In the excitement over the potential addition of American Flamingo to the New
York State Checklist, people have been curious about prior records. As far as I
am aware, there have been four prior occurrences of American Flamingo. All of
these were doubted as natural vagrants at the time, but no e
Central Park NYC
Sunday June 2, 2024
OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Multiple Yellow-billed Cuckoos, Olive-sided Flycatcher.
Canada Goose - 2 Turtle Pond
Wood Duck - 1 male Turtle Pond
Mallard - 16 (including a dozen ducklings)
Mourning Dove - 40-50
Yellow-billed C
It may be worth adding to these the report from October 1 of last year of a
bird flying up the Hudson in northern Ulster county:
https://ebird.org/checklist/S151204238. Many region 8 birders staked out
various spots among the river, but did not relocate a flamingo.
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