Sean Sime has asked me to pass along that the previously reported Common Ringed
Plover was still present this morning (in very difficult weather conditions) at
the same location at - Fire Island--Old Inlet, Bellport Bay, Suffolk, New York.
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I haven’t seen this posted on the state list. Maureen Seaberg found a juvenile
Swainson’s Hawk on Front Street on the shoreline of northeastern Staten Island
this morning. It was seen and photographed by many during the day.
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I don’t think this has been posted to the state list: yesterday John Haas found
a Hammond’s Flycatcher at Bashakill in Sullivan County. Details are on John’s
blog: https://bashakillbirder.wordpress.com/
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What is presumably the same Mottled Duck found in the spring by Ernst Mutchnick
at Ketcham’s Creek Freshwater Wetland in Copiague, just east of Amityville in
Suffolk County was refound by Ernst in the same location on Tuesday, Oct. 18.
The bird was seen on multiple days this week and again yeste
I am surprised how few reports there have been of the Cinnamon Teal in
Livingston County given the species rarity in New York State. It was still
present Sunday, April 3 in flooded corn fields along Flats Road on the
Groveland Flats. Viewing conditions were difficult with periods of sleet and
c
Continuing on beach east of bathhouse.
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The Gray Kingbird continues at Great Kills Park on Staten Island in NYC. A
shirt time ago it was along the beach east of the bathhouse across from the
marina. Last seen flying back towards the bathhouse.
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Sean Sime just called me to report that the Wood Stork reported yesterday is
still at the Amazon Fullfilment Center on Staten Island this morning.
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Dave Sibley and Joan Walsh found a Little Gull on Great Gull Island this
morning. The bird has been present all day.
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Seen from end of Celery Ave, flying over fields to south around noon.
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First accepted NYS record was April 28, 1992 in Central Park.
Joe
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> I actually had an Anhinga in Central Park a few years ago. And there are two
> or other records from the park as well.
>
> Peter
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Sean Sime and I checked the flats in the drained Jerome Reservoir in the Bronx
just after sunup this morning. We found 9 Pectoral and 1 Baird’s Sandpiper plus
1 American Golden-Plover. Other shorebirds included both yellowlegs and Least
and Semipalmated Sandpipers and Killdeer. Also present a Pe
At 3:00 pm the adult Bridled Tern that has spent the summer at the Common and
Roseate tern colony on Great Gull Island was flying and calling over the
western portion of the island.
If the frigatebird seen today on the CT shore would come by it would seem more
like the Florida Keys than Long Is
At about 5:30 pm I spotted the Bridled Tern flying off the north side of Great
Gull Island somewhat east of the center of the island. Numbers of the breeding
Common and Roseate terns have been dropping sharply in the last couple of
weeks, but migrant terns have been increasing. Individual juven
Since shortly after sunup there has been a steady stream of Tree Swallows
passing west over Great Gull Island, Suffolk Co., this morning. Total so far
probably 150+.
Most of our resident Barn Swallows seem to have left by yesterday.
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of Great Gull Island. It was seen flying around on three occasions over about a
30 minute period around mid-day. It never landed. My guess it is now
frequenting another location on the edge of the island, probably so
The Bridled Tern has not been seen on Great Gull Island since July 25 despite
daily checks for it. I will post if it shows up again.
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A surprising migrant yesterday on Great Gull Island was a juvenile plumaged
Dark-eyed Junco, an odd bird to find in eastern Long Island Sound in late-July.
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The adult Bridled Tern continues at its usual location on the northeast rocks
of Great Gull Island, Suffolk Co.
My usual reminder: landing on the island research station is not allowed but
the bird can often be seen from offshore. Care must be taken because of rocks.
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The adult Bridled Tern continues in its usual location on the northeast corner
of Great Gull Island.
As always, a reminder that unauthorized landing is not allowed on the island
but the Bridled has been seen from boats offshore. Morning seems to be the best
time.
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The unsettled weather of the last week prevented us from checking for the
Bridled Tern, but we were finally able to look today. Around 11:00 am it was in
its usual location on the northeast corner of the island.
