- RBA * New York * New York City, Long Island, Westchester County * Nov. 1, 2019 * NYNY1911.01
- Birds mentioned BROWN PELICAN+ ASH-THROATED FLYCATCHER+ (+ Details requested by NYSARC) PARASITIC JAEGER BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKE Lesser Black-backed Gull Caspian Tern Royal Tern Northern Gannet EURASIAN WIGEON KING EIDER Tricolored Heron Little Blue Heron Yellow-crowned Night-Heron AMERICAN AVOCET Long-billed Dowitcher MARBLED GODWIT LAPLAND LONGSPUR Vesper Sparrow BLUE GROSBEAK Black-and-White Warbler Nashville Warbler Orange-crowned Warbler Tennessee Warbler Northern Parula Yellow Warbler Black-throated Blue Warbler Magnolia Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler Prairie Warbler Ovenbird Northern Waterthrush Mourning Warbler YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT Wilson's Warbler American Redstart - 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 nysarc44 (at)nybirds{dot}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) 125 Pine Springs Drive Ticonderoga, NY 12883 Hotline: New York City Area Rare Bird Alert Number: (212) 979-3070 Compiler: Tom Burke Coverage: New York City, Long Island, Westchester County Transcriber: Ben Cacace BEGIN TAPE Greetings. This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for Friday, November 1st 2019 at 9pm. The highlights of today's tape are BROWN PELICAN, ASH-THROATED FLYCATCHER, AMERICAN AVOCET, MARBLED GODWIT, EURASIAN WIGEON, KING EIDER, PARASITIC JAEGER, BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKE, YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT, LAPLAND LONGSPUR, BLUE GROSBEAK and more. A BROWN PELICAN present recently around the entrance to Montauk Harbor was seen this week on Monday and again yesterday. An ASH-THROATED FLYCATCHER subsequently identified from photographs visited South Shore Park in Brooklyn last Monday but was not seen following its identification. This park is off the Belt Parkway north of the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge. Lingering AMERICAN AVOCETS featured 3 at Miller Field on Staten Island up to Wednesday and 2 around the south end of the East Pond at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge at least to Monday with 2 also at the Oceanside Marine Nature Study Area Saturday. A MARBLED GODWIT was around Big Egg Marsh south of Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge Saturday and 2 were still reported today off the Coast Guard Station at Jones Beach West End. Among the other locally lingering shorebirds have been small numbers of LONG-BILLED DOWITCHERS. Locations this week, besides Jamaica Bay's East Pond, have included the Oceanside Marine Nature Study Area Saturday and Timber Point Golf Course Tuesday. The drake EURASIAN WIGEON was still being seen around the south end of Jamaica Bay's East Pond early in the week and another spotted Monday on Mill Pond in Sayville was still present yesterday. Mill Pond is just north at Route 85 Montauk Highway. The female KING EIDER was seen again off Orient Point on Monday. The stormy conditions along the south shore of Long Island both Sunday and Wednesday produced decent numbers of PARASITIC JAEGERS among the seabird concentrations just offshore. At Riis Park Sunday there were at least 14 individuals, most passing by, but a few lingering to harass the feeding gulls and terns and Wednesday added at least 5 more while Sunday also found a couple off Staten Island and 8 counted from Robert Moses State Park. On Sunday the activity included many NORTHERN GANNETS with 750 estimated off Moses Park and both Riis and Moses featured sightings of an immature BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKE plus some ROYAL TERNS. Moses also adding a CASPIAN TERN. Other later non-passerines this week included COMMON GALLINULE, LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL, LITTLE BLUE and TRICOLORED HERONS and YELLOW-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON. A YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT was found in Central Park's north end today while a LAPLAND LONGSPUR was identified last Saturday at Miller Field. A BLUE GROSBEAK was present at Brooklyn's Green-wood Cemetery last weekend. Several sightings of VESPER SPARROW this week peaked with a dozen Monday at Westchester's Croton Point Park with 1 or 2 at various sites including Governors Island and Randall's Island, Floyd Bennett Field and the Salt Marsh Nature Center, Jones Beach and other locations. A presumably distressed SALTMARSH SPARROW was still in Manhattan's Union Square Park today. Along with the occasional ORANGE-CROWNED other of the more unusual warbler species seen this week included OVENBIRD, NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH, BLACK-AND-WHITE, TENNESSEE, NASHVILLE, a MOURNING in Union Square Park Saturday and Sunday, AMERICAN REDSTART, NORTHERN PARULA, MAGNOLIA, YELLOW, BLACKPOLL, BLACK-THROATED BLUE, PRAIRIE, BLACK- THROATED GREEN and WILSON'S. To phone in reports call Tom Burke at (914) 967-4922. This service is sponsored by the Linnaean Society of New York and the National Audubon Society. 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