-RBA * New York * New York City, Long Island, Westchester County * Aug. 23, 2024 * NYNY2408.23
- Birds Mentioned RED-FOOTED BOOBY+ WHITE IBIS+ (+ Details requested by NYSARC) KING EIDER Yellow-billed Cuckoo Black-billed Cuckoo Common Nighthawk AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER HUDSONIAN GODWIT MARBLED GODWIT BAIRD’S SANDPIPER. RED-NECKED PHALAROPE BLACK-HEADED GULL Caspian Tern Black Tern Olive-sided Flycatcher PHILADELPHIA VIREO YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT Worm-eating Warbler Golden-winged Warbler Tennessee Warbler Nashville Warbler Mourning Warbler Hooded Warbler Cape May Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER Canada Warbler Wilson’s Warbler DICKCISSEL 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: Gail Benson Greetings! This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for Friday, August 23, 2024 at 11:00 p.m. The highlights of today's tape are RED-FOOTED BOOBY, WHITE IBIS, KING EIDER, AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER, HUDSONIAN and MARBLED GODWITS, RED-NECKED PHALAROPE, BAIRD’S SANDPIPER, BLACK-HEADED GULL, PHILADELPHIA VIREO, YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT, YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER, DICKCISSEL and more. Perhaps one of the most fortuitous sightings of a potential new NYS record occurred early Thursday morning when a dawn rooftop watch from an Astoria, Queens, apartment building produced a flyby sighting of what appears to be an immature RED-FOOTED BOOBY. Several photos were obtained as the bird headed in a northeasterly direction, low enough to provide reasonable detail for study and NYSARC review. The incursion of WHITE IBIS continues, with two birds found this morning at Cow Meadow Park Preserve in Freeport. By late afternoon at least two more had joined the original pair, but photos of the birds in flight might indicate they did change location. The female KING EIDER at Breezy Point was still present last weekend and, in flightless condition, could be around a while longer. At Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge an adult AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER was identified today at the north end of the East Pond, where up to three RED-NECKED PHALAROPES have been present since one appeared there on Tuesday. Another RED-NECKED was spotted yesterday by boat in Post Marsh east of Lawrence in Nassau. An HUDSONIAN GODWIT paid a brief visit to Oak Beach Tuesday afternoon, and three MARBLED GODWITS flew by Twin Island at Pelham Bay Park last Sunday around noon. BAIRD’S SANDPIPERS were found last Monday on sod fields off Depot Lane in Cutchogue, with three on one field and two on another nearby, and another was noted flying by Robert Moses State Park Wednesday morning. Also at Moses Park a BLACK-HEADED GULL in decent plumage was present at Field 2 last weekend. A few CASPIAN TERNS included five last Saturday on the East Pond at Jamaica Bay Refuge, with two there today, and a BLACK TERN visited Plumb Beach last Saturday. A PHILADELPHIA VIREO was photographed at Strack Pond in Forest Park today, and a few reports of YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT included singles at the Salt Marsh Nature Center Monday, at Snug Harbor Cultural Center on Staten Island Tuesday, at Tiana Beach off Dune Road Wednesday, and at Croton Point Park today. A GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER was in Forest Park Wednesday and Thursday, and a YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER was spotted in Arshamomaque Preserve in Greenport West on Wednesday. Other migrant WARBLERS recently have included WORM-EATING, TENNESSEE, NASHVILLE. MOURNING, HOODED, good numbers of CAPE MAY, BAY-BREASTED, CANADA and WILSON’S. Other recent migrants have included both YELLOW-BILLED and BLACK-BILLED CUCKOOS, COMMON NIGHTHAWK, with 45 over Rye Thursday, and OLIVE-SIDED and various Empidonax FLYCATCHERS, plus single DICKCISSELS reported moving over lower Manhattan Wednesday morning and Robert Moses State Park early 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 ".") NYSbirds-L List Info: NortheastBirding_DOT_com/NYSbirdsWELCOME_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/NYSbirdsRULES_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave_DOT_htm ARCHIVES: 1) mail-archive_DOT_com/nysbirds-l@cornell_DOT_edu/maillist_DOT_html 2) surfbirds_DOT_com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) birding_DOT_aba_DOT_org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: ebird_DOT_org/content/ebird/ --
