[nysbirds-l] Kissena Corridor Park, Queens, New York

[syschiff]

Kissena Corridor Park, 27 September

Joe Giunta and I (Sy Schiff) arrived at 9:30. After a short walk on macadam, we 
moved on to the wood chips covered paths. Not a lot of birds, but what there 
was was rather continuous. So we kept busy. Among the birds were: 2 RING-NECKED 
PHEASANTS, YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER, AMERICAN KESTREL, EASTERN PHOEBE, 
EMPIDONAX FLYCATCHER  (broke up the monotony while we speculated on ID, 
although we left it as is), RUBY-CROWNED KINGLET, 
BLACK-AND-WHITE,YELLOWTHROAT,PARULA, MAGNOLIA, BLACKPOLL, and BLACK-THROATED 
GREEN WARBLERS and INDIGO BUNTINGS.

We then entered the adjacent Community Gardens. The area was a delight. Almost 
every plot had flowers in bloom. Here birding was a bit slow but all below eye 
level. We did manage a few YELLOWTHROATS, PALM WARBLERS, EASTERN GOLDFINCH and 
best of all, a perfect TENNESSEE WARBLER to end the morning.
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[nysbirds-l] Jones Beach Report - Flicker Migration

[Michael Zito]

Flickers are seemingly everywhere at Jones Beach, I just counted 10 in flight 
moving down the beach, and I reached 20 for my total count.

Mike Z.

Sent from my iPhone
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Re:[nysbirds-l] [ebirdsnyc] Central Park: Checklist vs. eBird.org

[Ben Cacace]

Ken,

This is great question. I have "The Birds of Central Park" checklist which
has 280 birds. I needed to add Belted Kingfisher to my version and
Saltmarsh Sharp-tailed Sparrow is now two spp. I'm not sure which one was
seen in the park so I added both. I'm not counting the warbler hybrids from
the checklist.

To see the 265 spp. of birds reported to eBird.org for Central Park you'll
need to combine all sub-locations. The easiest way to do this is to go to
the wiki page below and click on "Central Park" below the label "Combined
Bar Charts ...". It might take a few minutes for the bar charts to load:

http://ebirding-nys.wikispaces.com/Central+Park

I found that the following 14 birds are on the eBird.org list but not on
the Central Park checklist. eBird includes European Goldfinch:

Barnacle Goose
Greater Scaup
Great Cormorant
Boreal Owl
Rufous Hummingbird
Monk Parakeet
Pacific-slope Flycatcher
Common Raven
Varied Thrush
Hermit Warbler
Baird's Sparrow
Boat-tailed Grackle
Pine Grosbeak
European Goldfinch

More interesting are the 29 birds on the Central Park checklist that have
yet to make it into the eBird.org database. BTW, I've seen Mississippi Kite
twice in Central Park but these haven't been accepted. One sighting was on
12-Jun-2008:

http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S393 (includes image of field
notes)

Common Eider
Surf Scoter
White-winged Scoter
Long-tailed Duck
Ruffed Grouse
Least Bittern
Little Blue Heron
Tricolored Heron
Cattle Egret
Mississippi Kite
Clapper Rail
Semipalmated Plover
Whimbrel
White-rumped Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Red Phalarope
Caspian Tern
Forster's Tern
Snowy Owl
Short-eared Owl
Black-backed Woodpecker
Bell's Vireo
Horned Lark
Northern Wheatear
Snow Bunting
Townsend's Warbler
Le Conte's Sparrow
Nelson's Sparrow
Yellow-headed Blackbird

Adding up the 265 spp. in eBird plus the 29 spp. not entered into eBird yet
from the Central Park checklist would bring the total to 294 spp. If you
have a sighting that appears on the list of 29 these would be a great
addition to the eBird database. Historical sightings can be added. I've
added a few based on articles in journals. These are reviewed by the
moderator as are all other sightings.

