New York City RBA
March 5, 2010
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- RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Mar. 5, 2010
* NYNY1003.05
- Birds mentioned
BARNACLE GOOSE+
WESTERN GREBE+
MEW GULL+
Ivory Gull+ (northern New York -- not seen since Tuesday)
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)
GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE
Trumpeter Swan
GREEN-WINGED TEAL (Eurasian subspecies "Common Teal")
Common Eider
HARLEQUIN DUCK
BARROW'S GOLDENEYE
Red-necked Grebe
Black Vulture
Red-shouldered Hawk
Rough-legged Hawk
American Woodcock
Iceland Gull
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Eastern Bluebird
Orange-crowned Warbler
Lapland Longspur
- Transcript
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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
Number: (212) 979-3070
To report sightings call:
Tom Burke (212) 372-1483 (weekdays, during the day)
Tony Lauro at (631) 734-4126 (Long Island)
Compiler: Tom Burke, Tony Lauro
Coverage: New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
Transcriber: Ben Cacace
BEGIN TAPE
Greetings. This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for Friday, March 5th 2010
at 7pm. The highlights of today's tape are WESTERN GREBE, MEW GULL, BARNACLE
GOOSE, GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE, BARROW'S GOLDENEYE, HARLEQUIN DUCK and
"EURASIAN" GREEN-WINGED TEAL.
First, there have been no reports of the IVORY GULL in northern New York
since Tuesday.
Last Sunday, what would be the same WESTERN GREBE traveling around the
coastlines of Brooklyn and Queens and perhaps also parts of northern New
Jersey was spotted on the ocean off Riis Park. Resting much of the time the
bird drifted west with the currents and was last seen moving past the
Fisherman's parking lot at the West End of Fort Tilden and heading towards
Breezy Point.
The MEW GULL in Brooklyn was present today on the lawn just south of the
pedestrian bridge that crosses over the Belt Parkway near Bay 16th Street
where parking is usually available. It was seen just after noontime and if
not there look along the Gravesend Bay shoreline from the promenade.
At Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge the drake BARROW'S GOLDENEYE was on the West
Pond later Sunday afternoon and seen again on the bay west of the West Pond
on Thursday. There is an interesting gathering of GREEN-WINGED TEAL around
the southwest corner of the West Pond at the bay. On Sunday, included among
the 20 to 30 green-wingeds were one pure looking drake Eurasian form
referred to as Common Teal and 2 other males showing characteristics of
Common Teal. One however has very faint vestiges of the vertical white
stripe on the side that is a character of American green-wings and the other
has a more prominent vertical stripe but also features a slightly less than
normal horizontal scapular stripe of a Common Teal. The later two would by
appearance be presumed to be hybrids between the 2 forms of Green-winged
Teal and who knows about the females present. These birds were all still
present there on Thursday.
The 2 BLACK VULTURES, presumably setting up to nest again at Fort Wadsworth
on Staten Island, were seen again Sunday spotted from the Brooklyn side of
the Verrazzano Bridge.
A BARNACLE GOOSE was found among Canadas at Sunken Meadow State Park on
Tuesday near the main parking lot as this is likely the same Barnacle that
was present there late last year keep an eye out also for the Pink-footed
Goose to reappear there.
Last Sunday 2 LAPLAND LONGSPURS were present with Horned Larks on a runway
at Floyd Bennett Field and on Staten Island a LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL was
spotted at Silver Lake Park.
In Central Park AMERICAN WOODCOCK were appearing as of last Saturday and 4
EASTERN BLUEBIRDS were seen also on the move.
While continuing as of today around Jones Inlet were 6 HARLEQUIN DUCKS
around the Point Lookout jetties, 22 COMMON EIDER in the inlet and 3 LAPLAND
LONGSPURS at West End these today off the southwest corner of the main West
End 2 parking lot. An immature ICELAND GULL was also on the bar by the Coast
Guard Station. A HARP SEAL, most amazingly, was seen along the beach going
out to the West End jetty.
At Smith Point County Park in Shirley a ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK was present Monday
and a RED-NECKED GREBE was on the ocean Tuesday east of the parking lot.
The 4 immature GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GEESE seen frequently along Further
Lane during hunting season were found yesterday on a corn field along Route
114 next to a nursery in Easthampton.
The 2 TRUMPETER SWANS remain on Upper Lake in Yaphank through yesterday.
Birds at Croton Point Park last Sunday included the wintering ORANGE-CROWNED
WARBLER in the first campground and 2 RED-SHOULDERED HAWKS.
To phone in reports on Long Island, call Tony Lauro at (631) 734-4126, or
during the day except Sunday call Tom Burke at (212) 372-1483.
This service is sponsored by the Linnaean Society of New York and the
National Audubon Society. Thank you for calling.
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