Hi All,
It's important to point out that news of the American Golden-Plover initially went out via the Manhattan Bird Alert @BirdCentralPark maintained by David Barrett on twitter in a tweet from the finder, Gloria Hong @Lucent508. -- Just to confirm the i.d. on this bird: this plover is a hatch-year/first-fall/first-cycle American Golden-Plover. It has a more rounded head and smaller, more slender bill than Black-bellied Plover and lacks the latter's black wingpits (axillaries). This young bird has a more distinctly speckled breast than that of an adult American Golden-Plover and a less sharply-defined eyebrow (supercilium). Here are two views of the bird in flight: pic.twitter.com/TDVOdjynBZ Comparing it to Pacific Golden-Plover: It has longer wings, that is, the wings stick out farther past the end of the tail, and a shorter bill. It lacks the warm-toned underparts of a Pacific Golden-Plover in the same age class. The tertials and scapulars of the bird are less pointed than those of a Pacific Golden-Plover. In Pacific Golden-Plover these feathers have thinner, plainer borders that contrast more with the dark centers of the feathers. Another couple of photos posted on the twitter Manhattan Bird Alert earlier: pic.twitter.com/pzNdS50uTh The length of the wings vis-a-vis the tail can be seen in the photo on the left. -- After relocating the bird with the help of Mary Beth Kooper at around 11:10 this morning, on a mudflat in the Bronx Kill on the northwest side of Randall's Island, Benny Romera, Jordana Mattioli and I waited until it flew off on a rising tide with a few Killdeer in a northeasterly direction at around 11:30am. We later learned from Junko Suzuki and Linda LaBella that the bird had flown to the northeast corner of Randall's Island where they had seen it, and then it had flown back west. It may be worthwhile checking the northern shore of Randall's Island again tomorrow morning at low- to mid-tide. Deb Allen -----Original Message----- >From: Ryan Zucker <tweet...@gmail.com> >Sent: Oct 9, 2020 9:15 AM >To: NYSBIRDS-L@cornell.edu >Subject: [nysbirds-l] American Golden-Plover, Randalls Island NYC > >Gloria Hong just found an American Golden-Plover on the northeast corner of >Randalls Island, on the East River. Bird is associating with a flock of >Killdeer near Ballfields 33 and 34. Appears to be the first New York County >record. > >Good birding, > >Ryan Zucker >New York, NY > > > >-- > >NYSbirds-L List Info: >http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm >http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm >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://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 > >Please submit your observations to eBird: >http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ > >-- > -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm 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://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
