New York City Rare Bird Alert

Below is the New York City Rare Bird Alert for the week ending Friday, April 22, 2022:

- RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Apr. 22, 2022
* NYNY2204.22

- Birds mentioned
MOTTLED DUCK+
SWALLOW-TAILED KITE+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

KING EIDER
White-winged Scoter
Long-tailed Duck
Horned Grebe
Red-necked Grebe
Chimney Swift
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Virginia Rail
Sora
Common Gallinule
Short-billed Dowitcher
Bonaparte's Gull
ICELAND GULL
GLAUCOUS GULL
LEAST BITTERN
CATTLE EGRET
Green Heron
Glossy Ibis
RED-HEADED WOODPECKER
Warbling Vireo
Bank Swallow
Cliff Swallow
Wood Thrush
YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT
Orchard Oriole
Baltimore Oriole
PROTHONOTARY WARBLER
Orange-crowned Warbler
Hooded Warbler
YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Indigo Bunting

- 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, April 22nd 2022* at 11pm. The highlights of today's tape are MOTTLED DUCK, SWALLOW-TAILED KITE, KING EIDER, LEAST BITTERN, CATTLE EGRET, GLAUCOUS and ICELAND GULLS, RED-HEADED WOODPECKER, YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT, PROTHONOTARY and YELLOW-THROATED WARBLERS and spring migrants.

A drake MOTTLED DUCK was seen as recently as Wednesday along the Ketcham's Creek freshwater wetland in Amityville. The sightings Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday were all only in the later afternoon. The duck and accompanying female Mallards should be looked for along the creek on the west side of Lake Drive. When present, the birds initially were around the north end near where Kenmore Avenue ends at Lake Drive but recently they have also ventured south of there.

On Thursday afternoon a SWALLOW-TAILED KITE was spotted over Todt Hill on Staten Island heading in a northwest direction towards High Rock Park but like most local sightings for this species it seems only the initial observers that get to see the bird. A drake KING EIDER was still present at Great Kills Park today.

A lingering LEAST BITTERN has been present all week in phragmites on the west side of Prospect Park Lake near the Wellhouse and another was reported at Randall's Island last weekend while a CATTLE EGRET visited East Quogue last Sunday.

A GLAUCOUS GULL was still around the Hunt's Point section of the Bronx last Sunday and on Tuesday single ICELAND GULLS were spotted at Brooklyn's Plumb Beach and at the north end of Jamaica Bay.

In Westchester a RED-HEADED WOODPECKER has been at Rockefeller State Park Preserve yesterday and today and a YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT was photographed at Cranberry Lake Preserve today.

PROTHONOTARY WARBLER has continued at Central Park's north end all week and another was present near the lake at Connetquot River State Park last weekend. Besides the continuing pair of YELLOW-THROATED WARBLERS at the Bayard Cutting Arboretum in Great River single birds occurred in Prospect Park for most of the week, at Crotona Park in the Bronx yesterday, at Massapequa Preserve Wednesday and Thursday and at Oscawana Island in Westchester last Sunday. Other arriving warblers this week included an ORANGE-CROWNED at Massapequa Preserve Tuesday and 3 HOODEDS with singles at the north end of Central Park last Sunday and more recently in Riverside Park and at Valley Stream State Park.

Various non-passerines noted during the week have included more CHIMNEY SWIFTS, RUBY-THROATED HUMMINGBIRDS, scattered VIRGINIA RAILS, SORAS and COMMON GALLINULES, SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER, GREEN HERON and GLOSSY IBIS.

The variety of passerines has also been increasing with such additions as WARBLING VIREO, BANK and CLIFF SWALLOWS, WOOD THRUSH, ORCHARD and BALTIMORE ORIOLES, ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK and INDIGO BUNTING.

And a comment on an unusual fallout. Last Monday night's poor weather conditions produced an interesting accumulation of birds along the Hudson River from upper Westchester and especially just north of us up in the Newburgh-Beacon area where flocks of BONAPARTE'S GULLS included several hundred individuals sitting on the river along with a count of over 100 RED-NECKED GREBES, many HORNED GREBES, numbers of WHITE-WINGED SCOTER and LONG-TAILED DUCK and various other waterbirds temporarily forced down. Quite a spectacle.

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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