Good afternoon, Yesterday evening (19 July) , Ben Bolduc discovered a godwit at Moriches Inlet, Suffolk County. I came across the photos earlier this afternoon and after circulating among several top birders in the area, there was agreement the godwit appears to be a Bar-tailed - likely a drab SY-type bird. The bird is fairly long-billed like a Marbled, but in Ben’s photos, it also appears rather drab gray, lacking the upperpart checkering of a Marbled, with fine streaking on the coverts, and subtly longer primaries projecting beyond the terts and tail -all seeming consistent with Bar-tailed. I wanted to circulate this news so others can search to relocate the bird. Photos of the bird can be see on Ben’s checklist:https://ebird.org/checklist/S115409477
Good luck! Best,Mike McBrien -- 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/ --
