NYC Area Rare Bird Alert, 10/9/2026

-RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Oct. 09, 2026
* NYNY2610.09

– Birds Mentioned:

SAY’S PHOEBE+
LECONTE’S SPARROW+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

EARED GREBE
Sora
American Golden-Plover
Hudsonian Whimbrel
Hudsonian Godwit
Long-billed Dowitcher
Wilson’s Phalarope
Caspian Tern
Royal Tern
Lesser Black-backed Gull
American Bittern
WESTERN CATTLE-EGRET
Red-headed Woodpecker
ASH-THROATED FLYCATCHER
CLAY-COLORED SPARROW
LARK SPARROW
Vesper Sparrow
Yellow-breasted Chat
YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD
Orange-crowned Warbler
Connecticut Warbler
YELLOW-THROATED 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

[~BEGIN RBA TAPE~]

Greetings! This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for Friday, October 9,
2026 at 11:00 pm.The highlights of today’s tape are SAY’S PHOEBE,
ASH-THROATED FLYCATCHER, LECONTE’S SPARROW, YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD,
EARED GREBE, WESTERN CATTLE-EGRET, LARK and CLAY-COLORED SPARROWS,
YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER, BLUE GROSBEAK, DICKCISSEL and more.

A week without a major storm still was able to produce some great
birds, topped nicely by the SAY’S PHOEBE found last Saturday at
Tibbetts Brook Park in Yonkers, this accommodating individual nicely
viewed during its stay there through Monday.

This was in contrast to the ASH-THROATED FLYCATCHER spotted in Inwood
Hill Park on Monday and followed with some difficulty as it moved
around the park into the later afternoon but not seen thereafter.

Another nice find was the LECONTE’S SPARROW seen Wednesday and
Thursday as it skulked within the vegetation in Kissena Park in
Queens.

An adult male YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD was observed a few times Sunday
and Monday when it would occasionally perch in trees visible from the
hawk watch site at Robert Moses State Park on Fire Island.

The EARED GREBE, a long-lingering visitor to the West Pond at Jamaica
Bay Wildlife Refuge, was seen there over last weekend and again
yesterday.

Two WESTERN CATTLE-EGRETS seen this morning at Jacob Riis Park in
Queens ultimately flew southwest, and other species on the beach there
included 10 LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS and 110 ROYAL TERNS.

Notable shorebirds this week included 2 AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVERS last
Saturday at Plumb Beach, 3 at Mecox Inlet today, and 1 Thursday and
Friday along the Hudson River shoreline in Dobbs Ferry, an HUDSONIAN
WHIMBREL Tuesday at Robert Moses State Park, an HUDSONIAN GODWIT
Wednesday and today at Mecox Inlet, and at Jamaica Bay on the East
Pond, up to 4 or more LONG-BILLED DOWITCHERS plus a WILSON’S PHALAROPE
to Monday.

CASPIAN TERNS included 1 at Plumb Beach Sunday and 2 at Mecox today,
while an AMERICAN BITTERN was in Central Park yesterday and today, and
a SORA was hanging on in Bryant Park in Manhattan through today.

Single RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS were seen at at least 5 separate
locations during the week.

A LARK SPARROW was at Moses Park Field 2 on Tuesday, and a few
CLAY-COLORED SPARROWS included singles in Green-Wood Cemetery Saturday
to Thursday, on Randalls Island Monday, in Prospect Park Tuesday and
in Piermont Thursday, while last Saturday VESPER SPARROW was found in
both Inwood Hill Park and Kissena Park.

A YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT was at Croton Point Park last Saturday, while
most unexpected among the WARBLERS was a YELLOW-THROATED found
Wednesday at Montauk Point along the Seal Haulout Trail.  Also notable
were the few ORANGE-CROWNEDS found and CONNECTICUT uncovered in
Prospect, Bush Terminal Piers and Pelham Bay Parks.

BLUE GROSBEAKS were reported at Planting Fields Arboretum last
Saturday and Sunken Meadow State Park Wednesday, with 2 today at East
Farm Preserve in Head of the Harbor south of Stony Brook.  Dickcissels
included 1 at The Battery in Manhattan Thursday and Friday and 1 in
Prospect Park 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.

– End transcript

NYC Area Rare Bird Alert, 10/2/2026

– RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Oct. 2, 2026
* NYNY2610.02

– Birds mentioned
LONG-TAILED JAEGER+
SOUTH POLAR SKUA+
LEACH’S STORM-PETREL+
NORTHERN FULMAR+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

EARED GREBE
AMERICAN AVOCET
American Golden-Plover
Upland Sandpiper
Whimbrel
HUDSONIAN GODWIT
MARBLED GODWIT
RED-NECKED PHALAROPE
Parasitic Jaeger
BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKE
Wilson’s Storm-Petrel
Cory’s Shearwater
Scopoli’s Shearwater
Great Shearwater
Sooty Shearwater
Manx Shearwater
Northern Gannet
BROWN PELICAN
Red-headed Woodpecker
LAPLAND LONGSPUR
CLAY-COLORED SPARROW
LARK SPARROW
Yellow-breasted Chat
SUMMER TANAGER
BLUE GROSBEAK
DICKCISSEL

