New York City Rare Bird Alert

Below is the New York City Rare Bird Alert for the week ending Friday, January 13, 2023:

- RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Jan. 13, 2023
* NYNY2301.13


- Birds mentioned
PINK-FOOTED GOOSE+
TRUMPETER SWAN+
COMMON MURRE+
THICK-BILLED MURRE+
SWAINSON'S HAWK+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE
Cackling Goose
EURASIAN WIGEON
KING EIDER
HARLEQUIN DUCK
BARROW'S GOLDENEYE
Red-necked Grebe
Common Gallinule
DOVEKIE
Razorbill
Black-legged Kittiwake
BLACK-HEADED GULL
American Bittern
Red-headed Woodpecker
RED CROSSBILL
Vesper Sparrow
Ovenbird
Northern Waterthrush
SUMMER TANAGER

- 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 13th 2023* at 11pm. The highlights of today's tape are SWAINSON'S HAWK, DOVEKIE, COMMON and THICK-BILLED MURRES, PINK-FOOTED and GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GEESE, EURASIAN WIGEON, BARROW'S GOLDENEYE, KING EIDER and HARLEQUIN DUCK, BLACK-HEADED GULL, RED CROSSBILL, SUMMER TANAGER and more.

Last Sunday a juvenile SWAINSON'S HAWK was spotted along the waterfront adjacent to Front Street in the Clifton section of northeastern Staten Island spending much of its time sitting along the shoreline. It continued there into late Monday morning when it suddenly took flight and disappeared to the northwest.

Alcids continue to occur along the Atlantic coast especially RAZORBILLS with over 250 counted moving west off Jones Beach West End last Tuesday. Some DOVEKIES have also occurred coastally. Single birds this week occurring off the Montauk Harbor mouth last Sunday, off Dune Road at Dolphin Beach Monday, in Jones Inlet Tuesday and off the jetty at Jones today with 2 off Robert Moses State Park yesterday. A COMMON MURRE was photographed again off Breezy Point last Saturday and a THICK-BILLED MURRE was reported off Orient Point the same day with another photographed off Smith Point County Park in Shirley on Wednesday.

A PINK-FOOTED GOOSE was noted again last Saturday at Tung Ting Pond in Centerport, this technically private pond also featuring a GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE at least to Wednesday. The southern Westchester WHITE-FRONTED had been daily on the Bowman Avenue Pond in Rye Brook until it moved over to Playland Lake in Rye today. A few CACKLING GEESE have been identified in various regional Canada flocks and a TRUMPETER SWAN was still at the western side of Fort Pond in Montauk Sunday. A drake EURASIAN WIGEON was being seen at least to Wednesday on Long Creek by looking north from the Grand Avenue bridge in Mattituck when another was on the south section of Patchogue Lake on Tuesday. A drake KING EIDER was photographed leaving Shinnecock Inlet on Wednesday and a HARLEQUIN DUCK was at Ditch Plains Beach in Montauk Monday with another still around the Jones Beach West End jetty today. The drake BARROW'S GOLDENEYE was still off Crab Meadow Beach in Northport Tuesday.

A BLACK-HEADED GULL flew by Randall's Island last Sunday with another at Brooklyn's Plumb Beach Tuesday and an adult still in Setauket Harbor Wednesday. Three BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKES were spotted off Montauk Point today.

Single RED-NECKED GREBES were off Breezy Point Thursday and continuing in Fort Pond Bay today.

A COMMON GALLINULE remains at the Mill Pond Preserve off Merrick Road in Wantagh and AMERICAN BITTERN is most regularly seen along Dune Road.

An immature RED-HEADED WOODPECKER was seen in Brooklyn's Marine Park yesterday and today near the Avenue T entrance on the west side.

Up to 30 or so RED CROSSBILLS continue around Jones Beach West End with others also out along the Paumanok Trail near Jones Pond off Schultz Road in Manorville.

A VESPER SPARROW was at the Suffolk County Farm and Education Center off Yaphank Avenue last weekend with another near the west end of Hulse Landing Road in Calverton.

Both OVENBIRD and NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH continue on Brooklyn Bridge Park and the SUMMER TANAGER remains at feeders at a private Islip home.

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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