- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 08/12/2010
* NYBU1008.12
- Birds mentioned
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BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING-DUCK
YEL.-CR. NIGHT-HERON
D.-crest. Cormorant
Great Egret
Cooper's Hawk
Peregrine Falcon
Semipalmated Plover
Killdeer
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Solitary Sandpiper
Spotted Sandpiper
Semipalm. Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Wilson's Snipe
Acadian Flycatcher
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Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Date: 08/12/2010
Number: 716-896-1271
To Report: Same
Compiler: David F. Suggs (dfsuggs localnet com)
Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario
Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Dial-a-Bird is a service provided by your Buffalo Museum of Science
and the Buffalo Ornithological Society. Press (2) to leave a message,
(3) for updates, meeting and field trip information and (4) for
instructions on how to report sightings. To contact the Science
Museum, call 896-5200.
Highlights of reports received August 5 through August 12 from the
Niagara Frontier Region include and YEL.-CR. NIGHT-HERON.
August 11, a new species for the Niagara Frontier Region - a
BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING-DUCK in the Tonawanda Wildlife Management
Area, in a marsh west of Route 77, between Cayuga Pool and Meadville
Road. Use Cayuga Pool for safe parking. Still present on the 12th,
there have been recent, first records of BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING-DUCKS
in Central and Downstate New York.
August 9 and 10, a very rare, juvenile YEL.-CR. NIGHT-HERON at the
west end of Dunkirk Harbor, on Lake Erie in Chautauqua County.
Near the BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING-DUCK in Iroquois Refuge this week -
shorebirds at two locations along Feeder Road north of Route 77
included SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, KILLDEER, GREATER YELLOWLEGS, LESSER
YELLOWLEGS, SOLITARY SANDPIPER, SPOTTED SANDPIPER, SEMIPALM.
SANDPIPER, LEAST SANDPIPER, PECTORAL SANDPIPER, and WILSON'S SNIPE. At
Mohawk Pool, 3 D.-CREST. CORMORANTS and 30 GREAT EGRETS.
Also this week - 2 ACADIAN FLYCATCHERS on Barlett Hill Road in The
Town of Villenova. Family of COOPER'S HAWKS continue in a yard on
Grove Street in Angola. And, PEREGRINE FALCONS still in the Winspear
Avenue nest box area at the UB Main Street Campus.
Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, August 19. Please call
in your sightings by noon Thursday. You may report sightings after the
tone. Thank you for calling and reporting to Dial-a-Bird.
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