– 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, October 2nd 2026 at 11pm. The highlights of today’s tape are such storm related birds as SOUTH POLAR SKUA, NORTHERN FULMAR, LEACH’S STORM-PETREL, LONG-TAILED JAEGER and BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKE among others plus BROWN PELICAN, EARED GREBE, AMERICAN AVOCET, MARBLED and HUDSONIAN GODWITS, RED-NECKED PHALAROPE, LAPLAND LONGSPUR, LARK and CLAY-COLORED SPARROWS, SUMMER TANAGER, BLUE GROSBEAK, DICKCISSEL and more.

A nor’easter, hammering our shores since Wednesday, September 23rd, finally lessened its grip on Monday but in the interim it provided us with some coastal excitement topped by the SOUTH POLAR SKUA nicely photographed off Montauk Point last Saturday. Then on Sunday at the Point a NORTHERN FULMAR was glimpsed cruising through the waves where other pelagics included a few PARASITIC JAEGERS plus CORY’S, SCOPOLI’S, GREAT, SOOTY and MANX SHEARWATERS and NORTHERN GANNETS in varying numbers.

Meanwhile in western Long Island Sound over the weekend an uncertain number of LEACH’S and WILSON’S STORM-PETRELS along with some PARASITIC JAEGERS gathered in the waters east of the Throgs Neck Bridge between Fort Totten in Queens and Belden Point on City Island. Despite generally poor viewing conditions a LONG-TAILED JAEGER was also identified off Fort Totten and City Island on Saturday and a juvenile BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKE was seen and photographed off City Island over the weekend.

A RED-NECKED PHALAROPE was also found Saturday at Prospect Point on Long Island’s north shore at Sam’s Point. A BROWN PELICAN appeared Thursday on the ocean as viewed from the Fire Island hawkwatch site at Robert Moses State Park and the EARED GREBE at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge was still on the West Pond today.

Various shorebirds featured the AMERICAN AVOCET still at the north end of the East Pond at Jamaica Bay last Monday. An AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER at Floyd Bennett Field Saturday to Monday was followed by 3 off Hulse Landing Road in Calverton Wednesday and 4 at Plumb Beach today. An UPLAND SANDPIPER was heard over Hulse Landing Road Wednesday. An HUDSONIAN WHIMBREL visited Jones Beach field 6 Monday. An HUDSONIAN GODWIT at Belden Point on City Island Saturday was followed by 2 at Timber Point Golf Course Tuesday and possibly today and 3 MARBLED GODWITS were on Goose Island off Massapequa Wednesday.

Single RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS were noted in Green-wood Cemetery Tuesday, at Robert Moses State Park Thursday and at Tompkins Square Park in Manhattan today.

A LAPLAND LONGSPUR at Lake Montauk Sunday was followed by one at Robert Moses State Park today. A LARK SPARROW was seen at Floyd Bennett Field Monday and Wednesday and single CLAY-COLORED SPARROWS were spotted Monday in Central Park, Fort Totten and on Governors Island with another in Prospect Park today.

A YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT was seen on Governors Island Monday and Tuesday with another at the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx Wednesday. Single SUMMER TANAGERS were reported from Central Park Tuesday and Wednesday, at Robert Moses State Park Tuesday and at the South Fork Natural History Museum Wednesday. Eight BLUE GROSBEAK reports included individuals at Floyd Bennett Field, Robert Moses State Park, Sunken Meadow State Park, Planting Fields Arboretum and the Suffolk County Farm and Education Center while DICKCISSELS included one at Piermont Pier Thursday, one on Green-wood Cemetery Thursday and Friday and one at Kensico Reservoir in Westchester Thursday along with a BLUE GROSBEAK.

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.

– End transcript

NYC Area Rare Bird Alert, 9/25/2026

– RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Sep. 25, 2026
* NYNY2609.25

– Birds mentioned
LEACH’S STORM-PETREL+
WHITE IBIS+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

EARED GREBE
Virginia Rail
Sora
AMERICAN AVOCET
AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER
Long-billed Dowitcher
WILSON’S PHALAROPE
BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER
Baird’s Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKE
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Caspian Tern
Black Tern
American Bittern
SEDGE WREN
Grasshopper Sparrow
CLAY-COLORED SPARROW
LARK SPARROW
Yellow-breasted Chat
Orange-crowned Warbler
Connecticut Warbler
Hooded Warbler
SUMMER TANAGER
BLUE GROSBEAK
DICKCISSEL

– 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, September 25th 2026 at 11pm. The highlights of today’s tape are EARED GREBE, WHITE IBIS, SEDGE WREN, LEACH’S STORM-PETREL, AMERICAN AVOCET, AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER, BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER, WILSON’S PHALAROPE, BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKE, CLAY-COLORED SPARROW and LARK SPARROWS, SUMMER TANAGER, BLUE GROSBEAK, DICKCISSEL, and more.

