- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 08/20/2015 * NYBU1508.20 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to [email protected] -------------------------------------------
PIPING PLOVER UPLAND SANDPIPER Eared Grebe Great Egret Green-winged Teal Blue-winged Teal Northern Shoveler Redhead Greater Scaup Ruddy Duck Merlin Black-bellied Plover American Golden-Plover Semipalmated Plover Sanderling Western Sandpiper Baird's Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Bonaparte's Gull Common Nighthawk Cedar Waxwing Cape May Warbler Yellow-r. Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Bl. and w. Warbler - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 08/20/2015 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, August 20, 2015 The Buffalo Bird Report is a service provided by your Buffalo Museum of Science and the Buffalo Ornithological Society. To contact the Science Museum, call 896-5200. Press the pound key to report sightings before the end of this report. Highlights of reports received August 6 through August 20 from the Niagara Frontier Region. In Ontario, August 19, an endangered PIPING PLOVER at the Hutchinson Road turf farms, in the Town of Dunnville. The winter plumage bird was marked with an orange and a silver leg band. Also at the turf farms, 30 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS, 3 AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVERS and numbers of SEMIPALMATED PLOVERS and PECTORAL SANDPIPERS. The same date, at nearby Rock Point Provincial Park on the Lake Erie shore, shorebirds included two each of BAIRD'S SANDPIPER and SANDERLING. Recent UPLAND SANDPIPER reports - a threatened species in New York State - 4 UPLAND SANDPIPERS with 3 GRASSHOPPER SPARROWS at the Tillman Wildlife Management Area in Clarence, a single UPLAND SANDPIPER at the Dunkirk Airport in Chautauqua County, and 4 more UPLAND SANDPIPERS just east of the Niagara Frontier on Bank Road, opposite the Genesee County Airport outside Batavia. Night migrant UPLAND SANDPIPERS were also heard calling over the University District in Buffalo. At least 12 shorebird species in the past two weeks at West Wood Marsh in the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area were highlighted by a WESTERN SANDPIPER on August 11. A survey of roosting GREAT EGRETS reported 40 GREAT EGRETS at Mohawk Pool in the Iroquois Refuge, and 151 in the Oak Orchard Wildlife Management Area. August 15, an unexpected-in-summer GREATER SCAUP, near the entrance to the Small Boat Harbor on the Buffalo waterfront. At the Batavia Waste Water Plant, EARED GREBE with BLUE- WINGED TEAL, NORTHERN SHOVELER, GREEN-WINGED TEAL, REDHEAD and RUDDY DUCK, plus a BONAPARTE'S GULL. First migrant warblers in the past week - in a Wilson yard on Lake Ontario in Niagara County, BAY-BREASTED WARBLER, and a CAPE MAY WARBLER at a jelly feeder. BL. AND W. WARBLER at Rock Point Park. And, YELLOW-R. WARBLER on Grand Island. Also 2 scarce COMMON NIGHTHAWKS on Grand Island. Other reports from Buffalo - MERLIN feeding fledged young in a North Buffalo neighborhood, and CEDAR WAXWINGS feeding on huckleberries in the Delaware District. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, August 27. Please call in your sightings by noon Thursday. You may report sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting. - End Transcript -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
