New York City Rare Bird Alert

Below is the New York City Rare Bird Alert for the week ending Friday, January 6, 2023:

- RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Jan. 6, 2023
* NYNY2301.06


- Birds mentioned
PINK-FOOTED GOOSE+
TRUMPETER SWAN+
COMMON MURRE+
THICK-BILLED MURRE+
SHORT-BILLED GULL+
PACIFIC LOON+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE
EURASIAN WIGEON
Harlequin Duck
BARROW'S GOLDENEYE
Red-necked Grebe
EARED GREBE
Wilson's Snipe
DOVEKIE
Razorbill
BLACK GUILLEMOT
BLACK-HEADED GULL
LITTLE GULL
Iceland Gull
NORTHERN FULMAR
Bald Eagle
Northern Saw-whet Owl
House Wren
Red Crossbill
Pine Siskin
LARK SPARROW
Yellow-breasted Chat
Orange-crowned Warbler

- 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, January 6th 2023* at 11pm. The highlights of today's tape are SHORT-BILLED GULL, PACIFIC LOON, NORTHERN FULMAR, BLACK GUILLEMOT, COMMON and THICK-BILLED MURRES, DOVEKIE, EARED GREBE, PINK-FOOTED and GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GEESE, EURASIAN WIGEON, BARROW'S GOLDENEYE, LITTLE and BLACK-HEADED GULLS, LARK SPARROW, Christmas Count results and much more.

It took another day of lousy weather but the SHORT-BILLED GULL did pay another visit to the fields at Randall's Island this on Tuesday though it had been searched for continuously since first spotted there on December 23rd. Other Randall's highlights this week featured a BLACK-HEADED GULL on Tuesday and Thursday and continuing ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER.

A PACIFIC LOON was spotted Wednesday morning off Kings Point in Queens and seen from Stepping Stones Park until flying off to the northeast. There had also been an earlier report of a PACIFIC LOON in Fort Pond Bay out in Montauk last Sunday.

The Southern Nassau Christmas Bird Count on Saturday the 31st reported 134 species including its first record of NORTHERN FULMAR seen moving by off Long Beach on the west side of Jones Inlet. Other count highlights included 6 HARLEQUIN DUCKS, WILSON'S SNIPE, BLACK-HEADED and ICELAND GULLS, 3 DOVEKIES and well over 1,500 RAZORBILLS, 3 NORTHERN SAW-WHET OWLS, HOUSE WREN, 14 RED CROSSBILLS at Jones Beach a PINE SISKIN and 7 ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLERS.

In Montauk a BLACK GUILLEMOT has continued in Fort Pond Bay at least to Wednesday and 2 were noted there last Monday these sightings usually from Edward Vincent Ecker Sr. County Park on the west side of the bay. A RED-NECKED GREBE has also has been residing there and a TRUMPETER SWAN continues around the north end of Fort Pond. Other recent alcid reports featured a COMMON MURRE off Breezy Point Sunday, single THICK-BILLED MURRES at Montauk Point Monday and off Robert Moses State Park Tuesday, a few scattered DOVEKIES from Montauk Point west to Jones Beach West End during the week and a good flight of RAZORBILLS noted off Moses Park Monday.

An EARED GREBE was photographed off Shirley Chisholm State Park yesterday.

Two PINK-FOOTED GEESE visited Midland Beach on Staten Island last Saturday until being flushed off and another flew west by Geisler Beach Park in Fort Salonga Wednesday morning. A GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE continues to visit Tung Ting Pond in Centerport and the Rye WHITE-FRONTED is back to using the pond off Bowman Avenue in Rye Brook. One or two EURASIAN WIGEON have been seen lately on Long Creek as viewed to the north from the Grand Avenue Bridge in Mattituck and the BARROW'S GOLDENEYE continues off Crab Meadow Beach in Northport.

One or two LITTLE GULLS were present in large Bonaparte's Gull concentrations at least Wednesday and Thursday in the Verrazzano-Narrows and adjacent Gravesend Bay.

The Central Suffolk Count on Tuesday the 27th netted 120 species including EURASIAN WIGEON, 22 BALD EAGLES, 3 NORTHERN SAW-WHET OWLS, 10 RED CROSSBILLS, 6 PINE SISKINS and 3 ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLERS. A BLACK-HEADED GULL was in Setauket Harbor Wednesday with an ICELAND GULL in Prospect Park Thursday. A LARK SPARROW was still at Heckscher State Park Monday, another at Sunken Meadow State Park Wednesday and a YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT was spotted at Midland Beach Monday.

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 and Happy New Year.

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