[nysbirds-l] Cattle Egret Pehlam Bay Park

[patrickhoran]

There was a nice breeding plumage cattle Egret on the grass about 6pm today by 
the circle and then the grassy median island at orchard beach.it flushed when 
it spotted me and landed about 80 ft away.then took off again when a pedestrian 
walking toward it flushed it again.Me and Richard Aracil went looking for it 
but did not relocate the Egret.im still looking in any grassy area's.Sent from 
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[nysbirds-l] Cattle Egret Pehlam Bay Park

[patrickhoran]

There was a nice breeding plumage cattle Egret on the grass about 6pm today by 
the circle and then the grassy median island at orchard beach.it flushed when 
it spotted me and landed about 80 ft away.then took off again when a pedestrian 
walking toward it flushed it again.Me and Richard Aracil went looking for it 
but did not relocate the Egret.im still looking in any grassy area's.Sent from 
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Re: [nysbirds-l] Four-letter Codes for Birds

[Robert Paxton]

Hi Mike Cooper at al.,
Re the three-digit numbers, the ABA didn't create them - it proposed to use
the numbers in the AOU (now AOS) check list, which could be one-digit (e.g.
Western Grebe, AOU #1), two-digit, or three-digit numbers (e.g. Java
Sparrow, AOU #813). They could all be made three-digit numbers by padding
the short ones with preliminary zeros. But that didn't take.
  Yrs.,
   Bob Paxton

On Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 11:15 AM Mike  wrote:

> While I don’t remember the Birdwatcher’s Digest article that Shai refers
> to, there was an article in N.A Bird Bander from 1978 which proposed a four
> letter code pretty much like the one used today.
> https://sora.unm.edu/sites/default/files/journals/nabb/v003n01/p0016-p0025.pdf
>
> I also remember a stretch of time when the ABA tried assigning a (3
> digit?) number to each species.
> Mike Cooper
> Ridge
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Apr 23, 2021, at 9:15 AM, Shaibal Mitra 
> wrote:
>
> When Rich posted yesterday, I was anxiously awaiting any news at all
> from him and read it immediately on the basis of the sender's name,
> regardless of the subject line. I and many others appreciated his efforts
> to re-find the Violent Green Swallow in the cold and wind. That said, the
> "RWSW" in the subject line caught my eye. I haven't seen that code since I
> finally tore myself away from it in the late 80s or 90s, but my old
> childhood notebooks contain many such entries, prior to the standardization
> of four-letter codes and the splitting of the Rough-winged Swallow complex
> into several species, including our NRWS. I'm guessing that Rich's use of
> codes goes back at least that far, and that his typo dates him to the
> earliest years of this expedience.
>
> I vividly remember my first exposure to the idea of four-letter codes for
> birds: an article in Bird Watcher's Digest around 1981. I thought it was a
> great idea and adopted it in my own notes immediately. My early notebooks
> need a little tlc to interpret: my "BWWA" meant Black-and-white Warbler, a
> super-familiar species that nested behind my house, rather than Blue-winged
> Warbler, which took me a couple of years to find in its much lower numbers
> and more localized breeding sites within biking distance of my house. When
> I finally found my first Blue-winged Warblers in the Great Swamp, I
> realized I had a problem. Ditto for my discovery of a colony of Bank
> Swallows at the Plains Road super fund site, which was accomplished only
> after a couple of notebooks were filled with "BASW," referring to the
> ubiquitous, chirpy, long-tailed one.
>
> Anyway, I'd like to commend the use of four-letter codes, not just for
> note-taking, but for efficiently navigating eBird. Standard codes work in
> eBird for any search at the species level, and, in certain kinds of
> navigation, down to subspecies level, for those that have codes assigned
> (e.g. searching media for "YPWA" brings up photos and recordings of Yellow
> Palm Warbler). This last observation reminds me of a significant and
> largely under-appreciated virtue of four-letter codes. Fluency in them will
> teach you a lot about taxonomy and field-identifiability at the subspecies
> and superspecies levels. Subspecies that have been assigned codes are those
> that are distinctive enough that banders are expected to be able to
> distinguish and record them as such. So why not birders, too? In fact, many
> of the codes that were initially applied to distinctive subspecies, such as
> "ETTI" (vs. Black-crested Titmouse), have since been split. In other cases,
> it was enlightening to learn that I wasn't supposed to use "WIFL" when
> banding the locally common breeding Empid, because of difficulties in
> distinguishing it from "ALFL" i
>
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Re: [nysbirds-l] Four-letter Codes for Birds

