[nysbirds-l] Pink-Footed /Barnacle Geese at SMSP (Suffolk Co.)- No
We found neither the previously reported Pink-footed or Barnacle Goose at Sunken Meadow State Park today around 1:00PM. Small flocks of Canada Geese were widely scattered around the park. The flocks appeared restless, moving frequently. Ken Feustel -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES Archives: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] WNY Dial-a-Bird 05 Nov 2009
- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 11/05/2009 * NYBU0911.05 - Birds mentioned - Please phone in rare sightings for update Submit email to dfsuggs localnet com Thank you, David - [Update - BOS Meeting, 7 PM, Wednesday, November 11, at the Buffalo Museum of Science. The program will be an analysis of the BOS April and May counts. Visitors are always welcome at BOS meetings.] NORTHERN GANNET SABINE'S GULL EVENING GROSBEAK PINE SISKIN SNOW BUNTING NORTHERN GOSHAWK Red-throated Loon Common Loon Pied-billed Grebe Horned Grebe Red-necked Grebe Tundra Swan Wood Duck Green-winged Teal American Black Duck Mallard Northern Pintail Gadwall American Wigeon Canvasback Ring-necked Duck Greater Scaup Lesser Scaup Long-tailed Duck Black Scoter Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Common Goldeneye Bufflehead Hooded Merganser Common Merganser Red-br. Merganser Northern Harrier Merlin Dunlin Little Gull L. Black-b. Gull Red-bellied Wdpkr. Northern Horned Lark Tufted Titmouse Eastern Bluebird Hermit Thrush Northern Shrike Amer. Tree Sparrow Fox Sparrow White-thr. Sparrow White-cr. Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Eastern Meadowlark American Goldfinch - Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 11/05/2009 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report:Same Compiler: David F. Suggs (dfsuggs at localnet com) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BOSBirding.org Thursday, November 5, 2009 Dial-a-Bird is a service provided by your Buffalo Museum of Science and the Buffalo Ornithological Society. Press (2) to leave a message, (3) for updates, meeting and field trip information and (4) for instructions on how to report sightings. To contact the Science Museum, call 896-5200. Highlights of reports received October 29 through November 5 from the Niagara Frontier Region include NORTHERN GANNET, SABINE'S GULL, EVENING GROSBEAK, PINE SISKIN, SNOW BUNTING and NORTHERN GOSHAWK. November 1, a watch over Lake Ontario reported 24 species passing the Town of Wilson, highlighted by a juvenile NORTHERN GANNET, plus TUNDRA SWAN, WOOD DUCK, GADWALL, AMERICAN WIGEON, AMERICAN BLACK DUCK, MALLARD, NORTHERN PINTAIL, GREEN-WINGED TEAL, GREATER SCAUP, LESSER SCAUP, SURF SCOTER, WHITE-WINGED SCOTER, BLACK SCOTER, LONG-TAILED DUCK, BUFFLEHEAD, COMMON GOLDENEYE, HOODED MERGANSER, COMMON MERGANSER, RED-BR. MERGANSER, RED-THROATED LOON, COMMON LOON, RED-NECKED GREBE, HORNED GREBE, DUNLIN and an unexpected NORTHERN HARRIER. The November influx of gulls to the Niagara River has started. October 31 and November 1, juvenile SABINE'S GULL in the Niagara Falls gorge, with 3 LITTLE GULLS and L. BLACK-B. GULL, plus COMMON GOLDENEYE and PIED-BILLED GREBE. Another LITTLE GULL on the upper river a Beaver Island State Park on November 3 and 4, and 2 LITTLE GULLS on the lower river at Lewiston. Other arriving winter visitors across the region - one EVENING GROSBEAK at a feeder in the Town of Colden. PINE SISKIN with AMERICAN GOLDFINCHES in Holland. Three SNOW BUNTINGS on Housington Road in Cherry Creek. AMER. TREE SPARROWS in the Iroquois Refuge, and a NORTHERN HORNED LARK in the Town of Yates. November 1, on Wolf Run in Allegany State Park, a passing NORTHERN GOSHAWK, plus NORTHERN SHRIKE, HERMIT THRUSH, EASTERN MEADOWLARK and flocks of EASTERN BLUEBIRDS and DARK- EYED JUNCOS. Also, a MERLIN at Holt Run in the park. From East Aurora, October 28 and 31, a reported NORTHERN GOSHAWK on Reiter Road, one mile south of Route 20A. Also this week, MERLIN at Shirley and Bailey Avenue in Buffalo. FOX SPARROWS still at several feeders, along with RED-BELLIED WDPKRS., TUFTED TITMICE, WHITE-THR. SPARROWS and WHITE-CR. SPARROWS. At Fort Erie, Ontario, numbers of SURF SCOTERS and BLACK SCOTERS. And at the Robert Moses parkway viewing area in Niagara Falls, New York, 10 CANVASBACKS and several RING-NECKED DUCKS, with GREATER SCAUP and LESSER SCAUP. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, November 12. Please call in your sightings by noon Thursday. You may report sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting to Dial-a-Bird. - End Transcript -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES Archives: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Linnaean Society Meeting Announcement