Still lingering at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, the EARED GREBE was spotted as recently as Tuesday on the West Pond and 3 AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVERS were found on Bay Island south of the West Pond last Saturday. Over on the East Pond, which is still dealing with too high a water level, the AMERICAN AVOCET was noted at the north end both last Saturday and again today. Other shorebirds did include a LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER and a WESTERN SANDPIPER, a couple of CASPIAN TERNS continue, and along the pond edges there have been up to 4 SORAS and a VIRGINIA RAIL. An immature WHITE IBIS visited the Tobay JFK Memorial Wildlife Sanctuary Saturday and the SEDGE WREN spending time on private property in Manhasset was still there Tuesday along with a LARK SPARROW.

A couple of very interesting birds in western Long Island Sound began Wednesday with the appearance of a couple of LEACH’S STORM-PETRELS spotted off City Island in the Bronx. These birds were difficult to see generally due to distance and a very wind-blown water offshore. It did include one with a broken wing that was retrieved by a boat visiting Hart Island. This excitement continued Thursday and Friday as well both from Belden Point on City Island and by birders at Nassau sites like Stepping Stone Park that provide views into Eastchester Bay east of the Throgs Neck Bridge. These waters likely will continue to be rough this weekend but the conditions are also presumably responsible for the juvenile BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKE photographed off Belden Point Friday afternoon. Another LEACH’S STORM-PETREL was noted Thursday from Governors Island looking towards New Jersey and a STORM-PETREL was also spotted moving east well off Rye Thursday afternoon. A BLACK TERN was off City Island Sunday.

An AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER visited Piermont Pier Sunday to Wednesday and another was at Five Island Park in New Rochelle Wednesday. Two BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPERS were at Breezy Point last Saturday where 75 LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS and 3 CASPIAN TERNS were also present and a BAIRD’S SANDPIPER was at Heckscher State Park field 7 Saturday and Tuesday with a WILSON’S PHALAROPE at that spot yesterday.

An AMERICAN BITTERN visited Prospect Park Lake last Saturday and 98 LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS were counted at Robert Moses State Park last Sunday.

Notable landbirds this week, not a great one for migration, included a CLAY-COLORED SPARROW at Brooklyn Bridge Park Saturday and 2 GRASSHOPPER SPARROWS at Randall’s Island Tuesday plus a YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT at the Welwyn Preserve in Glen Cove Wednesday. Warblers included an ORANGE-CROWNED plus a few CONNECTICUT and HOODED. Reports of SUMMER TANAGER came from Hempstead Lake State Park Saturday, at Randall’s Island Sunday and Central Park much of the week and BLUE GROSBEAKS were encountered in Green-wood Cemetery Saturday, Fort Tilden Monday and Planting Fields Arboretum in Oyster Bay Wednesday while DICKCISSELS featured birds at Pelham Bay Saturday and Green-wood Wednesday and at the Lenoir Preserve and the Kensico Reservoir in Westchester 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.

– End transcript

NYC Area Rare Bird Alert, 9/18/2026

-RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Sept. 18, 2026
* NYNY2609.18

– Birds Mentioned:

WHITE IBIS+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

EARED GREBE
Virginia Rail
Sora
AMERICAN AVOCET
American Golden-Plover
HUDSONIAN GODWIT
Long-billed Dowitcher
Wilson’s Phalarope
RED-NECKED PHALAROPE
BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER
Western Sandpiper
Glaucous Gull
Black Tern
Red-headed Woodpecker
WESTERN KINGBIRD
SEDGE WREN
CLAY-COLORED SPARROW
LARK SPARROW
YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT
GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER
Connecticut Warbler
Mourning Warbler
Hooded Warbler
SUMMER TANAGER
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

[~BEGIN RBA TAPE~]

Greetings! This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for Friday, September
18, 2026 at 11:00 pm.  The highlights of today’s tape are WHITE IBIS,
WESTERN KINGBIRD, SEDGE WREN, EARED GREBE, AMERICAN AVOCET, RED-NECKED
PHALAROPE, HUDSONIAN GODWIT, BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER, LARK and
CLAY-COLORED SPARROWS, YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT, GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER,
SUMMER TANAGER, BLUE GROSBEAK, DICKCISSEL and more.

A continuing immature WHITE IBIS out in Orient at Brown’s Point Marsh
at least to Saturday was joined locally Thursday by a large incursion
of virtually all immature birds, commencing with 23 seen flying out
from the East Pond at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge early Thursday
morning; shortly thereafter an estimated 20 or more were viewed
feeding with egrets and herons in the tidal marshes at Oakwood Beach
on Staten Island just north of Great Hills Park, these ultimately
flying off to the southwest, and around noon a group of 4 immatures
was spotted at Gilgo, also soon moving on.  And there could be more to
come.

