- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 08/31/2006
* NYBU0608.31
- Birds mentioned
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Please phone in any rare sightings so they may be shared via the DAB
telephone update system, and submit email contributions directly to
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24 warbler species MARBLED GODWIT
WESTERN SANDPIPER
SANDHILL CRANE
TRICOLORED HERON
Bald Eagle
Peregrine Falcon
Black-bellied Plover
American Golden-Plover
Semipalmated Plover
Killdeer
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Solitary Sandpiper
Spotted Sandpiper
Ruddy Turnstone
Red Knot
Sanderling
Semipalm. Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
White-r. Sandpiper
Baird's Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Stilt Sandpiper
Short-b. Dowitcher
Bonaparte's Gull
Caspian Tern
Common Tern
Common Nighthawk
Olive-s. Flycatcher
Gray-cheeked Thrush
Blue-winged Warbler
Tennessee Warbler
Nashville Warbler
Northern Parula
Yellow Warbler
Chestnut-s. Warbler
Magnolia Warbler
Cape May Warbler
Bl.-thr. Bl. Warbler
Yellow-r. Warbler
Bl.-thr. Green Warb.
Blackburnian Warbler
Bay-breasted Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
Bl. and w. Warbler
American Redstart
Ovenbird
Northern Waterthrush
Connecticut Warbler
Mourning Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Hooded Warbler
Wilson's Warbler
Canada Warbler
- Transcript
Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Date: 08/31/2006
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, August 31, 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 August 24 through August 31 from the
Niagara Frontier Region include 24 warbler species, MARBLED GODWIT,
WESTERN SANDPIPER, SANDHILL CRANES and TRICOLORED HERONS.
An early influx of 24 warblers species this past week. August 27, at
Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo, 19 species included over 25 MAGNOLIA
WARBLERS. On the 29th at Tifft, one observers counted 12 warbler
species in 12 minutes; highlighted by a rare CONNECTICUT WARBLER. At
Amherst State Park, reports of 10 and 12 warbler species this week,
plus OLIVE-S. FLYCATCHER and on the 30th, an early GRAY-CHEEKED
THRUSH.
Twenty shorebird species on the Niagara Peninsula of Ontario this
week were highlighted by MARBLED GODWIT, WESTERN SANDPIPER and RED
KNOT at Rock Point Park in Dunnville. Also in Dunnville at the Poth
Road turf farms, 60 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS and 9 AMERICAN
GOLDEN-PLOVERS plus a PEREGRINE FALCON, and at the Rymer Road ponds,
36 SHORT-B. DOWITCHERS. On several of the Lake Erie beaches, WHITE-R.
SANDPIPER, BAIRD'S SANDPIPER and STILT SANDPIPER, with numerous
BONAPARTE'S GULLS and abundant COMMON TERNS.
Still in Ontario, a pair of SANDHILL CRANES were at the recent
breeding site along the Grande River, on River Road, west of South
Cayuga Road. And, two TRICOLORED HERONS continue above Niagara Falls
in Ontario.
Shorebird reports away from the Niagara Peninsula - 3 AMERICAN
GOLDEN-PLOVERS, SEMIPALMATED PLOVER and KILLDEER at the Clarence turf
farms; viewed from Goodrich Road south of County Road. And at Dunkirk
Harbor, SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, SANDERLING and LEAST SANDPIPER, plus 7
CASPIAN TERNS.
Other reports this week - Saint Columbans on Route 5 in the Town of
Sheridan is the location for BALD EAGLES; eight sub-
adults on August 29. And the first significant counts of COMMON
NIGHTHAWKS this season, flocks of 20 and 30 over Buffalo.
Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, September 7. 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.
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