Many thanks for posting this Alyssa! I am delighted to see Sarah receiving the
credit she fully deserves for her discovery of not just such a “stonker” of a
bird but also for her work as a Piping Plover monitor.
My congratulations to her and thanks to you for sharing this information about
Sarah’s work.
Cheers,
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> On Sep 28, 2021, at 12:22 PM, Johnson, Alyssa <alyssa.john...@audubon.org>
> wrote:
>
> Another congrats to Sarah, for this exciting first sighting!
>
> FLCC grad’s bird sighting is a first for New York
>
> “It’s not a standard job title: piping plover technician.
>
> For nearly a year, Sarah Forestiere, a 2018 graduate of Finger Lakes
> Community College, has monitored two nesting pairs of the federally
> endangered shorebird at Sandy Island Beach State Park on Lake Ontario, for
> the state Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Only 60
> nesting pairs are known to be scattered throughout the Great Lakes.
>
> She has kept records of the birds’ activity, taught park visitors about
> piping plovers, and set up snow fence around their nests to protect their
> eggs and the chicks, which she describes as “cotton balls that weigh the same
> as two pennies.”
>
> All this made Forestiere qualified to recognize that a visitor to Sandy
> Island on Sept. 13 was a plover, but not a piping plover.
>
> She checked guides and concluded it was a snowy plover, common to the
> southern and western U.S. and the Caribbean. She confirmed her find with an
> amateur birdwatcher, Matt Brown, who encouraged her to post it on the Cornell
> Lab of Ornithology’s eBird app.”
>
>
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> Alyssa Johnson
> Environmental Educator
> 315.365.3588
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> Montezuma Audubon Center
> PO Box 187
> 2295 State Route 89
> Savannah, NY 13146
> Montezuma.audubon.org
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> From: bounce-125911115-79436...@list.cornell.edu
> <bounce-125911115-79436...@list.cornell.edu> On Behalf Of Jay McGowan
> Sent: Monday, September 13, 2021 11:28 PM
> To: nysbird...@cornell.edu; oneidabi...@yahoogroups.com; Cayugabirds-L
> <Cayugabirds-L@cornell.edu>; geneseebirds-l <geneseebird...@geneseo.edu>
> Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Snowy Plover and Common Ringed Plover, Sandy Pond
> (Oswego Co.)
>
> Matt Brown found a SNOWY PLOVER on the beach at Sandy Pond in Oswego County
> this morning. The bird was still present this evening, on the lake side of
> the south spit. At about 6:04PM, it took off to join a passing flock of
> Sanderlings and they headed south out of sight down the beach. It's possible
> they stopped farther down, but they were definitely gone from the pond outlet
> area before dusk. Access to this area is best by boat, but you can reportedly
> also walk north from Sandy Island Beach State Park.
>
> Then just before dusk I found a juvenile COMMON RINGED PLOVER on the sandy
> shoal on the west side of Carl's Island in the bay. I was checking out some
> of the array of shorebirds there, which included Red Knot, American
> Golden-Plover, and Long-billed Dowitcher. As it was getting dark, I got on a
> small plover giving melancholy calls in flight, quite unlike Semipalmated,
> and I immediately suspected it was a ringed. Once it landed I was able to get
> closer and call Drew Weber and Larry Chen who I had been birding with back
> over to the island, and we were able to get some documentation shots in the
> fading light. Plumage seemed consistent with a juvenile Common Ringed:
> overall noticeably larger and plumper than nearby Semipalmated. Dark breast
> band distinctly broken in center and bulging down on both sides. Lores dark
> and no white wedge at gape. Closeups on photos show no sign of paler orbital
> ring around eye. It continued to call occasionally when other shorebirds
> would vocalize. It was still present on the south side of the shoal when we
> left well after sunset. This flock would be visible by scope from the south
> spit of the pond outlet, but ID would be challenging at that distance.
> Otherwise access is by boat, putting in either at Greene Point marina
> (paddlecraft launch fee $7) or the public launch on Doreen Dr. at the far
> east side of the bay.
>
> Checklist with photos and a recording of the ringed plover here:
> https://ebird.org/atlasny/checklist/S94634252
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> Jay McGowan
> jw...@cornell.edu
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