Tom: Bonaparte’s Gull were historically common to abundant in New York County. Into the 1960’s they occurred as spring and fall migrants and winter visitors in New York Harbor and along the Hudson River. Up to 5,000+ birds could be seen on a single day as far north as the George Washington Bridge. Mixed in among them was an occasional Black-headed or Little Gull. It was during that time period that Black-headed Gulls occurred in Central Park and Little Gulls could regularly be seen in May from the Staten island Ferry (where they would feed with Bonaparte’s Gulls in the Rip Tide off the south shore Governor’s Island).
Peter (Post) > On Oct 13, 2020, at 5:44 AM, Thomas Fiore <tom...@earthlink.net > <mailto:tom...@earthlink.net>> wrote: > > Monday, “Indigenous Peoples’ Day”, Oct. 12th > New York County (in N.Y. City) > > 3 Bonaparte’s Gulls were noted moving south down the Hudson river, in early > afternoon (A. Farnsworth) - although a very ‘rare’ sighting for the county, > this species is almost certainly annual of occurrence in the county, and the > Hudson river possibly the best site to be on the watch for them on passage. > (They are 'extremely rare' as stop-in-&-stay-a-while visitors to the county, > in terms of the historic records but again, it’s worth keeping eyes open for > this & other unexpected larids, and especially at these times of the year > when much movement is occurring). -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm 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://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
