Seeing these reports of Purple Gallinule prompted me to search eBird to see if
the one I saw MANY years ago was there. It wasn’t, so I added it.
This was a bird that Barbara Spencer (who else?) found on her way to work the
morning of June 13, 1980 at Scudders Pond in Sea Cliff (Nassau County). I
A Purple Gallinule was picked up a few weeks ago in Lowville, Lewis County, SE
of Watertown. It responded well to rehab, and reportedly, is being driven to
Florida for release.
Amazing.
Kevin
From: bounce-122284311-3714...@list.cornell.edu
on behalf of Doug
There's an interesting paper dealing with just this effect here:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/289706654_Warmer_Summers_and_Drier_Winters_Correlate_with_More_Winter_Vagrant_Purple_Gallinules_Porphyrio_martinicus_in_the_North_Atlantic_Region
Good Birding and Vagrant Speculating!
-Doug G
Wow, this is really amazing. The tight date range really looks like a discrete
flight of some sort. If these were Summer Tanagers hitting those sites in mid
April, we'd call it a slingshot. Is there any reason to think that southern
populations of Purple Gallinule are undertaking long distance f
* New York* Syracuse
- January 29, 2018
* NYSY 02.12.18 Hotline: Syracuse Rare bird AlertDates(s):February 05 2018 -
February 12, 2018to report by e-mail: brinjoseph AT yahoo.comcovering upstate
NY counties: Cayuga, Montezuma National Wildlife Refugeand Montezuma Wetlands
Complex (MWC)
A routine trip to collect salvaged birds from a Long Island rehabber yielded
Long Island's 3rd Purple Gallinule of the winter. This new specimen was picked
up on 14 January in Rockville Centre and died 2 days later
As a reminder the other birds were 13 January Manorville, 16 January
Southampton
We observed an interesting movement of 19 Black Vultures at Rockefeller
State Park Preserve this morning on Saw Mill River Audubon's 2nd Mon bird
walk there.
Twelve drifting together north and 7 others seen around the Swan Lake
area.
There have been good numbers of Black Vultures with the Turkey
Heard Pileated Woodpecker at the end of Reservoir Rd in Melville Long Island
Suffolk. Also had Raven.
May the birds be with you
Colleen and Bobby Veltri
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