New York City RBA
April 18, 2008
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- RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* April 18, 2008
* NYNY0804.18
- Birds Mentioned:
Blue-winged Teal
Surf Scoter
White-winged Scoter
Black Scoter
Red-throated Loon
Common Loon
Red-necked Grebe
Northern Gannet
Cattle Egret
Green Heron
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
Glossy Ibis
Broad-winged Hawk
Spotted Sandpiper
Greater Yellowlegs
Purple Sandpiper
Long-billed Dowitcher
Wilson's Snipe
Iceland Gull
Forster's Tern
Royal Tern
Large alcid (possible THICK-BILLED MURRE+ or
Razorbill)
Short-eared Owl
Whip-poor-will
Chimney Swift
White-eyed Vireo
Blue-headed Vireo
Barn Swallow
Marsh Wren
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Northern Parula
Yellow Warbler
Prairie Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler
Ovenbird
Northern Waterthrush
Louisiana Waterthrush
Vesper Sparrow
Rusty Blackbird
Baltimore Oriole
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 nysarc1@nybirds.org .
If electronic submission is not possible, hardcopy
reports and photos or sketches are welcome. Hardcopy
documentation should be mailed to:
Jeanne Skelly - Secretary
NYS Avian Records Committee (NYSARC)
420 Chili-Scottsville Rd.
Churchville, NY 14428
Hotline: New York City Area Rare Bird Alert
Weekly Recording: (212) 979-3070 (currently
disconnected **)
** NOTE: Due to the move by the NYC Audubon to a new
location, the NYC Area RBA is temporarily without
phone service. This is being worked on and hopefully
will be remedied soon. **
To report sightings call:
Tom Burke (212) 297-4804 (weekdays)
Tony Lauro (631) 734-4126 (Long Island)
Compilers: Tom Burke, Tony Lauro
Coverage: New York City, Long Island, Westchester
County
Transcriber: Karen Fung
[~ Transcript ~]
Greetings. This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for
Friday, April 18th, at 8:00 p.m. The highlights of
today's tape are such spring arrivals as
WHIP-POOR-WILL, CATTLE EGRET, and more.
As spring migration progresses at its currently slow
but steady pace, a few interesting arrivals have
appeared. In Central Park, a WHIP-POOR-WILL was found
in the Ramble on Monday, and other arrivals in the
park have featured GREEN HERON, YELLOW-CROWNED
NIGHT-HERON, SPOTTED SANDPIPER, WILSON'S SNIPE,
CHIMNEY SWIFT, BARN SWALLOW, BLUE-HEADED VIREO,
BLUE-GRAY GNATCATCHER, YELLOW WARBLER, BLACK-AND-WHITE
WARBLER, OVENBIRD, and LOUISIANA WATERTHRUSH. Several
RUSTY BLACKBIRDS were also present early in the week.
Similar migrants have appeared in Prospect Park and at
Hempstead Lake State Park, with NORTHERN PARULA
joining the list of migrants at both sites.
A couple of PRAIRIE WARBLERS have also appeared on
Long Island Sunday in Babylon and at Tiana Beach, and
a WHITE-EYED VIREO also visited Babylon.
The Forest Park waterhole today produced NORTHERN
WATERTHRUSH, BALTIMORE ORIOLE and some RUSTY
BLACKBIRDS, among others.
Yesterday afternoon a large alcid was spotted in Jones
Inlet. The bird was studied from the Point Lookout
side at long distance under less than ideal conditions
and ultimately flew out the inlet on the rising tide,
leaving the observers leaning towards THICK-BILLED
MURRE but unable to rule out a first-year RAZORBILL.
Forty PURPLE SANDPIPERS were still in Long Beach
yesterday.
Eight FORSTER'S TERNS appeared at Jones Beach West End
last Sunday, when a MARSH WREN was found at Tobay and
a VESPER SPARROW was at Robert Moses State Park.
Another VESPER SPARROW was at Dreier-Offerman Park in
Brooklyn on Sunday.
Eight LONG-BILLED DOWITCHERS and a GREATER YELLOWLEGS
were among the birds still on the pond in Massapequa
Preserve, adjacent to the eastern end of Pittsburgh
Avenue yesterday.
More unexpected: a ROYAL TERN was reported from mid
Fire Island on Monday, and on Tuesday a CATTLE EGRET
was seen flying over Ocean Parkway at Oak Beach.
GLOSSY IBIS have appeared in the Metropolitan area and
also out east at Moriches, with three there Sunday.
A sea watch off Cupsogue County Park in Westhampton
Dunes on Saturday yielded a large unidentified jaeger,
and a good general movement eastward of ducks, loons
and gannets along the ocean. This sea migration was
quantified during watches off Ocean Avenue in
Amagansett on Saturday and Sunday, and numbers
involving mostly BLACK SCOTERS and SURF SCOTERS, with
some WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS as well, the birds moving by
at a rate of well over 15,000/hr. Good numbers of
NORTHERN GANNETS and RED-THROATED LOONS, with fewer
COMMON LOONS, were also on the move, and less expected
were three or four BLUE-WINGED TEAL both days and two
RED-NECKED GREBES on Sunday.
An ICELAND GULL at still at Iron Pier Park in
Northville on Tuesday.
At the former Grumman airport property in Calverton,
three SHORT-EARED OWLS were still present on
Wednesday, their stay raising the possibility that
this regionally threatened species might even be
attempting to nest there.
BROAD-WINGED HAWKS have begun to show up, as of last
weekend, at local spring hawk watch sites such as Hook
Mountain in Nyack and the Greenwich Audubon Center in
northwestern Greenwich.
To phone in reports on Long Island call Tony Lauro at
(631) 734-4126, or weekdays call Tom Burke at (212)
297-4804. This service is sponsored by the Linnaean
Society of New York and the National Audubon Society.
[~ End Transcript ~]
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