[nysbirds-l] NYC Area RBA: 23 March 2018

[Ben Cacace]

- RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Mar. 23, 2018
* NYNY1803.23

- Birds mentioned
MEW GULL+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE
EURASIAN WIGEON
Red-necked Grebe
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
Osprey
Piping Plover
BLACK-HEADED GULL
Laughing Gull
ICELAND GULL
Tree Swallow

- 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

Compilers: Tom Burke and Tony Lauro
Coverage: New York City, Long Island, Westchester County

Transcriber: Ben Cacace

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Greetings. This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for Friday, March 23rd 2018
at 8pm. The highlights of today's tape are MEW GULL, BLACK-HEADED GULL,
ICELAND GULL, GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE, EURASIAN WIGEON and a few
seasonal arrivals.

Still with a winter flavor but somewhat impacted by the March doldrums and
our parade of Nor'easters this week's tape does feature another MEW GULL
sighting. This of an adult spotted Sunday morning at the Brooklyn Army
Terminal Piers Park. It was photographed as it fed alongside one of the
piers but soon disappeared and could not be relocated. This is possibly the
same bird found at Floyd Bennett Field last Friday. An immature
BLACK-HEADED GULL was seen again Tuesday afternoon at Gravesend Bay in
Brooklyn occurring around the middle parking lot off the eastbound Belt
Parkway. This an often productive site for gulls. An ICELAND GULL in
Brooklyn Thursday was at the Veteran's Memorial Pier.

Among the lingering unusual waterfowl have been a GREATER WHITE-FRONTED
GOOSE present Sunday at Belmont Lake State Park and another continuing
through yesterday at Tung Ting Pond in Centerport. A drake EURASIAN WIGEON
was still present at least up to Tuesday at the Salt Marsh Nature Center at
Marine Park in Brooklyn. A RED-NECKED GREBE was still on the Restoration
Pond at Alley Pond Park in Queens on Tuesday and another was still around
the Point Lookout Lido Marina on Monday.

Rather unusual, a small group of 6 EURASIAN GOLDFINCHES have apparently
survived the winter on Governors Island, which reopens to the public on May
1st. Historically an introduced colony had done fairly well on western Long
Island to the late 1950s but then died off with only presumed escapes
popping up in city parks and elsewhere since then. It will be interesting
to see how these birds fare.

Among the few spring migrants appearing here, despite the weather, have
been coastal PIPING PLOVER as of Saturday and YELLOW-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON as
of Monday. There have also been more sightings this week of OSPREY,
LAUGHING GULL and TREE SWALLOWS.

To phone in reports on Long Island call Tony Lauro at (631) 734-4126 or
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.

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[nysbirds-l] EPCAL and e Patchogue

[leormand]

I was able to take a quick trip to EPCAL at mid-day and observed the following:

Rough-legged hawk
“Grey Ghost” harrier
Flock of bluebirds (male and female)
Several red-tailed hawks 

A stop at Pine Neck Dock in East Patchogue this evening turned up an osprey on 
a newly built platform. 
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[nysbirds-l] NYS eBird Hotspots: New/Renamed Locations (23-Mar-'18)

[Ben Cacace]

Thanks to @Team_eBird for their dedication keeping eBird.org running
smoothly and for the group of New York State hotspot moderators for working
on shared location suggestions.

** See notes below if you wish to merge any of your personal locations with
existing hotspots/

New and renamed shared locations (hotspots) have been updated for the 62
county wiki pages. You can find a summary of the changes below with
clickable links where pages exist for a dedicated hotspot.

• http://ebirding-nys.wikispaces.com/NewHotspots
• http://ebirding-nys.wikispaces.com/RenamedHotspots

The above links now appear on the home page (see below) on the 'Shared
Location Updates' line eliminating the need to refer back to this message:

Home page:
• http://ebirding-nys.wikispaces.com/Birding+in+New+York

The alphabetized page with all hotspots (6,103) has also been updated.
Links to both the New and Renamed pages appears on the 'Shared Location
Updates' line.

Alphabetical list of hotspots:
• http://ebirding-nys.wikispaces.com/AlphaHotspots

** If you wish to merge your personal location with an existing hotspot
here are the steps:

— Sign into eBird.org
— Go to "My eBird" & select "Manage My Locations" in the right panel
— At the bottom of the screen click "Show All" to see all locations on one
page
— You can sort the list by clicking on any of the headers: Location,
Country, State/Province, County, Type* or # of Checklists
— Select your personal location (it will show a letter "P" under Type*) by
clicking "Edit" on the right side of the line
— Select the "Merge" button and you'll see all nearby hotspots as red icons
— Keep the checkmark for "Delete after merging" selected
— Click the icon that best fits your location
— ... now you'll see the hotspot description above the 'Merge' button along
with the # of checklists you'll be merging
— Click on the 'Merge' button
— Answer Yes to the 'Yes or No' query

All checklists for that personal location will be combined with the hotspot
with this process.
-- 
Ben Cacace
Manhattan, NYC
Wiki for NYS eBird Hotspots

Facebook Discussion for NYS eBird Hotspots: Q & A


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