-RBA * New York * New York City, Long Island, Westchester County * June 26, 2026 * NYNY2606.26
- Birds Mentioned: WILSON’S PHALAROPE RED-NECKED PHALAROPE Parasitic Jaeger Gull-billed Tern Caspian Tern Black Tern ARCTIC TERN Roseate Tern Royal Tern Lesser Black-backed Gull Glaucous Gull Wilson’s Storm-Petrel Cory’s Shearwater Scopoli’s Shearwater Sooty Shearwater Great Shearwater MANX SHEARWATER Glossy Ibis WHITE-FACED IBIS BROWN PELICAN WESTERN CATTLE EGRET Acadian Flycatcher YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT SUMMER TANAGER BLUE GROSBEAK DICKCISSEL 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, June 26, 2026 at 11:00 pm. The highlights of today’s tape are WHITE-FACED IBIS, BROWN PELICAN, ARCTIC TERN, various seabirds including MANX SHEARWATER, RED-NECKED and WILSON’S PHALAROPES, WESTERN CATTLE EGRET, YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT, SUMMER TANAGER, BLUE GROSBEAK, DICKCISSEL and more. The adult WHITE-FACED IBIS continues its visits to the East Pond at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, usually seen with GLOSSY IBIS at the south end of the East Pond, where a WILSON’S PHALAROPE was also still present last Saturday. One or two BROWN PELICANS were spotted in Brooklyn from Tuesday on off the Coney Island Pier as well as around Breezy Point through today, but more unusual from the Pier were a MANX SHEARWATER seen cruising offshore from Tuesday through Thursday and a WILSON’S STORM-PETREL also frequenting that area from Tuesday and still there today. Other BROWN PELICANS included 2 visiting Moriches Bay around Cupsogue Beach County Park Saturday to Monday and also 2 off Robert Moses State Park on Monday. An exciting sea watch from Robert Moses State Park Field 2 for much of the morning today produced a flock of 10 RED-NECKED PHALAROPES flying by in a westerly direction, a PARASITIC JAEGER, a dozen WILSON’S STORM-PETRELS, and among the SHEARWATERS, 57 SOOTY and 6 GREAT as well as a couple of SCOPOLI’S identified among the 90 CORY’S/SCOPOLI’S individuals counted, the majority of this recently split complex certainly mostly CORY’S but providing quite an identification challenge until definitive useable separating field marks can be developed and reliably applied under field conditions. Also noted at Moses were 1 or 2 ARCTIC TERNS during the week, often seen out at Democrat Point, as well as a couple of BLACK, ROSEATE, and ROYAL TERNS, a CASPIAN TERN Sunday and a few LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS. Some GULL-BILLED TERNS have been frequenting Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge recently, with another at Cupsogue Beach County Park Tuesday, and a lingering GLAUCOUS GULL was at Breezy Point at least to Monday. A WESTERN CATTLE EGRET flew by Idlewild Park east of the JFK Airport on Monday. Continuing are an ACADIAN FLYCATCHER in Prospect Park and a YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT on Staten Island near the Graham Boulevard Bridge at the New Creek Watershed. On Long Island both SUMMER TANAGER and BLUE GROSBEAK can still be found around the Prestons Pond Complex in Calverton, and a DICKCISSEL was reported on Governors Island last 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 --
