- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 05/16/2013 * NYBU1305.16 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to [email protected] -------------------------------------------
PIPING PLOVER WHITE-FACED IBIS GLOSSY IBIS AMER. WHITE PELICAN Least Bittern Greater Scaup Osprey Black-bellied Plover American Golden-Plover Semipalmated Plover Killdeer Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Solitary Sandpiper Ruddy Turnstone Least Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Dunlin Short-b. Dowitcher Wilson's Phalarope Bonaparte's Gull Caspian Tern Common Tern Forster's Tern Black Tern Least Flycatcher Gr. Cr. Flycatcher Red-br. Nuthatch Veery Swainson's Thrush Wood Thrush American Pipit Blue-headed Vireo Yellow-thr. Vireo Warbling Vireo Philadelphia Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Golden-wing. Warbler Tennessee Warbler Orange-cr. Warbler Nashville Warbler Northern Parula Yellow Warbler Chestnut-s. Warbler Magnolia Warbler Cape May Warbler Bl.-thr. Bl. Warbler Yellow-r. Warbler Bl.-thr. Green Warb. Blackburnian Warbler Yellow-thr. Warbler Pine Warbler Palm Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Bl. and w. Warbler American Redstart Ovenbird Common Yellowthroat Hooded Warbler Scarlet Tanager Rose-br. Grosbeak Indigo Bunting Lincoln's Sparrow White-thr. Sparrow White-cr. Sparrow Orchard Oriole Baltimore Oriole - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 05/16/2013 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, May 16, 2013 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. Press the pound key to report sightings before the end of this report. Highlights of reports received May 9 through May 16 from the Niagara Frontier Region include PIPING PLOVER, WHITE-FACED IBIS, GLOSSY IBIS and AMER. WHITE PELICAN. Mid-May is the region's peak for all migrants - from regular to exceptional rarities. May 11, a migrant PIPING PLOVER was found at the Batavia Waste Water Plant, in Batavia, New York. An endangered species in the Great Lakes region, this would be the first May record in the BOS archives, and the fourth record in the past twenty years. There have been no additional reports since the 11th. Also at the Batavia Waste Water Plant, 2 BLACK TERNS. The rare GLOSSY IBIS found May 6 at the Berry Road Marsh in the Chautauqua County Town of Pomfret was joined by an apparent WHITE-FACED IBIS on May 10. Just the second modern record of WHITE-FACED IBIS in the region. May 16, a second-hand report of one or two AMER. WHITE PELICANS on the Niagara River near the north Grand Island Bridge. Warbler migration has peaks and gaps, but lists of over 20 species in a day were reported this week. Highlights included a YELLOW-THR. WARBLER, May 9, at the Evangola State Park woods, in southern Erie County, and a GOLDEN-WING. WARBLER, May 11, at Wilson-Tuscaurora State Park. Other migrant reports - an ORCHARD ORIOLE by the dump at Forest Lawn in Buffalo, and multiple reports of LEAST FLYCATCHER, GR. CR. FLYCATCHER, YELLOW-THR. VIREO, BLUE- HEADED VIREO, WARBLING VIREO, PHILADELPHIA VIREO, RED-EYED VIREO, VEERY, SWAINSON'S THRUSH, WOOD THRUSH, AMERICAN PIPIT, LINCOLN'S SPARROW, WHITE-THR. SPARROW, WHITE-CR. SPARROW, SCARLET TANAGER, ROSE-BR. GROSBEAK, INDIGO BUNTING and BALTIMORE ORIOLE. Winter-like feeder reports - at Sunset Beach on Lake Ontario in Carlton, EVENING GROSBEAKS on May 10 and 12. In Evans, a dozen PINE SISKINS, and the latest and maybe last report of COMMON REDPOLL, May 9 in Clarence. At least a dozen shorebird species this week at Cayuga Pool in the Iroquois Refuge, highlighted by a rare in spring AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER, and scarce WILSON'S PHALAROPE, plus BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER, SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, KILLDEER, SOLITARY SANDPIPER, GREATER YELLOWLEGS, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, LEAST SANDPIPER, PECTORAL SANDPIPER, DUNLIN and SHORT-B. DOWITCHER. Also at Cayuga Pool, an unexpected location for 2 FORSTER'S TERNS on May 15. Also this week - RUDDY TURNSTONES on the Wilson Pier on Lake Ontario, with CASPIAN TERN, COMMON TERN, FORSTER'S TERN and BONAPARTE'S GULLS. A lingering GREATER SCAUP on the upper Niagara River between Buckhorn Island State Park and Navy Island. LEAST BITTERNS heard in the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area. OSPREYS nesting on the Niagara Peninsula of Ontario in Fort Erie and the Beaverdams Ponds near Saint Catharines. And, RED-BR. NUTHATCH nesting in Forest Lawn. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, May 23. 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/
