- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 09/11/2003 * NYBU0309.11 - 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 ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Bl.-cr. Night-Heron Mute Swan Cooper's Hawk Merlin Peregrine Falcon Black-bellied Plover American Golden-Plove Semipalmated Plover Killdeer Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Solitary Sandpiper Spotted Sandpiper Ruddy Turnstone Sanderling Semipalm. Sandpiper Western Sandpiper Least Sandpiper White-r. Sandpiper Baird's Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Dunlin Short-b. Dowitcher Caspian Tern Common Tern Eastern Screech-Owl Common Nighthawk Whip-poor-will Red-br. Nuthatch Nashville Warbler Yellow Warbler Magnolia Warbler Bl.-thr. Bl. Warbler Bl.-thr. Green Warb. Pine Warbler American Redstart Wilson's Warbler
- Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 09/11/2003 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, September 11, 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. September 4 through September 11 was a generally quite week for reports from the Niagara Frontier Region. A total of 18 shorebird species were reported this week from the Lake Erie shore of Ontario. 16 species at Fort Erie were highlighted by a WESTERN SANDPIPER on September 7 at Stonemill Point. At the Poth Road turf farms in Dunnville on the 9th, 17 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS and 29 AMERICAN GOLDEN- PLOVERS. Also in Ontario, MERLINS were noted at the turf farms and along the shore at Fort Erie. Over 500 COMMON TERNS at Long Beach in Wainfleet. At Rock Point Park, RED-BR. NUTHATCH. And 11 MUTE SWANS and 5 COMMON NIGHTHAWKS at Stonemill Road. September 7, on the beach at Beaver Island State Park on Grand Island, one each of AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER and BAIRD'S SANDPIPER, along with 10 CASPIAN TERNS. September 9, in Wainfleet, Ontario, three or four WHIP-POOR- WILLS and two EASTERN SCREECH-OWLS were calling at 9 PM along Wilson Road. The BOS field trip to Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo on September 7 reported at least 50 species including a PEREGRINE FALCON plus BL.-CR. NIGHT-HERON, COOPER'S HAWK and eight warbler species - NASHVILLE WARBLER, YELLOW WARBLER, MAGNOLIA WARBLER, BL.-THR. BL. WARBLER, BL.-THR. GREEN WARB., PINE WARBLER, AMERICAN REDSTART and WILSON'S WARBLER. Plan ahead to attend the next BOS meeting on Wednesday, September 24 at 7:30 PM at the Buffalo Museum of Science. A program will be presented on the birds of Polar Bear Park on Hudson's Bay in Ontario, by Jean Iron, president of the Ontario Field Ornithologists. The next BOS field trip will be on Sunday, September 21, to the western Lake Ontario Plains. Meet at 8 AM at the Tops Market on Center Street in Lewiston. Visitors are always welcome at BOS meetings and on field trips. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, September 18. 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]> Visit http://www.ofo.ca/ontbirdsguide.htm for information on leaving and joining the list. As well as general information and content guidelines.
