New York City Rare Bird Alert

Below is the New York City Rare Bird Alert for the week ending Friday, June 17, 2022:

- RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Jun. 17, 2022
* NYNY2206.17


- Birds mentioned
BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING-DUCK+
KING RAIL+
NEOTROPIC CORMORANT+ (Orange County)
LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

Common Eider
WILSON'S PHALAROPE
RED-NECKED PHALAROPE
Parasitic Jaeger
BLACK-HEADED GULL
Iceland Gull
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Roseate Tern
Royal Tern
Wilson's Storm-Petrel
Cory's Shearwater
Great Shearwater
Sooty Shearwater
MANX SHEARWATER
BROWN PELICAN
Least Bittern
Red-headed Woodpecker
Acadian Flycatcher
Alder Flycatcher
Grasshopper Sparrow
PROTHONOTARY WARBLER
YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER
SUMMER TANAGER
BLUE GROSBEAK

- 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, June 17th 2022* at 11pm. The highlights of today's tape are a slightly extralimital NEOTROPIC CORMORANT, BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING-DUCK, LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE, BROWN PELICAN, BLACK-HEADED GULL, RED-NECKED and WILSON'S PHALAROPES, MANX SHEARWATER, YELLOW-THROATED and PROTHONOTARY WARBLERS, SUMMER TANAGER, BLUE GROSBEAK and more.

The adult NEOTROPIC CORMORANT continues through today with accompanying Double-crested Cormorants along the Newburgh waterfront up in Orange County usually found near the Hudson River Ferry to Beacon Terminal or just south of there around the Global Industrial tanks off River Road. Global location is private and River Road can be quite busy so observation sites overlooking the shoreline, pilings and pier structures should be chosen carefully.

The 4 BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING-DUCKS were relocated last Sunday at the Avalon Gardens in Stony Brook but unfortunately one was injured when its leg was grabbed by a snapping turtle and the other 3 moved to the nearby Grist Mill Pond and their whereabouts since then is unknown.

Today a LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE was found on the landfill at Croton Point Park in Westchester and remained there to dusk favoring the east side of the mound and moving about actively, perching on the scattered kestrel poles and mullein plants. When looking for the SHRIKE please remember to stay on the designated landfill paths which are limited to only the main path over the top of the landfill and the path around the base of the landfill and do not disturb the SHRIKE.

This week's BROWN PELICAN sightings include the single birds off Nickerson Beach and Robert Moses State Park last Saturday and 2 reported moving west off Jones Beach field 6 today.

An immature BLACK-HEADED GULL was spotted again last Saturday on the East Pond at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge where a WILSON'S PHALAROPE paid a brief visit on Thursday and a RED-NECKED PHALAROPE continued over last weekend among the many shorebirds gathered at Jones Beach West End.

An excellent flight of seabirds took place Thursday afternoon on southeast winds off Robert Moses State Park where over 800 shearwaters at varying distances offshore were fairly evenly split between CORY'S and GREAT SHEARWATERS and also featured 6 MANX SHEARWATERS as well as 3 PARASITIC JAEGERS, 11 LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS and 2 ROSEATE TERNS. Today's more modest flight, as the winds moved around to the southwest, did include some CORY'S and GREAT and one SOOTY SHEARWATER, a WILSON'S STORM-PETREL and another PARASITIC JAEGER.

The Captree Summer Bird Count last Saturday recorded 132 species featuring BROWN PELICAN, KING RAIL, RED-HEADED WOODPECKER at Connetquot, 1 ALDER and 2 ACADIAN FLYCATCHERS, GRASSHOPPER SPARROW and YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER at the Bayard Cutting Arboretum.

The Greenwich-Stamford Count including eastern Westchester netted about 128 species including 6 COMMON EIDER, a probable KING RAIL and ALDER FLYCATCHER.

A singing PROTHONOTARY WARBLER was reported from Clove Lakes Park on Staten Island last Saturday and a few BLUE GROSBEAKS plus a male SUMMER TANAGER continue around the Calverton Grasslands.

Also notable this week were ICELAND GULL and ROYAL TERN at Mecox last Monday and a LEAST BITTERN still at Jamaica Bay Thursday.

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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