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[nysbirds-l] NYC Area RBA: 21 July 2017

2017-07-21 Thread Ben Cacace

- RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Jul. 21, 2017
* NYNY1707.21

- Birds mentioned
BLACK-CAPPED PETREL+
SOUTH POLAR SKUA+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

Northern Bobwhite
Cory's Shearwater
Brown Pelican
American Bittern
Least Bittern
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
WHIMBREL
Stilt Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Long-billed Dowitcher
GULL-BILLED TERN
CASPIAN TERN
Royal Tern
Cliff Swallow
Red-breasted Nuthatch
LOUISIANA WATERTHRUSH
YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER
BLUE GROSBEAK
Bobolink

- Transcript

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
nysarc44(at)nybirds{dot}org.

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: Tony Lauro
Coverage: New York City, Long Island, Westchester County

Transcriber: Ben Cacace

BEGIN TAPE

Greetings. This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for Friday, July 21st 2017
at 10:30pm. The highlights of today's tape are WHIMBREL, [BLACK-CAPPED
PETREL], SOUTH POLAR SKUA, GULL-BILLED TERN, CASPIAN TERN, LOUISIANA
WATERTHRUSH, YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER, BLUE GROSBEAK and shorebird migration.

The BLACK-CAPPED PETREL appeared on a pelagic trip to Block Canyon
yesterday and another pelagic trip off Montauk last Saturday produced 7
CORY'S SHEARWATERS and a SOUTH POLAR SKUA.

BROWN PELICAN observations last week were 3 at Jones Beach West End on
Monday, 2 at Oak Beach on Sunday and 1 at Robert Moses State Park Fire
Island on Wednesday.

WHIMBRELS reported for the week were 1 at Plumb Beach in Brooklyn on
Saturday, 1 at Cupsogue County Park on Thursday, 1 at Wolfe's Pond Park on
Staten Island Thursday and 6 over the sea at Robert Moses State Park Fire
Island on Thursday.

A GULL-BILLED TERN was still present at Mecox through Thursday and another
bird was at the East Pond Jamaica Bay today. A CASPIAN TERN was seen at
Heckscher State Park on Monday and several ROYAL TERNS were reported at
Cupsogue on Monday and 11 more ROYAL TERNS were at this site on Thursday.

A LOUISIANA WATERTHRUSH was found today at Prospect Park in Brooklyn and
the YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER was still at the entrance area at Bayard
Cutting Arboretum in Oakdale on Monday. Three BLUE GROSBEAKS were present
at the Grumman site at Calverton on Monday.

Shorebirds at the East Pond Jamaica Bay today numbered about 300 birds of 8
species highlighted by 1 LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER and 21 STILT SANDPIPERS.
Seventeen species of shorebirds were noted on Thursday at Cupsogue. Total
numbers were reported as not impressive and were highlighted by a WHIMBREL
and 4 PECTORAL SANDPIPERS.

Other notable birds for the week were 2 NORTHERN BOBWHITE at a private golf
course in Manhasset on Thursday, 1 AMERICAN BITTERN at Gilgo on Thursday, 2
LEAST BITTERNS at Prospect Park Brooklyn at the Wellhouse on Monday, 8
YELLOW-CROWNED NIGHT-HERONS at Soundview Park in the Bronx on Sunday, 1
CLIFF SWALLOW at Moriches Bay Inlet on Sunday, 3 more CLIFF SWALLOWS at
Pelham Bay Park in the Bronx on Monday, a RED-BREASTED NUTHATCH at the
cloverleaf on Ocean Parkway and the Meadowbrook Parkway Jones Beach on
Monday and a BOBOLINK in Marine Park in Brooklyn last Saturday.

Tom Burke is away. To call in reports please call Tony Lauro at (631)
734-4126.

This service is sponsored by the Linnaean Society of New York and the
National Audubon Society. Thank you for calling.

