- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 04/23/2015 * NYBU1504.23 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to [email protected] -------------------------------------------
NEOTROPIC CORMORANT AMERICAN AVOCET GOLDEN EAGLE Pied-billed Grebe Horned Grebe Northern Pintail Northern Shoveler Ring-necked Duck Lesser Scaup Bufflehead Red-br. Merganser Ruddy Duck Northern Harrier Sharp-sh. Hawk Broad-winged Hawk Red-tailed Hawk American Kestrel Virginia Rail Common Gallinule Yellow-b. Sapsucker Hermit Thrush Brown Thrasher Fox Sparrow - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 04/23/2015 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, April 23, 2015 The Buffalo Bird Report is a service provided by your Buffalo Museum of Science and the Buffalo Ornithological Society. To contact the Science Museum, call 896-5200. Press the pound key to report sightings before the end of this report. Highlights of reports received April 16 through April 23 from the Niagara Frontier Region. A new species for the region - April 23, a NEOTROPIC CORMORANT in the Chautauqua County Town of Pomfret. Originally seen in flight by a driver on the New York State Thruway near the SUNY Fredonia campus in the early morning; later the NEOTROPIC CORMORANT was located on a private pond, viewed from Van Buren Road, west of Route 5. April 18, on Lake Ontario in Ontario, a most unusual report - a record count of 10 AMERICAN AVOCETS, at a rare time of year, atypically floating in a flock, on deep water off the west pier at Port Dalhousie in Saint Catharines. The AMERICAN AVOCETS were observed from noon until at least 4 PM. In Buffalo, April 19, a low flying juvenile GOLDEN EAGLE over Tifft Nature Preserve. Other migrant hawks over Tifft Nature Preserve - SHARP-SH. HAWK, NORTHERN HARRIER, RED- TAILED HAWK, BROAD-WINGED HAWK and AMERICAN KESTREL. Also in the preserve, 3 VIRGINIA RAILS, YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKER, 7 HERMIT THRUSHES, 2 BROWN THRASHERS and a FOX SPARROW. BROWN THRASHER also reported in a yard in the Village of Wilson. And in the Iroquois Refuge, April 17, 2 COMMON GALLINULES first noted at Cayuga Pool. Down the Feeder Road at Mohawk Pool, abundant NORTHERN PINTAILS and RING-NECKED DUCKS, with NORTHERN SHOVELER, LESSER SCAUP, BUFFLEHEAD, RED-BR. MERGANSER, RUDDY DUCK, PIED-BILLED GREBE and HORNED GREBE. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, April 30. Please call in your sightings by noon Thursday. You may report sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting. - End Transcript _______________________________________________ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists - the provincial birding organization. Send bird reports to [email protected] For information about ONTBIRDS including how to unsubscribe visit http://www.ofo.ca/site/page/view/information.ontbirdssetup Posting guidelines can be found at http://www.ofo.ca/site/page/view/information.ontbirdsguide
