- RBA * New York * New York City, Long Island, Westchester County * Nov. 8, 2019 * NYNY1911.08
- Birds mentioned BROWN PELICAN+ PURPLE GALLINULE+ PAINTED BUNTING+ (+ Details requested by NYSARC) RAZORBILL PARASITIC JAEGER BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKE Lesser Black-backed Gull Royal Tern Forster's Tern Common Tern EURASIAN WIGEON KING EIDER AMERICAN AVOCET Long-billed Dowitcher Purple Sandpiper MARBLED GODWIT American Oystercatcher WESTERN KINGBIRD Common Raven Snow Bunting Vesper Sparrow LARK SPARROW Orange-crowned Warbler YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT - Transcript If followed by (+) please submit documentation of your report electronically and use the NYSARC online submission form found at http://www.nybirds.org/NYSARC/goodreport.htm You can also send reports and digital image files via email to nysarc44 (at)nybirds{dot}org. If electronic submission is not possible, hardcopy reports and photos or sketches are welcome. Hardcopy documentation should be mailed to: Gary Chapin - Secretary NYS Avian Records Committee (NYSARC) 125 Pine Springs Drive Ticonderoga, NY 12883 Hotline: New York City Area Rare Bird Alert Number: (212) 979-3070 Compiler: Tom Burke Coverage: New York City, Long Island, Westchester County Transcriber: Ben Cacace BEGIN TAPE Greetings. This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for Friday, November 8th 2019 at 8pm. The highlights of today's tape are PURPLE GALLINULE, PAINTED BUNTING, BROWN PELICAN, WESTERN KINGBIRD, AMERICAN AVOCET, MARBLED GODWIT, EURASIAN WIGEON, KING EIDER, RAZORBILL, BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKE, PARASITIC JAEGER, LARK SPARROW, YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT and more. Once again befitting its very unpredictable nature a PURPLE GALLINULE appeared Saturday on Turtle Pond in Central Park. This immature unfortunately only stayed there one day. Long enough to provide the park with its second record following one back in 1928. Late Sunday afternoon a female type PAINTED BUNTING was found near the visitors center at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. After being pursued around the parking lot for a couple of hours Monday morning the BUNTING flew south and was not seen again. An immature BROWN PELICAN continues its stay around the inlet to Montauk Harbor actually seen today roosting with gulls on the lawn of the Coast Guard Station and last Sunday 2 immature BROWN PELICANS were seen flying by Coney Island Creek Park in Brooklyn with one noted at Coney Island Beach on Monday while Tuesday also produced one out east along Dune Road. Last Saturday 2 WESTERN KINGBIRDS were uncovered in and occasionally seen simultaneously at Jones Beach West End. One or two were found daily from Sunday at least through Thursday but we so far have no reports from today. At Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge the large numbers of waterfowl gathering there continue to feature a drake EURASIAN WIGEON usually at the south end of the East Pond or near the Raunt. A few shorebird species remaining there do include 2 AMERICAN AVOCETS still on Tuesday mixing with the many Greater Yellowlegs at the pond's south end. Another AMERICAN AVOCET visited Santapogue Creek in West Babylon Monday and Tuesday this site still producing a couple of LONG-BILLED DOWITCHERS and yet another AVOCET was also seen from a boat in the bay north of Lido Beach on Wednesday. Two MARBLED GODWITS were still visiting the island off the Jones Beach West End Coast Guard Station yesterday along with a large flock of AMERICAN OYSTERCATCHERS. Last Sunday a female KING EIDER dropped down onto a grassy oval at parking lot 5 in Robert Moses State Park and stayed for awhile and on Wednesday another drake EURASIAN WIGEON was spotted on Long Pond in Sayre Park, Bridgehampton. Seawatching off Robert Moses State Park field 2 on Tuesday produced the fall's first RAZORBILL, an adult BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKE and 2 PARASITIC JAEGERS. Other PARASITIC JAEGERS during the week included 2 noted off Jones Beach Sunday and again yesterday and one cruising by Coney Island Beach Monday. Lingering along the coast have been some LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS with 3 at Coney Island Beach Sunday as well as some ROYAL, FORSTER'S and even some COMMON TERNS and various shorebirds including some arriving PURPLE SANDPIPERS. The YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT in Sayville last Saturday preceded one in Central Park today while this week's warbler list was similar to last week's including a few ORANGE-CROWNEDS. A LARK SPARROW was seen in Heckscher State Park Wednesday and yesterday while several VESPER SPARROWS included 2 each in Brooklyn's Calvert Vaux Park and at Jones Beach West End Sunday and on Governors Island Wednesday. Some NELSON'S SPARROWS coastally were joined by one reported from Central Park last weekend. Some SNOW BUNTINGS have also arrived recently and indicative of their dramatic increase in numbers in recent years a group of 9 COMMON RAVENS flew by the Fire Island Hawkwatch last Saturday. To phone in reports call Tom Burke at (914) 967-4922. This service is sponsored by the Linnaean Society of New York and the National Audubon Society. Thank you for calling. - End transcript -- 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/ --