- RBA * New York * New York City, Long Island, Westchester County * Aug. 16, 2024 * NYNY2408.16
- Birds mentioned WHITE IBIS+ (+ Details requested by NYSARC) KING EIDER AMERICAN AVOCET UPLAND SANDPIPER Whimbrel Long-billed Dowitcher WILSON'S PHALAROPE RED-NECKED PHALAROPE Stilt Sandpiper BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER White-rumped Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Western Sandpiper GULL-BILLED TERN Caspian Tern BLACK TERN Wilson's Storm-Petrel Cory's Shearwater Great Shearwater WESTERN CATTLE EGRET Red-headed Woodpecker Olive-sided Flycatcher Yellow-bellied Flycatcher LARK SPARROW Worm-eating Warbler Golden-winged Warbler Tennessee Warbler Mourning Warbler Hooded Warbler Cape May Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Canada Warbler Wilson's Warbler BLUE GROSBEAK DICKCISSEL - Transcript If followed by (+) please submit documentation of your report electronically and use the NYSARC online submission form found at http://www.nybirds.org/NYSARC/goodreport.htm You can also send reports and digital image files via email to nysarc44 (at)nybirds{dot}org. If electronic submission is not possible, hardcopy reports and photos or sketches are welcome. Hardcopy documentation should be mailed to: Gary Chapin - Secretary NYS Avian Records Committee (NYSARC) 125 Pine Springs Drive Ticonderoga, NY 12883 Hotline: New York City Area Rare Bird Alert Number: (212) 979-3070 Compiler: Tom Burke Coverage: New York City, Long Island, Westchester County Transcriber: Ben Cacace BEGIN TAPE Greetings. This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for *Friday, August 16th, 2024* at 11 pm. The highlights of today's tape are WHITE IBIS, AMERICAN AVOCET, RED-NECKED and WILSON'S PHALAROPES, BUFF-BREASTED and UPLAND SANDPIPERS, KING EIDER, GULL-BILLED and BLACK TERNS, WESTERN CATTLE EGRET, LARK SPARROW, BLUE GROSBEAK, DICKCISSEL, Fall warblers and more. A report from East Patchogue last Monday described an immature WHITE IBIS flying north over Swan Lake Preserve just following an immature photographed back on August 3rd during its brief visit to Brooklyn's Plumb Beach which report was inadvertently missed on last week's RBA and today another immature was photographed in the marsh at Watch Hill in the central section of Fire Island. Presumably these birds are originating from the quite successful breeding colonies in southern New Jersey and it would be reasonable to expect that others could be on the way. With shorebirds moving south through our area for a while now numbers and varieties should continue to increase. The AMERICAN AVOCET recently lingering around the south end of the West Pond at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge was present at least to Monday but not reported lately. Among the decent numbers of shorebirds on the East Pond have been a WILSON'S PHALAROPE since last weekend and a few LONG-BILLED DOWITCHERS plus STILT, PECTORAL, WHITE-RUMPED and WESTERN SANDPIPERS and several other species along with a few GULL-BILLED and up to 4 CASPIAN TERNS. A BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER appeared at Riis Park Saturday but disappeared Sunday morning while an UPLAND SANDPIPER flew over Jones Beach West End Tuesday morning. A RED-NECKED PHALAROPE visited Plumb Beach for a short while Tuesday morning and 4 were seen together from a fishing boat off Montauk on Thursday this venture also producing some WILSON'S STORM-PETRELS plus 3 CORY'S and 8 GREAT SHEARWATERS. Additional single WILSON'S PHALAROPES were spotted at Captree Island on Monday and at Jones Beach West End Tuesday and a few WHIMBREL were noted by boat out in Great South Bay on Saturday. A female KING EIDER continues around the Breezy Point tip often on the bayside. A GULL-BILLED TERN visited Plumb Beach Monday and Tuesday with a BLACK TERN there Wednesday. Two WESTERN CATTLE EGRETS were spotted moving up the Hudson River from Manhattan's Riverside Park on Monday. Four RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS were still present along the Paumanok Trail near Jones Pond in Manorville on Tuesday and one was spotted Wednesday at the Blue Mountain Reservation in northern Westchester. Single OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHERS were noted Wednesday at Jones Beach West End and in Prospect and Pelham Bay Parks and several YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHERS and other empidonax flycatchers were also reported. A LARK SPARROW visited the landfill at Croton Point Park from Saturday through Monday. Increasing numbers of warblers featured single GOLDEN-WINGED in lower Manhattan Monday and Alley Pond Park Thursday and single MOURNINGS in Central Park Sunday and on Wednesday in Alley Pond Park, the Bayard Cutting Arboretum in Great River and in Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge's North Garden. Other notable warblers included WORM-EATING, TENNESSEE, HOODED, CAPE MAY, BAY-BREASTED, CANADA and WILSON'S. Four BLUE GROSBEAKS were noted in the Calverton area Sunday and another was reported at the Rockefeller State Park Preserve in Westchester starting on Tuesday. Flyover DICKCISSELS were at Breezy Point Sunday and near Shinnecock Inlet Thursday. To phone in reports, call Tom Burke at (914) 967-4922. This service is sponsored by the Linnaean Society of New York and the National Audubon Society. Thank you for calling. - End transcript -- (copy & paste any URL below, then modify any text "_DOT_" to a period ".") 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