- RBA * New York * New York City, Long Island, Westchester County * Jun. 12, 2026 * NYNY2606.12
- Birds mentioned Virginia Rail BLACK-NECKED STILT Whimbrel WILSON'S PHALAROPE RED-NECKED PHALAROPE Gull-billed Tern Caspian Tern Black Tern ARCTIC TERN Roseate Tern Royal Tern Wilson's Storm-Petrel Cory's Shearwater Great Shearwater Sooty Shearwater Manx Shearwater BROWN PELICAN Little Blue Heron Glossy Ibis WHITE-FACED IBIS Olive-sided Flycatcher Acadian Flycatcher PROTHONOTARY WARBLER Mourning Warbler Hooded Warbler Magnolia Warbler 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 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 for *Friday, June 12th 2026* at 11pm. The highlights of today's tape are BLACK-NECKED STILT, WHITE-FACED IBIS, BROWN PELICAN, ARCTIC TERN, RED-NECKED and WILSON'S PHALAROPES, PROTHONOTARY WARBLER, BLUE GROSBEAK and more. Two BLACK-NECKED STILTS found Saturday out on the Tiana Beach flats off Dune Road in Hampton Bays were also seen there Sunday but not thereafter. A WHITE-FACED IBIS recently visiting the south end of the East Pond at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge was seen there most days this week through Thursday while last Saturday one was also photographed in flight with some Glossy Ibis at Plumb Beach and on Monday one was spotted with 8 Glossys in a pool at Cupsogue Beach County Park. A few sightings of single BROWN PELICANS this week included on Sunday off Nickerson Beach, off Robert Moses State Park Monday, at Roosevelt Beach on Staten Island Tuesday and off Breezy Point and Jones Beach field 6 Wednesday, and more will come. An ARCTIC TERN was reported from Cupsogue today and other terns noted this week included a CASPIAN at Croton Point Monday, single BLACK TERNS at Breezy Point and Nickerson Beach Sunday and a GULL-BILLED also at Nickerson Sunday plus a few ROSEATES off the Long Island coast and more ROYALS arriving. A nicely plumaged female RED-NECKED PHALAROPE visited the sand spit off the Coast Guard Station at Jones Beach West End Wednesday and a WILSON'S PHALAROPE spent Thursday and today at the south end of the East Pond at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge while 2 HUDSONIAN WHIMBREL were noted Saturday at Breezy Point, nearby Fort Tilden and Plumb Beach. A nice collection of tubenoses was recorded on a seawatch from Montauk Point last Saturday, reported totals mentioning 28 WILSON'S STORM-PETRELS and 49 CORY'S, over 230 GREAT and 350 SOOTY and 7 MANX SHEARWATERS. A PROTHONOTARY WARBLER was seen in Brooklyn Bridge Park today and single MOURNING WARBLERS were noted Monday in Prospect Park and Green-wood Cemetery. BLUE GROSBEAKS continue in decent numbers in the Calverton area around the old Grumman airport. The Greenwich-Stamford Summer Bird Count last weekend including much of eastern Westchester County tallied 125 species including two LITTLE BLUE HERONS, some GLOSSY IBIS, VIRGINIA RAIL, OLIVE-SIDED and ACADIAN FLYCATCHERS, MAGNOLIA, HOODED and MOURNING WARBLERS and BLUE GROSBEAK. 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 --
