[nysbirds-l] NYS eBird Hotspots: State, Counties & Locations Updated (Mar/'17)

[Ben Cacace]

Thanks to @Team_eBird for their dedication to keeping eBird.org running
smoothly and for the group of New York State hotspot moderators for their
time reviewing shared location suggestions.

The wiki page site was developed to access data on eBird.org and in places
it includes additional links to birding resources at the county and
location levels. If you have any suggestions for additional links please
send them to me off list.

*Species totals* have been updated for all county pages. This includes the
total number of species with an equivalent color code highlighting the
county name based on colors used on eBird maps. The alphabetical list of
counties on the main page has been updated with total spp. #.

*Hotspot pages*: All location pages have been updated on the wiki. These
include 534 pages representing a total of 1,143 out of 5,455 hotspots (21.0%).
Updates involve # of species and color codings based on species # along
with updated 2017 periods on the bar chart tables displaying the Current
Month: Mar./2017, Prior Month: Feb./2017 and the current two month period
Feb.-Mar./2017 along with the current year: 2017.

For the following counties there are individual wiki pages for the *Top 10
locations* at the top of the list of shared locations: Cayuga, Erie,
Monroe, Niagara, Orange, Oswego, Seneca, Tompkins, Kings (Brooklyn),
Queens, Richmond (Staten Island), Nassau and Suffolk Counties. *Westchester
and New York (Borough of Manhattan) Counties have all shared locations*
linked to wikipages.

Counties with *'static' pages* do not need to be maintained on a monthly
basis. These include pages for at least the Top 10 locations: Chautauqua,
Bronx, Hamilton, Jefferson & Onondaga. *Putnam County has all shared
locations* linked to wikipages.

*Bar Charts (Species Lists)*: For all county and top 10 location pages
there are tables showing the months, seasons and several time frames for
the current year. Clicking any of these links will bring up a complete list
of species and other taxa with bar charts representing abundance. To see a
list of species for *all* periods click on the name above the months i.e.
'New York State (478 spp.)' or 'Essex County (270 spp.)'.

*Maps of sightings*: After bringing up a bar chart list you'll see a MAP
button to the right of each species. Clicking this will produce a map of
the latest sightings. Red icons show sightings within the past 30 days.
Click on the icons to see a list of who reported each species and click on
'Checklist' to view their submission. Click on 'Explore Rich Media' in the
right sidebar to view locations with photos, audio or video. These also
exist for any multi-location page combining the hotspots associated with
the location i.e. Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area in Monroe County with
its 17 locations.

*Printable Checklists*: a link has been created to produce an eBird
checklist (PDF format) for all hotspots on the wiki site. Additional
details are in this email sent to the list <
https://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/msg20153.html >.

*Tide Graphs* exist for New York County, Kings County (Brooklyn) and
Richmond County (Staten Island). There's a quick link to the tide graphs on
the "Go To >" line highlighted in blue for each location. If there are
multiple graphs on a page the left/right is generally north/south or
west/east. If you spot any issues please let me know off line.

Click '*Overview*' on any of the wiki pages to bring up a sortable list of
all species along with the latest checklists submitted and a list of the
Top eBirders. The default sort is for the latest additions to the State,
County or location.

Check out '*My Location Life List*', '*My County Life List*' and '*My State
Life List*' links on their respective pages.

For each location page click on '*Google Map Directions*' to bring up a
Google Map page. On Google Maps click 'Directions' then 'Transit' to plot a
public transportation route. By clicking 'More Options and Times' you can
refine your search. This also works with 'Driving' and 'Walking'.

— Home page: http://ebirding-nys.wikispaces.com/Birding+in+New+York
— Clickable map:
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— Alphabetical counties:
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Re: [nysbirds-l] FW: Great Gray Owl at Robert Moses State Park, Massena

[Tim Healy]

For what it is worth, there is an eBird report from yesterday, Monday the 27th, 
reporting a single Great Gray in the same general area at 5:15. This was 
apparently after 10 hours on site searching. 

http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S34858471

Cheers!
-Tim H

> On Feb 28, 2017, at 7:42 PM, Jeff Bolsinger  wrote:
> 
> Mary Curtis reports seeing one Great Gray Owl this afternoon at about 3:45 on 
> Barnhart Island Road just north of Eisenhower Lock. To my knowledge this is 
> the first sighting at Robert Moses State Park since one was seen by many 
> observers in the same location on 25 February, despite large numbers of 
> birders searching Sunday and Monday.
> 
> Jeff Bolsinger
> Canton, NY 
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RE: [nysbirds-l] Red-tailed Hawk subspecies and eBird reporting them

[Steve Walter]

I would think that the dynamics are different in subspecies that are
distributed north vs. south, as opposed to east vs. west. In early October,
the non-resident subspecies of Peregrine Falcon (tundrius) is more numerous
in the our area than the locally breeding form. 

