and a LARK SPARROW was found at Watch Hill on Fire Island, with another LARK SPARROW appearing on the landfill at Croton Point Park on Wednesday.
Two YELLOW-BREASTED CHATS were banded at the JFK Sanctuary at Tobay last Saturday, and another appeared at Conference House Park on Staten Island Sunday.
Among the rarer fall WARBLERS, a GOLDEN-WINGED visited Central Park Wednesday and Thursday, and another was found in Prospect Park today, while early CONNECTICUTS were reported yesterday in Central Park and at Strack Pond in Forest Park, Queens. Strack Pond also produced a PROTHONOTARY Tuesday, with another in Manhattan’s Bryant Park today, while the one in Green-Wood Cemetery was last seen last Saturday.
At least three BLUE GROSBEAKS were noted last Saturday at the Suffolk County Farm and Education Center off Yaphank Avenue, and a DICKCISSEL was noted in Broad Channel yesterday. A couple of PHILADELPHIA VIREOS were also reported this week.
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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