-RBA * New York * New York City, Long Island, Westchester County * Dec. 23, 2022 * NYNY2212.23
- Birds Mentioned PINK-FOOTED GOOSE+ SHORT-BILLED GULL+ TOWNSEND'S WARBLER+ PAINTED BUNTING+ (+ Details requested by NYSARC) Greater White-fronted Goose Cackling Goose TRUMPETER SWAN Eurasian Wigeon TUFTED DUCK BARROW’S GOLDENEYE Harlequin Duck Red-necked Grebe Western Sandpiper Long-billed Dowitcher RED PHALAROPE DOVEKIE Razorbill Black-legged Kittiwake BLACK-HEADED GULL Iceland Gull Glaucous Gull BROWN PELICAN Osprey Bald Eagle Rough-legged Hawk Barn Owl Short-eared Owl Northern Saw-whet Owl Red Crossbill Lapland Longspur Yellow-breasted Chat Ovenbird Black-and-white Warbler Tennessee Warbler Orange-crowned Warbler Nashville Warbler Northern Parula Wilson's Warbler SUMMER TANAGER 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: Gail Benson [~BEGIN RBA TAPE~] Greetings! This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for Friday, December 23, 2022 at 10:00 pm. The highlights of today's tape are SHORT-BILLED GULL, TOWNSEND'S WARBLER, RED PHALAROPE, PAINTED BUNTING, BROWN PELICAN, PINK-FOOTED GOOSE, TRUMPETER SWAN, TUFTED DUCK, BARROW’S GOLDENEYE, DOVEKIE, BLACK-HEADED GULL, SUMMER TANAGER, Christmas Count results and much more. Late this morning a Mew-type Gull was found in a Gull flock on the ball fields at Randall's Island, and subsequent review of photos indicates this appears to be a SHORT-BILLED GULL, the western North American form, as opposed to the Eurasian form of this species pair still known as Common Gull. Hopefully it will stick around. Two BLACK-HEADED GULLS were also present at Randall's Island today. The Brooklyn Christmas Count held Saturday among its 133 species recorded the TOWNSEND’S WARBLER still at Fort Greene Park at least to Wednesday. This and a NORTHERN PARULA were both new for the Count; and other highlights included a DOVEKIE and 115 RAZORBILLS off Breezy Point, WESTERN SANDPIPER and 3 LONG-BILLED DOWITCHERS at Jamaica Bay, RED-NECKED GREBE, 4 RED CROSSBILLS at Fort Tilden, and 9 ORANGE CROWNED plus BLACK-AND-WHITE and WILSON'S WARBLERS. A highlight on the Northern Nassau Count on Saturday was a RED PHALAROPE nicely photographed off Lloyd's Neck. Also occurring among their 105 species were a lingering PINK-FOOTED GOOSE, RED-NECKED GREBE, EURASIAN WIGEON on the Oyster Bay Mill Pond, RED CROSSBILL, and a YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT in Glen Head. The Montauk Count last Saturday recorded 131 species, including its first TRUMPETER SWAN, spotted around the northeastern side of Fort Pond and still in that area yesterday, and a PAINTED BUNTING at Fort Hill Cemetery. Other highlights included HARLEQUIN DUCK, over 2,500 RAZORBILLS, 51 BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKES plus GLAUCOUS and 4 ICELAND GULLS, BARN, 2 SHORT- EARED and 3 NORTHERN SAW-WHET OWLS, 22 BALD EAGLES and a ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK, YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT and 3 ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLERS. Other notable waterfowl for the week featured a PINK-FOOTED GOOSE along Oregon Road in Cutchogue Saturday, the drake BARROW’S GOLDENEYE back off Crab Meadow Beach in Northport as of Wednesday, and a drake TUFTED DUCK not yet in full plumage spotted Monday in Brookhaven along the Carman's River in Wertheim NWR, this duck sometimes seen off the terminus of Beaver Dam Road. Five HARLEQUIN DUCKS were seen today at Robert Moses State Park in Fire Island Inlet. A BROWN PELICAN recently in western Long Island Sound was spotted over Pelham Bay Park Wednesday but has not been pinned down. A DOVEKIE was found Wednesday off Crescent Beach in Huntington Bay and seen later just north of there at Hobart Beach, and a GLAUCOUS GULL visited Rockaway Beach last Sunday. RED CROSSBILLS this week included 8 along the Paumanok Trail near Jones Pond off Schultz Road in Manorville Saturday and 10 at Heckscher State Park Thursday, and a LAPLAND LONGSPUR was found at Cedar Beach last Sunday, when a SUMMER TANAGER was still visiting private feeders in Islip. The Riverside Drive YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT was still apparently present today near 111th Street in Manhattan. The Quogue-Watermill Count last Sunday recorded 111 species including CACKLING GOOSE and OSPREY, both new for the Count, plus 18 BALD EAGLES and 4 ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLERS. The Greenwich-Stamford Count Sunday netted 106 species including the GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE in Rye Brook and OVENBIRD, ORANGE-CROWNED, TENNESSEE and NASHVILLE WARBLERS; while among the Rockland Count’s 86 species on Sunday were new Count additions of CACKLING GOOSE and ORANGE- CROWNED WARBLER. 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/[email protected]/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/ --
