New York City Rare Bird Alert

Below is the New York City Rare Bird Alert for the week ending Friday, April 29, 2022:

– RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Apr. 29, 2022
* NYNY2204.29

– Birds mentioned
MOTTLED DUCK+
SWALLOW-TAILED KITE+
BLACK-THROATED GRAY WARBLER+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

KING EIDER
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Eastern Whip-poor-will
Solitary Sandpiper
ICELAND GULL
Least Tern
GULL-BILLED TERN
Caspian Tern
Common Tern
Black Skimmer
LEAST BITTERN
Cattle Egret
Red-headed Woodpecker
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Great Crested Flycatcher
Eastern Kingbird
Red-eyed Vireo
Veery
Lincoln’s Sparrow
Bobolink
Ovenbird
PROTHONOTARY WARBLER
Orange-crowned Warbler
Nashville Warbler
American Redstart
Cape May Warbler
Magnolia Warbler
Blackburnian Warbler
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Black-throated Blue Warbler
YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER
SUMMER TANAGER
Scarlet Tanager

– 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, April 29th 2022 at 11pm. The highlights of today’s tape are MOTTLED DUCK, SWALLOW-TAILED KITE, BLACK-THROATED GRAY WARBLER, KING EIDER, ICELAND GULL, GULL-BILLED TERN, LEAST BITTERN, PROTHONOTARY, YELLOW-THROATED WARBLERS, SUMMER TANAGER and spring migrants.

The MOTTLED DUCK, found on April 5th, and a potential first record for New York State pending NYSARC acceptance, was reported both days last weekend at Ketcham’s Creek freshwater wetland in Amityville but not since, perhaps due to waning interest. It is also not clear that the duck was always being critically identified so please provide supporting evidence if the MOTTLED is seen again.

Once again a brief appearance by a SWALLOW-TAILED KITE locally left a few observers quite pleased though it did not stick around for others to enjoy. This sighting took place last Wednesday morning at Jones Beach West End.

But certainly the bonus bird of the week was a male BLACK-THROATED GRAY WARBLER nicely found early yesterday morning in the Midwood off Center Drive in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park. Many observers on hand continued to search throughout the day and were able to refind the bird at various times but follow-up searches today were not successful.

A drake KING EIDER was still present at Great Kills Park on Staten Island last Sunday and late ICELAND GULLS were noted at Fort Tilden last Saturday and at Plumb Beach Monday. A GULL-BILLED TERN was photographed at Plumb Beach on Tuesday the same day single CASPIAN TERNS visited Hempstead Lake State Park and Southard’s Pond in Babylon.

A Prospect Park LEAST BITTERN was still present Thursday along the western side of Prospect Park Lake. In Westchester a CATTLE EGRET flew by the nature center at Croton Point Park Tuesday afternoon headed northwest and an adult RED-HEADED WOODPECKER continues at the Rockefeller State Park Preserve.

A growing number of migrant non-passerines this week included YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO, EASTERN WHIP-POOR-WILL, SOLITARY SANDPIPER, LEAST and COMMON TERNS and BLACK SKIMMER.

Among the passerines the PROTHONOTARY WARBLER continued at Central Park’s north end to last Sunday and a few YELLOW-THROATED WARBLERS included singles at Hempstead Lake State Park and Oakland Lake Thursday and at Fuch’s Pond in Northport today as well as one at Croton Point Park from Tuesday through today and the continuing birds at the Bayard Cutting Arboretum in Great River. An ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER has lingered in Central Park since Monday and other arriving warblers have included OVENBIRD, NASHVILLE, AMERICAN REDSTART, CAPE MAY, MAGNOLIA, BLACKBURNIAN, CHESTNUT-SIDED and BLACK-THROATED BLUE with more to come.

A SUMMER TANAGER visited a home up in Harlem late last week last seen on the 22nd and other passerines occurring this week featured GREAT CRESTED FLYCATCHER, EASTERN KINGBIRD, EASTERN WOOD-PEWEE, RED-EYED VIREO, VEERY, LINCOLN’S SPARROW, BOBOLINK and SCARLET TANAGER.

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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