A kettle of 16turkey vultures currently over the Grumman Calverton property.
Mike Cooper Ridge LI Sent from my iPhone On Jun 13, 2013, at 3:58 PM, Shaibal Mitra <shaibal.mi...@csi.cuny.edu> wrote: > Black-billed Cuckoos have been very scarce throughout Long Island for several > years in a row, so it's easy to forget that they were not always so. > Furthermore, they were once the expected breeding species on the outer beach, > as counter-intuitive as that might seem, given their generally more northerly > distribution than Yellow-billed. This intriguing pattern was described by > John Bull in his 1964 book, and my own experience over the years has been > mostly consistent with his conclusion. For instance, I can't ever recall > seeing a Yellow-billed Cuckoo on Fire Island during June or July, whereas > Black-billed at least formerly bred out there. Your bird could have a been a > late migrant, too, as Chris T-H was picking up nocturnal flight calls of BB > Cuckoo over central NYS, through the first week of June at least. > > Shai Mitra > Bay Shore > > From: Brendan Fogarty [birde...@yahoo.com] > Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2013 8:25 PM > To: NYSBirds listserve > Subject: [nysbirds-l] Arctic Tern, Pomarine Jaeger - Nickerson Beach (Nassau > Co.) 6/11 > > >First sighting was a cuckoo flying across the Loop Parkway around 7 AM. > >Field marks suggested Black-billed, but I feel like they would be less > >likely at this time of year. Perhaps a late migrant? > > > > > Washington Monthly magazine ranks the College of Staten Island as one of > “America’s Best-Bang-for-the-Buck Colleges” > -- > NYSbirds-L List Info: > Welcome and Basics > Rules and Information > Subscribe, Configuration and Leave > Archives: > The Mail Archive > Surfbirds > BirdingOnThe.Net > Please submit your observations to eBird! > -- -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