A WESTERN KINGBIRD appeared on Governors Island Saturday, and a SEDGE
WREN was heard and occasionally seen near the pollinator garden at
Caumsett State Park Saturday to Monday, with another also noted again
Tuesday on private property in Manhasset.

The EARED GREBE lingering on the West Pond at Jamaica Bay Wildlife
Refuge was still present Tuesday, while on the East Pond, where the
water level remains much higher than appropriate for the fall
shorebird season, nonetheless, the north end especially has attracted
an AMERICAN AVOCET, present Sunday through today, a couple of
HUDSONIAN GODWITS, one continuing through Thursday at least, up to
five WILSON’S PHALAROPES, with 2 present today, other shorebirds such
as LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER and WESTERN SANDPIPER, and along the edges
multiple SORAS and VIRGINIA RAIL.

0ther shorebirds featured scattered AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVERS, which on
Sunday included 14 at Nickerson Beach, 25 on a sod field in Miller
Place that also had a BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER, 7 off Mill Lane in
Mattituck and 1 on Jerome Reservoir in the Bronx again, with 2 at
Jones Beach West End Monday, while other BUFF- BREASTEDS featured 3 at
Breezy Point Tuesday, 1 Friday, and 1 at Fort Tilden Sunday.

Two RED-NECKED PHALAROPES dropped down on the Hudson River off
Piermont Pier today, and another was on the ocean off Hither Hills
Wednesday.

The summering GLAUCOUS GULL was at Coney Island Beach last weekend,
and 3 BLACK TERNS were photographed cruising over Prospect Park Lake
in the rain last Sunday.

A RED-HEADED WOODPECKER was in Green-Wood Cemetery last weekend and at
the Salt Marsh Nature Center at Marine Park today.

LARK SPARROWS included 2 on Governors Island Sunday, 1 in Green-Wood
Cemetery Monday, and 1 at the Fire Island hawk watch Monday and
Thursday, and CLAY-COLORED SPARROWS were noted in Prospect Park
Tuesday and Friday and at Floyd Bennett Field Thursday.

YELLOW-BREASTED CHATS were reported from Governors Island and Fire
Island Sunday, Planting Fields Arboretum in Brookville Wednesday and
Arshamomaque Preserve in Greenport today, and a good variety of
WARBLERS included a GOLDEN-WINGED in Prospect Park today, plus a few
CONNECTICUT, MOURNING and HOODED.

A SUMMER TANAGER was in Central Park’s north end Saturday and in
Tompkins Square Park today, and BLUE GROSBEAKS were found on Governors
Island Tuesday to Thursday, and Wednesday at Fort Totten Park in
Queens and at Planting Fields.

Single DICKCISSELS were noted in Central, Prospect and Kissena Parks
and at Breezy Point.

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.

– End transcript

NYC Area Rare Bird Alert, 9/11/2026

-RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Sept. 11, 2026
* NYNY2609.11

– Birds Mentioned:

WHITE IBIS+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

Virginia Rail
Sora
AMERICAN AVOCET
American Golden-Plover
UPLAND SANDPIPER
Hudsonian Whimbrel
HUDSONIAN GODWIT
MARBLED GODWIT
Wilson’s Phalarope
Red-necked Phalarope
BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER
BAIRD’S SANDPIPER
Western Sandpiper
Parasitic Jaeger
Glaucous Gull
Caspian Tern
Black Tern
Cory’s Shearwater
Scopoli’s Shearwater
Sooty Shearwater
Great Shearwater
Manx Shearwater
Great Egret
MISSISSIPPI KITE
RED-HEADED WOODPECKER
Philadelphia Vireo
SEDGE WREN
EVENING GROSBEAK
LARK SPARROW
YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT
GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER
CONNECTICUT WARBLER
SUMMER TANAGER

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

[~BEGIN RBA TAPE~]

Greetings! This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for Friday, September
11, 2026 at 11:00 pm.  The highlights of today’s tape are WHITE IBIS,
MISSISSIPPI KITE, SEDGE WREN, shorebirds including AMERICAN AVOCET,
UPLAND, BUFF-BREASTED and BAIRD’S SANDPIPERS, and MARBLED and
HUDSONIAN GODWITS, RED-HEADED WOODPECKER, EVENING GROSBEAK, LARK
SPARROW, YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT, GOLDEN-WINGED and CONNECTICUT WARBLERS,
SUMMER TANAGER and more.

An immature WHITE-IBIS appeared Thursday on the North Fork out at
Orient Beach State Park and was relocated Friday feeding with mostly
GREAT EGRETS at the Brown’s Point marsh off Narrow River Road.

An immature MISSISSIPPI KITE was spotted and photographed last
Saturday as it flew over Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx, and a SEDGE
WREN found last Sunday at Caumsett State Park was still heard today at
the grassland restoration site.

