- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 06/01/2017 * NYBU1706.01 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to dsu...@buffaloornithologicalsociety.org -------------------------------------------
BROWN PELICAN PIPING PLOVER FRANKLIN'S GULL BLACK-NECKED STILT RED-NECKED PHALAROPE WILSON'S PHALAROPE Whimbrel Red Knot Barred Owl Common Nighthawk Whip-poor-will Red-headed Wdpkr. Yellow-b. Sapsucker Yellow-b. Flycatcher Acadian Flycatcher Veery Gray-cheeked Thrush Swainson's Thrush Prothonotary Warbler Yellow-br. Chat Lincoln's Sparrow - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 06/01/2017 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, June 1, 2017 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 25 through June 1 from the Niagara Frontier Region. An immature BROWN PELICAN on the upper Niagara River off Riverside in Buffalo was the big story of the week. Present since at least May 28, the pelican has been observed from Aqua Lane and Black Rock Park, also known as the Ontario Street Boat Launch. Unlike the rare but annually occurring AMER. WHITE PELICAN, there are only four previous records of BROWN PELICAN in the past 45 years. Back on May 22, an endangered PIPING PLOVER in the Niagara County Town of Somerset, in a field at Lower Lake and Burgess Roads. On the 25th, a FRANKLIN'S GULL at the same location. Other shorebird highlights this week - two RED- NECKED PHALAROPES with the BLACK-NECKED STILT at Kumpf Marsh in the Iroquois Refuge. WILSON'S PHALAROPE along Youngstown-Wilson Road, west of Fitch Road in Niagara County. At the Batavia Waste Water Plant, five WHIMBRELS departed from the first pond. And five RED KNOTS, briefly stopped at the Erie Basin Marina in Buffalo. Elusive YELLOW-BR. CHAT heard at Wilson- Tuscaurora State Park in Niagara County, and another YELLOW-BR. CHAT and eight WHIP-POOR- WILLS heard after sunset on Wilson Road, at the Wainfleet Bog in Ontario. The Onondaga Trail at Sour Springs Road in the Iroquois Refuge is one the unique habitats in the refuge. On the 23rd, several each of BARRED OWL, YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKER and ACADIAN FLYCATCHER, plus migrant LINCOLN'S SPARROW and numbers of COMMON NIGHTHAWKS. Other reports this week - three PROTHONOTARY WARBLERS in the Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area Meadville Road Marshes. YELLOW-B. FLYCATCHER at Forest Lawn in Buffalo. RED- HEADED WDPKR. at the Seneca Manor in West Seneca. And, GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH, SWAINSON'S THRUSH and VEERY heard during night migration over Tonawanda. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, June 8. 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 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 Visit the OFO Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/OntarioFieldOrnithologists