New York City Rare Bird Alert

Below is the New York City Rare Bird Alert for the week ending Friday, December 2, 2022:

-RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Dec. 2, 2022
* NYNY2212.02


- Birds Mentioned

PINK-FOOTED GOOSE+
RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD
BROWN BOOBY+
WESTERN TANAGER+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE
Cackling Goose
Canada Goose
EURASIAN WIGEON
GREEN-WINGED TEAL (Eurasian form)
HARLEQUIN DUCK
Red-necked Grebe
Eared Grebe
SANDHILL CRANE
MARBLED GODWIT
Long-billed Dowitcher
Dovekie
Black-legged Kittiwake
BLACK-HEADED GULL
Iceland Gull
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Golden Eagle
Northern Goshawk
RED CROSSBILL
LAPLAND LONGSPUR
Grasshopper Sparrow
YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT
Orange-crowned Warbler
Cape May Warbler
SUMMER TANAGER
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, December 2, 2022 at 10:00 pm.

The highlights of today's tape are PINK-FOOTED GOOSE, a Selasphorus RUFOUS-like HUMMINGBIRD, BROWN BOOBY, SANDHILL CRANE, WESTERN and SUMMER TANAGERS, GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE, EURASIAN WIGEON, Eurasian form of GREEN-WINGED TEAL and HARLEQUIN DUCK, BLACK-HEADED GULL, MARBLED GODWIT, RED CROSSBILL, LAPLAND LONGSPUR, YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT, DICKCISSEL and more.

Out in Northport a PINK-FOOTED GOOSE last Sunday joined the gathered Geese on the High School fields where a GREATER WHITE-FRONTED had previously been found among the CANADAS, these also including a CACKLING GOOSE. Based on feeding needs and amount of disturbance, the Goose flocks move around this area, with the rarer ones sometimes being relocated at a few other similar local locations as well as at Tung Ting Pond in Centerport. The Westchester GREATER-WHITE FRONTED GOOSE continues to visit a pond in Rye Brook located off Bowman Avenue.

A Selasphorus HUMMINGBIRD, likely a RUFOUS, continued at a private feeder in Rocky Point at least to Monday, and such vagrants should be looked for at feeders and still blooming Salvia plantings.

The last report of a BROWN BOOBY off Richmond Terrace on northwestern Staten Island came from last Saturday.

Small flocks of SANDHILL CRANES over Westchester recently included a group of 12 over the Chestnut Ridge hawk watch in Bedford last Monday, followed by 16 noted over Armonk 2 hours later, and 5 more just north of White Plains on Wednesday.

Two rare and unexpected TANAGERS this week featured a SUMMER TANAGER found in Georgica thickets last Saturday, followed by a WESTERN TANAGER photographed at Fort Tilden on Sunday.

Single drake EURASIAN WIGEON were seen this week on 2 separate Mill Ponds, 1 in Oyster Bay east of Lake Avenue and 1 in Sayville just north of Montauk Highway, Route 85.

A drake Eurasian form of GREEN-WINGED TEAL was photographed Monday along Santapogue Creek in West Babylon, and a female HARLEQUIN DUCK was spotted off Breezy Point Sunday.

An adult BLACK-HEADED GULL, presumably a returning winter visitor, was spotted Wednesday in Setauket Harbor. Other GULLS featured an ICELAND and a LESSER BLACK-BACKED at the Ponquogue Bridge at Shinnecock last Saturday and occasional BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKES, including 1 off Mecox Saturday and 2 off Robert Moses State Park Wednesday.

A deceased DOVEKIE was found Sunday at Orient Beach State Park.

Notable shorebirds featured up to five MARBLED GODWITS at Jones Beach West End and a few LONG -BILLED DOWITCHERS continuing at Santapogue Creek, with 2 others at Jones Beach West End Thursday.

A RED-NECKED GREBE appeared at Orient Point Sunday, and we belatedly report an EARED GREBE photographed off Glen Island Park in Westchester back on November 23rd.

On the raptor front, with most migrants having passed through, this week included reports of a NORTHERN GOSHAWK over Inwood Hill Park Saturday and a GOLDEN EAGLE photographed over Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx Monday.

Continuing small numbers of RED CROSSBILLS featured 11 at Robert Moses State Park and 2 at Wertheim National Wildlife Refuge Saturday, 4 at Jones Beach Monday and 7 in Prospect Park Tuesday.

A LAPLAND LONGSPUR was reported from Heckscher State Park Thursday, and a GRASSHOPPER SPARROW was spotted at Moses Park Saturday, with a YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT noted at Mecox and a DICKCISSEL at Orient Point County Park, both also on Saturday.

Warblers still include some ORANGE-CROWNEDS as well as a CAPE MAY in Union Square 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.

- End transcript