- RBA * New York * New York City, Long Island, Westchester County * Jun. 5, 2026 * NYNY2606.05
- Birds mentioned WHITE IBIS+ (+ Details requested by NYSARC) WHIMBREL WILSON'S PHALAROPE RED-NECKED PHALAROPE GLAUCOUS GULL Caspian Tern Black Tern ARCTIC TERN Roseate Tern Royal Tern Wilson's Storm-Petrel Least Bittern WHITE-FACED IBIS MISSISSIPPI KITE Acadian Flycatcher EVENING GROSBEAK YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT KENTUCKY WARBLER - 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 Compiler: Tom Burke Coverage: New York City, Long Island, Westchester County Transcriber: Ben Cacace BEGIN TAPE Greetings. This is the New York Rare Bird Alert, with an abbreviated report, for *Friday, June 5th 2026* at 11 pm. The highlights of today's tape are WHITE and WHITE-FACED IBIS, RED-NECKED and WILSON'S PHALAROPES, ARCTIC TERN, MISSISSIPPI KITE, GLAUCOUS GULL, WHIMBREL, YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT, KENTUCKY WARBLER and EVENING GROSBEAK and more. A WHITE-FACED IBIS continues to visit the East Pond at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge noted there over last weekend and also yesterday. The East Pond has also been hosting a WILSON'S PHALAROPE to Monday with 2 there Tuesday and Wednesday and a LEAST BITTERN seen both Monday and Thursday. An adult WHITE IBIS was photographed Tuesday as it flew over Spring's Park in the town of East Hampton and birders a few miles off Montauk Point last Sunday enjoyed a nicely plumaged RED-NECKED PHALAROPE and 8 WILSON'S STORM-PETRELS with another RED-NECKED PHALAROPE also seen on the flats at Smith Point County Park Monday. A GLAUCOUS GULL was photographed Monday at Breezy Point while among the terns reported this week were an ARCTIC Monday off Robert Moses State Park followed by 2 from Nickerson Beach Thursday, a BLACK at Nickerson's Sunday as well as a few ROSEATES, arriving ROYALS and late CASPIANS. MISSISSIPPI KITES continue to be reported from Brooklyn with one over Green-wood Cemetery last Sunday and one over Prospect Park this evening. On Tuesday a couple of WHIMBREL were seen out in Jamaica Bay with one also at Plumb Beach. Notable passerines this week featured ACADIAN FLYCATCHER in Prospect Park, a YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT at the New Creek Watershed on Staten Island Tuesday, a KENTUCKY WARBLER at Wolfe's Pond Park last Sunday and perhaps the best bird of the week a male EVENING GROSBEAK photographed by a picture taking bird feeder out in Suffolk County last Sunday. 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 --
