I think there's a good reason for you omitting songbirds. From what I could see, there wasn't much of an effect. And that's a good thing, that in the excitement of what was seen, they went rather unnoticed. Having experienced Hurricane Gloria and seeing the tired survivors at Jones Beach, it's obvious that Gloria extracted a heavy toll out at sea. That's why, as fun as this was, it's hard for me to hope for a hurricane (taking the non-avian issues out of the equation). When driving down to the beach this time, I knew to slow down for the possibility of birds along the road. There were, in fact, some shorebirds on the lower stretches of the Meadowbrook. But no passerines on the road or shoulders. Whereas Gloria came in the middle of the migration, Irene was an early storm that, at least at our latitude, moved through days after the last significant cold front and appreciable passerine migration. Maybe the perfect storm for birds and birders.
There is one notable species that, considering everything else, surprisingly didn't make it to the storm list - Magnificent Frigatebird. I know that this species does like to hug the coast more than your average pelagic, and maybe that put many out of harm's way. But there is a history of storm blown frigatebirds and you'd think there were a few roaming the Bahamas. Steve Walter Bayside, NY From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rob Jett Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2011 1:49 PM To: NYSBirds Subject: [nysbirds-l] Post Storm Species List Just for laughs (and to enjoy some of these birds vicariously as I only managed a small portion of the total), I scanned the postings and created a "Storm Bird" list for NY. I omitted songbirds from the list (let me know if there was anything really unusual that I should have included). For the shorebirds I only included the uncommon and rare species that were reported around the area. I did, however, included ALL the tern species that were reported, primarily, because the combined list looks so ridiculous. Enjoy and good birding, Rob ********** Albatrosses, Petrels, and Shearwaters Cory's Shearwater Great Shearwater Storm-Petrels Wilson's Storm-Petrel Leach's Storm-Petrel Band-rumped Storm-petrel Black-Capped Petrel Tropicbirds White-tailed Tropicbird Cormorants, Anhingas, and Pelicans Brown Pelican Shorebirds American Golden-Plover Black-necked Stilt American Avocet Whimbrel Hudsonian Godwit Marbled Godwit Baird's Sandpiper Buff-breasted Sandpiper Wilson's Phalarope Red-necked Phalarope Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers Lesser Black-backed Gull Sooty Tern Bridled Tern Least Tern Gull-billed Tern Caspian Tern Black Tern Roseate Tern Common Tern Arctic Tern Forster's Tern Royal Tern Sandwich Tern Black Skimmer Skuas and Jaegers South Polar Skua Long-tailed Jaeger Pomarine Jaeger Parasitic Jaeger -- NYSbirds-L List Info: <http://www.northeastbirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME> Welcome and Basics <http://www.northeastbirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES> Rules and Information <http://www.northeastbirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> Subscribe, Configuration and Leave Archives: The Mail Archive <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html> <http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L> Surfbirds BirdingOnThe.Net <http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html> Please submit your observations to <http://ebird.org/content/ebird/> eBird! -- -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
