* New York * New York City, Long Island, Westchester County * Sept. 20, 2024 * NYNY2409.20
- Birds Mentioned WHITE IBIS+ (+ Details requested by NYSARC) Sora AMERICAN AVOCET AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER Whimbrel HUDSONIAN GODWIT MARBLED GODWIT Long-billed Dowitcher Wilson's Phalarope Stilt Sandpiper BAIRD’S SANDPIPER BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER White-rumped Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Western Sandpiper Wilson’s Snipe Lesser Black-backed Gull Caspian Tern Royal Tern AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN Western Cattle Egret Red-headed Woodpecker Philadelphia Vireo LARK SPARROW YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT PROTHONOTARY WARBLER CONNECTICUT WARBLER Mourning Warbler BLUE GROSBEAK 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, September 20, 2024 at 11:00 p.m. The highlights of today's tape are AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN, WHITE IBIS, AMERICAN AVOCET, HUDSONIAN and MARBLED GODWITS, AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER, BUFF-BREASTED and BAIRD’S SANDPIPERS, LARK SPARROW, YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT, PROTHONOTARY and CONNECTICUT WARBLERS, BLUE GROSBEAK, DICKCISSEL and more. Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge continues to provide an excellent variety of interesting birds, perhaps topped by the AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN lingering on the East Pond all week, though moving around a bit. Two AMERICAN AVOCETS, also present all week, have been consistently at the pond’s north end, where a MARBLED GODWIT from the previous week was joined by a second as of Tuesday, both continuing through today. An immature AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER visited the East Pond Tuesday and Wednesday, and a WILSON'S PHALAROPE was reported there Saturday and Wednesday, while other shorebirds also noted there have included STILT, PECTORAL, WHITE-RUMPED and WESTERN SANDPIPERS and LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER, plus a WILSON’S SNIPE Sunday. Up to 15 CASPIAN TERNS and 5 ROYAL TERNS have also been counted gathering up at the north end, and a SORA continues to frequent the edge of a small pond at the south end. A WHIMBREL was noted at the West Pond Sunday and Tuesday, and two immature WHITE IBIS were seen Monday in flight, passing over the parking lot and then circling around the West Pond before flying off to the southwest just after 2:00 p.m. A single immature WHITE IBIS was seen again Monday on the pond at Cow Meadow Park in Freeport but not reported thereafter, while the previous Saturday a WESTERN CATTLE EGRET visited this pond. Out at Old Inlet on Fire Island, 2 miles west along the beach from Smith Point County Park, on Sunday were an AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER plus one MARBLED and six HUDSONIAN GODWITS, with four HUDSONIANS there on Monday. Also counted there Sunday were 65 LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS, while on Tuesday a LARK SPARROW was found at Smith Point County Park itself. Other shorebirds featured single AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVERS at Great Kills Park on Staten Island Sunday and Heckscher State Park Sunday and Monday, a MARBLED GODWIT and two WHIMBREL at Democrat Point on Fire Island Saturday followed by a BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER there Tuesday, single WHIMBREL at Great Kills Monday and Breezy Point Tuesday, and a BAIRD’S SANDPIPER at Blydenburgh Park in Smithtown Sunday and Monday. Single RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS were found Saturday on Governor's Island and at Croton Point Park. Various PHILADELPHIA VIREOS included multiples in Central Park last Saturday and several elsewhere, including in Prospect Park and Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn as well as at Sunken Meadow State Park Tuesday. A YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT has continued in Bryant Park in Manhattan, joined by the longer lingering MOURNING WARBLER as well as a CONNECTICUT WARBLER on Wednesday. Other CONNECTICUTS occurring in several of the major parks also included one in the Floyd Bennett Field Community Garden last Sunday and one at Brooklyn Bridge Park today. More surprising, though, were single PROTHONOTARY WARBLERS photographed Monday in Green-Wood Cemetery and Tuesday at Brooklyn Bridge Park. Warblers in general, though, continue in decent variety but somewhat low numbers. A BLUE GROSBEAK was spotted in Kissena Park in Queens today, and among a few DICKCISSELS was one at Pelham Bay Park Tuesday. 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. -- (copy & paste any URL below, then modify any text "_DOT_" to a period ".") 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