New York City Rare Bird Alert

Below is the New York City Rare Bird Alert for the week ending Friday, January 27, 2023:

-RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Jan. 27, 2023
* NYNY2301.27


- Birds Mentioned

THICK-BILLED MURRE+
PACIFIC LOON+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

Trumpeter Swan
EURASIAN WIGEON
Green-winged Teal (Eurasian form)
KING EIDER
HARLEQUIN DUCK
BARROW'S GOLDENEYE
Red-necked Grebe
EARED GREBE
Long-billed Dowitcher
DOVEKIE
COMMON MURRE
Razorbill
Black-legged Kittiwake
Bonaparte’s Gull
BLACK-HEADED GULL
LITTLE GULL
Iceland Gull
GLAUCOUS GULL
Red-headed Woodpecker
RED CROSSBILL
Ovenbird
Northern Waterthrush
Orange-crowned Warbler
Nashville Warbler
Palm Warbler
Pine Warbler
SUMMER TANAGER

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, January 27, 2023 at 11:00 pm.

The highlights of today’s tape are PACIFIC LOON, EARED GREBE, COMMON and THICK-BILLED MURRES and DOVEKIE, LITTLE, BLACK-HEADED and GLAUCOUS GULLS, EURASIAN WIGEON, KING EIDER, BARROW’S GOLDENEYE and HARLEQUIN DUCK, RED CROSSBILL, SUMMER TANAGER and more.

Delivering a repeat performance, a short trip aboard the American Princess last Sunday afternoon produced a second sighting of PACIFIC LOON in a week, this one seen south of Coney Island not too distant from last week's pelagic trip sighting. Another PACIFIC LOON was spotted in the inlet at Lake Montauk last Saturday, where it was also reported again Wednesday.

An EARED GREBE continues to be seen in Hendrix Creek along the northeastern side of Shirley Chisholm State Park at the north end of Jamaica Bay.

It was another good week coastally for alcids, with RAZORBILLS providing the bulk of the individuals, including roughly 4,800 estimated off Montauk Point last Saturday. Also at the Point were two DOVEKIES and a THICK-BILLED MURRE Saturday along with 80 BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKES, and Montauk Harbor inlet attracted both single THICK-BILLED and COMMON MURRES over the weekend, a COMMON still there today. A THICK-BILLED stayed around Fort Pond Bay through yesterday, and the Camp Hero overlook produced reports of COMMON MURRE and DOVEKIE last weekend as well.

Other Montauk highlights featured a TRUMPETER SWAN continuing around the northwestern corner of Fort Pond, some HARLEQUIN DUCKS remaining off Ditch Plains, a GLAUCOUS and multiple ICELAND GULLS mostly around the Harbor inlet, and a couple of RED-NECKED GREBES still off Culloden Point yesterday.

A THICK-BILLED MURRE was also seen off Coney Island Creek Park yesterday.

An adult LITTLE GULL was photographed Wednesday along with two BONAPARTE’S GULLS just inside Shinnecock Inlet, where a drake KING EIDER has also been hanging out. A BLACK-HEADED GULL was present in Setauket Harbor last weekend, when multiple ICELAND GULLS were noted along the Staten Island coast from Fort Wadsworth down to Conference House Park.

A drake EURASIAN WIGEON continues on Long Creek in Mattituck, usually north of the Grand Avenue bridge, and a female was identified at the West Sayville Golf Course Sunday. The drake EURASIAN GREEN-WINGED TEAL was still visiting Santapogue Creek in West Babylon on Tuesday. A drake BARROW'S GOLDENEYE can still be found off Crab Meadow Beach in Northport, and a female was reported at Founders Landing in Southold yesterday.”

A RED-NECKED GREBE was still off Coney Island in Brooklyn today, two LONG-BILLED DOWITCHERS have been present lately at Smith Pond in Rockville Centre, and the immature RED-HEADED WOODPECKER was still in Marine Park, Brooklyn, on Tuesday, often near the intersection of Stuart Street and Avenue T.

Last Sunday there were still 18 RED CROSSBILLS at Jones Beach West End, and 16 were found at Cupsogue Beach as well.

Recent WARBLERS have included both OVENBIRD and NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH at Brooklyn Bridge Park and several scattered ORANGE-CROWNEDS, plus NASHVILLE, PALM and PINE, and a SUMMER TANAGER continues at a private Islip feeder.

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