- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 04/16/2009
* NYBU0904.16
- Birds mentioned
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EURASIAN WIGEON X AMERICAN WIGEON
CHIMNEY SWIFT
SANDHILL CRANE
PURPLE SANDPIPER
COMMON LOON
Bl.-cr. Night-Heron
Chukar
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Wilson's Snipe
American Woodcock
Bonaparte's Gull
Iceland Gull
L. Black-b. Gull
Glaucous Gull
Common Tern
Yellow-b. Sapsucker
Northern Flicker
Brown Creeper
Winter Wren
Golden-cr. Kinglet
Ruby-cr. Kinglet
Hermit Thrush
Eastern Towhee
Fox Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Purple Finch
Pine Siskin
- Transcript
Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Date: 04/16/2009
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 16, 2009
Dial-a-Bird is a service provided by your Buffalo Museum of Science
and 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. To contact the Science
Museum, call 896-5200.
Highlights of reports received April 9 through April 16 from the
Niagara Frontier Region include EURASIAN WIGEON hybrid, CHIMNEY SWIFT,
SANDHILL CRANE, PURPLE SANDPIPER and COMMON LOONS.
April 12 at Cayuga Pool in the Iroquois Refuge, an apparent hybrid
male EURASIAN WIGEON x AMERICAN WIGEON; likely the same as the
EURASIAN WIGEON reported at Cayuga Pool for the past week.
Also at Cayuga Pool, April 10, 15 CHIMNEY SWIFTS, five days earlier
than any previous record in the BOS archives. And nearby, over
Meadville Road in the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area, 5 SANDHILL
CRANES.
April 13, a PURPLE SANDPIPER was closely observed at the Three
Sisters Islands, above Niagara Falls in New York. Also at the islands,
7 ICELAND GULLS, L. BLACK-B. GULL, 2 GLAUCOUS GULLS, many BONAPARTE'S
GULLS, COMMON TERN and near the brink of the falls, a colony of 200
BL.-CR. NIGHT-
HERONS.
COMMON LOONS were widely reported this week. Not only on Lakes Erie
and Ontario, but also at Delaware Park and Tifft Nature Preserve in
Buffalo, Reinstein Woods in Cheektowaga, Sinking Ponds in East Aurora,
the Town of Pomfret in Chautauqua County, and 4 COMMON LOONS on the
Countryside Gravel Ponds in northwest Cattaraugus County.
In Chautauqua County this week, at the Meadows Road State Land in
the Town of Arkwright, species included YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKER, NORTHERN
FLICKER, BROWN CREEPER, WINTER WREN, GOLDEN-CR. KINGLET, RUBY-CR.
KINGLET, EASTERN TOWHEE, DARK-
EYED JUNCO and PURPLE FINCH. In the Town of Villanova, GREATER
YELLOWLEGS and LESSER YELLOWLEGS on Wentworth Road.
Other reports this week - WILSON'S SNIPE, HERMIT THRUSH and FOX
SPARROW at several locations. AMERICAN WOODCOCKS heard on Grand Island
along Alt and Love Roads near the airstrip. PINE SISKINS still at many
feeders. And, unexpected and certainly an escaped game bird - a
CHUKAR, at a feeder in the Niagara County Town of Cambria.
Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, April 23. 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
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