New York City Rare Bird Alert

Below is the New York City Rare Bird Alert for the week ending Friday, August 12, 2022:

- RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Aug. 12, 2022
* NYNY2208.12


- Birds mentioned
BAR-TAILED GODWIT+
ANHINGA+
NEOTROPIC CORMORANT+ (Orange County)
WHITE IBIS+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

KING EIDER
AMERICAN AVOCET
Whimbrel
HUDSONIAN GODWIT
MARBLED GODWIT
Stilt Sandpiper
White-rumped Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
Long-billed Dowitcher
WILSON'S PHALAROPE
Bonaparte's Gull
BLACK-HEADED GULL
Gull-billed Tern
Caspian Tern
Black Tern
Cory's Shearwater
Great Shearwater
Sooty Shearwater
MANX SHEARWATER
GREAT BLUE HERON (white morph "Great White Heron")
LARK SPARROW
Worm-eating Warbler
Blue-winged Warbler
Hooded Warbler
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Prairie Warbler
Canada Warbler
BLUE GROSBEAK
DICKCISSEL

- 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, August 12th 2022* at 11pm. The highlights of today's tape are BAR-TAILED GODWIT, ANHINGA, NEOTROPIC CORMORANT, WHITE IBIS, AMERICAN AVOCET, MARBLED and HUDSONIAN GODWITS, WILSON'S PHALAROPE, BLACK-HEADED GULL, white morph of GREAT BLUE HERON, KING EIDER, MANX SHEARWATER, LARK SPARROW, BLUE GROSBEAK, DICKCISSEL and more.

Firstly, updates on our lingering rarities: BAR-TAILED GODWIT staying at Cupsogue Beach County Park was seen at least to Wednesday on the mudflats north of the parking lot. Remember, a fee is charged at this facility after 8:30am. The ANHINGA was still present Monday on Lake Tappan in Rockland County visiting the section of lake north of Convent Road and south of Blauvelt Road often seen perched in lakeside trees and the NEOTROPIC CORMORANT was still in Newburgh, Orange County yesterday sitting on the offshore structures at the Global Oil terminal off River Road south of the Newburgh ferry terminal.

Our latest rarity involves an immature WHITE IBIS found on Staten Island on Wednesday and present through today. The bird has been frequenting the marsh off the western end of Delwit Avenue in Oakwood which is just northeast of Great Kills Park. Given the number of WHITE IBIS just to our south in New Jersey and some vagrants showing up north of our area their post breeding dispersal could bring more individuals up to New York so keep an eye out.

Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge continues to attract good numbers and variety of shorebirds to the East Pond these including two AMERICAN AVOCETS last weekend that stayed around the north end to Monday the day the first MARBLED GODWIT arrived. Since Monday one or two MARBLEDS as well as one or two HUDSONIAN GODWITS have all been visiting the East Pond usually around the north end but also appearing down at the south end especially after a visit by one of the hunting Peregrine Falcons. Multiple WILSON'S PHALAROPES have also been present at the bay either at the north or south end on the East Pond but with one or two also feeding around the southeast corner of the West Pond where good numbers of shorebirds and waterfowl have been gathering. Also at the bay the BLACK-HEADED GULL along with a BONAPARTE'S GULL have been staying around the East Pond usually below Dead Man's Cove and other pond highlights have featured a flyover WHIMBREL and a GULL-BILLED TERN Wednesday and small numbers of such shorebirds as STILT, WHITE-RUMPED and WESTERN and a LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER.

The white form of GREAT BLUE HERON was still around Piermont Pier today and the Staten Island KING EIDER was still at Seaside Wildlife Nature Park on the west side of Great Kills Harbor yesterday with another at Orient Point Saturday.

A CRESLI whale boat out of Montauk on Wednesday counted 60 CORY'S, 200 GREAT, 1 MANX and 2 SOOTY SHEARWATERS.

Other shorebirds this week included an AMERICAN AVOCET at Mecox last weekend and another seen at Watch Hill on Fire Island on Saturday and a WHIMBREL at Timber Point today.

Last Monday 8 CASPIAN TERNS were at Piermont Pier with 2 more at Croton Point while a BLACK TERN was seen Wednesday at Governors Island along with a DICKCISSEL. Two LARK SPARROWS were spotted today at Watch Hill on Fire Island and BLUE GROSBEAKS continue around the Calverton Grasslands. Migrant warblers recently have included such regional breeders as WORM-EATING, BLUE-WINGED, HOODED, CHESTNUT-SIDED, PRAIRIE and CANADA. They're on their way.

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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