-RBA * New York * New York City, Long Island, Westchester County * Aug. 21, 2026 * NYNY2608.21
- Birds Mentioned: EARED GREBE Common Nighthawk UPLAND SANDPIPER Hudsonian Whimbrel MARBLED GODWIT Stilt Sandpiper BAIRD'S SANDPIPER White-rumped Sandpiper BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER Pectoral Sandpiper Western Sandpiper WILSON'S PHALAROPE RED-NECKED PHALAROPE LONG-TAILED JAEGER Parasitic Jaeger Caspian Tern Black Tern Roseate Tern Royal Tern Lesser Black-backed Gull Wilson’s Storm-Petrel Cory's Shearwater Scopoli’s Shearwater Sooty Shearwater Great Shearwater Manx Shearwater Olive-sided Flycatcher SEDGE WREN LARK SPARROW YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT Worm-eating Warbler Tennessee Warbler Mourning Warbler Hooded Warbler Cape May Warbler Blackburnian Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Black-throated Blue Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler SUMMER TANAGER 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 21, 2026 at 11:00 pm. The highlights of today’s tape are EARED GREBE, LONG-TAILED JAEGER, RED-NECKED PHALAROPE and other pelagics, UPLAND, BUFF-BREASTED and BAIRD'S SANDPIPERS, MARBLED GODWIT, WILSON'S PHALAROPE, SEDGE WREN, LARK SPARROW, YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT, SUMMER TANAGER, DICKCISSEL and more. The EARED GREBE continues on the West Pond at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, but recent rains have hampered any progress that had been made to get the water level on the East Pond down to an appropriate level for shorebirds and birders alike. The shorebird festival last Saturday did find WILSON’S PHALAROPE and STILT, PECTORAL, WESTERN and WHITE RUMPED SANDPIPERS among the many more regular species there, but even then the pond was not traversable. Shorebird highlights in the region have included a RED-NECKED PHALAROPE on Westchester’s Kensico Reservoir last Saturday and another joining 2 WILSON’S PHALAROPES Monday in ponds at Jones Beach West End located in the dunes between Fields 1 and 2. Another WILSON'S was at Sagg Pond Monday. A private parcel in Manhasset, with no access allowed, did host an UPLAND SANDPIPER as well as a SEDGE WREN last Tuesday, and a BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER dropped by Field 5 at Robert Moses State Park last Monday. At least 2 BAIRD’S SANDPIPERS have been visiting lowered Jerome Reservoir in the Bronx since Monday, with another reported from Plumb Beach on Wednesday. Up to 3 MARBLED GODWITS have been noted this week off Field 10 at Jones Beach State Park, with singles at Piermont Pier Thursday and Plumb Beach today, but the peak was the 8 at Old Inlet in Bellport Bay last Sunday. Three HUDSONIAN WHIMBRELS were out in Jamaica Bay last Saturday, while also out at Old Inlet Sunday, besides loads of shorebirds, were 1 CASPIAN, 4 ROSEATE, 15 ROYAL and 2 BLACK TERNS and 17 LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS. Boat trips around Montauk, especially CRESLI whale excursions, are still also finding pelagic birds - last Friday and Sunday single LONG-TAILED JAEGERS were reported, and Saturday and Sunday produced 1 or 2 RED-NECKED PHALAROPES, while also continuing were numbers of WILSON’S STORM-PETRELS and GREAT and CORY'S SHEARWATERS plus a few SCOPOLI’S, SOOTY and MANX as well, and a PARASITIC JAEGER or two. COMMON NIGHTHAWKS are now coming through during suitable evenings, and FLYCATCHERS migrating have included OLIVE-SIDED and various Empidonax species. An immature LARK SPARROW has been around the entrance parking lot to Cliffdale Farm off Teatown Road in Westchester since Wednesday, and single YELLOW-BREASTED CHATS were noted at Hither Hills State Park Wednesday and in Prospect Park Thursday and today. An increase in migrating WARBLERS this week included reports of WORM-EATING, TENNESSEE, MOURNING, HOODED, CAPE MAY, BLACKBURNIAN, BLACKPOLL, BLACK-THROATED BLUE and YELLOW RUMPED. A female SUMMER TANAGER was reported today in McGolrick Park in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, and a few calling DICKCISSELS moving overhead in the morning were noted this week in central Westchester and at Jerome Reservoir and Coney Island Creek. 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 --