Good shorebird variety this week featured an AMERICAN AVOCET
continuing to visit the Oceanside Marine Nature Study Area at least to
Wednesday and an AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER out in Jamaica Bay last
Saturday, with singles today at Jerome Reservoir in the Bronx and out
at Heckscher State Park Field 7.  A MARBLED GODWIT was seen again
Sunday off Jones Beach Field 10, with 15 more today out at Old Inlet
in Bellport Bay, west of Smith Point County Park, where they were
joined by good numbers of shorebirds including 2 HUDSONIAN GODWITS, 6
HUDSONIAN WHIMBRELS, an AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER and a couple of WESTERN
SANDPIPERS, along with 3 CASPIAN TERNS.  Single HUDSONIAN GODWITS were
on Jamaica Bay’s East Pond to Wednesday and at the end of Piermont
Pier Monday, and an UPLAND SANDPIPER was heard Sunday at Fresh Kills
Park on Staten Island.  Lone BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPERS were noted on
eastern Long Island, with singles at Sagg Pond Saturday and Monday, at
Cupsogue Saturday and at Mecox Sunday, and single BAIRD’S SANDPIPERS
were noted at Sagg Pond Sunday and Mecox Wednesday. WILSON’S
PHALAROPES on Jamaica Bay’s East Pond since Tuesday peaked with 4 or 5
there today around the north end, that pond also featuring SORA and
VIRGINIA RAIL.

The GLAUCOUS GULL often seen at Coney Island Beach was still there
Wednesday, and a BLACK TERN was off City Island in the Bronx
Wednesday.

A boat trip off Montauk Monday featured a RED-NECKED PHALAROPE, a
PARASITIC JAEGER, and some CORY’S, SCOPOLI’S, GREAT, MANX and SOOTY
SHEARWATERS.

Single RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS visited Conference House Park on Staten
Island Saturday and Caumsett State Park Sunday.

Quite a surprise was a female EVENING GROSBEAK photographed in
Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery last Sunday.  LARK SPARROWS this week
featured 2 at Fresh Kills Park Sunday, 1 at Heckscher State Park
Monday, and 1 seen in Green-Wood Cemetery Tuesday and Thursday.

Several PHILADELPHIA VIREOS were reported during the week, and single
YELLOW-BREASTED CHATS appeared in Pelham Bay Park last Saturday,
followed by 1 in Brookfield Park on Staten Island Sunday, and another
in Central Park’s Ramble Monday.  A nice variety of WARBLERS included
GOLDEN-WINGED in Blydenburgh Park Saturday and Prospect Park Sunday
and CONNECTICUT today at Alley Pond Park and Green-Wood Cemetery.  A
female-type SUMMER TANAGER was found today in the north end of Central
Park.

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.

– End transcript

NYC Area Rare Bird Alert, 9/4/2026

– RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Sep. 4, 2026
* NYNY2609.04

– Birds mentioned
LONG-TAILED JAEGER+
SABINE’S GULL+
WHITE-TAILED TROPICBIRD+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

EARED GREBE
AMERICAN AVOCET
American Golden-Plover
Hudsonian Godwit
Marbled Godwit
Long-billed Dowitcher
Wilson’s Phalarope
Red-necked Phalarope
Buff-breasted Sandpiper
Baird’s Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
SANDWICH TERN
Wilson’s Storm-Petrel
LEACH’S STORM-PETREL
BAND-RUMPED STORM-PETREL
Cory’s Shearwater
Scopoli’s Shearwater
Great Shearwater
Sooty Shearwater
Sargasso Shearwater
BROWN BOOBY
BROWN PELICAN
WESTERN KINGBIRD
Lark Sparrow
Yellow-breasted Chat
Blue Grosbeak
Dickcissel

– 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, September 4th 2026 at 11pm. The highlights of today’s tape are pelagic trip results including WHITE-TAILED TROPICBIRD, SABINE’S GULL, LONG-TAILED JAEGER, BAND-RUMPED and LEACH’S STORM-PETRELS, and more plus BROWN BOOBY, SANDWICH TERN, EARED GREBE, BROWN PELICAN, WESTERN KINGBIRD, AMERICAN AVOCET, and other shorebirds and even more.

A 24-hour pelagic trip left Sheepshead Bay Sunday evening aboard the American Princess and by dawn, Monday morning, it reached the continental shelf. Among the first birds seen were a couple each of BAND-RUMPED and LEACH’S, along with many WILSON’S STORM-PETRELS plus numbers of CORY’S and GREAT SHEARWATERS and a SCOPOLI’S or two along with a few SARGASSO SHEARWATERS and quite exceptional was a superb show provided by an adult WHITE-TAILED TROPICBIRD followed later by an immature TROPICBIRD as well as several LONG-TAILED JAEGERS. Also excellent while heading back to Brooklyn was an exquisite immature SABINE’S GULL seen very nicely thanks to Captain Franks maneuvering and very high on the list of trip highlights were 2 WHALE SHARKS, the world’s largest fish, and a huge LOGGERHEAD SEA TURTLE, the world’s largest turtle. All in all an exceptional trip.

