- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 07/19/2012 * NYBU1207.19 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to NEW EMAIL [email protected] -------------------------------------------
WHITE-FACED IBIS D.-crest. Cormorant Great Egret Bl.-cr. Night-Heron Common Merganser Peregrine Falcon Semipalmated Plover Killdeer Spotted Sandpiper Sanderling Semipalm. Sandpiper Least Sandpiper White-r. Sandpiper Dunlin Stilt Sandpiper Short-b. Dowitcher American Woodcock Black Tern Chimney Swift Red-headed Wdpkr. Cliff Swallow Prairie Warbler Clay-col. Sparrow - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 07/19/2012 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs (dfsuggs localnet com) Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, July 19, 2012 The Buffalo Bird Report is a service provided by your Buffalo Museum of Science and the Buffalo Ornithological Society. To contact the Science Museum, call 896-5200. WHITE-FACED IBIS was the highlight of reports received July 12 through July 19 from the Niagara Frontier Region. July 17, a WHITE-FACED IBIS was discovered in the Niagara County Town of Lewiston, at the Modern Landfill Wetlands, on the east side of Porter Center Road, between Balmer and Landon Roads. Still present on the 18th, this would be the region's first modern record of WHITE-FACED IBIS; since a specimen was collected on the Niagara River in 1844(!). Also in the Wetlands, two each of STILT SANDPIPER and SHORT- B. DOWITCHER, plus SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, KILLDEER, SPOTTED SANDPIPER, SEMIPALM. SANDPIPER, LEAST SANDPIPER and AMERICAN WOODCOCK. SHORT-B. DOWITCHERS also this week at the Countryside Gravel Ponds on Route 62 in the Town of Dayton, and on the Lake Erie shore at Windmill Point in Fort Erie, Ontario, with SANDERLING, WHITE-R. SANDPIPER and DUNLIN, plus a high summer count of 50 COMMON MERGANSERS. RED-HEADED WDPKRS. continues at the north end of Squaw Island in Buffalo's Black Rock section - 2 adults and 2 juveniles in the cottonwoods beyond the railroad bridge. Another two RED-HEADED WDPKRS. in the Genesee County Town of Alexander, at Day and Sprague Roads. CLAY-COL. SPARROW reported this week in the Chautauqua County Town of Portland. PRAIRIE WARBLERS at two locations in northern Cattaraugus County - at Hilliker and Block Roads in Ashford, and the forest road in Bush Hill State Forest, located in the Town of Farmersville. From the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area - BLACK TERN count up to 19, while the GREAT EGRET roost diminishes to 14. The heronry above the Horseshoe Falls at Niagara Falls included 24 GREAT EGRETS with seven on nest, 6 adult and 19 immature BL.-CR. NIGHT-HERONS, and 391 D.-CREST. CORMORANTS with 151 nests. Further up the Niagara River, at the electric towers off Buckhorn Island State Park, a roost of 634 D.-CREST. CORMORANTS. Other reports this week - PEREGRINE FALCONS - one atop the south Grand Island bridge, and a family of three near the UB nest site on the Winspear Avenue chimney. In the Town of Wheatfield, on Liberty Road, a colony of CLIFF SWALLOWS, with 6 adults present and 32 nests. And, numerous CHIMNEY SWIFTS this summer over Route 5 in the Town of Evans. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, July 26. Please call in your sightings by noon Thursday. You may report sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting. - End Transcript _______________________________________________ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists - the provincial birding organization. Send bird reports to [email protected] For information about ONTBIRDS visit http://www.ofo.ca/