THE LINNAEAN SOCIETY OF NEW YORK SPEAKERS PROGRAM Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2009, 7:30 p.m. The American Museum of Natural History, Linder Theater Speaker: Richard O. Bierregaard, Jr., Distinguished Visiting Research Professor, Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Charlotte Subject: Osprey Migration: Navigation, Orientation, and Mortality in Juvenile and Adult Ospreys This talk will review what we have learned from satellite tracking east coast Ospreys, concentrating on data from 29 juveniles that have been tagged since 2004. The migratory behavior of adult Ospreys is fairly well understood. They navigate between nesting territories and wintering grounds often 3-4,000 miles apart. They are as faithful to their wintering grounds as they are to their nest sites. Among the many mysteries of migration, perhaps the most difficult to understand, is how first-year birds find their way to their wintering grounds. They do not navigate, as they have no instinct that directs them to a particular destination. Instead, they simply instinctively head south. How do they know when to stop and where to settle? It is well known that roughly 80% of all first year Ospreys do not complete their first migration cycle. We do not know where the mortality occurs. The uncertainty over when mortality occurs and the high cost of satellite transmitters explain the paucity of data on juvenile migration. Finally, nearly all east coast Ospreys, roughly 40,000 adults and juveniles, migrate through Cuba and Hispaniola each fall. The conservation implications of this bottleneck will be discussed. Richard O. Bierregaard received his Ph.D. in 1978 from the University of Pennsylvania. He has authored or coauthored numerous publications on birds of prey, birds of the New World Tropics, habitat fragmentation and conservation. The meeting is open to the public, without charge. Please join us for what promises to be a very exciting talk. Enter the Museum at West 77th Street. If you would like to meet Dr. Bierregaard prior to the talk, join us a Pappardella's Restaurant, 75th Street and Columbus Avenue at 6 p.m. The reservation will be in the name of Alice. Alice Deutsch, Vice President -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES Archives: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Linnaean Society Meeting Announcement
THE LINNAEAN SOCIETY OF NEW YORK SPEAKERS PROGRAM Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2009, 7:30 p.m. The American Museum of Natural History, Linder Theater Speaker: Richard O. Bierregaard, Jr., Distinguished Visiting Research Professor, Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Charlotte Subject: Osprey Migration: Navigation, Orientation, and Mortality in Juvenile and Adult Ospreys This talk will review what we have learned from satellite tracking east coast Ospreys, concentrating on data from 29 juveniles that have been tagged since 2004. The migratory behavior of adult Ospreys is fairly well understood. They navigate between nesting territories and wintering grounds often 3-4,000 miles apart. They are as faithful to their wintering grounds as they are to their nest sites. Among the many mysteries of migration, perhaps the most difficult to understand, is how first-year birds find their way to their wintering grounds. They do not navigate, as they have no instinct that directs them to a particular destination. Instead, they simply instinctively head south. How do they know when to stop and where to settle? It is well known that roughly 80% of all first year Ospreys do not complete their first migration cycle. We do not know where the mortality occurs. The uncertainty over when mortality occurs and the high cost of satellite transmitters explain the paucity of data on juvenile migration. Finally, nearly all east coast Ospreys, roughly 40,000 adults and juveniles, migrate through Cuba and Hispaniola each fall. The conservation implications of this bottleneck will be discussed. Richard O. Bierregaard received his Ph.D. in 1978 from the University of Pennsylvania. He has authored or coauthored numerous publications on birds of prey, birds of the New World Tropics, habitat fragmentation and conservation. The meeting is open to the public, without charge. Please join us for what promises to be a very exciting talk. Enter the Museum at West 77th Street. If you would like to meet Dr. Bierregaard prior to the talk, join us a Pappardella's Restaurant, 75th Street and Columbus Avenue at 6 p.m. The reservation will be in the name of Alice. Alice Deutsch, Vice President -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES Archives: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[nysbirds-l] Pink-Footed /Barnacle Geese at SMSP (Suffolk Co.)- No
We found neither the previously reported Pink-footed or Barnacle Goose at Sunken Meadow State Park today around 1:00PM. Small flocks of Canada Geese were widely scattered around the park. The flocks appeared restless, moving frequently. Ken Feustel -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES Archives: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
