New York City Rare Bird Alert

Below is the New York City Rare Bird Alert for the week ending Friday, February 25, 2022:

- RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Feb. 25, 2022
* NYNY2202.25


- Birds mentioned
THICK-BILLED MURRE+
PACIFIC LOON+
WESTERN TANAGER+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE
EURASIAN WIGEON
KING EIDER
HARLEQUIN DUCK
American Woodcock
DOVEKIE
Razorbill
Black-legged Kittiwake
BLACK-HEADED GULL
Herring Gull complex (unidentified to species)
Iceland Gull
Lesser Black-backed Gull
GLAUCOUS GULL
American Bittern
NORTHERN SHRIKE
VESPER SPARROW
Orange-crowned Warbler

- 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, February 25th 2022* at 11pm. The highlights of today's tape are PACIFIC LOON, WESTERN TANAGER, NORTHERN SHRIKE, THICK-BILLED MURRE, DOVEKIE, GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE, EURASIAN WIGEON, KING EIDER, HARLEQUIN DUCK, BLACK-HEADED GULL, GLAUCOUS GULL, VESPER SPARROW and more.

Last Saturday afternoon a winter plumaged PACIFIC LOON was spotted and photographed in the Connetquot River off the Bayard Cutting Arboretum in Great River but moving quickly downstream the LOON soon disappeared and has evaded subsequent relocation attempts.

Manhattan's two WESTERN TANAGERS were both still present this week. The Carl Schurz Park bird was seen through Thursday around the feeders located in the park off East End Avenue just south of East 86th Street. This bird certainly most reliable in the morning while the west side bird can with patience often be spotted in the vicinity of the private Clinton Community Garden off West 48th Street east of 10th Avenue.

The NORTHERN SHRIKE wintering at the North Fork Preserve out in Northville was seen as recently as Tuesday in this park located on the north side of Sound Avenue. The bird often spotted in fields west of the entrance road just beyond a small pond.

Alcids this week featured a DOVEKIE spotted Sunday off Camp Hero at Montauk Point where a peak of 5 RAZORBILLS plus a BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKE and 2 female HARLEQUIN DUCKS were seen on Wednesday.

Last Sunday morning a THICK-BILLED MURRE was spotted in Brooklyn's Gravesend Bay but moved south quickly last seen in the vicinity of Coney Island Creek. Up to 5 RAZORBILLS occurred off Breezy Point during the week.

Single lingering GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GEESE were still present mid-week at Tung Ting Pond in Centerport and the pond off Bowman Avenue in Rye Brook and also continuing were single EURASIAN WIGEONS at Bush Terminal Piers Park in Brooklyn and on the West Pond at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge and the drake KING EIDER at Great Kills Park on Staten Island.

An adult BLACK-HEADED GULL was present Sunday out on Old Field Point north of Stony Brook where other gulls also noted this week have included GLAUCOUS, 2 ICELAND and LESSER BLACK-BACKED plus an unusual gull in the greater HERRING GULL complex featuring bright yellow legs and feet and a somewhat darker mantle and remains unidentified as to species. Other ICELAND GULLS occurred around Sheepshead Bay and up in Peekskill.

AMERICAN BITTERN continues in the Tobay area and AMERICAN WOODCOCK are now displaying in appropriate areas where the weather is right.

A VESPER SPARROW was still at the Suffolk County Farm and Education Center off Yaphank Avenue on Monday and ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLERS continue at Randall's Island and at Battery Park City.

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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