- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 04/12/2012
* NYBU1204.12
- Birds mentioned
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WHITE-W. CROSSBILL
PINE SISKIN
PINE WARBLER SANDHILL CRANE
COMMON TERN
CASPIAN TERN
Common Loon
D.-crest. Cormorant
American Bittern
Great Egret
Bl.-cr. Night-Heron
Wood Duck
Green-winged Teal
Blue-winged Teal
Harlequin Duck
Bufflehead
Ruddy Duck
Peregrine Falcon
Virginia Rail
Common Gallinule
American Coot
Bonaparte's Gull
L. Black-b. Gull
Glaucous Gull
Great Horned Owl
Yellow-b. Sapsucker
Pileated Woodpecker
N. Rough-w. Swallow
Golden-cr. Kinglet
Ruby-cr. Kinglet
Yellow-r. Warbler
Eastern Towhee
Chipping Sparrow
Field Sparrow
Fox Sparrow
White-thr. Sparrow
Rusty Blackbird
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Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Date: 04/12/2012
Number: 716-896-1271
To Report: Same
Compiler: David F. Suggs (dfsuggs localnet com)
Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario
Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org
Thursday, April 12, 2012
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.
Highlights of reports received April 5 through April 12 from the
Niagara Frontier Region include WHITE-W. CROSSBILL, PINE SISKIN, PINE
WARBLER, SANDHILL CRANE, COMMON TERN and CASPIAN TERN.
April 8, in the Lake Ontario Plains, 2 WHITE-W. CROSSBILLS and 8
PINE SISKINS briefly passing through Wilson-Tuscaurora State Park,
plus 5 YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKERS, RUBY-CR. KINGLET, GOLDEN-CR. KINGLET and
FIELD SPARROW. Two PINE SISKINS this week at a feeder in Medina.
Again April 8, arrival of PINE WARBLER at Point Gratiot Park in
Dunkirk and Greenwood Cemetery in Wilson. Also at Point Gratiot, 35
GOLDEN-CR. KINGLETS, EASTERN TOWHEE, CHIPPING SPARROW, FOX SPARROW and
WHITE-THR. SPARROW, and at Greenwood Cemetery, YELLOW-R. WARBLER, FOX
SPARROW and 2 PILEATED WOODPECKERS.
SANDHILL CRANE, April 9, in Cattaraugus County, about five miles
south of the Village of South Dayton.
April 6, COMMON TERNS arrived a day early off the Erie Basin Marina
in Buffalo, and with 3000 BONAPARTE'S GULLS at Rich Marine in
Riverside.
CASPIAN TERN first noted April 7 at Kumpf Marsh in the Iroquois
Refuge, with a continuing and changing plumage LONG-B. DOWITCHER. Also
in the Iroquois Refuge - COMMON GALLINULE at Cayuga Pool with 15
waterfowl species including 29 RUDDY DUCKS, plus AMERICAN BITTERN and
VIRGINIA RAIL. Numbers of WOOD DUCK, BLUE-WINGED TEAL, GREEN-WINGED
TEAL and BUFFLEHEAD in the marshes on the south side of Route 77. And
at Swallow Hollow Trail, about 400 RUSTY BLACKBIRDS.
Six gull species at Dunkirk Harbor on the 8th included L. BLACK-B.
GULL and GLAUCOUS GULL, plus COMMON LOON and 100 each of AMERICAN COOT
and D.-CREST. CORMORANT.
COMMON LOON also this week on Delaware Park Lake in Buffalo and the
Niagara River off the Robert Moses Parkway in Niagara Falls.
April 11, two female HARLEQUIN DUCKS still above Niagara Falls,
viewed from the Three Sisters Islands on Goat Island. At the falls
heronry, 141 BL.-CR. NIGHT-HERONS and 13 GREAT EGRETS on nest.
PEREGRINE FALCON on the Canadian gorge wall, viewed from Terrapin
Point. And, N. ROUGH-W. SWALLOW at Goat Island.
And in late March, GREAT HORNED OWL in yard on McKinley Parkway in Hamburg.
The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, April 19. Please
call in your sightings by noon Thursday. You may report sightings
after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting.
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