- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 03/13/2003 * NYBU0303.13 - Birds mentioned \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you, David /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
RED-NECKED GREBE PEREGRINE FALCON AMERICAN PIPIT FOX SPARROW COMMON GRACKLE Pied-billed Grebe Horned Grebe D.-crest. Cormorant Tundra Swan Mute Swan Canada Goose American Black Duck Mallard Northern Pintail White-winged Scoter Hooded Merganser Common Merganser Bald Eagle Cooper's Hawk Red-shouldered Hawk Rough-legged Hawk Wild Turkey Little Gull Bonaparte's Gull Pileated Woodpecker Horned Lark Common Raven Brown Creeper American Robin Lapland Longspur Snow Bunting Red-w. Blackbird Brown-headed Cowbird - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 03/13/2003 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Transcriber: David F. Suggs Thursday, March 13, 2003 Dial-a-Bird is a service provided by your Buffalo Museum of Science and this answering system was donated by the Buffalo Ornithological Society. Press (2) to leave a message, (3) for updates, meeting and field trip information and (4) for instructions on how to report sightings and use this system. To contact the Science Museum, call 896-5200. Highlights of reports received March 6 through March 13 from the Niagara Frontier Region include RED-NECKED GREBE, waterfowl, PEREGRINE FALCON, AMERICAN PIPIT, FOX SPARROW and COMMON GRACKLE. The great numbers of RED-NECKED GREBES that invaded the region at the end of February have diminished somewhat. Back on February 28, 206 RED-NECKED GREBES were counted in Dunkirk Harbor; on March 7, 81 grebes were still in the harbor. On the Niagara River at Fort Erie, Ontario, 15 to 20 RED-NECKED GREBES were present on March 9, down from about 40 the previous week. Single RED-NECKED GREBES were also noted recently at other locations on the Niagara River and along the Lake Ontario shore. Eighteen waterfowl species in Dunkirk Harbor on the 7th included 9 PIED-BILLED GREBES, HORNED GREBE, 84 D.-CREST. CORMORANTS, MUTE SWAN, 2 TUNDRA SWANS, 18 WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS and 4 HOODED MERGANSERS, plus a BALD EAGLE. Migrant waterfowl on the Allegany State Park reservoir on March 8 included 15 TUNDRA SWANS and small numbers of CANADA GEESE, AMERICAN BLACK DUCKS, MALLARDS, NORTHERN PINTAILS and COMMON MERGANSERS. Also in Allegany State Park, BALD EAGLE, WILD TURKEY and COMMON RAVEN at several locations. On the University at Buffalo Main Street Campus, a PEREGRINE FALCON continues to be seen nightly, on the heating plant chimney. The peregrine was eating a ROCK DOVE one day, and it was noted that there are no leg bands on the falcon. March 9, a AMERICAN PIPIT was reported in the Lake Ontario Plains on Johnson Creek Road, south of Somerset-Hartland Townline Road. This could be a rare wintering bird, or an early migrant. Pipits typically arrive after mid-March. Also in the lake plains, a flock of 300 SNOW BUNTINGS with a few HORNED LARKS and LAPLAND LONGSPURS, on Marshall Road in Yates. ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK was also reported on Marshall Road. Arriving migrants this week - March 9, a RED-SHOULDERED HAWK stopped at Golden Hill State Park in Somerset. March 10 and 11, a FOX SPARROW in a yard on Ruie Road in North Tonawanda, along with a COOPER'S HAWK and a BROWN CREEPER. Two COMMON GRACKLES, March 8, at a feeder in Cheektowaga, along with a RED-W. BLACKBIRD and 50 AMERICAN ROBINS. And at a feeder in Niagara Falls, 25 RED-W. BLACKBIRDS and 5 BROWN-HEADED COWBIRDS. Also this week, just 2 LITTLE GULLS and a few BONAPARTE'S GULLS on the lower Niagara River at Lewiston. And in a yard in Lancaster, 2 PILEATED WOODPECKERS. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, March 20. Please call in your sightings by noon Thursday. You may report sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting to Dial-a-Bird. - End Transcript D Suggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