 

I suspect that the Northern Red-tailed Hawk is probably more common than
realized in winter. It's a matter of looking through them - and finding ones
you can feel comfortable identifying as such. There do seem to be
intergrades out there. At least in winter, a lot of Red-tails are in areas
where you can study them. It would be interesting to study the ones that are
here in summer and see how plumage variations compare to that seen in
winter. Easier said than done, as I don't find many that are as easily
accessible ( a little dangerous to stop along the Northern State and LIE for
a better look). For those interested in the subject of Northern Red-tailed
Hawk identification (and not so much the reporting aspect of this), I
recently updated a page that I did last winter. I've added a couple of
pictures of an individual that has been wintering in Queens the last two
years. It's been challenging to get good pictures of it sitting, as it's
very skittish. Not that that clinches anything, but it's in stark contrast
to so many of the tame Red-tails that inhabit Long Island and NYC. The page
can be found at my web site  http://stevewalternature.com/ , under Birds,
Photo Galleries (Northern Red-tailed Hawks).

 

 

Steve Walter

Bayside, NY


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[nysbirds-l] Central Park Reservoir birds

[Patricia Pollock]

All three Grebes were at the NE section of Reservoir about 1 pm today:  
Red-Necked Grebe moving and diving close to retaining wall; 2 Pied-billed 
Grebes nearbyCommon Loon seen about 11:15 about middle of Reservoir closer to 
north sidePair of Hooded Mergansers also in NE cornerBuffleheadsAmerican 
CootsNorthern Shoveler 2 American Black Ducks in SE area American Kestral 
perched on roof 91st & Columbus

Pat Pollock2/28/17
On Sunday, 2/26 there were 3 Gadwalls in SE section along with Pied-billed 
Grebe; Red-Necked Grebe close to edge SW, Common Loon NE
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Re: [nysbirds-l] Red-tailed Hawk subspecies and eBird reporting them

[Michael Schrimpf]

Hi all,

I don't usually post to the list - I'm presently a PhD student at Stony
Brook, and also volunteer as an eBird reviewer.

I certainly agree with Shai that in most cases it is safe to assume that
all individuals observed belong to the common taxa, and when those are
reported in regions where this assumption is safe, eBird reviewers are
expected to accept those records. So, those Yellow-shafted Flickers in
Shai's example would all be validated in a NY checklist, even if an
observer may not have studied all 27 of those flickers carefully - that
would not be the case in western Kansas (where reporting flickers to
subspecies does require careful examination).

Speaking for myself (not with any authority from eBird Central) I
respectfully disagree with Shai's claim that it would be "incorrect" to
report those individuals that were seen clearly to subspecies, while
reporting the others to species.

Any analysis of the distribution of one of these taxa will need to make
filtering decisions about how to treat those individuals not recorded to
subspecies, and in this case would treat any 'Northern Flickers' as
Yellow-shafted Flickers, so the total numbers would not wind up being
misleading at all. I suppose that if you are scanning some of the output on
the eBird website, and looking through numbers of Yellow-shafted Flickers
alone (without the context of the rest of the checklist), it could be
misleading, but I see that more as a limitation to the data exploration
tools. Data recorded in different categories can always be lumped, but not
always split, so in my opinion recording finer scale information (like
which individuals you were able to ID to a more specific taxa) should not
be considered 'incorrect'. That is actually one reason why I make more
liberal use of the "spuh" and "slash" categories in eBird than many other
users.

While these are my views on the topic, I would welcome input from the eBird
team leaders (who have had many similar discussions internally and on the
eBird reviewer listserv). I've cc'ed Marshall Iliff here, and will put the
question to the reviewer listserv as well.

Cheers,
Michael Schrimpf
Suffolk County

On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 9:39 AM, Shaibal Mitra 
wrote:

