- RBA * New York * New York City, Long Island, Westchester County * Jul. 5, 2013 * NYNY1307.05
- Birds mentioned RED-NECKED STINT+ ARCTIC TERN+ ELEGANT TERN+ (+ Details requested by NYSARC) Cory's Shearwater Great Shearwater Sooty Shearwater MANX SHEARWATER CATTLE EGRET Upland Sandpiper WHIMBREL Least Tern Gull-billed Tern Black Tern Roseate Tern Common Tern Forster's Tern Royal Tern Black Skimmer Grasshopper Sparrow BLUE GROSBEAK Eastern Meadowlark HYBRID: Dunlin X White-rumped Sandpiper - Transcript If followed by (+) please submit documentation of your report electronically and use the NYSARC online submission form found at http://www.nybirds.org/NYSARC/goodreport.htm You can also send reports and digital image files via email to nysa...@nybirds.org. If electronic submission is not possible, hardcopy reports and photos or sketches are welcome. Hardcopy documentation should be mailed to: Gary Chapin - Secretary NYS Avian Records Committee (NYSARC) 486 High Street Victor, NY 14564 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, July 5th 2013 at 7pm. We deeply thank the National Audubon Society for their assistance and expertise in restoring the NYC Area Rare Bird Alert phone connection. It's still the same number at (212) 979-3070. The highlights of today's tape are ELEGANT TERN, RED-NECKED STINT, ARCTIC TERN, MANX and other shearwaters, WHIMBREL, CATTLE EGRET and BLUE GROSBEAK. Last Sunday morning, June 30th, a RED-NECKED STINT in high breeding plumage was spotted on the flats at Cupsogue County Park in Westhampton Dunes and it has continued there through at least Thursday though there have been no positive reports today. A virtual feather by feather analysis has determined that this is apparently the same RED-NECKED STINT present on Plum Island is Massachusetts on June 27th and 28th but not seen the 29th. The bird is usually on the flats north of the Cupsogue parking lot along with some Semipalmated Sandpipers and a nice variety of other migrant shorebirds but can disappear at very low tide and was found roosting on the adjacent Campers Island northwest of the flats last Sunday evening. Also on these flats recently have been a few now mostly all first summer ARCTIC TERNS with at least 3 there Thursday. Certainly an Internet photo of an adult is actually a Common Tern. Then as 3 birders were leaving the flats on the approaching high tide Wednesday evening they saw and photographed what is believed to be an ELEGANT TERN which would constitute a new record for New York State. A search Thursday at Cupsogue for this tern came up empty however a report has come in on late Thursday evening of what may have been the same ELEGANT TERN was seen on flats at Tiana Beach off Dune Road well east of Cupsogue but west of the Ponquogue Bridge near Neptune Lane. Terns seen on the Cupsogue flats Thursday besides the young ARCTICS included 4 ROYALS, 4 or more BLACKS in varying plumages and some ROSEATES and FORSTER'S as well as LEAST, COMMON and BLACK SKIMMER and a GULL-BILLED TERN was there last Sunday. Another interesting shorebird besides the RED-NECKED STINT is one believed to be a DUNLIN X WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER hybrid. A WHIMBREL was mentioned Friday. The Cupsogue flats can be reached from a path on the north side of the parking lot requiring a walk across some rather mucky areas to the productive flats or from a trail that leaves the 4-wheel drive road west of the parking lot and navigates north along the inlet beach to a channel that can be crossed fairly readily with diligence. Going with people who know the area helps. Also at Cupsogue a seawatch Thursday evening while not truly dynamic did produce 4 species of shearwaters with one MANX, one CORY'S, 6 GREAT and oddly 4 late SOOTY SHEARWATERS. At the former Grumman Airport site in Calverton where all of the vehicles stored there since Sandy have finally been removed seen along the runways today were an UPLAND SANDPIPER, 2 BLUE GROSBEAKS and nice counts of 37 GRASSHOPPER SPARROWS and 23 EASTERN MEADOWLARKS. This exceptional habitat needs to be preserved. Four WHIMBREL were reported from the sandbar off the Coast Guard Station at Jones Beach West End on Tuesday and a CATTLE EGRET was spotted flying over Marine Park in Brooklyn last Saturday. To phone in reports on Long Island, call Tony Lauro at (631) 734-4126, or weekdays 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. - End transcript -- 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/ --