Amazingly, there were 2 other sightings of SABINE’S GULL locally this week, one during the Long Island north shore mini-pelagic off Northport last Saturday, this also recording 5 RED-NECKED PHALAROPES, and CORY’S, GREAT and SOOTY SHEARWATERS, and a second SABINE’S seen today off Sunken Meadow State Park noted off field 2 and later a little farther east. Sunken Meadow also earlier today produced a SANDWICH TERN sitting on the jetty there.

An immature BROWN BOOBY appeared on the Hudson River Tuesday spending most of the day moving between Piermont Pier and the Cuomo Bridge occasionally moving over to the Westchester side as well.

The EARED GREBE was still on the West Pond at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge last Sunday and the East Pond, at the north end, hosted 2 HUDSONIAN GODWITS plus some LONG-BILLED DOWITCHERS, and WESTERN SANDPIPERS plus 2 RED-NECKED PHALAROPES to Wednesday.

Other shorebirds this week have featured an AMERICAN AVOCET continuing to visit the Oceanside Marine Nature Study Area to today, WILSON’S PHALAROPE at Heckscher State Park last weekend and BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER at Jerome Reservoir last weekend, Smith Point County Park Monday, and Sagg Pond Tuesday, and on the Yaphank Avenue sod fields from Tuesday. Thursday there were 2 AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVERS on County Route 51 sod farms and another at Heckscher field 7, and BAIRD’S SANDPIPERS were noted at Heckscher Monday, and Sunken Meadow today. Good numbers of shorebirds have been gathering at Old Inlet in Bellport Bay about 2 miles west of Smith Point County Park and more unusual including up to 11 MARBLED GODWITS, 1 HUDSONIAN GODWIT, an AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER, and a BAIRD’S SANDPIPER recently.

A BROWN PELICAN moving east off Jones Beach Saturday was followed by 4 off Montauk Monday. A WESTERN KINGBIRD stayed at Caumsett State Park at least to Saturday and other notable passerines featured 2 LARK SPARROWS at Jones Beach to Saturday, single YELLOW-BREASTED CHATS in Bryant Park Thursday and at Rockefeller State Park Preserve today, BLUE GROSBEAK singles in Central Park Sunday, and on Governors Island today, and a few scattered DICKCISSELS.

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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NYC Area Rare Bird Alert, 8/28/2026

– RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Aug. 28, 2026
* NYNY2608.28

– Birds mentioned
LONG-TAILED JAEGER+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

EARED GREBE
AMERICAN AVOCET
AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER
UPLAND SANDPIPER
Whimbrel
Marbled Godwit
Wilson’s Snipe
Wilson’s Phalarope
BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER
Baird’s Sandpiper
White-rumped Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
Parasitic Jaeger
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Caspian Tern
SANDWICH TERN
Wilson’s Storm-Petrel
Cory’s Shearwater
Scopoli’s Shearwater
Great Shearwater
Sooty Shearwater
Manx Shearwater
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
WESTERN KINGBIRD
SEDGE WREN
LARK SPARROW
Yellow-breasted Chat
GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER
Mourning Warbler
Hooded Warbler
Cape May Warbler
Bay-breasted Warbler
Wilson’s Warbler
DICKCISSEL

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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, August 28th, 2026, at 11 pm. The highlights of today’s tape are SANDWICH TERN, EARED GREBE, WESTERN KINGBIRD, LONG-TAILED JAEGER and other pelagics, AMERICAN AVOCET, AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER, BUFF-BREASTED, UPLAND, and other sandpipers, SEDGE WREN, LARK SPARROW, GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER, and other warblers DICKCISSEL and more.

A non-breeding SANDWICH TERN was photographed during its brief visit to Plumb Beach Tuesday morning. Unfortunately not lingering as long as the EARED GREBE that was still on the West Pond at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge at least to Tuesday.

A WESTERN KINGBIRD showed up at Caumsett State Park Thursday and continued there through today. The first of hopefully several this Fall.

Seabird diversity offshore in the Atlantic continues while numbers are thinning out. The CRESLI whale watch trip out of Montauk last Monday produced an eye-popping, dark juvenile LONG-TAILED JAEGER along with a PARASITIC JAEGER, over 3,000 WILSON’S STORM-PETRELS, and modest shearwater totals including 19 CORY’S, 4 SCOPOLI’S, 44 GREAT, 8 SOOTY, and 10 MANX.

