I have posted four Corn Crake photos to my flickr site. Sue and I were very pleased that so many birders got to see this bird. The rarity of this species is such that, according to Bull’s Birds of New York State (1998), the last record was a bird that was shot in a rye field in Orient in 1963. This was the first NYS record in seventy-five years. National Geographic’s “Complete Birds of North America” stated that it has been only recorded five times in North America, most recently in 2002. These are dated references, and we are aware of a recent record from Maine, originally identified as a Yellow Rail - there are likely others.
Good Birding! Ken & Sue Feustel http://www.flickr.com/photos/kfeustel/ -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
