- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 09/15/2016 * NYBU1609.15 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to dsu...@buffaloornithologicalsociety.org -------------------------------------------
AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER EARED GREBE Bl.-cr. Night-Heron Ruddy Duck Sandhill Crane Black-bellied Plover Semipalmated Plover Killdeer Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Solitary Sandpiper Semipalm. Sandpiper Least Sandpiper White-r. Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Stilt Sandpiper Wilson's Snipe Black Tern Great Horned Owl Common Nighthawk Purple Martin Veery Gray-cheeked Thrush Swainson's Thrush Tennessee Warbler - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 09/15/2016 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, September 15, 2016 The Buffalo Bird Report is a service provided by your Buffalo Museum of Science and the Buffalo Ornithological Society. To contact the Science Museum, call 896-5200. Press the pound key to report sightings before the end of this report. Highlights of reports received September 8 through September 15 from the Niagara Frontier Region. September 13, two AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVERS at the Batavia Waste Water Plant, between Ponds 1 and 2, east of the tunnel. Also at the plant this week, two EARED GREBES with 44 RUDDY DUCKS, BLACK TERN, SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, GREATER YELLOWLEGS and LESSER YELLOWLEGS. Shorebirds continue at the Meadville Marsh in the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area. 12 species this week, highlighted by 3 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS, 2 WHITE-R. SANDPIPERS and 3 STILT SANDPIPERS, plus numbers of SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, KILLDEER, SOLITARY SANDPIPER, GREATER YELLOWLEGS, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, SEMIPALM. SANDPIPER, LEAST SANDPIPER, PECTORAL SANDPIPER, and WILSON'S SNIPE. Also 13 BL.-CR. NIGHT-HERONS, SANDHILL CRANE, 6 COMMON NIGHTHAWKS and a brief landing at the marsh of a GREAT HORNED OWL. Shorebirds at the Dunkirk Harbor beach - SEMIPALMATED PLOVER and SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER. The breeding season study of PURPLE MARTIN colonies at five sites in the Iroquois Refuge and surrounding areas reported 134 nests yielding about 500 fledged and banded, juveniles. About 3000 migrant PURPLE MARTINS in the marshes at Buckhorn Island State Park recently. Migrant thrushes heard over the Town of Tonawanda the night of September 11 - VEERY, GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH and 21 SWAINSON'S THRUSHES. Warblers are undoubtedly migrating; only report was TENNESSEE WARBLER at Birdsong Park in Orchard Park. And, 6 COMMON NIGHTHAWKS over East Amherst. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, September 22. Please call in your sightings by noon Thursday. You may report sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting. - End Transcript -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
