- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 07/18/2014 * NYBU1407.18 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to dsu...@buffaloornithologicalsociety.org -------------------------------------------
WHITE-WINGED SCOTER FORSTER'S TERN SANDHILL CRANE Black Vulture Ruddy Turnstone Least Sandpiper Short-b. Dowitcher L. Black-b. Gull Cliff Swallow - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 07/18/2014 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Friday, July 18, 2014 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 July 10 through July 18 from the Niagara Frontier Region include WHITE-WINGED SCOTER, FORSTER'S TERN and SANDHILL CRANES. In the Niagara Falls gorge, July 12, three WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS, two adults and one immature, near the Maid of the Mist landing. Only four previous July records of WHITE-WINGED SCOTER in the BOS archives. Another rare species in July, a FORSTER'S TERN at the Batavia Waste Water Plant on the 13th. This species has now occurred at the plant in July the for three years. SANDHILL CRANES continue recent breeding in the region - July 14, two adults with two young on Casey Road near the Iroquois Refuge headquarters. July 12, two L. BLACK-B. GULLS at the Lewiston power reservoir. One first summer and the other third summer plumage. Also this week - BLACK VULTURES residing year round in the Village of Lewiston. Four BLACK VULTURES roosted at Mohawk and North Second Street. Shorebird on the north shore of Lake Erie in Ontario - 9 SHORT-B. DOWITCHERS at the Mosaic Ponds north of Rock Point Park and on the lake shore, small numbers of LEAST SANDPIPERS and RUDDY TURNSTONES. And, on Tonawanda Island in North Tonawanda, 195 CLIFF SWALLOWS. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, July 24. 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 birdalert@ontbirds.ca For information about ONTBIRDS including how to unsubscribe visit http://www.ofo.ca/site/page/view/information.ontbirdssetup Posting guidelines can be found at http://www.ofo.ca/site/page/view/information.ontbirdsguide