My usual reminder: landing on Great Gull Island is prohibited, but the Bridled
has
The adult Bridled Tern continues in its usual location on the northeast corner
of Great Gull Island.
Landing on the island is prohibited, but the bird has often been seen from a
boat off-shore.
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John Kent and Tom Fiore have both sent me word that a boat out of CT saw the
Bridled in its usual location on the northeast corner of Great Gull Island this
morning between 10 and 11 am and reported it on the CT list.
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> On Jun 12, 2019, at 1:48 PM, wrote:
>
For the fourth summer in a row an adult Bridled Tern has returned to the
Common/Roseate tern colony on Great Gull Island. Once again you cannot land on
the island.
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Currently at feeders, Evodia Field
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Lots of birders saw the crossbills this morning. Arie’s directions below are
spot on. We were standing exactly at the point marked on his map. Also present
were singing Yellow-throated Warbler, Pine Warblers, Eastern Bluebirds, Pine
Siskins.
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I second Bob’s suggestion. Three of us stayed at the Downsville Motel when we
went up for the Golden-crowned. It saved us from a middle of the night drive up
to be at the sparrow spot at sunup. The bird, if it is still there, has
consistently been an early morning individual.
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The previously reported Golden-crowned Sparrow continues at its usual location
in Downsville, Delaware Co. - across from Depot Street on River Road.
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The Bridled Tern that was on Great Gull I., Suffolk Co., has not been seen
since Thursday despite three checks Friday and two on Saturday. Numbers of
terns on the island are dropping now, so it may have departed with some of the
Commons and Roseates. I will try to check again today, but the weat
Despite checks this morning, midday, and late afternoon, the Bridled Tern was
not seen today. I will check again for it tomorrow.
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Bridled Tern continues this morning in its usual location on Great Gull Island.
See my earlier posts for caveats and additional info, and on my Inwood Birder
blog.
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The adult Bridled Tern was still present this morning at its usual area on
Great Gull Island, Suffolk Co. This is now the thirteenth day of its stay. See
my earlier posts for caveats on looking for this bird.
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The adult Bridled Tern continues on Great Gull Island. At around 8:40 am I
found it in its usual area on the northeast corner of the island. (It has been
here since August 3.) Once again, I will mention the island is a research
station and casual visitors are not allowed to land. However, severa
The adult Bridled Tern continues on Great Gull Island. Once again inclement
weather in the morning prevented me from checking for it then. I checked at
around 10:30 am and 3:30 pm and did not see it. However, a check at around 5:30
found it in its usual area on the northeast corner of the island
The adult Bridled Tern continues on Great Gull Island. This morning’s inclement
weather prevented me from checking for it then. I was finally able to check at
around 2:30 pm and it was in its usual area on the northeast corner of the
island. (It has now been here since August 3. Beside it being
The adult Bridled Tern continues on Great Gull Island. It has now been here for
a week that we know of. (Beside it being its third in a row summer appearance.)
Once again, I will mention that the island is a research station and casual
visitors are not allowed. However, several birders have seen
The adult Bridled Tern continues on the northeast corner of Great Gull Island.
I did not see it when I first checked for it around 10:00 am. Presumably it was
out feeding. The evening around 6:00 pm it was in its usual area.
I have received a number of inquiries and I will remind everyone the is
The adult Bridled Tern found on Great Gull Island yesterday continued today on
the rocks on the northeast corner of the island. Many shearwaters continue to
be seen from the island (both west and northeast of the island). Today Great
Shearwaters outnumbered Cory’s for the first time. Manx and So
Following up on the report I sent yesterday about shearwaters to the south of
Great Gull Island: Joan Walsh estimated that yesterday afternoon/evening there
were thousands of Cory’s and Great shearwaters south of Great Gull Island. In
addition there were several hundred Sooty Shearwaters. She to
I received a text message from Joan Walsh who is out on Great Gull Island. She
reports that this afternoon there were hundreds of Cory’s Shearwaters, many
Great Shearwaters (she didn’t give me a number) and at least one Sooty
Shearwater with many Common and Roseate terns south of the island, vis
Last night around sunset a calling Royal Tern was flying over the tern colony
on Great Gull Island. This morning it was roosting with Commons and Roseates on
our dock.