An exciting week for shorebirds was enhanced nicely thanks to the lowered water levels at Jerome Reservoir in the Bronx. Rarities following last week’s 2 BAIRD’S SANDPIPERS in the reservoir basin, with reports of 1 or 2 more this week, were an AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER visiting there Monday and Tuesday and then 5 BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPERS appearing Thursday increasing to 6 today. Other shorebirds among the over a dozen species visiting there featured WHITE-RUMPED, WESTERN, and PECTORAL SANDPIPERS and WILSON’S SNIPE. The reservoir is viewed best from the fence line along Reservoir Avenue near the intersection with Claflin Avenue. Other shorebirds this week featured an AMERICAN AVOCET visiting the Oceanside Marine Nature Study Area Saturday through Monday, an UPLAND SANDPIPER at Caumsett State Park Saturday, two MARBLED GODWITS lingering around field 10 at Jones Beach at least to Thursday, a WILSON’S PHALAROPE at Heckscher State Park Sunday followed by a BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER and an AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER at field 7 today, another BUFF-BREASTED at Jones Beach field 1 yesterday and 2 HUDSONIAN WHIMBRELS out on Jamaica Bay last Saturday

Two CASPIAN TERNS visited Central Park Wednesday followed by a LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL Thursday, and among the variety of warblers now moving through Central and other parks have been MOURNING, HOODED, CAPE MAY, BAY-BREASTED, and WILSON’S but perhaps the most unexpected was the GOLDEN-WINGED photographed in Central Tuesday.

Among the flycatchers this week were a few OLIVE-SIDED, and YELLOW-BELLIED, and a SEDGE WREN was noted again today at the private parcel in Manhasset. A LARK SPARROW was spotted at Sherman Creek Park last Saturday and another continued at Cliffdale Farm in Westchester Sunday but the bonanza was up to 4 LARK SPARROWS at Jones Beach fields 1 and 2 starting on Wednesday with at least 2 still there today. YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT stayed in Prospect Park to Saturday with singles also in Bryant Park Tuesday and Central Park Ramble Wednesday, and a DICKCISSEL visited Floyd Bennett Field Monday.

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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NYC Area Rare Bird Alert, 8/21/2026

-RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Aug. 21, 2026
* NYNY2608.21

– Birds Mentioned:

EARED GREBE
Common Nighthawk
UPLAND SANDPIPER
Hudsonian Whimbrel
MARBLED GODWIT
Stilt Sandpiper
BAIRD’S SANDPIPER
White-rumped Sandpiper
BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER
Pectoral Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
WILSON’S PHALAROPE
RED-NECKED PHALAROPE
LONG-TAILED JAEGER
Parasitic Jaeger
Caspian Tern
Black Tern
Roseate Tern
Royal Tern
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Wilson’s Storm-Petrel
Cory’s Shearwater
Scopoli’s Shearwater
Sooty Shearwater
Great Shearwater
Manx Shearwater
Olive-sided Flycatcher
SEDGE WREN
LARK SPARROW
YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT
Worm-eating Warbler
Tennessee Warbler
Mourning Warbler
Hooded Warbler
Cape May Warbler
Blackburnian Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
SUMMER TANAGER
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

[~BEGIN RBA TAPE~]

Greetings! This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for Friday, August 21,
2026 at 11:00 pm.  The highlights of today’s tape are EARED GREBE,
LONG-TAILED JAEGER, RED-NECKED PHALAROPE and other pelagics, UPLAND,
BUFF-BREASTED and BAIRD’S SANDPIPERS, MARBLED GODWIT, WILSON’S
PHALAROPE, SEDGE WREN, LARK SPARROW, YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT, SUMMER
TANAGER, DICKCISSEL and more.

The EARED GREBE continues on the West Pond at Jamaica Bay Wildlife
Refuge, but recent rains have hampered any progress that had been made
to get the water level on the East Pond down to an appropriate level
for shorebirds and birders alike. The shorebird festival last Saturday
did find WILSON’S PHALAROPE and STILT, PECTORAL, WESTERN and WHITE
RUMPED SANDPIPERS among the many more regular species there, but even
then the pond was not traversable.

Shorebird highlights in the region have included a RED-NECKED
PHALAROPE on Westchester’s Kensico Reservoir last Saturday and another
joining 2 WILSON’S PHALAROPES Monday in ponds at Jones Beach West End
located in the dunes between Fields 1 and 2.  Another WILSON’S was at
Sagg Pond Monday.

A private parcel in Manhasset, with no access allowed, did host an
UPLAND SANDPIPER as well as a SEDGE WREN last Tuesday, and a
BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER dropped by Field 5 at Robert Moses State Park
last Monday.  At least 2 BAIRD’S SANDPIPERS have been visiting lowered
Jerome Reservoir in the Bronx since Monday, with another reported from
Plumb Beach on Wednesday.

Up to 3 MARBLED GODWITS have been noted this week off Field 10 at
Jones Beach State Park, with singles at Piermont Pier Thursday and
Plumb Beach today, but the peak was the 8 at Old Inlet in Bellport Bay
last Sunday.  Three HUDSONIAN WHIMBRELS were out in Jamaica Bay last
Saturday, while also out at Old Inlet Sunday, besides loads of
shorebirds, were 1 CASPIAN, 4 ROSEATE, 15 ROYAL and 2 BLACK TERNS and
17 LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS.

