New York City Rare Bird Alert

Below is the New York City Rare Bird Alert for the week ending Friday, September 30, 2022:

-RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Sept. 30, 2022
* NYNY2209.30


- Birds Mentioned

NEOTROPIC CORMORANT+
WHITE IBIS+
SWAINSON’S HAWK+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

Sora
AMERICAN AVOCET
American Golden-Plover
Upland Sandpiper
Whimbrel
Hudsonian Godwit
Marbled Godwit
Stilt Sandpiper
Baird’s Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Long-billed Dowitcher
BLACK-HEADED GULL
Caspian Tern
Least Bittern
Great Blue Heron (White morph)
Red-headed Woodpecker
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Philadelphia Vireo
Pine Siskin
Grasshopper Sparrow
CLAY-COLORED SPARROW
LARK SPARROW
Vesper Sparrow
Nelson’s Sparrow
Yellow-breasted Chat
Worm-eating Warbler
GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER
PROTHONOTARY WARBLER
Connecticut Warbler
Mourning Warbler
Hooded Warbler
Cape May Warbler
Bay-breasted Warbler
Wilson’s Warbler
SUMMER TANAGER
BLUE GROSBEAK
DICKCISSEL

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, September 30, 2022 at 11:00 pm.

The highlights of today's tape are NEOTROPIC CORMORANT, WHITE IBIS, SWAINSON’S HAWK, BLACK-HEADED GULL, AMERICAN AVOCET, LARK and CLAY-COLORED SPARROWS, GOLDEN-WINGED and PROTHONOTARY WARBLERS, SUMMER TANAGER, BLUE GROSBEAK, DICKCISSEL and more.

For starters, the NEOTROPIC CORMORANT continues in Newburgh, Orange County, usually around the shoreline structures at the Global Oil Terminal off River Road.

An immature WHITE IBIS was photographed today from a boat surveying the marshes north of Oak Beach, the IBIS spotted with other waders off the west side of Captree Island.

On Thursday an immature dark morph SWAINSON’S HAWK passed over the Quaker Ridge Hawk Watch in northwest Greenwich (and possibly over Marshlands Conservancy in Rye shortly thereafter) and should be looked for locally.

At Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, the East Pond, despite diminishing numbers, continues to provide excellent variety. The BLACK-HEADED GULL was still present today, as was an AMERICAN AVOCET first noted in the north end Tuesday. Two HUDSONIAN GODWITS were also still there Tuesday, with one continuing today. An AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER visited the East Pond today as well, and other highlights this week featured up to four CASPIAN TERNS and a SORA as well as such lingering shorebirds as STILT and PECTORAL SANDPIPERS and LONG-BILLED DOWITCHERS.

A MARBLED GODWIT was spotted at Jones Beach West End last Sunday, single WHIMBRELS occurred in East Moriches Monday and Breezy Point today, and a late UPLAND SANDPIPER flew into Pelham Bay Park Thursday, while two BAIRD’S SANDPIPERS were still at Mecox Inlet last Sunday.

The white morph of GREAT BLUE HERON remains over at Piermont Pier in Rockland County, and a LEAST BITTERN was seen around Prospect Lake Park Tuesday and Wednesday.

Some RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS this week featured one at Randall’s Island Saturday to Tuesday, separate Wednesday birds at Battery Park, Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn and two at Coney Island Creek, and one Thursday in Prospect Park.

A decent week for Sparrows included a couple of LARK SPARROWS at Jones Beach West End yesterday and today, these near the parking lot entrance, and another today at Robert Moses State Park Field Two.

A few CLAY-COLORED SPARROWS featured one Tuesday at Randall’s Island and birds Thursday and today at both Green-Wood Cemetery and Jones Beach West End. A GRASSHOPPER SPARROW was near Prospect Park Lake last Saturday, and VESPER SPARROWS were noted on Governor’s Island Monday, Randall’s Island Tuesday and in Central Park to Friday. NELSON’S SPARROWS have also appeared recently in regional salt marshes.

At least four YELLOW-BREASTED CHATS featured birds in both Central and Great Kills Parks on Tuesday and at Arshamomaque Preserve in Greenport West to Wednesday.

Among the decent selection of WARBLERS this week was a report of a PROTHONOTARY, lacking details, in Central Park today, a few each of CONNETICUT and MOURNING, and such other favorites as WORM-EATING, a GOLDEN-WINGED in Kissena Park Thursday and Bedford last Saturday, HOODED, CAPE MAY, BAY-BREASTED and WILSON’S.

A male SUMMER TANAGER was identified in Central Park Tuesday, and a small number of BLUE GROSBEAKS featured birds in Central Park, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Van Cortland Park, Rockefeller State Park Preserve and Sunken Meadow State Park.

Single DICKCISSELS visited Robert Moses and Sunken Meadow Tuesday and Pelham Bay Wednesday, while other interesting migrants included a few each of OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER and PHILADELPHIA VIREO plus a PINE SISKIN in Yonkers today.

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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