New York City Rare Bird Alert

Below is the New York City Rare Bird Alert for the week ending Friday, September 9, 2022:

- RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Sep. 9, 2022
* NYNY2209.09


- Birds mentioned
BROWN BOOBY+
ANHINGA+ (Rockland County)
NEOTROPIC CORMORANT+ (Orange County)
NORTHERN WHEATEAR+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Black-billed Cuckoo
Sora
AMERICAN AVOCET
AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER
Upland Sandpiper
Whimbrel
Hudsonian Godwit
MARBLED GODWIT
Stilt Sandpiper
BAIRD'S SANDPIPER
White-rumped Sandpiper
BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER
Pectoral Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
Wilson's Phalarope
Black-legged Kittiwake
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Caspian Tern
Black Tern
Cory's Shearwater
Great Shearwater
BROWN PELICAN
GREAT BLUE HERON (white morph "Great White Heron")
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
Philadelphia Vireo
CLAY-COLORED SPARROW
YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT
Orange-crowned Warbler
Connecticut Warbler
YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER
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, September 9th 2022* at 11pm. The highlights of today's tape are NORTHERN WHEATEAR, BROWN BOOBY, ANHINGA, NEOTROPIC CORMORANT, BROWN PELICAN, white morph of GREAT BLUE HERON, AMERICAN AVOCET, AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER, BUFF-BREASTED and BAIRD'S SANDPIPERS, MARBLED GODWIT, CLAY-COLORED SPARROW, YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT, YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER, DICKCISSEL and more.

Last Wednesday morning the season's first NORTHERN WHEATEAR was found along the edge of Hillview Reservoir in Yonkers but access there is strictly limited and unfortunately birders were unable to search for this bird.

An adult BROWN BOOBY was spotted from Governors Island last Wednesday morning moving south but a short time later also seen milling about in the fog so it is possible the BOOBY may continue in that area of Lower New York Bay.

Two lingering rarities to our north featured a female ANHINGA still present last Monday on Lake Tappan in Rockland County. Look for it on the east side of the lake north of Convent Road and south of Blauvelt Road and the Orange County NEOTROPIC CORMORANT still today using the pilings and structures off the Global Marine Terminal off River Road south of the Newburgh ferry terminal.

A BROWN PELICAN was reported last Saturday moving over Napeague Bay on the south fork while the white morph of GREAT BLUE HERON was still present on the south side of Piermont Pier today.

An AMERICAN AVOCET spotted Monday was still in the tidal channel along the Lloyd Harbor Road causeway on Wednesday the same day one was present in the marsh at the Oceanside Marine Nature Study Area.

Sod fields out on Long Island's north fork have recently been attracting some grassland shorebirds. Fields in Cutchogue along Oregon Road and Duck Pond Road have produced up to 4 BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPERS along with an UPLAND SANDPIPER Tuesday and Wednesday, a reported BAIRD'S SANDPIPER and a few AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVERS. When visiting please remember to be mindful of the local residents and stay out of the farmers fields. Single BAIRD'S SANDPIPERS were also noted at Robert Moses State Park Monday and Heckscher State Park Tuesday and a seawatch at Moses Monday produced 29 CORY'S and 2 GREAT SHEARWATERS.

Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge also remains a mecca for shorebirds with the East Pond still hosting 2 HUDSONIAN GODWITS to Monday with one on Wednesday plus a WILSON'S PHALAROPE continuing to Monday along with some PECTORAL, WHITE-RUMPED, WESTERN and STILT SANDPIPERS. Also at the bay have been a SORA at the south end of the East Pond and occasional visits by BLACK and CASPIAN TERNS and out in Jamaica Bay proper at Yellow Bar Hassock last Saturday shorebirds included a MARBLED GODWIT and 2 WHIMBREL.

An immature BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKE was a surprise visitor to western Long Island Sound being seen at distance from the Fort Totten area on Wednesday and yesterday.

The Bronx has also recently produced a few LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS and BLACK TERNS and a CASPIAN TERN was in Rye Monday.

A CLAY-COLORED SPARROW was photographed in Brooklyn's Green-wood Cemetery Monday the same day a YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT appeared in Central Park’s north end. A YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER was spotted at the Bayard Cutting Arboretum Thursday and other unusual warblers included an ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER reported on Randall's Island Wednesday and a CONNECTICUT WARBLER photographed in Green-wood Cemetery Sunday. Other migrants included YELLOW-BILLED and BLACK-BILLED CUCKOOS, OLIVE-SIDED and YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHERS, PHILADELPHIA VIREO and single DICKCISSELS on Saturday at Mecox and on Fire Island.

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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