RBA * New York * New York City, Long Island, Westchester County * Apr. 03, 2026 * NYNY2604.03
- Birds Mentioned HARLEQUIN DUCK Red-necked Grebe Virginia Rail LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER Spotted Sandpiper Solitary Sandpiper BLACK-HEADED GULL Lesser Black-backed Gull ICELAND GULL CASPIAN TERN Northern Gannet Little Blue Heron RED-HEADED WOODPECKER White-eyed Vireo Blue-headed Vireo Marsh Wren WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW (GAMBEL’S-type) Black-throated Green Warbler 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, April 3, 2026 at 11:00 pm. The highlights of today's tape are BLACK-HEADED and ICELAND GULLS, CASPIAN TERN, HARLEQUIN DUCK, LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER, RED-HEADED WOODPECKER, GAMBEL’S-type WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW and various earlier spring migrants. A slow week, with the doldrums hopefully coming to an end soon. Our most interesting rarity possibly was the adult BLACK-HEADED GULL still present around Frank Melville Memorial Park and Pond in Setauket at least to Monday. An ICELAND GULL was also still visiting the Brooklyn Army Terminal Pier 4 as of Thursday, and a few LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS continue to be reported, while an interesting arrival featured a CASPIAN TERN spotted Tuesday in the bay by the Croton-Harmon train station in Westchester.. Out at Montauk Point, 6 HARLEQUIN DUCKS were spotted offshore Saturday, and back at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge 2 LONG-BILLED DOWITCHERS were noted visiting the West Pond Saturday through Monday. NORTHERN GANNETS have been streaming east along Long Island’s south shore in good numbers recently, but very few appearing in western Long Island Sound have featured 5 off City Island in the Bronx Tuesday, with just a few other scattered GANNET sightings this week, though a RED-NECKED GREBE was also spotted off City Island today. An adult RED-HEADED WOODPECKER continues near the shore at Marshlands Conservancy in Rye, and a GAMBEL'S-type WHITE CROWNED SPARROW was still visiting Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery today, lingering in bushes east of Sylvan Waters . Among the recently arriving migrants this week have been VIRGINIA RAIL, SOLITARY and SPOTTED SANDPIPERS, LITTLE BLUE HERON, WHITE-EYED and BLUE-HEADED VIREOS, MARSH WREN, and a BLACK-THROATED GREEN WARBLER, this in Prospect Park Monday. 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 --
