- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 11/21/2013 * NYBU1311.21 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to [email protected] -------------------------------------------
ELEGANT TERN Eared Grebe Tundra Swan Snow Goose Canada Goose Green-winged Teal American Black Duck Northern Pintail Blue-winged Teal Northern Shoveler Gadwall American Wigeon Redhead Ring-necked Duck Lesser Scaup King Eider Common Goldeneye Bufflehead Common Merganser Red-br. Merganser Ruddy Duck Greater Yellowlegs Dunlin Sabine's Gull Razorbill (out of region) Northern Shrike - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 11/21/2013 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, November 21, 2013 The Buffalo Bird Report is a service provided by your Buffalo Museum of Science and the Buffalo Ornithological Society. To contact the Science Museum, call 896-5200. Press the pound key to report sightings before the end of this report. ELEGANT TERN was the highlight of reports received November 14 through November 21 from the Niagara Frontier Region. Another improbable vagrant on the upper Niagara River - November 20, an ELEGANT TERN was discovered in the shallows at the south tip of Beaver Island State Park on Grand Island. Roosting and flying among a flock of BONAPARTE'S GULLS, the tern was relocated Thursday, November 21, a short distance upriver on the Black Rock Canal pier at the north end of Squaw Island Park in Buffalo. The pier may be observed from the park, or Rich Marina on Austin Street in the Riverside section of Buffalo. Across the river in Fort Erie, Ontario, the pier is opposite the Bowen Road Park. The range of the ELEGANT TERN is the Pacific coast of North and South America. A first winter KING EIDER has also been on the upper river this week, off Bowen Road Park. From Chautauqua County, November 19, a juvenile SABINE'S GULL at Barcelona Harbor, on Lake Erie in Westfield. On Lake Ontario, just east of the region, a RAZORBILL, November 17, flying west past Hamlin Beach State Park. RAZORBILLS have a rare history of lingering at the mouth of the Niagara River at Lake Ontario. Inland, at the Batavie Waste Water Plant this week, an EARED GREBE and 18 waterfowl species including 4 TUNDRA SWANS and over 1200 RUDDY DUCKS. Also, a DUNLIN and NORTHERN SHRIKE at the plant. In the Iroquois Refuge and surrounding management areas - 3 CACKLING GEESE at Windmill Marsh in the Oak Orchard Area, and 4 CACKLING GEESE and a GREATER YELLOWLEGS at Center Marsh in the Iroquois Refuge. And, in nearby Oakfield, 4 SNOW GEESE at the Gypsum Ponds off Hutton Road. The Bird Report will be updated Wednesday evening, November 27. Please call in your sightings by noon Wednesday. You may report sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting. - End Transcript _______________________________________________ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists - the provincial birding organization. Send bird reports to [email protected] For information about ONTBIRDS including how to unsubscribe visit http://www.ofo.ca/site/page/view/information.ontbirdssetup