- End transcript

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[nysbirds-l] NYC Area RBA: 21 July 2017

2017-07-21 Thread Ben Cacace

- RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Jul. 21, 2017
* NYNY1707.21

- Birds mentioned
BLACK-CAPPED PETREL+
SOUTH POLAR SKUA+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

Northern Bobwhite
Cory's Shearwater
Brown Pelican
American Bittern
Least Bittern
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
WHIMBREL
Stilt Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Long-billed Dowitcher
GULL-BILLED TERN
CASPIAN TERN
Royal Tern
Cliff Swallow
Red-breasted Nuthatch
LOUISIANA WATERTHRUSH
YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER
BLUE GROSBEAK
Bobolink

- Transcript

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
nysarc44(at)nybirds{dot}org.

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: Tony Lauro
Coverage: New York City, Long Island, Westchester County

Transcriber: Ben Cacace

BEGIN TAPE

Greetings. This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for Friday, July 21st 2017
at 10:30pm. The highlights of today's tape are WHIMBREL, [BLACK-CAPPED
PETREL], SOUTH POLAR SKUA, GULL-BILLED TERN, CASPIAN TERN, LOUISIANA
WATERTHRUSH, YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER, BLUE GROSBEAK and shorebird migration.

The BLACK-CAPPED PETREL appeared on a pelagic trip to Block Canyon
yesterday and another pelagic trip off Montauk last Saturday produced 7
CORY'S SHEARWATERS and a SOUTH POLAR SKUA.

BROWN PELICAN observations last week were 3 at Jones Beach West End on
Monday, 2 at Oak Beach on Sunday and 1 at Robert Moses State Park Fire
Island on Wednesday.

WHIMBRELS reported for the week were 1 at Plumb Beach in Brooklyn on
Saturday, 1 at Cupsogue County Park on Thursday, 1 at Wolfe's Pond Park on
Staten Island Thursday and 6 over the sea at Robert Moses State Park Fire
Island on Thursday.

A GULL-BILLED TERN was still present at Mecox through Thursday and another
bird was at the East Pond Jamaica Bay today. A CASPIAN TERN was seen at
Heckscher State Park on Monday and several ROYAL TERNS were reported at
Cupsogue on Monday and 11 more ROYAL TERNS were at this site on Thursday.

A LOUISIANA WATERTHRUSH was found today at Prospect Park in Brooklyn and
the YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER was still at the entrance area at Bayard
Cutting Arboretum in Oakdale on Monday. Three BLUE GROSBEAKS were present
at the Grumman site at Calverton on Monday.

Shorebirds at the East Pond Jamaica Bay today numbered about 300 birds of 8
species highlighted by 1 LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER and 21 STILT SANDPIPERS.
Seventeen species of shorebirds were noted on Thursday at Cupsogue. Total
numbers were reported as not impressive and were highlighted by a WHIMBREL
and 4 PECTORAL SANDPIPERS.

Other notable birds for the week were 2 NORTHERN BOBWHITE at a private golf
course in Manhasset on Thursday, 1 AMERICAN BITTERN at Gilgo on Thursday, 2
LEAST BITTERNS at Prospect Park Brooklyn at the Wellhouse on Monday, 8
YELLOW-CROWNED NIGHT-HERONS at Soundview Park in the Bronx on Sunday, 1
CLIFF SWALLOW at Moriches Bay Inlet on Sunday, 3 more CLIFF SWALLOWS at
Pelham Bay Park in the Bronx on Monday, a RED-BREASTED NUTHATCH at the
cloverleaf on Ocean Parkway and the Meadowbrook Parkway Jones Beach on
Monday and a BOBOLINK in Marine Park in Brooklyn last Saturday.

Tom Burke is away. To call in reports please call Tony Lauro at (631)
734-4126.

This service is sponsored by the Linnaean Society of New York and the
National Audubon Society. Thank you for calling.

- End transcript

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Please submit your observations to eBird:
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[nysbirds-l] Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge Shorebirds and East Pond update...

2017-07-21 Thread Andrew Baksh

I birded the East Pond for a few hours today testing access along the north end 
and getting in some shorebirding.

