- RBA * New York * New York City, Long Island, Westchester County * Jun. 29, 2018 * NYNY1806.29
- Birds mentioned BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING-DUCK+ ARCTIC TERN+ (+ Details requested by NYSARC) KING EIDER Cory's Shearwater Sooty Shearwater BROWN PELICAN CATTLE EGRET Black-bellied Plover Willet (subspecies "Western Willet") Ruddy Turnstone Dunlin White-rumped Sandpiper Short-billed Dowitcher Lesser Black-backed Gull GULL-BILLED TERN BLACK TERN Roseate Tern Royal Tern Red-breasted Nuthatch BLUE GROSBEAK - Transcript 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 Compilers: Tom Burke and Tony Lauro Coverage: New York City, Long Island, Westchester County Transcriber: Ben Cacace BEGIN TAPE Greetings. This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for Friday, June 29th 2018 at 8pm. The highlights of today's tape are BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING-DUCK, BROWN PELICAN, ARCTIC, GULL-BILLED and BLACK TERNS, KING EIDER, CATTLE EGRET and BLUE GROSBEAK. Birders checking out a Facebook report last Saturday did indeed find a pair of BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING-DUCKS on a small vegetated pond at Nissequogue River State Park in King's Park, Suffolk County. The ducks have been feeding and roosting on this pond at least through Thursday. Located east of Sunken Meadow State Park on the Sunken Meadow Parkway but the park's entrance is off St. Johnland Road. The entrance is a continuation of King's Park Boulevard and leads to the administration building. Just before the administration building circle there is a parking lot and a pond on the left where the WHISTLING-DUCKS feed around the duckweed or roost on the tree limbs surrounding the pond. We see no positive reports yet from today. The only BROWN PELICAN report we are aware of this week was one flying by Breezy Point on Wednesday. The enhanced tern searching this year continues to produce some ARCTIC TERNS outside of the traditional Cupsogue County Park location. Nickerson Beach off Lido Boulevard still featured an immature ARCTIC through Monday. While a thorough search out at Breezy Point last Sunday yielded 4 different ARCTICS. Two were also present on the Cupsogue flats last Sunday. Besides a continuing GULL-BILLED TERN or two at Nickerson this week also produced singles at Plumb Beach in Brooklyn on Wednesday and at Cupsogue last Saturday. A BLACK TERN visited Tiana Beach off Dune Road Thursday and another was at Breezy Point Sunday. Decent numbers of ROSEATE TERNS recently have included at least 15 at Breezy Point last Sunday and 5 at Nickerson Monday. Increasing numbers of ROYAL TERNS featured 9 on Fire Island Tuesday and 5 at Tiana Beach Thursday. Increasingly late LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS did include singles at Coney Island Beach Saturday and at Breezy Point to Tuesday. A drake KING EIDER was still accompanying a Common Eider flock around Shinnecock Inlet on Wednesday. The recent poor showing of pelagics along Long Island's south shore did include a SOOTY and 26 CORY'S SHEARWATERS off Robert Moses State Park field 2 on Wednesday and a single SOOTY going by Breezy Point the same day. Among the 9 species of shorebirds at Cupsogue County Park last Sunday were 10 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS, single RUDDY TURNSTONE and DUNLIN, 3 WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPERS, 6 SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHERS and a "Western" WILLET. A CATTLE EGRET was reported flying over the Cemetery of the Resurrection on Staten Island Monday. A male BLUE GROSBEAK was spotted at Caumsett State Park Monday and a breeding pair also continues around the Calverton Grasslands. Interesting has been the appearance of RED-BREASTED NUTHATCH in a couple of city parks recently. This species relatively absent from the region this year. To phone in reports on Long Island call Tony Lauro at (631) 734-4126 or 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: 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/[email protected]/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/ --