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We have had seals staying around Great Gull Island all summer for probably the
last five years or so.
Joe DiCostanzo
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> On Jul 8, 2018, at 1:20 PM, Bruce Horwith wrote:
>
> I fished yesterday behind Gardiners Island (south of the Gull islands) among
> hundreds of terns (comm
Shai does an excellent job summarizing the complications of the terms. And he
makes a very important point about using the term “type” since there is so much
individual variation you cannot always reliably join plumage to chronological
age. I would disagree with one point however. On Great Gull
Steve,
These color bands with the large letters have been used at Roseate Tern
colonies for the last few years. They are known as PFRs (Plastic Field Readable
bands). They are the latest incarnation of attempts to devise a band that is
easily identifiable in the field. An important point to rem
ad more
> rounded, rather "domed", underparts darkish gray (though not as dark as they
> would be in May), tail feathers longer than wingtips at rest, legs seemed
> slightly shorter than commons, though not as short as on arctic."
>
> All this typing is cramping
te-winged and
> Whiskered.
>
> Brian Patteson recently saw a Tahiti Petrel off of Hatteras!
>
> Shai Mitra
> Bay Shore
>
>
>
> From: bounce-122637763-11143...@list.cornell.edu
> [bounce-122637763-11143...@list.c
I just wanted to add some information to my comments about variation in
individuals. I looked at data from Common Terns trapped on Great Gull Island in
the summer of 2017. We have weights on 918 individuals. The weights ranged from
99.1 grams to 158.9 grams. That means at the extremes, the large
re, so
> maybe a few stick together up here, too. Ditto for examining first-summer
> Least Terns for Littles and first-summer Black Terns for White-winged and
> Whiskered.
>
> Brian Patteson recently saw a Tahiti Petrel off of Hatteras!
>
> Shai Mitra
> Bay Shore
>
>
> fit the norms.
>
> As for how did it (they) get here, stranger things have happened, namely the
> Gray-hooded gull of a few years back. Ship-assisted? Who knows.
>
> Bob Lewis
>
> On Thursday, June 14, 2018, 9:08:12 AM EDT, Joseph DiCostanzo
> wrote:
>
>
&g
> immature?
>
> I found a number of images of longipennis on the web. Here are some screen
> shots:
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> Index of /lewis/birds/other_long
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> Index of /lewis/birds/other_long
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> Bob Lewis
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>
>
> On Wednesday, June 13, 2018, 9:01:37 PM EDT, Joseph DiCo
One thing that has to be kept in mind about dark billed and/or dark legged
Common Terns seen on Long Island in the spring is that our Common Terns (Sterna
hirundo hirundo) have dark bills and dark legs in winter (both the young birds
and adults). The possibility that these birds are just S. hiru
Singing Henslow’s Sparrow this afternoon at the Shawangunk Grasslands NWR. Down
the red loop trail past the gazebo, about fifty feet past a dry channel.
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Heard a little while ago from Helen Hays that this morning (April 25) Matthew
Male picked up a dead Thick-billed Murre on Great Gull Island, Suffolk County.
The bird is in winter plumage and does not appear to be long dead.
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Adult Little Gull continues at Ditch Plains at Montauk.
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A male hybrid associating with Ring-necks at Eastport.
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After not being seen yesterday, I just saw the previously reported Bridled Tern
over Great Gull Island, Suffolk County. It was in a group of Common and Roseate
terns that were chasing a juvenile Cooper's Hawk around the island. This is the
first time the Bridled was seen away from the eastern en
No sighting of the Bridled Tern today.
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The windy, inclement weather prevented us from going out to the eastern end of
the island for most of the day - we still have non-flying and barely flying
young terns around. But we finally got a short break in the weather a little
while ago and found the Bridled Tern found yesterday is still pr
There was an adult Bridled Tern this afternoon on Great Gull Island, at the
eastern end of Long Island Sound. I have posted a picture on the New York
Birders Facebook group.
