- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 09/24/2009
* NYBU0909.24
- Birds mentioned -----------------------------------------
Please phone in rare sightings for update
Submit email to dfsuggs localnet com
Thank you, David
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WHITE IBIS
HUDSONIAN GODWIT
Great Egret
Peregrine Falcon
Black-bellied Plover
Semipalmated Plover
Greater Yellowlegs
Ruddy Turnstone
Red Knot
Sanderling
Pectoral Sandpiper
Stilt Sandpiper
Northern Parula
Magnolia Warbler
- Transcript
Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Date: 09/24/2009
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, September 24, 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 September 17 through September 24
from the Niagara Frontier Region include WHITE IBIS and HUDSONIAN
GODWIT.
September 20 in the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area, a first fall
WHITE IBIS was photographed at Woods Marsh/Hunt Club Marsh, north of
Bartel Road and east of Ditch Road. WHITE IBIS is an exceptional
rarity - only one previous record in the history of the BOS records.
Also September 20, a HUDSONIAN GODWIT in Ontario, at the Mosaic
Ponds on Rymer Road, north of Rock Point Park in Dunnville. Besides
the godwit at the ponds, STILT SANDPIPER, BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER,
GREATER YELLOWLEGS, PECTORAL SANDPIPER, PEREGRINE FALCON and 6 GREAT
EGRETS. At Rock Point Park, BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER, SEMIPALMATED PLOVER,
RUDDY TURNSTONE, RED KNOT and SANDERLING, plus NORTHERN PARULA and
MAGNOLIA WARBLER. And at Windmill Point in Fort Erie, 2 more RED KNOTS.
Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, October 1. 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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