After receiving some highly informative responses, I believe the Red-tailed
Hawk mentioned above may likely represent a member of the boreal forest
breeding population sometimes known as *abieticola*. This article from
*Birding* has some excellent images and descriptions of the subspecies,
along w
I looked for it today (11/25) without success.
Good Birding,
Richard Aracil
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Hi all,
This morning I spent about 1 hour in the area where the flycatcher was seen
this past weekend, while looking for the bird I ran in to Al Levantin who
also was out with hopes to see the vagrant empid. Neither of us were were
lucky to refind it. From eBird reports of the continuing uncommon/r
I spent the day working my way west from Montauk on the what felt like the
first truly cold day of the season (21 degrees F driving out on the LIE).
Much of the standing water was frozen even at mid-day. Montauk Point
itself was rather quiet, but sea duck numbers are picking up with about
3000 tot
This afternoon around 2 PM there was an Orange-crowned Warbler feeding along
the dirt path running north-south on the western side of the preserve, about 5
minutes north of the Pittsburgh Ave entrance
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Joe Giunta and I (Sy Schiff went to EPCAL via Ocean Pkwy stopping off at the
Jones Beach Coast Guard Station on the way, The bar held a nice mix of
shorebirds inc. 75 DUNLIN, 20 AMERICAN OYSTERCATCHERS. 10 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER,
4 RED KNOT and a SANDERLING. There were 40 BONAPARTE'S GULLS feedin
Given the improving weather conditions today (and the next few days)
information on additional searches for the flycatcher in Central Park would
be most welcome. Many birders will be coming through NYC this weekend who
are not typically here and NY'ers who live a bit farther afield may be
inclined