-RBA * New York * New York City, Long Island, Westchester County * May 13, 2016 * NYNY1605.13
- Birds Mentioned MISSISSIPPI KITE+ WHITE-WINGED DOVE+ (+ Details requested by NYSARC) American Bittern SANDHILL CRANE WILSON’S PLOVER Upland Sandpiper WHIMBREL Stilt Sandpiper White-rumped Sandpiper Glaucous Gull Caspian Tern Yellow-billed Cuckoo Black-billed Cuckoo Common Nighthawk CHUCK-WILL’S WIDOW Eastern Whip-Poor-Will Red-headed Woodpecker Olive-sided Flycatcher Eastern Wood-Pewee Acadian Flycatcher Willow Flycatcher Gray-cheeked Thrush Bicknell’s Thrush Worm-eating Warbler GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER Tennessee Warbler PROTHONOTARY WARBLER Orange-crowned Warbler Kentucky Warbler Hooded Warbler Cape May Warbler Cerulean Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Yellow-throated Warbler Canada Warbler Wilson’s Warbler Yellow-breasted Chat LARK SPARROW SUMMER TANAGER BLUE GROSBEAK Bobolink 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, Tony Lauro 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, May 13, 2016 at 8:00 pm. The highlights of today’s tape are MISSISSIPPI KITE, SANDHILL CRANE, WILSON’S PLOVER, WHITE-WINGED DOVE, CHUCK-WILL’S-WIDOW, WHIMBREL, PROTHONOTARY and GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLERS, SUMMER TANAGER, BLUE GROSBEAK, and LARK SPARROW. With the first seven days in May really inappropriate for bird migration to any extent, finally last Saturday winds shifted and brought a lot of migrants to our area. Sunday was good locally in most places, though the constant favorable migratory weather on subsequent days did enable birds to move through rather quickly. Rarities were interesting and actually began last Saturday when birders at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden watched a MISSISSIPPI KITE fly overhead from Prospect Park out to the northeast. Two subsequent reports of MISSISSIPPI KITE involved fly-bys over northern Staten Island Monday, going northwest, and over Doodletown Road in Rockland County Tuesday. Interesting to note that a brood of 17-year Cicadas is scheduled to emerge this year in New York and will hopefully attract more Kites locally. A nicely visible CHUCK-WILL’S-WIDOW perched low in the Central Park Ramble Sunday was a delight, especially with an AMERICAN BITTERN nearby. On Monday what was believed to be a SANDHILL CRANE flew high over the Bronx Zoo. Then on Wednesday a male WILSON’S PLOVER was photographed at Democrat Point on the western tip of Fire Island but was not refound subsequently. Thursday produced a fly-by WHITE-WINGED DOVE at Jones Beach West End, recognizably photographed as it disappeared along the fisherman’s access road; that too has not been relocated. The list of other interesting birds is long: at Jones Beach West End Wednesday there were 4 WHIMBREL on the Coast Guard bar, following an initial one Sunday, and an UPLAND SANDPIPER was at Dreier-Offerman Park in Brooklyn Saturday, while two STILT SANDPIPERS and 2 WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPERS were at Oak Beach marsh today. A GLAUCOUS GULL was spotted on the flats at Great Kills Park on Staten Island Thursday, and a CASPIAN TERN was still visiting Prospect Park Lake last Saturday, with 1 at Sagg Pond in Bridgehampton Sunday. Other non-passerines occurring recently have included COMMON NIGHTHAWK and WHIP-POOR-WILL and both YELLOW-BILLED and BLACK-BILLED CUCKOOS. RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS were in Prospect Park Tuesday and Forest Park Wednesday. Among the passerines, certainly unseasonal was the LARK SPARROW found Monday at Robert Moses State Park Field 2. More SUMMER TANAGERS than we can list here have featured birds in Central and Prospect Parks from Sunday, following 1 on Riverside Drive Saturday, and also including individuals on Staten Island Monday and 1 at the Rocky Point Preserve yesterday. BLUE GROSBEAKS were noted Thursday in Riverside Park, Manhattan and Greenwood Cemetery in Brooklyn. All the THRUSHES lately have included a few GRAY-CHEEKED and a BICKNELL’S singing on Staten Island Thursday and today. OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER was in Central Park Monday, and EASTERN WOOD-PEWEE, ACADIAN and WILLOW FLYCATCHERS have arrived, as have BOBOLINKS. And of course there are the WARBLERS - a PROTHONOTARY was reported at the Cemetery of the Resurrection on Staten Island Wednesday, and a GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER was in Prospect Park Sunday and Monday, where a YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT appeared today. Among the other 30 species of WARBLERS seen were decent numbers of WORM-EATING, some TENNESSEES from Saturday, ORANGE-CROWNEDS in Central and Prospect Parks plus Hempstead Lake State Park, KENTUCKY at Doodletown, some HOODED, CERULEAN in Inwood Hill and Forest Parks and Hunter’s Garden in Eastport, some CAPE MAYS and BAY-BREASTEDS, CANADAS and WILSON’S, and a YELLOW-THROATED still at the Bayard Cutting Arboretum Wednesday. A “LAWRENCE’S” hybrid was in Central Park Sunday. Good week! To phone in reports, on Long Island call Tony Lauro at (631) 734-4126, or weekdays call Tom Burke at (212) 372-1483. This service is sponsored by the Linnaean Society of New York and the National Audubon Society. 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