-RBA * New York * New York City, Long Island, Westchester County * Mar. 06, 2026 * NYNY2603.06
- Birds Mentioned SWAINSON'S HAWK+ (+Details requested by NYSARC) Mute Swan TRUMPETER SWAN EURASIAN WIGEON KING EIDER Common Eider Harlequin Duck Red-necked Grebe American Oystercatcher Piping Plover American Woodcock THICK-BILLED MURRE BLACK-HEADED GULL GLAUCOUS GULL Lesser Black-backed Gull Iceland Gull PACIFIC LOON AMERICAN GOSHAWK RED-HEADED WOODPECKER Tree Swallow LAPLAND LONGSPUR 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, March 6, 2026 at 11:00 pm. The highlights of today’s tape are SWAINSON’S HAWK, PACIFIC LOON, TRUMPETER SWAN, THICK-BILLED MURRE, AMERICAN GOSHAWK, EURASIAN WIGEON, KING EIDER, BLACK-HEADED and GLAUCOUS GULLS, RED-HEADED WOODPECKER, LAPLAND LONGSPUR and more. The adult SWAINSON'S HAWK currently wintering in Brooklyn was present at least to Wednesday around the SIMS Municipal Recycling Center located around 29th Street, west of Second Avenue - access to this facility is restricted but the area can be viewed from outside the surrounding fencing. Also watch for it flying around the local neighborhood, including over Green-Wood Cemetery. A PACIFIC LOON apparently still hanging around Jones Inlet was seen off Jones Beach West End on Tuesday and reported there again today. Causing quite a stir recently has been a TRUMPETER SWAN lingering in the East River along the Brooklyn and Queens shorelines with an accompanying MUTE SWAN. This pair has been moving up as far as Hunters Point in Queens on the north end of their travels and then down river as far as Wallabout Channel in Brooklyn, today spending some time around the Austin Nichols House a little north of the Williamsburg Bridge. A THICK-BILLED MURRE was photographed last Saturday as it fed along the west side of Shinnecock Inlet, but more challenging has been a fairly elusive immature AMERICAN GOSHAWK seen briefly several times over the last week or so as it travels around the vegetation in the dunes at Jones Beach West End. Among the waterfowl, a EURASIAN WIGEON continues to be seen on Agawam Lake in Southampton, a female KING EIDER was spotted Wednesday in Gardiners Bay with a group of COMMON EIDERS, and 12 HARLEQUIN DUCKS were counted off Point Lookout last Saturday. A BLACK-HEADED GULL was photographed again Saturday at Plumb Beach in Brooklyn, with another continuing in Jones Inlet, often seen at the Point Lookout side. A GLAUCOUS GULL was spotted Saturday in Gravesend Bay in Brooklyn, along with a couple of ICELAND GULLS, and among several other ICELANDS were birds noted at Great Kills Park, Floyd Bennett Field, Crab Meadow Beach, Robert Moses State Park and Oldfield Point and Lighthouse. Some LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS also continue locally at coastal sites where gulls gather. A couple of RED-NECKED GREBES were present Sunday and Wednesday off City Island in the Bronx, and a single was viewed Wednesday and today off Floyd Bennett Field. An adult RED-HEADED WOODPECKER continues at Marshlands Conservancy in Rye, and a LAPLAND LONGSPUR was seen Sunday to Wednesday at Smith Point County Park. Recent arrivals regionally, hopefully showing good judgment, included a few AMERICAN OYSTERCATCHERS, a PIPING PLOVER at Jones Beach, a few vocalizing AMERICAN WOODCOCK, and a TREE SWALLOW or two. 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: Visit: http://LISTS.cornell.edu for more information Posting Address: [email protected] Archives: The Mail Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html Sightings: Please submit your observations to eBird at http://www.ebird.org --