An estimated 300 Shorebirds on the East Pond consisting of 8 species. The 
highlights included LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER (1), STILT SANDPIPERS (21). All 
feeding comfortably just past "Dead Man's Cove."

Here is a link to a digiscoped shot of today's LBDO https://flic.kr/p/VJ86Xz

Non shorebirding highlight was 1 adult GULL-BILLED TERN.

On the West Pond, it was quiet with single Spotted and Least Sandpipers 
observed.

Thank you to all who either called in or wrote to NPS, expressing your concerns 
regarding the "fence situation" on the East Pond South End. As I have stated in 
an earlier e-mail, NPS is aware and working towards a resolution.

Don Riepe, the Mundys and I are working together in pushing for a resolution. 
This includes both a short term fix and hopefully a long term solution. I will 
keep everyone posted as we make progress.

In other East Pond news, the water level continue to drop. Hopefully, within a 
week or two shoreline will open up on the North End for easier access. I keep 
folks updated on that situation as well.

Keep the faith and thank you all for your patience.


"I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of 
others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence." ~ Frederick 
Douglass

風　Swift as the wind
林　Quiet as the forest
火　Conquer like the fire
山　Steady as the mountain
Sun Tzu  The Art of War

> (__/)
> (= '.'=)
> (") _ (") 
> Sent from somewhere in the field using my mobile device! 

Andrew Baksh
www.birdingdude.blogspot.com
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Please submit your observations to eBird:
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[nysbirds-l] Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge Shorebirds and East Pond update...

2017-07-21 Thread Andrew Baksh

I birded the East Pond for a few hours today testing access along the north end 
and getting in some shorebirding.

An estimated 300 Shorebirds on the East Pond consisting of 8 species. The 
highlights included LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER (1), STILT SANDPIPERS (21). All 
feeding comfortably just past "Dead Man's Cove."

Here is a link to a digiscoped shot of today's LBDO https://flic.kr/p/VJ86Xz

Non shorebirding highlight was 1 adult GULL-BILLED TERN.

On the West Pond, it was quiet with single Spotted and Least Sandpipers 
observed.

Thank you to all who either called in or wrote to NPS, expressing your concerns 
regarding the "fence situation" on the East Pond South End. As I have stated in 
an earlier e-mail, NPS is aware and working towards a resolution.

Don Riepe, the Mundys and I are working together in pushing for a resolution. 
This includes both a short term fix and hopefully a long term solution. I will 
keep everyone posted as we make progress.

In other East Pond news, the water level continue to drop. Hopefully, within a 
week or two shoreline will open up on the North End for easier access. I keep 
folks updated on that situation as well.

Keep the faith and thank you all for your patience.


"I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of 
others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence." ~ Frederick 
Douglass

風　Swift as the wind
林　Quiet as the forest
火　Conquer like the fire
山　Steady as the mountain
Sun Tzu  The Art of War

> (__/)
> (= '.'=)
> (") _ (") 
> Sent from somewhere in the field using my mobile device! 

Andrew Baksh
www.birdingdude.blogspot.com
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RE: [nysbirds-l] eBird.org: Recent Additions to County Checklists

2017-07-21 Thread Shaibal Mitra

I’m left wondering what it means to “delete” Mandarin Duck from a list of birds 
reported to eBird. I understand that Mandarin Duck is not established in viable 
wild populations anywhere in New York State and consequently is not included in 
the official list of such species maintained by the New York State Avian 
Records Committee. But this species has become naturalized in several places 
far from its ancestral range, and it might do so here, at some future time. If 
this were ever to become a point of discussion, New York birders would be 
interested in tracing where and when the establishment occurred, and the eBird 
dataset, focused as it is on the frequency and abundance of bird detections, 
would be a natural place to search for evidence. 

I would think that reports of species such as Mandarin Duck, Egyptian Goose—and 
nowadays, Northern Bobwhite—are worth tracking in eBird, even if they can’t be 
regarded as legitimately wild, because future researchers might have good 
reasons to want to know where and when people formerly encountered them. One 
could argue that even invalidated records are potentially available for future 
review, but this isn’t really true, if only because the public invisibility of 
“deleted species” would inevitably inhibit normal reporting.