Here's a sighting of Mississippi Kite by Ken Allaire on 25-May-2008 that
I've added. The report was accepted by NYSARC. I pasted an image of the
report onto the checklist:

http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S17960715

Ben Cacace
Manhattan, NYC


On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 8:38 AM, Ken Gale  wrote:

>
> Thank you, Ben!
> I didn't expect to see Central Park broken down into sections.
>
> I had been under the impression that the Central Park list was over 300.
> Is the lower number due to the criteria used in listing something?
>
> Happy bird-day,
> Ken
>
> On 9/26/2016 7:35 PM, Ben Cacace bcac...@gmail.com [ebirdsnyc] wrote:
>
>>
>> For the New York County (Boro of Manhattan) wiki pages I've determined
>> the Top 12 locations by species # and have kept the dynamic character for
>> these location pages. These include color highlighting based on the # of
>> spp. as shown on eBird maps, total # of spp. on the bar charts and a
>> 'Notable Finds' section showing the rarer species seen based on an
>> algorithm I've developed. This is similar to the Westchester County page.
>> The other locations are static and don't need month to month maintenance
>> making it possible to expand the Top 10 concept to more counties.
>>
>> Here are the top 15 locations for NY County. The Top 12 locations will be
>> highlighted in green to denote that these are dynamic pages:
>>
>> Central Park (265 spp.)
>> Inwood Hill Park (224 spp.)
>> Randall's Island (203 spp.)
>> Riverside Park (178 spp.)
>> Governors Island (168 spp.)
>> Peter Detmold (152 spp.)
>> Battery Park City Area (146 spp.)
>> Roosevelt Island (137 spp.)
>> Fort Tryon Park (130 spp.)
>> Hudson River Greenway--22nd-29th St. (125 spp.)
>> Swindler Cove Park (125 spp.)
>> Bryant Park (121 spp.)
>>
>> Morningside Park (Manhattan) (105 spp.)
>> Fort Washington Park (104 spp.)
>> Tribute in Light Memorial (100 spp.)
>>
>> http://ebirding-nys.wikispaces.com/New%20York
>> http://ebirding-nys.wikispaces.com/Westchester
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>> Ben Cacace
>> Manhattan, NYC
>> Wiki for NYS eBird Hotspots > s.com/Birding+in+New+York>
>> Facebook Discussion for NYS eBird Hotspots > ps/NYeBirdHotspots/>
>>
>> 
>> Posted by: Ben Cacace 
>> 
>>
>
>


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[nysbirds-l] Central Park, NYC 9/26

[Thomas Fiore]

Monday, 26 September, 2016
Central Park, Manhattan, N.Y. City

Some of us on Monday sought out a couple of Sunday's (9/25) more  
interesting birds, as seen (then) in the north end of the park - Clay- 
colored Sparrow & Vesper Sparrow - but were unsuccessful in re-finding  
these two uncommon-in-manhattan species this Monday.

On Sunday, in total, 10 species of sparrows were recorded in various  
locations in Central, with White-crowned, Lincoln's, Field, Chipping,  
Swamp, Song, White-throated, and Savannah being the other 8 in  
addition to the 2 rarer species   -   all of these 8 other sparrow  
species - as well as more of the Dark-eyed Juncos that had come in  
earlier in the week - were again present Monday, & in just one part of  
the north end - the Blockhouse & north woods, 15 species of warblers  
and nearby, great views of a Philadelphia Vireo, the latter on the  
Great Hill.  The most numerous warbler north of the reservoir to 110  
St. (the n. border of the park) was Palm, with more than 40 found,  
including in less-birded areas; several other warbler species were  
nearly as common this Monday in a variety of locations.

Species such as Blue-headed Vireo, Golden-crowned Kinglet, and Myrtle  
Warbler rather suddenly have increased from the more-minimal numbers  
of the end of summer (i.e., just a few days before) & today were in  
numbers approaching not-uncommon, based just on those seen from the  
only northern 1/2 of the park.

A rare-in-Manhattan butterfly was photographed on Sunday in the north  
end of Central Park, a Common Checkered-Skipper, for which historic  
documented records were found in Central by Nick Wagerik; Sunday's was  
found by Mike Freeman of Manhattan.

Thanks to the many observers who respect the birds and their fellow  
park users through quiet, unobtrusive and courteous observations - and  
to those walk-leaders who exemplify those standard principles.

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County Almanac" (1949), which has sold more than two million copies.

good birding,

Tom Fiore
Manhattan









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