- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 12/15/2016 * NYBU1612.15 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to [email protected] -------------------------------------------
SHORT-EARED OWL PINE SISKIN SABINE'S GULL BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE BLACK-HEADED GULL LITTLE GULL GLAUCOUS GULL THAYER'S GULL ICELAND GULL L. BLACK-B. GULL BONAPARTE'S GULL RING-BILLED GULL HERRING GULL GREAT BLACK-B. GULL HARLEQUIN DUCK TUNDRA SWAN - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 12/15/2016 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, December 15, 2016 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 December 8 through December 15 from the Niagara Frontier Region. December 13, a SHORT-EARED OWL near the Sheridan Cemetery, outside Fredonia in Chautauqua County. Also 4 WHITE-CR. SPARROWS and 7 AMER. TREE SPARROWS. In Cheektowaga, PINE SISKINS at a feeder near the airport. On the Niagara River, 12 gull species on December 10. Highlights were on the lower river - SABINE'S GULL roosting upriver from the power plants, BLACK-LEG. KITTIWAKE at the power plants, BLACK-HEADED GULL continues at the Whirlpool with LITTLE GULL, and above the falls, GLAUCOUS GULL at the water control gates in Ontario. Other gull species reported on the river - BONAPARTE'S GULL, RING-BILLED GULL, HERRING GULL, THAYER'S GULL, ICELAND GULL, L. BLACK-B. GULL and GREAT BLACK-B. GULL. Also on the river, 2 HARLEQUIN DUCKS above the falls and 50 TUNDRA SWANS at the beach at Beaver Island State Park on Grand Island. And on Lake Ontario, a pair of TUNDRA SWANS continue at Point Breeze in Orleans County. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, December 22. 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 (OFO) - the provincial birding organization. Send bird reports to [email protected] 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 Visit the OFO Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/OntarioFieldOrnithologists