Shai Mitra
Bay Shore

From: bounce-121669746-11143...@list.cornell.edu 
[bounce-121669746-11143...@list.cornell.edu] on behalf of Ben Cacace 
[bcac...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2017 8:39 PM
To: NYSBIRDS-L; eBirds NYC
Subject: [nysbirds-l] eBird.org: Recent Additions to County Checklists

When working on the NYS eBird Hotspots wiki I'll compare the previous bar chart 
list of species with the current one picking up any additions or deletions. By 
going to each county's 'Overview' page you can determine the date the species 
was added by county. Some are from newly submitted checklists from many months 
/ years ago.

It isn't possible to spot these additions from old checklists. On the 
'Overview' page you can sort on 'First Seen' but if the species wasn't added 
recently it won't appear at the top of the list.

For each county on the NYS eBird Hotspots site click the 'Overview' link on the 
'Explore a Location' line:
— http://ebirding-nys.wikispaces.com/Birding+in+New+York

Red represents species removed from the New York State list bringing the NYS 
total to 479 species.

Nassau County:
Mandarin Duck (Removed)

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Manhattan, NYC
Wiki for NYS eBird 
Hotspots
Facebook Discussion for NYS eBird Hotspots: Q & 
A
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RE: [nysbirds-l] eBird.org: Recent Additions to County Checklists

2017-07-21 Thread Shaibal Mitra

I’m left wondering what it means to “delete” Mandarin Duck from a list of birds 
reported to eBird. I understand that Mandarin Duck is not established in viable 
wild populations anywhere in New York State and consequently is not included in 
the official list of such species maintained by the New York State Avian 
Records Committee. But this species has become naturalized in several places 
far from its ancestral range, and it might do so here, at some future time. If 
this were ever to become a point of discussion, New York birders would be 
interested in tracing where and when the establishment occurred, and the eBird 
dataset, focused as it is on the frequency and abundance of bird detections, 
would be a natural place to search for evidence. 

I would think that reports of species such as Mandarin Duck, Egyptian Goose—and 
nowadays, Northern Bobwhite—are worth tracking in eBird, even if they can’t be 
regarded as legitimately wild, because future researchers might have good 
reasons to want to know where and when people formerly encountered them. One 
could argue that even invalidated records are potentially available for future 
review, but this isn’t really true, if only because the public invisibility of 
“deleted species” would inevitably inhibit normal reporting.

Shai Mitra
Bay Shore

From: bounce-121669746-11143...@list.cornell.edu 
[bounce-121669746-11143...@list.cornell.edu] on behalf of Ben Cacace 
[bcac...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2017 8:39 PM
To: NYSBIRDS-L; eBirds NYC
Subject: [nysbirds-l] eBird.org: Recent Additions to County Checklists

When working on the NYS eBird Hotspots wiki I'll compare the previous bar chart 
list of species with the current one picking up any additions or deletions. By 
going to each county's 'Overview' page you can determine the date the species 
was added by county. Some are from newly submitted checklists from many months 
/ years ago.

It isn't possible to spot these additions from old checklists. On the 
'Overview' page you can sort on 'First Seen' but if the species wasn't added 
recently it won't appear at the top of the list.

For each county on the NYS eBird Hotspots site click the 'Overview' link on the 
'Explore a Location' line:
— http://ebirding-nys.wikispaces.com/Birding+in+New+York

Red represents species removed from the New York State list bringing the NYS 
total to 479 species.

Nassau County:
Mandarin Duck (Removed)

--
Ben Cacace
Manhattan, NYC
Wiki for NYS eBird 
Hotspots
Facebook Discussion for NYS eBird Hotspots: Q & 
A
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Subscribe, Configuration and 
Leave
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Please submit your observations to eBird:
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[nysbirds-l] NYC Area RBA: 21 July 2017

[nysbirds-l] NYC Area RBA: 21 July 2017

[nysbirds-l] Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge Shorebirds and East Pond update...

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RE: [nysbirds-l] eBird.org: Recent Additions to County Checklists

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