- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 04/13/2006 * NYBU0604.13 - Birds mentioned ---------------------------------------------------------- Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to dfsuggs localnet com. Thank you, David ---------------------------------------------------------- AMER. WHITE PELICAN BLACK VULTURE PURPLE SANDPIPER BROAD-WINGED HAWK Red-throated Loon Common Loon Horned Grebe Red-necked Grebe Tundra Swan Snow Goose Green-winged Teal Blue-winged Teal Canvasback Redhead Long-tailed Duck Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Common Goldeneye Red-br. Merganser Ruddy Duck Bald Eagle Northern Goshawk Rough-legged Hawk Virginia Rail Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Wilson's Snipe American Woodcock Little Gull Iceland Gull L. Black-b. Gull Glaucous Gull Great Black-b. Gull Caspian Tern Short-eared Owl Yellow-b. Sapsucker Pileated Woodpecker Northern (E.a.alpestris) Horned Lark Purple Martin N. Rough-w. Swallow Barn Swallow Brown Creeper Winter Wren Golden-cr. Kinglet Ruby-cr. Kinglet Ruby-cr. Kinglet Bl.-gr. Gnatcatcher Eastern Bluebird Hermit Thrush Brown Thrasher American Pipit Yellow-r. Warbler Northern Cardinal Vesper Sparrow Fox Sparrow Song Sparrow White-cr. Sparrow Lapland Longspur Rusty Blackbird Purple Finch Pine Siskin
- Transcript Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 04/13/2006 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs (dfsuggs at localnet com) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BOSBirding.org Thursday, April 13, 2006 Dial-a-Bird is a service provided by your Buffalo Museum of Science and this answering system was donated by the Buffalo Ornithological Society. Press (2) to leave a message, (3) for updates, meeting and field trip information and (4) for instructions on how to report sightings and use this system. To contact the Science Museum, call 896-5200. Highlights of reports received April 6 through April 13 from the Niagara Frontier Region include AMER. WHITE PELICAN, BLACK VULTURE, PURPLE SANDPIPER, BROAD-WINGED HAWK and reports from the BOS April Count. From Chautauqua County, April 13, four AMER. WHITE PELICANS on the outer breakwall at Dunkirk Harbor on Lake Erie. April 6, a BLACK VULTURE over the Hamburg Hawkwatch at Lakeside Memorial Park in Hamburg. Above Niagara Falls, April 11, two PURPLE SANDPIPERS in the rapids, several hundred yards off the Three Sisters Islands. April 12, several BROAD-WINGED HAWKS were among five raptor species migrating over the University area of Buffalo. The BOS April count was conducted on April 9. A section of western Niagara County recorded 91 species, including 12 RED-THROATED LOONS, 30 COMMON LOONS, 24 RED-NECKED GREBES, 6 ROUGH-LEGGED HAWKS, LITTLE GULL, 2 ICELAND GULLS, 3 GLAUCOUS GULLS, 7 CASPIAN TERNS, 4 SHORT-EARED OWLS in the Dickersonville Road fields in Porter, unexpected PILEATED WOODPECKERS at two locations in the Lake Ontario plains, BARN SWALLOW, VESPER SPARROW, WHITE-CR. SPARROW and 4 PINE SISKINS. The Niagara-Orleans Countyline section reported 52 HORNED GREBES, 82 RED-NECKED GREBES, 5 blue phase SNOW GEESE, 6 BLUE-WINGED TEAL, 88 GREEN-WINGED TEAL, SURF SCOTER, 38 WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS, 325 LONG-TAILED DUCKS, 575 RED-BR. MERGANSERS, NORTHERN HORNED LARK, 90 GOLDEN-CR. KINGLETS, 10 LAPLAND LONGSPURS in Hartland, and a total of 70 NORTHERN CARDINALS. Lancaster-Elma recorded 58 species including RUBY-CR. KINGLET, AMERICAN PIPIT and YELLOW-R. WARBLER. 80 species in central Cattaraugus County included waterfowl on the Route 62 gravel ponds highlighted by 5 TUNDRA SWANS, CANVASBACK, 6 REDHEADS, 5 LONG-TAILED DUCKS, COMMON GOLDENEYE, 25 RED-BR. MERGANSERS and 2 RUDDY DUCKS, plus 6 GREATER YELLOWLEGS and 1 LESSER YELLOWLEGS. And the section of Grand Island and Niagara Falls reported 70 species - 2 BALD EAGLES, ICELAND GULL, L. BLACK-B. GULL, GLAUCOUS GULL, 11 GREAT BLACK-B. GULLS and 51 SONG SPARROWS. Many sections reported multiple FOX SPARROWS, plus WILSON'S SNIPE, AMERICAN WOODCOCK, YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKER, PURPLE MARTIN, BROWN CREEPER, WINTER WREN, EASTERN BLUEBIRD, HERMIT THRUSH, RUSTY BLACKBIRD and PURPLE FINCH. Recent arrivals - N. ROUGH-W. SWALLOW April 7 in Hanover. RUBY-CR. KINGLET April 8 at Tifft Nature Preserve. BROWN THRASHER April 9 at Saint Columbans in Sheridan, and VIRGINIA RAIL and BL.-GR. GNATCATCHER on the 10th at Sinking Ponds in East Aurora. Also this week, NORTHERN GOSHAWKS in Arkwright on Meadows Road, at the Ripley Hawkwatch and a reported GOSHAWK in the Eggerstville area of Amherst. Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, April 20. Please call in your sightings by noon Thursday. You may report sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting to Dial-a-Bird. - End Transcript