> Hi Rich and all,
>
> This is a very interesting piece and definitely a helpful way to begin a
> broader conversation on this topic within the bird records community.
>
> As explained in this article, the question of how to report species and
> their subspecies is quite complex. I've thought about this a lot and have
> derived a set of guidelines that can be applied to the problem in a more
> general way, including the related challenge of reporting other sets of
> nested taxa, such as spuhs and their constituent species.
>
> Having read the article on Red-tailed Hawk taxa in Vermont, there are some
> issues that I think deserve extra emphasis.
>
> At the level of species and their subspecies, in most situations there is
> exactly one identifiable subspecies that is overwhelmingly more frequent
> and abundant than any other subspecies at any given site and any given
> date. There are actually surprisingly few situations in which the second
> most likely subspecies of a given species occurs frequently enough that it
> poses any challenge to the simple equation that a report of the species
> equals a report of the default subspecies in that situation.
>
> For a large number of species, only one subspecies has ever been recorded
> in a given area. For instance, all Northern Flickers ever studied
> critically in New York State have been Yellow-shafted, without even one
> exception in all of time. It would be flatly incorrect and misleading to
> include on a Vermont eBird checklist something like:
>
> 23 Northern Flicker--migrating
> 4 Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)--studied carefully
>
> Such an approach would mis-represent the number of Yellow-shafted Flickers
> observed, and the appropriate approach is to report 27 flickers as one line
> item, and it doesn't really matter which category one uses because they are
> effectively identical in Vermont in the 21st Century.
>
> At the next level of complexity, there are many cases in which one
> subspecies occurs regularly whereas others occur as rare vagrants. Thus, it
> can be presumed that all Brant observed on Long Island are hrota unless
> explicitly suspected as something else. It is simply an error to record
> something like this on a checklist from Jamaica Bay:
>
> 1 Brant (Black)--photos
> 300 Brant (Atlantic)--studied carefully
> 2,000 Brant--estimated
>
> Again, this grossly mis-represents the number of Atlantic Brant observed.
> The 2,000 neglected Brant can be assumed to be hrota because the greatest
> conceivable number of vagrant orientalis, bernicla, etc. that could be
> present is a very small number, hovering around zero at all times, and
> clearly smaller than the error implicit in the estimate. Whether one uses
> "Brant" or "Brant (Atlantic)" is almost irrel

[nysbirds-l] Lower Manhattan, also Bronx (Zoo) late winter notes

[Todd Olson]

No chase-able rarities in this note, but hopefully of interest...
Yesterday, after many months absence I saw again an unusually colored
American Kestrel - male bird with a very dark slate-colored ventral side.
It was accompanied in flight by a normally plumaged female.  This seen as
flyover at the newly minted NYC AIDS Memorial Park at 76 Greenwich Avenue
in West Village neighborhood of Manhattan. I understand that melanism is
rare in American Kestrel, and I hope to get an opportunity to photograph
this individual should it remain.

>From the Bronx Zoo, numbers of Rusty Blackbird dwindling of late. For many
weeks they have been in reliably good numbers from areas near Tiger
Mountain, Northern Ponds, and wet wooded drainage areas near Children's Zoo
and Bison Range.  Numbers of Common Grackle and Red-winged Blackbird now
increasing, though generally the Rusties are keeping to themselves as they
forage on wet leaf litter and sing from associated riparian growth.

The Zoo has hosted overwintering Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Eastern Towhee, and
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker. Fox Sparrow are beginning to sing, and a Swamp
Sparrow persists from the saltmarsh fleabane covered island in Bronx River
near the Fordham Road entrance.  Curiously the Zoo's conifer patches are
devoid of Red-breasted Nuthatch which birders have been reliably finding
just across Fordham Road in the New York Botanical Garden.

Todd Olson, greater NYC

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RE: [nysbirds-l] Red-tailed Hawk subspecies and eBird reporting them

[Shaibal Mitra]

Hi Rich and all,

This is a very interesting piece and definitely a helpful way to begin a 
broader conversation on this topic within the bird records community.

As explained in this article, the question of how to report species and their 
subspecies is quite complex. I've thought about this a lot and have derived a 
set of guidelines that can be applied to the problem in a more general way, 
including the related challenge of reporting other sets of nested taxa, such as 
spuhs and their constituent species.

Having read the article on Red-tailed Hawk taxa in Vermont, there are some 
issues that I think deserve extra emphasis.

At the level of species and their subspecies, in most situations there is 
exactly one identifiable subspecies that is overwhelmingly more frequent and 
abundant than any other subspecies at any given site and any given date. There 
are actually surprisingly few situations in which the second most likely 
subspecies of a given species occurs frequently enough that it poses any 
challenge to the simple equation that a report of the species equals a report 
of the default subspecies in that situation. 

For a large number of species, only one subspecies has ever been recorded in a 
given area. For instance, all Northern Flickers ever studied critically in New 
York State have been Yellow-shafted, without even one exception in all of time. 
It would be flatly incorrect and misleading to include on a Vermont eBird 
checklist something like:

23 Northern Flicker--migrating
4 Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)--studied carefully

Such an approach would mis-represent the number of Yellow-shafted Flickers 
observed, and the appropriate approach is to report 27 flickers as one line 
item, and it doesn't really matter which category one uses because they are 
effectively identical in Vermont in the 21st Century.

