- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 03/12/2015
* NYBU1503.12
- Birds mentioned
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Red-throated Loon
Horned Grebe
Red-necked Grebe
Bl.-cr. Night-Heron
Mallard
Northern Pintail
Northern Shoveler
American Wigeon
Redhead
Surf Scoter
White-winged Scoter
Ruddy Duck
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
Rough-legged Hawk [dark-morph]
Killdeer
American Woodcock
Iceland Gull
L. Black-b. Gull
Glaucous Gull
Great Black-b. Gull x Glacous Gull
Eastern Screech-Owl [red-morph]
Snowy Owl
Northern Flicker
Horned Lark
E. a. alpestris
E. a. praticola
Tree Swallow
Eastern Bluebird
American Robin
American Pipit
Snow Bunting
Red-w. Blackbird
Common Grackle
- Transcript
Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Date: 03/12/2015
Number: 716-896-1271
To Report: Same
Compiler: David F. Suggs
Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario
Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org
Thursday, March 12, 2015
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.
Highlights of reports received March 5 through March 12 from
the Niagara Frontier Region include arriving spring
migrants.
Leading spring migrants this week - 14 TREE SWALLOWS in the
Genesee County Town of Alexander. In Chautauqua County,
AMERICAN PIPIT at the Dunkirk Airport and an AMERICAN
WOODCOCK over Jamestown. Multiple reports of KILLDEER,
NORTHERN FLICKER, EASTERN BLUEBIRD, AMERICAN ROBIN, RED-W.
BLACKBIRD and COMMON GRACKLE.
On the waters this week - 12 RED-THROATED LOONS, 5 HORNED
GREBES and RED-NECKED GREBE at the Lake Erie ice boom,
viewed from the Erie Basin Marina in Buffalo. Along the Lake
Ontario shore off Niagara County, 22 RED-THROATED LOONS and
2 RED-NECKED GREBES, plus 3 ICELAND GULLS, L. BLACK-B. GULL
and numbers of NORTHERN PINTAILS. Single RED-THROATED LOONS
at the north end of Squaw Island in Buffalo, and at Dunkirk
Harbor. Also at Dunkirk Harbor - SURF SCOTER, 2 BL.-CR.
NIGHT-HERONS, several GLAUCOUS GULLS and ICELAND GULLS, and
an apparent GLAUCOUS GULL X GREAT BLACK-B. GULL hybrid.
Other waterfowl - At the Batavia Waste Water Plant, WHITE-
WINGED SCOTER and 2 RUDDY DUCKS, plus numbers of NORTHERN
SHOVELERS, REDHEADS and MALLARDS. And, 25 AMERICAN WIGEONS
on the Niagara River at Fort Erie, Ontario.
SNOWY OWLS - singles at the Genesee County Airport near
Batavia, the Erie Basin Marina and the Lewiston Power
Reservoir.
Other reports this week - in Clarence, a seldom seen red-
morph EASTERN SCREECH-OWL roosting in a Wood Duck box. A
dark-morph ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK at Brown and Garner Roads
between Niagara Falls and Chippawa, Ontario. MERLIN in a
Tonawanda yard. Three BLACK VULTURES with 2 TURKEY VULTURES
in Lewiston. And, while SNOW BUNTING and HORNED LARK numbers
have quickly dropped in the farm fields of Genesee County,
both NORTHERN and PRAIRIE races of the HORNED LARK are now
present.
The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, March 19.
Please call in your sightings by noon Thursday. You may
report sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling and
reporting.
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