New York City Rare Bird Alert

Below is the New York City Rare Bird Alert for the week ending Friday, August 17, 2018:

- RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Aug. 17, 2018
* NYNY1808.17

- Birds mentioned
BRIDLED TERN+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

Cory's Shearwater
Great Shearwater
Sooty Shearwater
BROWN PELICAN
UPLAND SANDPIPER
WHIMBREL
MARBLED GODWIT
Stilt Sandpiper
White-rumped Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Long-billed Dowitcher
RED-NECKED PHALAROPE
Parasitic Jaeger
CASPIAN TERN
BLACK TERN
Royal Tern
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Black-billed Cuckoo
Common Nighthawk
Purple Martin
Ovenbird
Louisiana Waterthrush
Northern Waterthrush
GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER
Blue-winged Warbler
MOURNING WARBLER
Hooded Warbler
Northern Parula
Magnolia Warbler
Blackburnian Warbler
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Prairie Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
Canada Warbler
BLUE GROSBEAK

- Transcript

If followed by (+) please submit documentation of your report electronically and use the NYSARC online submission form found at http://www.nybirds.org/NYSARC/goodreport.htm

You can also send reports and digital image files via email to nysarc44(at)nybirds{dot}org.

If electronic submission is not possible, hardcopy reports and photos or sketches are welcome. Hardcopy documentation should be mailed to:

Gary Chapin - Secretary
NYS Avian Records Committee (NYSARC)
125 Pine Springs Drive
Ticonderoga, NY 12883

Hotline: New York City Area Rare Bird Alert
Number: (212) 979-3070

Compilers: Tom Burke and Tony Lauro
Coverage: New York City, Long Island, Westchester County

Transcriber: Ben Cacace

BEGIN TAPE

Greetings. This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for Friday, August 17th 2018 at 9pm. The highlights of today's tape are BRIDLED TERN, BROWN PELICAN, MARBLED GODWIT, RED-NECKED PHALAROPE, UPLAND SANDPIPER, WHIMBREL and other shorebirds, CASPIAN TERN, BLACK TERN, GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER and MOURNING WARBLER and BLUE GROSBEAK.

The adult BRIDLED TERN visiting Great Gull Island since August 3rd was still present yesterday but not seen there today thus perhaps moving on. The tern was mostly seen roosting on or feeding around the northeastern corner of this private research station for breeding Common and Roseate Terns. Also noted during the week were a few GREAT and CORY'S SHEARWATERS and up to 8 PARASITIC JAEGERS. This count from last Sunday.

The only BROWN PELICAN report this week was from last Saturday off Staten Island's Miller Field.

Otherwise it was mostly a week for shorebirds. At Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge unfortunately a deluge of rain last Sunday had an adverse impact on both ponds raising the water to much less productive levels. The numbers of STILT and PECTORAL SANDPIPERS were reduced as a result but the smaller shorebirds were impacted the most. Sunday morning a LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER and a few WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPERS were on the East Pond and a CASPIAN TERN showed up on the East Pond Tuesday. At Plumb Beach in Brooklyn 3 MARBLED GODWITS appeared last Sunday after the storm. But today at Plumb there were a WHIMBREL and 4 CASPIAN TERNS. Two other MARBLED GODWITS this week included one hanging out with American Oystercatchers at Breezy Point Wednesday through today and one at Cupsogue County Park yesterday while other WHIMBRELS featured one Monday at Great Kills Park on Staten Island and 5 Wednesday at Cedar Beach in Southold on the north fork this a regular sight for this species. A nice find was an UPLAND SANDPIPER spotted last Saturday as it flew over Floyd Bennett Field. Five WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPERS were also among the shorebirds at Floyd Bennett Sunday. A treat for whale watchers on a Cresli trip on a Viking boat out of Montauk last Wednesday were four RED-NECKED PHALAROPES and also noted were a small number of CORY'S, GREAT and SOOTY SHEARWATERS.

A BLACK TERN was spotted at Breezy Point today and some ROYAL TERNS continue along the south shore of Long Island.

Highlights among the slowly increasing number of landbirds this week were a female GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER in Central Park Wednesday and a MOURNING WARBLER in Prospect Park the day before. Other warblers have included BLUE-WINGED, NORTHERN PARULA, OVENBIRD, LOUISIANA and NORTHERN WATERTHRUSHES, BLACK-THROATED BLUE and BLACK-THROATED GREEN, BLACKBURNIAN, MAGNOLIA, PRAIRIE and CANADA. Also HOODED WARBLER near Golden's Bridge in Westchester County Monday.

Other migrants have featured both BLACK-BILLED CUCKOO and YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOOS. The onset of the COMMON NIGHTHAWK migration and scattered PURPLE MARTINS. Three BLUE GROSBEAKS were still around their nesting area at the Calverton Grasslands last Sunday.

To phone in reports on Long Island call Tony Lauro at (631) 734-4126 or call Tom Burke at (914) 967-4922.

This service is sponsored by the Linnaean Society of New York and the National Audubon Society. Thank you for calling.

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