New York City Rare Bird Alert

Below is the New York City Rare Bird Alert for the week ending Friday, March 4, 2022:

- RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Mar. 4, 2022
* NYNY2203.04


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

GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE
Wood Duck
EURASIAN WIGEON
KING EIDER
HARLEQUIN DUCK
Common Gallinule
Piping Plover
Least Sandpiper
American Woodcock
Razorbill
BLACK-HEADED GULL
Laughing Gull
Herring Gull
Iceland Gull
Lesser Black-backed Gull
GLAUCOUS GULL
Rough-legged Hawk
Eastern Phoebe
NORTHERN SHRIKE
Horned Lark
LAPLAND LONGSPUR
Lincoln's Sparrow
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

BEGIN TAPE

Greetings. This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for *Friday, March 4th 2022* at 11pm. The highlights of today's tape are WESTERN TANAGER, NORTHERN SHRIKE, THICK-BILLED MURRE, GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE, EURASIAN WIGEON, KING EIDER, HARLEQUIN DUCK, BLACK-HEADED, GLAUCOUS GULL and other gulls, LAPLAND LONGSPUR and more.

Manhattan's two WESTERN TANAGERS were still present this week. The more reliable one, especially in the morning, continues at Carl Schurz Park visiting the feeders located in the park off East End Avenue just south of East 86th Street while more elusive is the one moving around in the vicinity of private Clinton Community Garden off West 48th Street east of 10th Avenue.

The NORTHERN SHRIKE at North Fork Preserve out in Northville was seen as recently as Monday. The park is on the northside of Sound Avenue and the SHRIKE is usually found in fields west of the entrance road just beyond a small pond.

A THICK-BILLED MURRE was reported last Saturday off the Jones Beach West End jetty but most of the recent alcid activity is centered around RAZORBILLS with Breezy Point providing regular sightings including a peak of 11 offshore on Wednesday.

Waterfowl have begun moving north recently in good numbers and WOOD DUCKS for instance have increased noticeably but among the lingering rarities still noted this week were single GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GEESE at Tung Ting Pond in Centerport and on Bowman Avenue Pond in Rye Brook. Single drake EURASIAN WIGEON at Bush Terminal Piers Park in Brooklyn and on the West Pond at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, a drake KING EIDER at Great Kills Park on Staten Island and up to 5 HARLEQUIN DUCKS still at Jones Beach West End Saturday.

Two BLACK-HEADED GULLS were seen together at Brooklyn's Plumb Beach last Saturday with one on Sunday and another visited the Old Field Point and Lighthouse Park site again on Saturday, this area north of Stony Brook. The Old Field Point site this week also featured a GLAUCOUS, 2 ICELAND and one or two LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS but the main attraction remains a Herring type gull with bright yellow legs and feet and a wing pattern that strongly suggests a European form of HERRING GULL though a few other possibilities are still being considered as well. A GLAUCOUS GULL was also seen at Great Kills Park on Tuesday while an ICELAND GULL visited Plumb Beach last weekend. A few LAUGHING GULLS have also begun to appear.

Two PIPING PLOVERS were seen out on Dune Road today and a LEAST SANDPIPER seen last weekend at Great Kills Park may have been the one first seen there back on February 8th.

AMERICAN WOODCOCK are now displaying at most appropriate sites. A ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK visited the Short's Pond area in Watermill last Saturday. Lingering birds include the COMMON GALLINULE at Mill Pond Park in Bellmore, EASTERN PHOEBE and BALTIMORE ORIOLE at Green-wood Cemetery in Brooklyn and the LINCOLN'S SPARROW at Greeley Square Park in Manhattan. A LAPLAND LONGSPUR was found at Jones Beach West End last Saturday and seen again Wednesday and another LAPLAND was with 90 Horned Larks at Nickerson Beach last Sunday.

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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