[nysbirds-l] Central Park NYC - Sun., July 2, 2017 - Additions to the Season's Breeding Bird List

2017-07-02 Thread Deborah Allen
Central Park NYC - Ramble Sunday, July 2, 2017 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, and many others Additions to the Season's Breeding Bird List: Cedar Waxwing: On Saturday we noticed a nest in a London Plane at the north end of the Maintenance Field, but didn't see any activity. Early

[nysbirds-l] Central Park NYC - Sun., July 2, 2017 - Additions to the Season's Breeding Bird List

2017-07-02 Thread Deborah Allen
Central Park NYC - Ramble Sunday, July 2, 2017 OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, and many others Additions to the Season's Breeding Bird List: Cedar Waxwing: On Saturday we noticed a nest in a London Plane at the north end of the Maintenance Field, but didn't see any activity. Early

[nysbirds-l] Seabirds out of Montauk

2017-07-02 Thread Anthony Collerton
Took the Viking Fleet Whale Watching trip (sponsored by CRESLI) today 6 hours, 30 miles South ... not a true pelagic but it does get birds. Highlights: 80 Cory's Shearwaters (mostly Borealis but at least one Scopoli's Shearwater) 25 Sooty Shearwaters 40 Great Shearwaters 4 Manx Shearwaters

[nysbirds-l] Seabirds out of Montauk

2017-07-02 Thread Anthony Collerton
Took the Viking Fleet Whale Watching trip (sponsored by CRESLI) today 6 hours, 30 miles South ... not a true pelagic but it does get birds. Highlights: 80 Cory's Shearwaters (mostly Borealis but at least one Scopoli's Shearwater) 25 Sooty Shearwaters 40 Great Shearwaters 4 Manx Shearwaters

Re: [nysbirds-l] Changes to the NYS List

2017-07-02 Thread Dominic Garcia-Hall
FYI you can read most of the committee's accompanying comments here: http://checklist.aou.org/nacc/proposals/comments/2017_A_comments_web.html#2017-A-6 Pretty interesting. Cheers Dom www.antbirds.com + 1 201 851 6512 On 2 July 2017 at 07:09, syschiff wrote: > The

Re: [nysbirds-l] Changes to the NYS List

2017-07-02 Thread Dominic Garcia-Hall
FYI you can read most of the committee's accompanying comments here: http://checklist.aou.org/nacc/proposals/comments/2017_A_comments_web.html#2017-A-6 Pretty interesting. Cheers Dom www.antbirds.com + 1 201 851 6512 On 2 July 2017 at 07:09, syschiff wrote: > The results of the 58th

RE: [ebirdsnyc] Re: [nysbirds-l] Thayer's Gull - the species that never was?

2017-07-02 Thread Larry Trachtenberg
Anecdotally, on a trip with Saw Mill River Audubon to Duluth MN and environs in January, one afternoon, for the gull-ers in the group, we headed to the Duluth waterfront (in lieu of say looking for more e.g. great gray owls). However, we were successful in the quest to find, e.g. Thayer’s

RE: [ebirdsnyc] Re: [nysbirds-l] Thayer's Gull - the species that never was?

2017-07-02 Thread Larry Trachtenberg
Anecdotally, on a trip with Saw Mill River Audubon to Duluth MN and environs in January, one afternoon, for the gull-ers in the group, we headed to the Duluth waterfront (in lieu of say looking for more e.g. great gray owls). However, we were successful in the quest to find, e.g. Thayer’s

[nysbirds-l] Changes to the NYS List

2017-07-02 Thread syschiff
The results of the 58th Supplement to the AOU List are in and awaiting publication. Rick Wright on his Web Site gave a summary of the results. For NY birders, the changes that effect our count are no more Thayer's Gull as previously reported but no other splits or lumps. We'll have to await the

[nysbirds-l] Changes to the NYS List

2017-07-02 Thread syschiff
The results of the 58th Supplement to the AOU List are in and awaiting publication. Rick Wright on his Web Site gave a summary of the results. For NY birders, the changes that effect our count are no more Thayer's Gull as previously reported but no other splits or lumps. We'll have to await the