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What I assume was Julie Keefer's Great Shearwater was off the south side of
Great Gull Island in the mouth of Long Island Sound between 2:00 and 2:30 pm.
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After a successful run at the Dickcissel and the Henslow's Sparrow at
Shawangunk Grasslands this afternoon, Ann Shaw and I went over to the Bashakill
WMA for some evening birding. A Least Bittern was heard calling briefly at the
Main Boat Launch and an American Bittern fairly regularly at the Ha
Where, exactly, in New York State are you?!?
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> On May 2, 2017, at 11:54 AM, Jelly_Admn wrote:
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> Bird heard repeatedly in same area of burl in tree but more toward the fallen
> tree in path/almost dry stream/logs to walk across.
> Good luck
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Sean Sime just called to report the Ross's Gull is visible now (8:10 am) north
of the boat launch in Tupper Lake.
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As of just before 1 pm, the bird has not been seen.
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Yes, walk west to Broadway from the 215th St station and the north to 218th St
(there is a Twin Donut) on the corner), then west on 218th to the park at
Indian Road.
BTW, yesterday I did not hear the bird vocalize, but at one point when I had
not seen the bird for at least 15 minutes I played r
Just before sunset this evening, Aug 13, we had an adult Bridled Tern hanging
out with the Common and Roseate Terns on Great Gull Island. Photos to follow.
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Earlier this morning Peter Paton saw 2 Royal Terns flying west (towards Orient
Pt) past Great Gull Island. He got a photo of one bird.
Also this morning, after the sun up thunderstorms, there was a second year
American Redstart on the island, so there is still some bird movement going on.
Joe
I had a male Rose-breasted Grosbeak (with a partial rose breast) at the
south end of the Bronx Botanical Gardens on December 26, 1982 on the
Bronx/Westchester CBC. It was not at a feeder. It should be on Ebird - I
uploaded it with most of my other records a couple of years ago.
Joe DiCostanzo
On our way home from running errands, Ann Shaw and I tried for the
previously reported Barnacle Goose at Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx. We
found the parade grounds along Broadway empty of geese, but at around 3:30
pm we found the Barnacle Goose on the north end of the Van Cortlandt Park
Lake visi
The previously reported Barnacle Goose was still on the baseball fields at
Inwood Hill Park at 1:30 pm with a large flock of feeding Canada Geese. The
bird, however, was not associating much with the Canadas. While Ann and I
watched, a small child walked across the field followed by her parents wit
*** THE LINNAEAN SOCIETY OF NEW YORK - MEETING PROGRAM - AMERICAN MUSEUM OF
NATURAL HISTORY, NEW YORK CITY ***
This coming TUESDAY (6 Nov 2012) The Linnaean Society of New York will
present another two-part program at the American Museum of Natural History
(AMNH) in New York City.
6:00 pm - B
About 9 am I had a Red Phalarope land in the ship canal visible from my
apartment window at West 218th Street next to Inwood Hill Park in northern
Manhattan. The bird drifted westward towards Spuyten Duyvil and the Hudson
River. We tried to bird the Hudson from the west end of Dyckmann Street, but
The Common Terns have been breeding there for at least three summers. I
believe someone posted on them to either the NYSbirds or ebirdsnyc list (or
both) earlier this summer. In June 2011 I led some bird walks on Governor's
Island as part of a science festival and the terns were there then. I also
This post is a bit delayed because I didn't get back to NYC and a computer
until late last night. As anyone reading the postings or who was out birding
last week knows, there was a considerable fallout of migrants during the
foggy/rainy weather last week on Wed/Thu, May 2/3. A small group of us wen
Ann Shaw and I made a dash into Inwood Hill Park this morning for the Space
Shuttle Enterprise fly-by. We had great views from the overlook above the
Hudson River. Almost as if NASA's public relations department had arranged
it, on our way out of the park an adult Bald Eagle circled overhead. In th
The Rufous Hummingbird continues at the Rose Center, American Museum of
Natural History on West 81st Street, just off Central Park West. Yesterday
(March 1) Sean Sime and I saw it on the east side of the main entrance, just
after 1:00 pm. It is now two weeks short of three months since the bird was
I haven't seen anyone else post on it today, so I thought I should note that
the Rufous Hummingbird at the Hayden Planetarium/Rose Center on West 81st
Street has made it to February. I saw the bird around 2:45 PM, thanks to
someone who was photographing it, but whose name I don't know. Of course
wi
Ann Shaw and I decided to chase some of the local (for us very local)
lingering good birds in northern NYC. At Sherman's Creek/Swindler's Cove at
the east end of Dyckman St. we found the two Orange-crowned Warblers, plus a
very cooperative Yellow-bellied Sapsucker. (We didn't chase the Dickcissel
And, of course, there are various cruise ships that dock only a few blocks
from the Intrepid.