[Robert Paxton]

Hi Mike Cooper at al.,
Re the three-digit numbers, the ABA didn't create them - it proposed to use
the numbers in the AOU (now AOS) check list, which could be one-digit (e.g.
Western Grebe, AOU #1), two-digit, or three-digit numbers (e.g. Java
Sparrow, AOU #813). They could all be made three-digit numbers by padding
the short ones with preliminary zeros. But that didn't take.
  Yrs.,
   Bob Paxton

On Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 11:15 AM Mike  wrote:

> While I don’t remember the Birdwatcher’s Digest article that Shai refers
> to, there was an article in N.A Bird Bander from 1978 which proposed a four
> letter code pretty much like the one used today.
> https://sora.unm.edu/sites/default/files/journals/nabb/v003n01/p0016-p0025.pdf
>
> I also remember a stretch of time when the ABA tried assigning a (3
> digit?) number to each species.
> Mike Cooper
> Ridge
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Apr 23, 2021, at 9:15 AM, Shaibal Mitra 
> wrote:
>
> When Rich posted yesterday, I was anxiously awaiting any news at all
> from him and read it immediately on the basis of the sender's name,
> regardless of the subject line. I and many others appreciated his efforts
> to re-find the Violent Green Swallow in the cold and wind. That said, the
> "RWSW" in the subject line caught my eye. I haven't seen that code since I
> finally tore myself away from it in the late 80s or 90s, but my old
> childhood notebooks contain many such entries, prior to the standardization
> of four-letter codes and the splitting of the Rough-winged Swallow complex
> into several species, including our NRWS. I'm guessing that Rich's use of
> codes goes back at least that far, and that his typo dates him to the
> earliest years of this expedience.
>
> I vividly remember my first exposure to the idea of four-letter codes for
> birds: an article in Bird Watcher's Digest around 1981. I thought it was a
> great idea and adopted it in my own notes immediately. My early notebooks
> need a little tlc to interpret: my "BWWA" meant Black-and-white Warbler, a
> super-familiar species that nested behind my house, rather than Blue-winged
> Warbler, which took me a couple of years to find in its much lower numbers
> and more localized breeding sites within biking distance of my house. When
> I finally found my first Blue-winged Warblers in the Great Swamp, I
> realized I had a problem. Ditto for my discovery of a colony of Bank
> Swallows at the Plains Road super fund site, which was accomplished only
> after a couple of notebooks were filled with "BASW," referring to the
> ubiquitous, chirpy, long-tailed one.
>
> Anyway, I'd like to commend the use of four-letter codes, not just for
> note-taking, but for efficiently navigating eBird. Standard codes work in
> eBird for any search at the species level, and, in certain kinds of
> navigation, down to subspecies level, for those that have codes assigned
> (e.g. searching media for "YPWA" brings up photos and recordings of Yellow
> Palm Warbler). This last observation reminds me of a significant and
> largely under-appreciated virtue of four-letter codes. Fluency in them will
> teach you a lot about taxonomy and field-identifiability at the subspecies
> and superspecies levels. Subspecies that have been assigned codes are those
> that are distinctive enough that banders are expected to be able to
> distinguish and record them as such. So why not birders, too? In fact, many
> of the codes that were initially applied to distinctive subspecies, such as
> "ETTI" (vs. Black-crested Titmouse), have since been split. In other cases,
> it was enlightening to learn that I wasn't supposed to use "WIFL" when
> banding the locally common breeding Empid, because of difficulties in
> distinguishing it from "ALFL" i
>
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[nysbirds-l] Manhattan, NYC - Sat., 4/24 - Kentucky & 14 add'l. Warbler spp., & more migrants

[Thomas Fiore]

Manhattan, N.Y. City -

A male Yellow-throated Warbler seen by many on Friday 4/23 at Fort Tryon Park 
in northern Manhattan was not re-found there on Saturday, although certainly 
possible that it is still in the area. 

...
A male Kentucky Warbler continued at Central Park on Saturday 4/24, with many 
observers again. A Wilson’s Snipe was seen both Friday & Saturday, north of The 
Pond / Gapstow bridge, in Central Park, with many observers.  Orchard Orioles 
were seen again, a few photographed in Central Park by Sat., 4/24.  An 
overwintered Lincoln’s Sparrow has continued on in Central Park.

