New York City Rare Bird Alert

Below is the New York City Rare Bird Alert for the week ending Friday, January 28, 2022:

- RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Jan. 28, 2022
* NYNY2201.28
- Birds mentioned


PINK-FOOTED GOOSE+
THICK-BILLED MURRE+
WESTERN TANAGER+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE
Blue-winged Teal
EURASIAN WIGEON
KING EIDER
HARLEQUIN DUCK
Red-necked Grebe
Common Gallinule
PIPING PLOVER
LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER
Razorbill
Black-legged Kittiwake
BLACK-HEADED GULL
Iceland Gull
GLAUCOUS GULL
American Bittern
Eastern Phoebe
NORTHERN SHRIKE
LAPLAND LONGSPUR
Vesper Sparrow
YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT
Baltimore 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

Compiler: Tom Burke
Coverage: New York City, Long Island, Westchester County

Transcriber: Ben Cacace

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Greetings. This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for *Friday, January 28th 2022* at 11pm. The highlights of today's tape are WESTERN TANAGER, THICK-BILLED MURRE, NORTHERN SHRIKE, PINK-FOOTED GOOSE, GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE, EURASIAN WIGEON, KING EIDER, HARLEQUIN DUCK, BLACK-HEADED GULL, GLAUCOUS GULL, PIPING PLOVER, LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER, LAPLAND LONGSPUR, YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT and more.

There are two WESTERN TANAGERS in Manhattan, the one wintering around Carl Schurz Park continues to visit the feeder area there with some regularity this site located along East End Avenue near East 86th Street. The TANAGER near the private Clinton Community Garden noted last Saturday should be looked for between West 47th & 48th Street east of 10th Avenue.

Following last week's two occurrences, sightings this week of THICK-BILLED MURRE commenced last Saturday with one in Shinnecock Inlet where perhaps the same bird was photographed today floating into the bay around midday. Another THICK-BILLED was photographed last Monday moving slowly westward off Fort Tilden. More expected RAZORBILLS were also present off Montauk Point with a good count of 51 on Tuesday with a few others along Long Island's south shore. In addition a small number of BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKES were seen offshore out east where other species of alcids can also occur though sufficient documentation to substantiate such findings can be difficult to obtain.

NORTHERN SHRIKE was still present Monday at the North Fork Preserve in Northville where it is usually noted along fields west of the entrance road located on the north side of Sound Avenue.

PINK-FOOTED GOOSE continues at Stony Brook University on a pond near the Charles B. Wang Center. Today 2 GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GEESE were spotted at Sunken Meadow State Park west of the entrance bridge and another was today again roosting on the lake at Playland Park in Rye. Continuing single female type EURASIAN WIGEON were seen as recently as today both at Bush Terminal Piers Park in Brooklyn and on Patchogue Lake the north end of which contains a good variety of water birds including a drake BLUE-WINGED TEAL. Single drake KING EIDER were still today at both Great Kills Park on Staten Island and at Shinnecock Inlet and 5 HARLEQUIN DUCKS can be found along the Point Lookout jetties. A PIPING PLOVER was also present at Point Lookout yesterday.

An adult BLACK-HEADED GULL continues to frequent the waters around the Coast Guard Station at Jones Beach West End where a single LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER was seen again Tuesday that bay also producing a LAPLAND LONGSPUR there. LONG-BILLED DOWITCHERS also remain along Santapogue Creek in West Babylon. GLAUCOUS GULLS were seen today at Brooklyn Army Terminal Pier 4 and at Bellport Bay Yacht Club while several ICELAND GULLS include birds on Central Park's Reservoir and at Randall's Island plus a few sites in Brooklyn and out at Shinnecock Inlet.

Other notable non-passerines include a RED-NECKED GREBE continuing at Culloden Point in Montauk, a COMMON GALLINULE still at Mill Pond in Bellmore and a couple of AMERICAN BITTERN along Dune Road and another at Tobay.

Out in Montauk 2 YELLOW-BREASTED CHATS were seen today, one around the parking lot at the point and the another at Theodore Roosevelt County Park. Up to 3 VESPER SPARROWS still reside at the Suffolk County Farm and Education Center off Yaphank Avenue and an EASTERN PHOEBE plus a BALTIMORE ORIOLE both remain in Brooklyn's Green-wood Cemetery.

To phone in reports, 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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