At the next level of complexity, there are many cases in which one subspecies 
occurs regularly whereas others occur as rare vagrants. Thus, it can be 
presumed that all Brant observed on Long Island are hrota unless explicitly 
suspected as something else. It is simply an error to record something like 
this on a checklist from Jamaica Bay:

1 Brant (Black)--photos
300 Brant (Atlantic)--studied carefully
2,000 Brant--estimated

Again, this grossly mis-represents the number of Atlantic Brant observed. The 
2,000 neglected Brant can be assumed to be hrota because the greatest 
conceivable number of vagrant orientalis, bernicla, etc. that could be present 
is a very small number, hovering around zero at all times, and clearly smaller 
than the error implicit in the estimate. Whether one uses "Brant" or "Brant 
(Atlantic)" is almost irrelevant because the two are quantitatively equivalent 
on Long Island, but one should never use both.*

Examples of genuine numerical uncertainty are really quite few in the 
northeastern United States. Familiar examples include Greater and Lesser Snow 
Goose (though these are quite difficult to identify and should probably be left 
alone under most circumstances for that reason alone), and Yellow and Western 
Palm Warblers. Apparently Red-tailed Hawks in Vermont represent another example 
of this sort of exceptional case, because abieticola is suspected to occur, at 
least potentially, at a high enough frequency in some seasons that it would be 
inaccurate to presume that all Red-tailed Hawks are borealis.

Shai Mitra
Bay Shore, NY

*An exception to this guideline arises when a specific individual bird is 
intermediate-looking and has to be listed as generic "Brant" (with copious 
notes and photos) because it looks neither like prevailing hrota nor vagrant 
orientalis--or when a particular swan grebe might be listed as "Aechmophorus 
sp." because it looks different from the regular vagrant "Western Grebe" but 
sounds different from the mega-rarity "Clark's Grebe".:)

From: bounce-121283286-11143...@list.cornell.edu 
[bounce-121283286-11143...@list.cornell.edu] on behalf of Richard Guthrie 
[richardpguth...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2017 7:30 AM
To: NYSBIRDS_L; hmbi...@yahoogroups.com; midhudsonbi...@yahoogroups.com
Cc: iwor...@uvm.edu
Subject: [nysbirds-l] Red-tailed Hawk subspecies and eBird reporting them

With Ian's permission, I'm delighted to share his informative article about 
differentiating Red-tailed Hawk subspecies that may also be found in New York 
State. To read the article and see the pictures, please visit the Vermont eBird 
website at:

http://ebird.org/content/vt/news/red-tailed-hawks-recognizing-subspecies-in-vermont/

And feel free to visit Vermont and report your hawk, and songbird, duck, 
woodpecker, etc. sightings up there as well.  : )

Rich Guthrie
New Baltimore,
The Greene County,'
New York

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From: Ian Worley mailto:iwor...@uvm.edu>>
Date: Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 7:06 PM
Subject: [VTBIRD] Red-tailed Hawk subspecies in Vermont  and h

[nysbirds-l] Central Park 59th St Pond Pintail

[Ardith Bondi]

Is currently on the Pond in the western area near where the Great Blue is 
usually seen. 

Ardith Bondi 
NYC
www.ardithbondi.com

Sent from my iPhone

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[nysbirds-l] Clark's Grebe

[Robert A. Proniewych]

Grebe came in real close to the pier by the Maritime Museum in Oswego.
Thanks to Mary Magistro's posting and sharp eyes for alerting us to the
bird's presence.
Bob Proniewych

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[nysbirds-l] Clark's Grebe

[Mary Magistro]

Still present this morning from the Marine Museum in Oswego NY. Distant , 
between end of pier and red bouy #2.



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[nysbirds-l] Red-tailed Hawk subspecies and eBird reporting them

[Richard Guthrie]

With Ian's permission, I'm delighted to share his informative article about
differentiating Red-tailed Hawk subspecies that may also be found in New
York State. To read the article and see the pictures, please visit the
Vermont eBird website at:

http://ebird.org/content/vt/news/red-tailed-hawks-recognizing-subspecies-in-vermont/

And feel free to visit Vermont and report your hawk, and songbird, duck,
woodpecker, etc. sightings up there as well.  : )

Rich Guthrie
New Baltimore,
The Greene County,'
New York

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From: Ian Worley 
Date: Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 7:06 PM
Subject: [VTBIRD] Red-tailed Hawk subspecies in Vermont  and how to
submit them to eBird
To: vtb...@list.uvm.edu


Red-tailed Hawk subspecies are catching birders' eyes in neighboring
states, and now in Vermont.  How are they recognized and how should they be
reported to eBird and the Vermont Bird Records Committee?  What if I'm not
interested in the subspecies?

These questions are answered in a new article just published on the Vermont
eBird website: http://ebird.org/content/vt/news/red-tailed-hawks-recognizin
g-subspecies-in-vermont/

If you have questions regarding eBird entries of subspecies, feel free to
contact any of the six Vermont eBird county coordinators/reviewers:  Sue
Elliot, Craig Provost, Spencer Hardy, Kyle Jones, Ian Worley, and Kent
McFarland.

Good birding to all as spring migration rolls in during the next many weeks!

Ian

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