- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 03/25/2010
* NYBU1003.25
- Birds mentioned
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[UPDATE - Saturday, March 27, Willie D'Anna will lead a BOS field
trip to the Lake Ontario Plains. Meet at 8 AM
at the Tops Market in Wrights Corners, north of Lockport
on Route 78 at Route 104. The trip will last through the
day, and visitors are always welcome.]
BARNACLE GOOSE
Red-throated Loon
Horned Grebe
Red-necked Grebe
Great Egret
Tundra Swan
Wood Duck
Long-tailed Duck
Ruddy Duck
Osprey
Red-shouldered Hawk
Rough-legged Hawk
Peregrine Falcon
Ruffed Grouse
Sandhill Crane
Wilson's Snipe
Little Gull
Tree Swallow
Common Raven
Northern Shrike
Fox Sparrow
Red-w. Blackbird
Eastern Meadowlark
Purple Finch
Pine Siskin
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Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Date: 03/25/20010
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, March 25, 2010
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.
BARNACLE GOOSE was the highlight of reports received March 18
through March 25 from the Niagara Frontier Region.
March 17 through at March 21, a BARNACLE GOOSE in and around the
Iroquois National Wildlife Refuge. First discovered in a large flock
of CANADA GEESE on the Forrestall Flats, north of Chestnut Ridge Road
at Route 63, and relocated at nearby Ring-neck Marsh and north of the
refuge on Fletcher Chapel Road, east of Route 63. A species of
Greenland and Western Europe, the BARNACLE GOOSE has been traveling
with CANADA GEESE and does not have a leg band, suggesting this is a
wild vagrant.
The BARNACLE GOOSE was one of at least 19 waterfowl species in the
Iroquois Refuge and area, including 50 TUNDRA SWANS in the Tonawanda
Wildlife Management Area, 2 LONG-TAILED DUCKS at Ring-neck Marsh, and
small numbers of CACKLING GEESE at several locations. Nearby at the
Town of Oakfield gypsum ponds, 4 RUDDY DUCKS. Also a NORTHERN SHRIKE,
north of the refuge in Shelby.
SANDHILL CRANES this week - two over the Eden exit of the New York
State Thruway, and a single SANDHILL CRANE over Cayuga Pool in the
Iroquois Refuge.
In Wyoming County this week, a COMMON RAVEN and 2 ROUGH-
LEGGED HAWKS on Route 77 north of the Village of Arcade.
ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK also in the Cattaraugus County Town of Randolph, and
another ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK plus RED-SHOULDERED HAWK in the Iroquois
Refuge.
March 20, 143 RED-NECKED GREBES on Lake Ontario off the Towns of
Somerset and Yates, with lesser numbers of RED-
THROATED LOONS and HORNED GREBES.
March 23, 2 GREAT EGRETS arrived at the Motor Island heronry in the
upper Niagara River. Other arrivals and migrants this week - OSPREY at
Allegany State Park, a pair of WOOD DUCKS in a yard pond in North
Tonawanda, WILSON'S SNIPE along Chestnut Ridge Road in the Iroquois
Refuge, TREE SWALLOW at the Oakfield gypsum ponds, at a feeder in the
Town of Holland - FOX SPARROW, female RED-W. BLACKBIRD, PURPLE FINCH
and PINE SISKIN, and at several locations, EASTERN MEADOWLARKS.
Also this week - a RUFFED GROUSE specimen by the road in Holland.
PEREGRINE FALCON atop the Winspear Avenue chimney on the UB Main
Street Campus. And, 6 LITTLE GULLS at the Lewiston docks on the lower
Niagara River.
Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, April 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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