In Central Park alone on Saturday (4/24) *at least* the following additional 14 
warbler species were seen:

Northern Parula
Yellow Warbler
Yellow-rumped [Myrtle] Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
Pine Warbler
Prairie Warbler
Palm Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler
American Redstart
Worm-eating Warbler
Ovenbird
Northern Waterthrush
Louisiana Waterthrush
Common Yellowthroat

Some arrivals have included Great Crested Flycatcher, Eastern Kingbird 
(multiple locations), Warbling Vireos (multiples in Central Park’s n. end since 
at least 4/23). Red-breasted Nuthatches were seen in a number of parks, 
indicating recent increases in their passage north again. Rose-breasted 
Grosbeaks were again found, including both males in spring plumage and some 
not, as well as some females. Broad-winged Hawks have been seen from several 
locations in manhattan, including perched for a while & photographed.

All of the above species seen by multiple observers, many species photographed 
and for many, multiple birds of each species. 

The above a small fraction of the many migrants being found by many quiet, 
observant birders in N.Y. County with thanks to all.

Tom Fiore
manhattan
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[nysbirds-l] Manhattan, NYC - Sat., 4/24 - Kentucky & 14 add'l. Warbler spp., & more migrants

[Thomas Fiore]

Manhattan, N.Y. City -

A male Yellow-throated Warbler seen by many on Friday 4/23 at Fort Tryon Park 
in northern Manhattan was not re-found there on Saturday, although certainly 
possible that it is still in the area. 

...
A male Kentucky Warbler continued at Central Park on Saturday 4/24, with many 
observers again. A Wilson’s Snipe was seen both Friday & Saturday, north of The 
Pond / Gapstow bridge, in Central Park, with many observers.  Orchard Orioles 
were seen again, a few photographed in Central Park by Sat., 4/24.  An 
overwintered Lincoln’s Sparrow has continued on in Central Park.

In Central Park alone on Saturday (4/24) *at least* the following additional 14 
warbler species were seen:

Northern Parula
Yellow Warbler
Yellow-rumped [Myrtle] Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
Pine Warbler
Prairie Warbler
Palm Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler
American Redstart
Worm-eating Warbler
Ovenbird
Northern Waterthrush
Louisiana Waterthrush
Common Yellowthroat

Some arrivals have included Great Crested Flycatcher, Eastern Kingbird 
(multiple locations), Warbling Vireos (multiples in Central Park’s n. end since 
at least 4/23). Red-breasted Nuthatches were seen in a number of parks, 
indicating recent increases in their passage north again. Rose-breasted 
Grosbeaks were again found, including both males in spring plumage and some 
not, as well as some females. Broad-winged Hawks have been seen from several 
locations in manhattan, including perched for a while & photographed.

All of the above species seen by multiple observers, many species photographed 
and for many, multiple birds of each species. 

The above a small fraction of the many migrants being found by many quiet, 
observant birders in N.Y. County with thanks to all.

Tom Fiore
manhattan
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[nysbirds-l] Pelham Bay Park 4/24 Short-eared Owl and Blue Grosbeak

[Richard Aracil]

Hi All,

Late in the afternoon on 4/24, Patrick Horan and I photographed a Short-eared 
Owl as it headed north over the Pelham Landfill. There was also an adult male 
Blue Grosbeak. The birds were seen from the gravel road along the southwest 
side of the landfill. The Grosbeak was in view very briefly, but I got some bad 
photos before it was chased off by a Red-winged Blackbird. I could not relocate 
the bird after that, but I don't think it left the area, so it's possible the 
bird may continue there.

https://ebird.org/atlasny/checklist/S86302252

Good Birding!
Richard Aracil



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[nysbirds-l] Pelham Bay Park 4/24 Short-eared Owl and Blue Grosbeak

[Richard Aracil]

Hi All,

Late in the afternoon on 4/24, Patrick Horan and I photographed a Short-eared 
Owl as it headed north over the Pelham Landfill. There was also an adult male 
Blue Grosbeak. The birds were seen from the gravel road along the southwest 
side of the landfill. The Grosbeak was in view very briefly, but I got some bad 
photos before it was chased off by a Red-winged Blackbird. I could not relocate 
the bird after that, but I don't think it left the area, so it's possible the 
bird may continue there.

https://ebird.org/atlasny/checklist/S86302252

Good Birding!
Richard Aracil



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