- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 08/20/2009
* NYBU0908.20
- Birds mentioned
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Please phone in rare sightings for update
Submit email to dfsuggs localnet com
Thank you, David
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WESTERN SANDPIPER
WILLET
MERLIN
Pied-billed Grebe
Least Bittern
Great Egret
Green Heron
Bl.-cr. Night-Heron
Wood Duck
American Black Duck
Osprey
Semipalmated Plover
Lesser Yellowlegs
Sanderling
Semipalm. Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Caspian Tern
- Transcript
Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Date: 08/20/2009
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, August 20, 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 August 13 through August 20 from the
Niagara Frontier Region include WESTERN SANDPIPER, WILLET and MERLIN.
August 15 and 16, an adult WESTERN SANDPIPER was reported in the
soybean field on Hulbert Road, just north of Youngstown-
Wilson Road, in the Niagara County Town of Wilson. Also at this
location, SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, SEMIPALM. SANDPIPER,
LEAST SANDPIPER and PECTORAL SANDPIPER.
At Dunkirk Harbor, August 18, an impressive 5 WILLETS, plus a
SANDERLING, on the Main Street beach.
August 14 in the Town of Amherst, a MERLIN in a yard in Snyder.
From Buffalo this week - at Tifft Nature Preserve, dozens of GREEN
HERONS at Lisa Pond with LEAST BITTERN, many BL.-CR. NIGHT-HERONS,
GREAT EGRET, WOOD DUCK and PIED-BILLED GREBE. Also in the Preserve,
OSPREY and CASPIAN TERN. And at the Bird Island Pier, 4 LEAST
SANDPIPERS and an AMERICAN BLACK DUCK.
Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, August 27. 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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