- RBA * New York * New York City, Long Island, Westchester County * Sep. 6, 2024 * NYNY2409.06
- Birds mentioned LONG-TAILED JAEGER+ SCOPOLI'S SHEARWATER+ WHITE IBIS+ LARK BUNTING+ (+ Details requested by NYSARC) Eastern Whip-poor-will AMERICAN AVOCET American Golden-Plover Whimbrel HUDSONIAN GODWIT MARBLED GODWIT Long-billed Dowitcher Stilt Sandpiper BAIRD'S SANDPIPER White-rumped Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Western Sandpiper Parasitic Jaeger Lesser Black-backed Gull Caspian Tern Black Tern Wilson's Storm-Petrel Cory's Shearwater Great Shearwater Sooty Shearwater Manx Shearwater BROWN BOOBY AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN BROWN PELICAN Red-headed Woodpecker Olive-sided Flycatcher Philadelphia Vireo YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER CONNECTICUT WARBLER 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, September 6th 2024* at 11pm. The highlights of today's tape are LARK BUNTING, BROWN BOOBY, AMERICAN WHITE and BROWN PELICANS, LONG-TAILED JAEGER, WHITE IBIS, AMERICAN AVOCET, HUDSONIAN and MARBLED GODWITS, BAIRD'S SANDPIPER, YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT, GOLDEN-WINGED, CONNECTICUT and other warblers, DICKCISSEL and much more. An interesting but puzzling bird spotted midday Monday at Shirley Chisholm State Park was subsequently identified as a LARK BUNTING and fortunately continued along the trail there through much of Tuesday morning before disappearing. A second LARK BUNTING in similar brownish plumage was also spotted Tuesday morning along the median adjacent to field 2 at Robert Moses State Park but that bird vanished rather quickly and neither has been seen subsequently. Today a seawatch off Shinnecock Inlet produced an adult BROWN BOOBY moving east not far offshore. Two PARASITIC JAEGERS were also seen off nearby Tiana Beach and spotted further east off Mecox Bay were one SOOTY and 9 CORY'S SHEARWATERS plus 22 LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS. At Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge an AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN showed up on the East Pond last Saturday and has continued there through today, usually lingering with many Mute Swans just north of Raunt. Shorebirds on the East Pond this week have included an AMERICAN AVOCET all week at the north end, 2 MARBLED GODWITS today, a BAIRD'S SANDPIPER Monday and small numbers of PECTORAL, STILT, WHITE-RUMPED and WESTERN SANDPIPERS and a few LONG-BILLED DOWITCHERS. A BLACK TERN spent Monday regularly circling the pond with up to 10 CASPIAN TERNS staying mostly at the north end. An AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER was out in Jamaica Bay Monday. A boat trip into Long Island Sound last Saturday produced a crisp juvenile LONG-TAILED JAEGER about one and a half miles off Eaton's Neck with some great photos obtained. The four immature WHITE IBIS that have been visiting Cow Meadow Park in Freeport were still present there as of Wednesday either roosting on the pond by the parking lot or out feeding in the surrounding marsh. Another immature spotted about a week ago was seen again today on Flax Pond in Old Field northwest of Port Jefferson. Two BROWN PELICANS appeared off Plumb Beach in Brooklyn last Saturday and the next day 8 were seen off Breezy Point Tip moving out to sea. Old Inlet on Fire Island, 2 miles west of Smith Point County Park, has featured [...] 2 HUDSONIAN GODWITS through Thursday with 2 MARBLED GODWITS also stopping by Sunday, with 3 HUDSONIANS visiting Mecox Bay Monday. The Cresli whale watching trip on the Viking Star out of Montauk have been productive for seabirds recently. The trip last Sunday produced a WHIMBREL, 6 PARASITIC JAEGERS, 15 WILSON'S STORM-PETRELS, 50 plus CORY'S and SCOPOLI'S SHEARWATERS along with 12 GREAT, one SOOTY and 7 MANX SHEARWATERS. With the AOS recently recognizing the split of SCOPOLI'S SHEARWATER from CORY'S and NYSARC now revealing the implications of this on the New York list it's time to sharpen one's skills to recognize the subtle differences between the two. Not necessarily a simple task. An EASTERN WHIP-POOR-WILL was in Central Park Monday and an immature RED-HEADED WOODPECKER in Inwood Hill Park Sunday. Notable landbirds recently have featured OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER, PHILADELPHIA VIREO, at least 5 YELLOW-BREASTED CHATS and various warblers including reports in Central Park of GOLDEN-WINGED and CONNECTICUT and DICKCISSELS over at Jamaica Bay, Coney Island Creek and out in the Bronx. 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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