Yellow-crowned Night-Heron is a great bird for Tompkins County. Black-crowned Night-Heron is more likely, but Yellow-crowned is a great find. Thank you for posting this on Cayugabirds-L!
For the benefit of others, here are a few followup eBird checklists that came through on the personal eBird RBA (rare bird alert) hourly filter that I have set up for Tompkins County. Anyone can set these up for each county of your choosing for New York State at various time intervals; for other states the alerts may be state-wide, for example Vermont is state-wide. Anyone can set these up in once logged into your own eBird account. There are perfectly identifiable photos of the Yellow-crowned Night-Heron in the checklists submitted by David and Santi, below. - Yellow-crowned Night-Heron (3 reports) --------------------------------------------- Thank you for subscribing to the <hourly> Tompkins County Rare Bird Alert. The report below shows observations of rare birds in Tompkins County. View or unsubscribe to this alert at https://ebird.org/alert/summary?sid=SN35084 NOTE: all sightings are UNCONFIRMED unless indicated. eBird encourages our users to bird safely, responsibly, and mindfully. Please follow the recommendations of your local health authorities and respect any active travel restrictions in your area. For more information visit: https://ebird.org/news/please-bird-mindfully Yellow-crowned Night-Heron (Nyctanassa violacea) (1) - Reported Apr 26, 2023 19:54 by David Benvent - Groton Avenue Park, Tompkins, New York - Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=42.513126,-76.351415&ll=42.513126,-76.351415 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S135126462 - Media: 5 Photos - Comments: "**Rare, pretty adult walking along the back left edge of the field. Digibin photos" Yellow-crowned Night-Heron (Nyctanassa violacea) (1) - Reported Apr 26, 2023 19:54 by Santi Tabares - Groton Avenue Park, Tompkins, New York - Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=42.513126,-76.351415&ll=42.513126,-76.351415 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S135126463 - Media: 5 Photos - Comments: "**Rare, pretty adult walking along the back left edge of the field. Digibin photos" Yellow-crowned Night-Heron (Nyctanassa violacea) (1) - Reported Apr 26, 2023 20:06 by Kevin McGowan - Groton Avenue Park, Freeville US-NY 42.51524, -76.35318, Tompkins, New York - Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=42.515242,-76.353182&ll=42.515242,-76.353182 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S135126587 - Comments: "Adult. Walking edge of ball field in NW corner." Hope this is helpful! Sincerely, Chris T-H On Apr 26, 2023, at 7:31 PM, Fred Rimmel <fredrim...@gmail.com<mailto:fredrim...@gmail.com>> wrote: A yellow crowned night heron was seen about 7:00 pm at Groton Avenue Park in Freeville. I would appreciate knowing how common they are in this area? Fred Rimmel -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- -- Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes — Field Applications Engineer K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics, Cornell Lab of Ornithology Cornell University, 159 Sapsucker Woods Road, Ithaca, New York 14850, USA Work: +1 607-254-2418 Mobile: +1 607-351-5740 FAX: +1 607-254-1132 https://bioacoustics.cornell.edu -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
