New York City Rare Bird Alert

Below is the New York City Rare Bird Alert for the week ending Friday, March 18, 2022:

-RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Mar. 18, 2022
* NYNY2203.18


- Birds Mentioned

PACIFIC LOON+
WESTERN TANAGER+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

TRUMPETER SWAN
TUNDRA SWAN
EURASIAN WIGEON
KING EIDER
Common Gallinule
Piping Plover
Razorbill
BLACK-HEADED GULL
Iceland Gull
Lesser Black-backed Gull
GLAUCOUS GULL
Northern Gannet
Great Egret
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
American Pipit
VESPER SPARROW
Orange-crowned Warbler
Palm 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 18, 2022 at 11:00 pm.

The highlights of today's tape are WESTERN TANAGER, PACIFIC LOON, TUNDRA and TRUMPETER SWANS, EURASIAN WIGEON, KING EIDER, BLACK-HEADED and GLAUCOUS GULLS, VESPER SPARROW and more.

Manhattan's two WESTERN TANAGERS were both seen this week as recently as yesterday – the Carl Schurz Park Tanager, more likely in the morning, often visits the feeders inside the Park off East End Avenue, just south of East 86th Street, while the West Side bird, much more elusive, was seen very briefly as it visited the private Clinton Community Garden off West 48th Street east of 10th Avenue.

A PACIFIC LOON was reported off Orient Point today, apparently still in winter plumage, and should be looked for around the breakwater area.

Seven TUNDRA SWANS were spotted Wednesday morning flying by Conference House Park on southern Staten Island, while what was reported on last week’s tape as a Tundra Swan on Lake Tappan in Rockland County on March 8th was corrected to a TRUMPETER SWAN based on analysis of photos, this not always an easy separation.

A drake EURASIAN WIGEON was seen again at Brooklyn Army Terminal Pier 4 last Tuesday, and the drake KING EIDER was still at Great Kills Park Wednesday.

Single BLACK-HEADED GULLS remained at least to Wednesday along the Brooklyn coast from Plumb Beach up to the Verrazano Bridge overlook just north of the bridge and out in East Setauket Harbor. A GLAUCOUS GULL also frequented the same stretch of Brooklyn coastline up to Wednesday, and an ICELAND GULL visited Plumb Beach to Wednesday and may be the same one spotted a few times up to today on Prospect Park Lake. LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS were seen at at least 6 locations, including 10 at Robert Moses State Park Saturday.

A COMMON GALLINULE continues at Mill Pond Park north of Merrick Road in Bellmore, and up to 6 PIPING PLOVERS continue to frequent the bar off the Coast Guard Station at Jones Beach West End.

Some RAZORBILLS continuing off Breezy Point included 12 on Tuesday, and 2 RAZORBILLS along with a NORTHERN GANNET were seen today on Long Island Sound off Playland Park in Rye.

Two VESPER SPARROWS were still present Monday at the Suffolk County Farm and Education Center off Yaphank Avenue.

An ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER was at the Bayard Cutting Arboretum in Great River on Sunday, and lingering ORANGE-CROWNEDS also continued at Randall’s Island and Battery Park City.

Among the more recent migrants appearing locally have been GREAT EGRET, NORTHERN ROUGH-WINGED SWALLOW, AMERICAN PIPIT and PINE and PALM WARBLERS.

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.

- End transcript