New York City Rare Bird Alert

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

-RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* July 29, 2022
* NYNY2207.29


- Birds Mentioned

BAR-TAILED GODWIT+
ANHINGA+
NEOTROPIC CORMORANT+
WHITE-FACED IBIS+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

KING EIDER
WHIMBREL
HUDSONIAN GODWIT
Stilt Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
Long-billed Dowitcher
Red Phalarope
Parasitic Jaeger
Bonaparte’s Gull
BLACK-HEADED GULL
Gull-billed Tern
Caspian Tern
Wilson’s Storm-Petrel
Cory’s Shearwater
Great Shearwater
Sooty Shearwater
MANX SHEARWATER
BROWN PELICAN
GREAT BLUE HERON (white morph)
Red-headed Woodpecker
BLUE GROSBEAK

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, July 29, 2022 at 8:00 pm.

The highlights of today's tape are BAR-TAILED GODWIT, ANHINGA, NEOTROPIC CORMORANT, BROWN PELICAN, WHITE-FACED IBIS, white morph of GREAT BLUE HERON, BLACK-HEADED GULL, KING EIDER, HUDSONIAN GODWIT and WHIMBREL, MANX SHEARWATER, BLUE GROSBEAK and more.

Some exceptional rarities continue in our area, including the BAR-TAILED GODWIT still frequenting the mudflats just north of the parking lot at Cupsogue Beach County Park. These are best reached by walking west on the beach access road, then cutting over to the inlet beach near the RV camping lot and working along the water’s edge to the flats. The GODWIT is usually not visible at higher tides but moves onto the flats as the water subsides. Low tide will be very early or in the later afternoon this weekend, and there is a fee at this County Park, collected starting around 8:30 a.m. Good numbers of WHIMBREL moving by Cupsogue this week included 15 last Sunday and at least 43 Monday, with more today. A nice variety of shorebirds continues there, but be careful when walking on the mud flats.

The ANHINGA also remains on Lake Tappan in Orangeburg, Rockland County, usually on the section between Blauvelt Road on the north side and Convent Road on the south, often perching on bare trees along the east side of this section of the lake.

The NEOTROPIC CORMORANT is still visiting Newburgh, Orange County, often on the pilings and related structures around the private Global Oil Terminal off River Road, south of the Newburgh Ferry Terminal.

Most of this week's BROWN PELICANS were seen last Saturday, with one off Jones Beach, two off Fire Island and five on the bar at Shinnecock Inlet, these followed by two moving west past Robert Moses State Park Tuesday.

The excellent conditions on the East Pond at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge have been producing a nice variety of birds, many in good numbers. Among the shorebirds, an HUDSONIAN GODWIT usually around the pond’s north end was joined by a second as of yesterday, and among the other unusual species have been WESTERN, PECTORAL and STILT SANDPIPERS and LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER. Other East Pond highlights have been a continuing adult WHITE-FACED IBIS, now in almost full non-breeding plumage, up at the north end, an adult BLACK-HEADED GULL also molting into winter plumage, a BONAPARTE’S GULL, and a few GULL-BILLED TERNS, with a CASPIAN TERN also last Sunday.

A white morph of GREAT BLUE HERON has been present recently in Piermont, Rockland County, usually somewhere along Sparkill Creek off Ferdon Avenue south of the pier.

The drake KING EIDER, now in eclipse plumage, was relocated last Sunday at Seaside Wildlife Nature Park on the west side of Great Kills Harbor on Staten Island.

A CRESLI whale watching trip out of Montauk on Wednesday went about 17 miles southwest of the Point and encountered decent numbers of SHEARWATERS, including 120 CORY’S, 380 GREAT, 8 SOOTY and 12 MANX as well as 60 WILSON’S STORM-PETRELS, a PARASITIC JAEGER and 3 PHALAROPES thought to be REDS.

Continuing out on Eastern Long Island are RED-HEADED WOODPECKER along the Paumanok Trail in Manorville and BLUE GROSBEAK at the former Grumman Airport grasslands

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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