- RBA * New York * New York City, Long Island, Westchester County * Aug. 19, 2022 * NYNY2208.19
- Birds mentioned WHITE-FACED STORM-PETREL+ BAND-RUMPED STORM-PETREL+ BLACK-CAPPED PETREL+ ANHINGA+ NEOTROPIC CORMORANT+ WHITE IBIS+ (+ Details requested by NYSARC) Whimbrel HUDSONIAN GODWIT MARBLED GODWIT Stilt Sandpiper Baird's Sandpiper White-rumped Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Western Sandpiper Wilson's Phalarope Red-necked Phalarope Bonaparte's Gull BLACK-HEADED GULL Gull-billed Tern Caspian Tern Royal Tern Wilson's Storm-Petrel Leach's Storm-Petrel Cory's Shearwater Great Shearwater Manx Shearwater Audubon's Shearwater GREAT BLUE HERON (white morph "Great White Heron") Cattle Egret Olive-sided Flycatcher Yellow-bellied Flycatcher YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT Worm-eating Warbler Tennessee Warbler Nashville Warbler Mourning Warbler Hooded Warbler Cape May Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Wilson's Warbler DICKCISSEL - 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, August 19th 2022* at 11pm. The highlights of today's tape are ANHINGA, NEOTROPIC CORMORANT, pelagic trip results including WHITE-FACED and BAND-RUMPED STORM-PETRELS and BLACK-CAPPED PETREL, WHITE IBIS, BLACK-HEADED GULL, white morph of GREAT BLUE HERON, MARBLED and HUDSONIAN GODWITS, YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT, DICKCISSEL and more. For continuing rarities both the ANHINGA and NEOTROPIC CORMORANT were seen today with the ANHINGA continuing on Lake Tappan in Rockland County very often seen while perched in trees on the east side of the lake just north of Convent Road and south of Blauvelt Road. The CORMORANT is usually found in Newburgh, Orange County sitting on offshore structures at the Global Oil terminal off River Road south of the Newburgh ferry terminal. Last Sunday evening the American Princess left Sheepshead Bay in Brooklyn heading well out into the Atlantic for Monday birding in the warm waters around McMaster and then Hudson Canyon's before returning Monday night. Seabird highlights featured 5 RED-NECKED PHALAROPES, 1,050 WILSON'S STORM-PETRELS, 2 WHITE-FACED STORM-PETRELS one seen wonderfully well, 40 LEACH'S and 15 BAND-RUMPED STORM-PETRELS along with over 100 STORM-PETRELS not identified to species and 3 BLACK-CAPPED PETRELS and to the SHEARWATERS: 15 CORY'S, 40 GREAT, 2 MANX and 5 AUDUBON'S. A great mammal show was highlighted by a small pod of 4 Sowerby's Beaked Whales and also included 4 Finned and 20 Pilot Whales plus some Striped, Offshore, Bottle-nosed, Rizzo's and Common Dolphins. On Staten Island an immature WHITE IBIS was still visiting the marsh off the western end of Delwit Avenue in Oakwood today and a CATTLE EGRET was also seen briefly in that area last Saturday. This anticipated more young WHITE IBIS appeared overnight Long Island with 4 spotted together up in Stony Brook last Sunday evening. By Monday 7 were present at the West Meadow Wetlands Preserve along Trustees Road which becomes a bike and walking road just beyond the entrance to West Meadow Beach. The IBIS, especially at higher tides, have been frequenting the section of marsh on the east side of the road between the beach parking area and the Ernst Conservation Center about a half mile south down the road. The IBIS sometimes perching in the marsh trees along that stretch. There is a parking fee here. At Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge on the East Pond a MARBLED GODWIT was last reported last Sunday but 2 HUDSONIAN GODWITS continued at least to Wednesday with one today. Other shorebirds have featured a WILSON'S PHALAROPE today plus small numbers of STILT, WHITE-RUMPED, PECTORAL and WESTERN SANDPIPERS. Also BLACK-HEADED and BONAPARTE'S GULLS continue on the East Pond and there have been occasional sightings of GULL-BILLED and ROYAL TERNS with 3 GULL-BILLEDS and 2 WHIMBREL also out in Jamaica Bay last Saturday. A white morph GREAT BLUE HERON was still at Piermont Pier Wednesday and a CASPIAN TERN visited Croton Point Park Tuesday while a BAIRD'S SANDPIPER was identified at Orient Point last Saturday. Among some landbird migrants this week have been a few OLIVE-SIDED and YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHERS, a YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT at Welwyn Preserve in Glen Cove today. Various warblers including WORM-EATING, TENNESSEE, NASHVILLE, MOURNING, HOODED, CAPE MAY, BAY-BREASTED and WILSON'S and single DICKCISSELS Sunday at Croton Point and Monday on Fire Island. 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. Thank you for calling. - End transcript -- 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/ --
