New York City Rare Bird Alert

Below is the New York City Rare Bird Alert for the week ending Friday, October 14, 2022:

- RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Oct. 14, 2022
* NYNY2210.14


- Birds mentioned
COMMON GROUND DOVE+
NEOTROPIC CORMORANT+ (Orange County)
SULPHUR-BELLIED FLYCATCHER+
WESTERN TANAGER+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

Sora
AMERICAN AVOCET
American Golden-Plover
Hudsonian Godwit
Marbled Godwit
Long-billed Dowitcher
BLACK-HEADED GULL
Caspian Tern
Royal Tern
Great Blue Heron
Red-headed Woodpecker
LAPLAND LONGSPUR
Grasshopper Sparrow
CLAY-COLORED SPARROW
LARK SPARROW
Vesper Sparrow
Nelson's Sparrow
Yellow-breasted Chat
Orange-crowned Warbler
Connecticut Warbler
SUMMER TANAGER
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

BEGIN TAPE

Greetings. This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for *Friday, October 14th 2022* at 11pm. The highlights of today's tape are SULPHUR-BELLIED FLYCATCHER, COMMON GROUND DOVE, NEOTROPIC CORMORANT, BLACK-HEADED GULL, AMERICAN AVOCET, WESTERN and SUMMER TANAGERS, LAPLAND LONGSPUR, LARK and CLAY-COLORED SPARROWS, BLUE GROSBEAK, DICKCISSEL and more.

But first we sadly mention the recent passing of Putnam resident Ralph O'Dell. An influential motivator on regional birding and environmental matters and a mentor to many. Ralph will be deeply missed.

Last Saturday morning a SULPHUR-BELLIED FLYCATCHER was spotted and photographed at the Wave Hill Public Garden and Cultural Center in the Bronx. The bird subsequently teased birders with brief appearances in the neighborhood just north of the park. Spotted a few times but never for long this first New York State record, if approved by NYSARC, was not encountered after later afternoon. Matters however were complicated by a persistent tape player with subsequent inconclusive reports of a singing bird. Nonetheless searches on Sunday were unsuccessful and no further sightings are known.

Late Thursday afternoon a COMMON GROUND DOVE was found on the ground at the Kings Point Academy, a restricted site in northern Nassau County. Despite better weather today the dove could not be relocated.

To correct last week's tape the NEOTROPIC CORMORANT in Orange County was last seen on Sunday the 9th along the Newburgh waterfront.

At Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge the lingering adult BLACK-HEADED GULL was on Monday joined on the East Pond by an immature BLACK-HEADED. Also still present on the pond were an AMERICAN AVOCET at least to Tuesday, 3 AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVERS to Sunday and Monday, 3 HUDSONIAN GODWITS to Sunday, 2 LONG-BILLED DOWITCHERS Saturday and 2 SORAS Sunday. Another AMERICAN AVOCET visited the Wading River Marsh Preserve Thursday and 2 or 3 GOLDEN-PLOVERS were present at Floyd Bennett Field Monday to Thursday. Three or four MARBLED GODWITS continued at least to Wednesday at the Jones Beach West End.

Single CASPIAN TERNS visited sites from Coney Island and Fort Tilden out to Napeague while good numbers of ROYAL TERNS coastally included counts Thursday of up to 45 at Plumb Beach in Brooklyn.

A white form of GREAT BLUE HERON was still present at Piermont Pier today and a SORA at Turtle Pond in Central Park was seen today.

RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS were noted during the week in Central Park and at Robert Moses State Park and a LAPLAND LONGSPUR was at Jones Beach West End Tuesday.

Sparrows this week included a GRASSHOPPER near Central Park’s Turtle Pond to today and another at Randall's Island Thursday with 2 LARK SPARROWS seen together in Prospect Park Tuesday. Several VESPER and NELSON'S SPARROWS have been present and several CLAY-COLORED SPARROWS have included birds at Prospect and Brooklyn Bridge Parks, Green-wood Cemetery, Floyd Bennett Field and Jones Beach West End.

Today single YELLOW-BREASTED CHATS were seen at Sunken Meadow State Park and the Suffolk County Farm and Education Center off Yaphank Avenue with another yesterday at Brooklyn Bridge Park while warblers featured a few ORANGE-CROWNED and CONNECTICUT.

A WESTERN TANAGER briefly stopped near the Fire Island Hawkwatch platform last Sunday morning and a SUMMER TANAGER visited Green-wood Cemetery the day before.

A BLUE GROSBEAK has stayed around Sunken Meadow State Park for several days through today with another in Green-wood Cemetery Sunday. Multiple DICKCISSELS recently included 2 at Sunken Meadow State Park yesterday when 2 were also at Croton Point Park.

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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