Over the past few days, I have spent some time exploring a few known and
unknown sites in Queens co. My efforts were aimed at getting a snap shot of
what new species might have arrived and what might still be lingering.
One bit of tracking note: before the last snow storm, one exploratory visit,
For the second straight day, a very rare BLACK-HEADED GULL - RING-BILLED
GULL hybrid was seen at Goat Island on the Niagara River. The bird was found
yesterday by Derek Lovitch from Maine and another birder but tentatively
identified as a Laughing Gull - Ring-billed Gull hybrid. Both of these
hybri
Wow. What an odd bird. And what on earth is it doing with a hood at this time
of year?
We had an experience with a bird of the same presumed parental origin in
Sullivan County 15 years ago, but it didn't look much like this one.
http://www.birds.cornell.edu/crows/woodburne_gull.htm
Very cool
Kevin, your article is one of the references we used. I think the two birds
look pretty similar aside from the hood. The Niagara bird seems a little
larger and larger-billed and may have a bit less black in the primaries but
otherwise, they seem comparable.
Thanks for writing and posting your a
-RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Mar. 10, 2017
* NYNY1703.10
- Birds Mentioned
TOWNSEND’S SOLITAIRE+
YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)
ROSS’S GOOSE
Eurasian Wigeon
KING EIDER
BARROW’S GOLDENEYE
Horned Grebe
EARED GREBE
Black Vulture
North
There's been a continuing immature Northern Goshawk in the western part of
Massapequa Preserve - I've seen it 4 times in the last 2 weeks. (I live a
block away from the Preserve) From what I know it has been seen in the
Preserve as far north as the Walker Street parking lot and as far south as
Pitt