Boat trips around Montauk, especially CRESLI whale excursions, are
still also finding pelagic birds – last Friday and Sunday single
LONG-TAILED JAEGERS were reported, and Saturday and Sunday produced 1
or 2 RED-NECKED PHALAROPES, while also continuing were numbers of
WILSON’S STORM-PETRELS and GREAT and CORY’S SHEARWATERS plus a few
SCOPOLI’S, SOOTY and MANX as well, and a PARASITIC JAEGER or two.

COMMON NIGHTHAWKS are now coming through during suitable evenings, and
FLYCATCHERS migrating have included OLIVE-SIDED and various Empidonax
species.

An immature LARK SPARROW has been around the entrance parking lot to
Cliffdale Farm off Teatown Road in Westchester since Wednesday, and
single YELLOW-BREASTED CHATS were noted at Hither Hills State Park
Wednesday and in Prospect Park Thursday and today.

An increase in migrating WARBLERS this week included reports of
WORM-EATING, TENNESSEE, MOURNING, HOODED, CAPE MAY, BLACKBURNIAN,
BLACKPOLL, BLACK-THROATED BLUE and YELLOW RUMPED.

A female SUMMER TANAGER was reported today in McGolrick Park in
Greenpoint, Brooklyn, and a few calling DICKCISSELS moving overhead in
the morning were noted this week in central Westchester and at Jerome
Reservoir and Coney Island Creek.

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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NYC Area Rare Bird Alert, 08/07/2026

– RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Aug. 7, 2026
* NYNY2608.07

– Birds mentioned
AUDUBON’S SHEARWATER+ (recent name change: SARGASSO SHEARWATER)
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

Whimbrel
Long-billed Dowitcher
WILSON’S PHALAROPE
RED-NECKED PHALAROPE
Stilt Sandpiper
White-rumped Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Parasitic Jaeger
GLAUCOUS GULL
Gull-billed Tern
Caspian Tern
Wilson’s Storm-Petrel
Cory’s Shearwater
Scopoli’s Shearwater
Great Shearwater
Sooty Shearwater
Manx Shearwater
BROWN PELICAN
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Black-and-white Warbler
Cerulean Warbler
Magnolia Warbler
Bay-breasted Warbler
Prairie Warbler
Canada Warbler
BLUE GROSBEAK

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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, August 7th 2026 at 11pm. The highlights of today’s tape are BROWN PELICAN, apparent onshore SARGASSO SHEARWATER, and other pelagics, RED-NECKED and WILSON’S PHALAROPES, and other shorebirds, GLAUCOUS GULL, BLUE GROSBEAK, and more.

Continued sightings of BROWN PELICANS this week were mostly confined to coastal waters along the western end of New York’s barrier beaches beginning last weekend with 2 off Breezy Point, both days, and Sunday sightings of one at Plumb Beach, and 2 off Jones Beach, and on Thursday 2 were seen in the bay south of Freeport with one also off Oak Beach today.

A shearwater, photographed close offshore at Jacob Riis Park last Sunday, appears to be an unexpected coastal record of AUDUBON’S SHEARWATER as it appears in your field guides but now conflicted by a recent name change to SARGASSO SHEARWATER. More analysis of this interesting record will follow.

Meanwhile the CRESLI whale trips out of Montauk Harbor continue to produce a nice variety of pelagic birds. Birders on boats on Wednesday and today were treated to up to 7 RED-NECKED PHALAROPES, a PARASITIC JAEGER Friday, a few WILSON’S STORM-PETRELS, and a variety of shearwaters including some GREAT and CORY’S with SCOPOLI’S also reported, and fewer SOOTY and MANX plus some whales and dolphins. A few WILSON’S STORM-PETRELS have also been noted this week off Breezy Point and Riis Park as well as in Lower New York Bay.

With both adult and juvenile shorebirds now moving south, unfortunately the shorebirding opportunities at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge are not at all ideal on the East Pond with high water conditions persisting. Species such as LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER, and PECTORAL, WHITE-RUMPED, and STILT SANDPIPERS are occurring but water levels need to be lower. HUDSONIAN WHIMBRELS appeared this week on Staten Island with one at Great Kills Park Sunday and 2 at Miller Field on Monday, and 3 also visited Plumb Beach Sunday. A WILSON’S PHALAROPE visited the dune pools between fields 1 & 2 at Jones Beach West End today.

The Brooklyn lingering immature GLAUCOUS GULL seen today at the Coney Island Beach and Boardwalk between 19th and 21st Streets. A couple of GULL-BILLED TERNS were at Plumb Beach Thursday following a CASPIAN TERN there the day before and a few CASPIANS have also been occurring recently along the Hudson River.

Among the recent landbird migrants an OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER was spotted Wednesday at the Hilltop Hanover Farm in Yorktown in central Westchester and a few scattered warbler migrants featured CERULEAN in both Prospect and Central Parks plus BLACK-AND-WHITE, MAGNOLIA, BAY-BREASTED at Green-wood Cemetery, PRAIRIE and CANADA.

BLUE GROSBEAKS continue at several sites around Calverton including the Preston’s Pond Complex.

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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