Joe DiCostanzo
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[mailto:bounce-38007903-3714...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Andrew Block
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To: NY
Ann and I left Great Gull Island yesterday (got home a few minutes ago). On
the way home Helen Hays called to say she had a Brown Pelican flying over
the island (east of Orient Point at the entrance to Long Island Sound) at
11:30 am this morning.
Also on the island we have had at least one S
This past Sunday I posted some material on the normal range of Gray-hooded
Gull in South America. I pointed out that the range map in Howell and Dunn
Gulls of the Americas (2007), which some were relying on was in fact
wrong. I reported that I had seen flocks of the species on the north coast
o
I went to see the Gray-headed/hooded Gull at Coney Island in Brooklyn this
morning with Sean Sime and Ann Shaw. (The bird goes by either name depending
on which reference you are reading.) We were lucky and the bird was very
cooperative sitting on the beach by the fake palm tree/water shower south
A correction to the directions in my earlier post - the road to the model
airplane field and the wet area where the White Ibis is usually found at
Great Kills Park is on the RIGHT side of the main road as you drive in, not
the left.
Note to self: do not write detailed posts late in the day when
To add to Shai's report on terns, Helen Hays told me a short time ago that
1000-1500 terns (mostly Commons) arrived at their nesting colony on Great
Gull Island, Suffolk County this morning.
Joe DiCostanzo
Subject: [nysbirds-l] LI Birds: Roseate and Common Terns
Highlights of an hour's
Sean Sime just called me (12:15 pm) and asked me to report that he is at the
location of yesterday's White Ibis on Staten Island, NY and there is no sign
of the bird. It apparently has not been seen today.
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A little while ago (approx. 10:15 am) from my apartment in the Inwood
section of northern Manhattan, I saw an Osprey from fly over going north.
This is the earliest I have seen an Osprey in NY (by a few days), but I am
fairly sure it is not an early record.
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Tried for the previously reported LeConte's Sparrow at Calverton in Suffolk
County today with no luck. Ran into a few other birders who also had no
luck and who hadn't heard of anyone seeing the bird today.
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again just east of the maintenance building below the 79th Street transverse
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It is out of state, but the previously reported Fork-tailed Flycatcher in
Cove Island Park, Stamford, CT continued to thrill many birders today with
excellent views. The minimal restrictions placed on where birders could
view from actually provided an undisturbed, easily viewable area for the
bird
We birded the barrier strip from Jones Beach S.P., Nassau Co. to Captree
S.P., Suffolk Co. today and did pretty well with the uncommon birds found
there this past week.
We saw the Common Ground-Dove in two locations at Captree, once along the
road to the south parking lot that overlooks the inl
Sean Sime just called me to report that the Black Guillemot continues at
Sebonac Inlet in Suffolk County. It flew in at first light then disappeared
in the flock. He found it again a little before 9 AM and it is there now
(9:20 am).
Joe DiCostanzo
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While leading my American Museum of Natural History group in the Ramble in
Central Park this morning we found a Golden-winged Warbler along the stream
by the rustic bridge at the south end of the Azalea Pond. We did not get
great looks at the time and could not confirm the identification, but I
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