-RBA * New York * New York City, Long Island, Westchester County * May 29, 2026 * NYNY2605.29
- Birds Mentioned WHITE IBIS+ (+ Details requested by NYSARC) BLACK-NECKED STILT WILSON’S PHALAROPE Glaucous Gull Iceland Gull Caspian Tern Black Tern ARCTIC TERN SANDWICH TERN Sooty Shearwater Manx Shearwater BROWN BOOBY Glossy Ibis WHITE-FACED IBIS MISSISSIPPI KITE PHILADELPHIA VIREO PROTHONOTARY WARBLER SUMMER TANAGER BLUE GROSBEAK 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, May 29, 2026 at 11:00 pm. The highlights of today’s tape are BROWN BOOBY, SANDWICH TERN, WHITE IBIS, MISSISSIPPI KITE, BLACK-NECKED STILT, WHITE-FACED IBIS, ARCTIC TERN, WILSON’S PHALAROPE, PHILADELHIA VIREO, PROTHONOTARY WARBLER, SUMMER TANAGER, BLUE GROSBEAK and more. Certainly unexpected was an adult BROWN BOOBY sitting on a rock just off the Olympia Boulevard bridge over the New Creek Watershed on Staten Island for a while on Tuesday, the striking bird ultimately flying off to the northeast. An historic incursion of WHITE IBIS into New York took place last Tuesday when a large flock of adults was seen heading past Sandy Hook, New Jersey, and towards Staten Island, The flock ultimately settled down on Hoffman Island in New York Bay east of Staten Island, where birders taking long-distance photos and estimated counts were coming up with between 42 and 57 individuals. By Wednesday, however, totals had dropped to just 3 on Hoffman Island and these also soon moved on, ending this momentous event, but providing perhaps just a preview of longer-lasting future visits. A non-breeding SANDWICH TERN was photographed on the flats at Cupsogue Beach County Park last Saturday. MISSISSIPPI KITES, with certainly a few but unknown number of individuals involved, continued appearances over Brooklyn especially at least to Thursday. Sightings came from Staten Island Wednesday and Thursday, and in Brooklyn from Calvert Vaux Park and near Prospect Park on Monday and around Prospect and Green-Wood Cemetery yesterday, the latter nicely photographed. The BLACK-NECKED STILT visiting the East Pond at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge stayed through Monday, while a WILSON’S PHALAROPE hanging around the south end of the pond was noted to Monday and then again today. Among the GLOSSY IBIS visiting the East Pond recently has been an individual that raised some issues about being a hybrid, but photos taken today certainly seem to portray a good WHITE-FACED IBIS. Following reports of single ARCTIC TERNS off Montauk Point and Shinnecock last Saturday were 2 seen today, an adult and an immature, at Moriches Bay, joined there by a BLACK TERN. Birds off Montauk Point last Saturday featured single MANX and SOOTY SHEARWATERS, with an ICELAND GULL there Sunday, and a GLAUCOUS GULL was spotted over Brooklyn Bridge Park Monday. Two CASPIAN TERNS at Prospect Park Thursday followed 1 at Plumb Beach Monday. Single PHILADELPHIA VIREOS were photographed in Prospect Park Monday and on Governors Island Wednesday, and single PROTHONOTARY WARBLERS visited Sands Point Preserve Tuesday and Hempstead Lake State Park today. Single SUMMER TANAGERS appeared in Alley Pond Park Monday and in Prospect Park today, while BLUE GROSBEAKS continue in the Calverton area, including at the Prestons Pond Complex, with 1 also at Caumsett State Park Saturday. 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 --
