New York City Rare Bird Alert

Below is the New York City Rare Bird Alert for the week ending Friday, March 11, 2022:

-RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Mar. 11, 2022
* NYNY2203.11


- Birds Mentioned

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

Greater White-fronted Goose
Canada Goose
Tundra Swan
EURASIAN WIGEON
KING EIDER
BARROW'S GOLDENEYE
Red-necked Grebe
Common Gallinule
Piping Plover
Killdeer
American Woodcock
Razorbill
BLACK-HEADED GULL
Laughing Gull
Herring Gull
Iceland Gull
Lesser Black-backed Gull
GLAUCOUS GULL
Osprey
Eastern Phoebe
Tree Swallow
VESPER SPARROW
Orange-crowned Warbler
Pine Warbler

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 nysarc44nybirdsorg

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: Gail Benson

[~BEGIN RBA TAPE~]

Greetings! This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for Friday, March 11, 2022 at 11:00 pm.

The highlights of today's tape are WESTERN TANAGER, PINK-FOOTED GOOSE, EURASIAN WIGEON, BARROW’S GOLDENEYE and KING EIDER, BLACK-HEADED, GLAUCOUS and other GULLS, VESPER SPARROW and more.

As we await the lessening of the March doldrums, with currently most of our waterfowl and other wintering birds heading north and only a trickle of spring arrivals so far appearing, at least one of Manhattan's WESTERN TANAGERS continues - the Carl Schurz Park female was still visiting feeders there this week, these located inside the park off East End Avenue just south of East 86th Street.

Among the waterfowl, a PINK-FOOTED GOOSE was spotted with CANADA GEESE last Saturday morning at Long Pond, now called Sayre Park, on the west side of Bridgehampton, while in Rockland County the immature GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE was still at Rockland Lake State Park today and a TUNDRA SWAN visited Lake Tappan on Tuesday.

Lingering EURASIAN WIGEON include a male on the West Pond at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge today and one at Bush Terminal Piers Park in Brooklyn at least to Tuesday. A female BARROW'S GOLDENEYE was off Wildwood State Park east of Wading River last Monday, and the drake KING EIDER was still at Great Kills Park today.

A RED-NECKED GREBE and a top count of 29 RAZORBILLS were seen off Breezy Point last Sunday.

Among the Gulls, an adult BLACK-HEADED GULL was seen again last Sunday off Brooklyn's Plumb Beach, along with an ICELAND GULL, and a Brooklyn GLAUCOUS GULL was spotted during the week from Gravesend Bay up to just north of the Verrazano Bridge.

Out at Old Field Point and Lighthouse Park north of Stony Brook, the very intriguing but as yet not positively identified as to species Herring-type gull with bright yellow legs and feet and a wing pattern strongly suggestive of a European HERRING GULL was still present at least to last Sunday; other gulls occurring there have featured GLAUCOUS, ICELAND and 2 LESSER BLACK-BACKED. A few LESSER BLACK-BACKEDS elsewhere in the region included 7 at Robert Moses State Park last Sunday.

A COMMON GALLINULE remains at Mill Pond Park in Bellmore, and PIPING PLOVER numbers at Jones Beach West End increased to 6 as of today. Other earlier Spring arrivals this week have included good numbers of KILLDEER and displaying AMERICAN WOODCOCK, a few LAUGHING GULLS and OSPREY, some EASTERN PHOEBES and TREE SWALLOWS and a few PINE WARBLERS.

A VESPER SPARROW remains at the Suffolk County Farm and Education Center off Yaphank Avenue, and single ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLERS were noted continuing at Battery Park City in Manhattan and north of the West Pond at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge.

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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