- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 08/28/2008
* NYBU0808.28
- Birds mentioned
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HYBRID SHOREBIRD
WILLET
WHITE-WINGED DOVE
SPOTTED DOVE
D.-crest. Cormorant
Great Egret
Wood Duck
Common Merganser
Osprey
Bald Eagle
Broad-winged Hawk
Peregrine Falcon
Killdeer
Solitary Sandpiper
Spotted Sandpiper
Semipalm. Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Herring Gull
Caspian Tern
Common Nighthawk
Red-headed Wdpkr.
Red-br. Nuthatch
Golden-cr. Kinglet
Nashville Warbler
Magnolia Warbler
Yellow-r. Warbler
Bl.-thr. Green Warb.
- Transcript
Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Date: 08/28/2008
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 28, 2008
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 21 through August 28 from the
Niagara Frontier Region include HYBRID SANDPIPER (DUNLIN X ?), WILLET,
WHITE-WINGED DOVE and SPOTTED DOVE.
The shorebird reported at Rock Point Park in Dunnville, Ontario,
last week has been photographed and reviewed by shorebird experts and
is now believed to be an unusual hybrid of the Calidris group of
sandpipers. DUNLIN is one likely parent; the other possibly WHITE-R.
SANDPIPER. The sandpiper was first observed August 17, and also the
19th and 21st.
On Lake Erie, at Dunkirk Harbor, a WILLET, August 25 and 26.
August 26, a WHITE-WINGED DOVE was still present in the Missisauga
Road neighborhood of Saint Catharine's, Ontario. In the Town of
Amherst, a SPOTTED DOVE was reported again August 21. A further look
into possible origins of this Asiatic species includes an introduced
population of SPOTTED DOVES in Florida.
August 22, an immature PEREGRINE FALCON in the Village of Hamburg,
chasing doves and a crow from the village watertower. Another
PEREGRINE FALCON at Dunkirk Harbor, at the east beach of the power
plant.
COMMON NIGHTHAWKS this week - groups of three over Tonawanda,
Amherst and the Genesee County Town of Alexander.
Also in Genesee County, on Francis Road in Bethany, a BROAD-
WINGED HAWK, hunting over a hay field during baling operations.
In Chautauqua County, August 27, on Housington Road in Charlotte,
what may be a sign of early fall migration - 3 NASHVILLE WARBLERS, 3
MAGNOLIA WARBLERS, YELLOW-R. WARBLER and BL.-THR. GREEN WARB., plus
RED-BR. NUTHATCH and 5 GOLDEN-CR. KINGLETS.
Other Chautauqua County reports this week - OSPREY at the mouth of
Cattaraugus Creek in Hanover. 45 CASPIAN TERNS at Dunkirk Harbor. On
Wentworth Road in Villenova, 9 SOLITARY SANDPIPERS plus KILLDEER,
SPOTTED SANDPIPER, SEMIPALM. SANDPIPER and LEAST SANDPIPER. At the
mouth of Silver Creek, immature RED-HEADED WDPKR., 8 COMMON
MERGANSERS, 54 flyby D.-CREST. CORMORANTS, 32 HERRING GULLS and 2 BALD
EAGLES. And, GREAT EGRET again at the pond behind the Walmart in
Fredonia, with 2 SOLITARY SANDPIPERS and 4 WOOD DUCKS.
Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, September 3. 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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