-RBA * New York * New York City, Long Island, Westchester County * Aug. 14, 2026 * NYNY2608.14
- Birds Mentioned: BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING-DUCK EARED GREBE UPLAND SANDPIPER MARBLED GODWIT BAIRD’S SANDPIPER BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER WILSON'S PHALAROPE Parasitic Jaeger GLAUCOUS GULL Gull-billed Tern Caspian Tern Royal Tern Wilson’s Storm-Petrel Cory's Shearwater Scopoli’s Shearwater Great Shearwater Sooty Shearwater Manx Shearwater BROWN PELICAN OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER Acadian Flycatcher Worm-eating Warbler Blue-winged Warbler PROTHONOTARY WARBLER Tennessee Warbler Nashville Warbler Mourning Warbler Hooded Warbler Cape May Warbler Cerulean Warbler Northern Parula Bay-breasted Warbler DICKCISSEL 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: Gail Benson [~BEGIN RBA TAPE~] Greetings! This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for Friday, August 14, 2026 at 11:00 pm. The highlights of today’s tape are BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING-DUCK, EARED GREBE, BROWN PELICAN, UPLAND, BUFF BREASTED and BAIRD’S SANDPIPERS, WILSON'S PHALAROPE, MARBLED GODWIT, GLAUCOUS GULL, various pelagics, OLIVE SIDED, YELLOW-BELLIED and other FLYCATCHERS, PROTHONOTARY and other WARBLERS, DICKCISSEL and more. A single BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING DUCK recently visiting Jones Beach State Park was first spotted near the theater Monday, then around the traffic circle Tuesday, but its elusive wanderings kept it mostly hidden; on Thursday it was finally relocated on a small pond just west of the bandshell and administration building. There were no follow-up sightings today, though it may still be around there somewhere. An EARED GREBE initially spotted Tuesday on the West Pond at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge has continued there through today; still retaining most of its breeding plumage, the GREBE has often been frequenting the northern end of the pond and can be tricky to locate. BROWN PELICAN sightings this week featured two moving around the Breezy Point area last Saturday and three flying west off Long Beach today. An UPLAND SANDPIPER’S distinctive flight call was heard early Friday morning as the bird flew southeast over Cinder Island in Middle Bay, headed unseen towards Point Lookout. The first BUFF-BREASTED SANDPAPER of the season was photographed Sunday at Field 7 in Heckscher State Park, and a BAIRD’S SANDPIPER was nicely documented at Piermont Pier on Wednesday. A WILSON’S PHALAROPE visiting the dune pools between Fields 1 and 2 at Jones Beach West End since last Friday was joined by a second one today, and another was seen today at the Raunt on the East Pond at Jamaica Bay, where water levels remain challenging at best. A MARBLED GODWIT at Plumb Beach last weekend and two at Great Kills Park Sunday were followed by two Tuesday on the bar at Jones Beach West End, these moving east to Field 10 on Wednesday and continuing there today. A GLAUCOUS GULL was still around Coney Island today, 2 GULL-BILLED TERNS were noted at Plumb Beach irregularly through today, CASPIAN TERNS were spotted at seven different locations during the week, and increasing ROYAL TERNS reached 15 at Plumb Beach Monday. Birders going out on the CRESLI Whale-watching trips Saturday, Sunday and Wednesday recorded PARASITIC JAEGER, good numbers of WILSON’S STORM-PETRELS, and decent numbers of GREAT and CORY'S plus a few SCOPOLI’s, SOOTY, and MANX SHEARWATERS. Among this week's migrant FLYCATCHERS were OLIVE-SIDED plus YELLOW-BELLIED, ACADIAN and other Empidonax species, while the WARBLERS were highlighted by a PROTHONOTARY in Prospect Park Wednesday, CERULEAN in Central Park last weekend, and others including WORM-EATING, BLUE-WINGED, TENNESSEE, NASHVILLE, a MOURNING in Prospect Park today, HOODED in Central Park, CAPE MAY, NORTHERN PARULA and BAY-BREASTED. And a DICKCISSEL was encountered at Dyker Beach in Brooklyn Wednesday. 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: Visit: http://LISTS.cornell.edu for more information Posting Address: [email protected] Archives: The Mail Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html Sightings: Please submit your observations to eBird at http://www.ebird.org --
