New York City Rare Bird Alert

Below is the New York City Rare Bird Alert for the week ending Friday, August 24, 2018:

- RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Aug. 24, 2018
* NYNY1808.24

- Birds mentioned
TRINDADE PETREL+
BLACK-CAPPED PETREL+
AUDUBON'S SHEARWATER+
LEACH'S STORM-PETREL+
BAND-RUMPED STORM-PETREL+
BRIDLED TERN+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

Cory's Shearwater
Great Shearwater
Sooty Shearwater
Wilson's Storm-Petrel
Northern Gannet
Cattle Egret
AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER
Whimbrel
HUDSONIAN GODWIT
MARBLED GODWIT
Dunlin
BAIRD'S SANDPIPER
White-rumped Sandpiper
RED-NECKED PHALAROPE
Pomarine Jaeger
Parasitic Jaeger
Gull-billed Tern
Caspian Tern
Black Tern
Royal Tern
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Black-billed Cuckoo
Common Nighthawk
Red-headed Woodpecker
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Purple Martin
Cliff Swallow
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Worm-eating Warbler
GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER
Hooded Warbler
Cape May Warbler
Blackburnian Warbler
Prairie Warbler
Wilson's Warbler
LARK SPARROW
DICKCISSEL
Bobolink
Orchard Oriole

- 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 24th 2018 at 9pm. The highlights of today's tape are pelagic trip results including TRINDADE PETREL and BLACK-CAPPED PETRELS, BAND-RUMPED STORM-PETREL, LEACH'S STORM-PETREL, AUDUBON'S SHEARWATER, BRIDLED TERN and RED-NECKED PHALAROPE and such shorebirds as AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER, MARBLED GODWIT, HUDSONIAN GODWIT and BAIRD'S SANDPIPER and such passerines as LARK SPARROW, DICKCISSEL and GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER.

A good week for birds made spectacular by a pelagic trip leaving Brooklyn Sunday evening. This See Life Paulagics trip aboard the Brooklyn VI with its excellent crew arrived well out into Hudson Canyon by dawn Monday morning. A large chum slick bringing birds into the boat paid huge dividends when a TRINDADE PETREL (treeng-DAH-jee) appeared off the bow and spent the next few minutes making several close passes by and around the boat. Excellent photos were obtained. This petrel, also referred to as TRINDADE PETREL (treen-DAH-dee), in a more anglicized form, is named for the main island it breeds on off southeastern Brazil. Other species encountered included 21 BLACK-CAPPED PETRELS, 19 BAND-RUMPED, 23 LEACH'S and 716 WILSON'S STORM-PETRELS, 6 AUDUBON'S, 43 CORY'S, 39 GREAT and 1 SOOTY SHEARWATER, 2 POMARINE JAEGERS, 2 BRIDLED TERNS and 21 RED-NECKED PHALAROPES plus some exciting sea mammals and fishes. A great trip!

With shorebird season peaking so is the number of shorebirds appearing locally. A MARBLED GODWIT lingering at Breezy Point at least to Tuesday was joined by one found out at Cupsogue County Park in West Hampton Dunes on Monday and still present Wednesday. And this just in an HUDSONIAN GODWIT was present this evening just north of the Raunt at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge just in time and hopefully lingering for tomorrow's Shorebird Festival at the bay. Our initial local AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER was spotted off the Coast Guard Station at Jones Beach West End today while the sod fields out east have so far produced a BAIRD'S SANDPIPER as of Wednesday and still reported today on the east side of Yaphank Avenue south of Long Island Expressway exit 67. One or two WHIMBREL were noted at Brooklyn's Plumb Beach to Tuesday when 8 were on the beach near the Jones Beach West End jetty. Another was at Cupsogue Wednesday along with a WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER, 2 DUNLIN and a good assortment of species including 17 ROYAL TERNS.

An early morning seawatch at Cupsogue produced 23 CORY'S SHEARWATERS, 3 NORTHERN GANNETS, [3] PARASITIC JAEGERS and a BLACK TERN. Two CASPIAN TERNS were noted both at Breezy Point Monday and Plumb Beach Thursday and a GULL-BILLED TERN was at Plumb Beach Sunday.

A CATTLE EGRET visited Brooklyn's Green-wood Cemetery from last Sunday at least to Tuesday and a RED-HEADED WOODPECKER was seen again Tuesday in Connetquot River State Park.

Among the passerines, last Saturday provided a LARK SPARROW at the volleyball courts at Robert Moses State Park field 2 and later that day two were seen together at Jones Beach West End just east of the turnaround with at least one continuing along the roadway there to Tuesday. A few DICKCISSELS, [...] overhead flybys featured 1 at Oak Beach last Saturday and 1 in Central Park and 2 at Robert Moses State Park all today.

Highlights among the warblers noted this week were GOLDEN-WINGED in Central Park from Tuesday and such others as WORM-EATING, HOODED, WILSON'S, CAPE MAY, BLACKBURNIAN, PRAIRIE and numerous other species.

Both BLACK-BILLED and YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOOS were encountered, OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHERS were spotted in both Central and Prospect Parks and other migrants featured PURPLE MARTIN, CLIFF SWALLOW, RED-BREASTED NUTHATCH, ORCHARD ORIOLE and BOBOLINK. COMMON NIGHTHAWKS are also now beginning to visit appropriate local sites in the evening as they move south sometimes in large numbers.

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.