[nysbirds-l] NYC Area RBA: 12 March 2021

[Gail Benson]

-RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Mar. 12, 2021
* NYNY2103.12

MEW GULL+
FERRUGINOUS HAWK (extralimital)+
WESTERN TANAGER+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE
KING EIDER
Common Eider
Red-necked Grebe
Common Gallinule
American Oystercatcher
Piping Plover
American Woodcock
Wilson’s Snipe
Willet
Razorbill
Black-legged Kittiwake
BLACK-HEADED GULL
Laughing Gull
Iceland Gull
American Bittern
Osprey
ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK
RED-HEADED WOODPECKER
Eastern Phoebe
Common Redpoll
Red Crossbill
Pine Siskin
Vesper Sparrow
Lincoln’s Sparrow
Pine 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
nysarc44nybirdsorg

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 12,
2021 at 11:00 pm.

The highlights of today’s tape are MEW GULL, WESTERN TANAGER,
BLACK-HEADED GULL, GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE, KING EIDER,
ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK, RED-HEADED WOODPECKER, winter finches and spring
arrivals and more.

The immature MEW GULL visiting both Bush Terminal Piers Park and
Prospect Park lake in Brooklyn the past couple of weeks was last
reported at the lake on Tuesday, while the immature BLACK-HEADED GULL
continued around Bush Terminal Piers Park at least through Wednesday.

Of the two Manhattan WESTERN TANAGERS, only the one at Carl Schurz
Park was reported this week, this bird often spotted near the feeders
located just inside the park off East End Avenue slightly south of
East 86th Street.

A GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE was photographed on Tuesday in a field
along Sagg Main Street in Bridgehampton.

The drake KING EIDER at Great Kills Park on Staten Island was seen on
the beach there today, while of two KING EIDERS noted recently at
Jones Beach West End, the young male was photographed in a COMMON
EIDER flock off the West End jetty Monday, and the immature male KING
wintering at Shinnecock Inlet was still present last Sunday.

Also last Sunday single ROUGH-LEGGED HAWKS were spotted along the
Meadowbrook Parkway at Jones Beach West End and in Amityville, while
highlights that same day at Montauk Point included 4 BLACK-LEGGED
KITTIWAKES and 13 RAZORBILLS.

Also notable this week were a RED-NECKED GREBE seen again off Pelham
Bay Park in the Bronx on Monday, the continuing COMMON GALLINULE at
Mill Pond Park in Bellmore, an ICELAND GULL still around Randall’s
Island Wednesday, and AMERICAN BITTERNS at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
and along Dune Road.  A RED-HEADED WOODPECKER was still out at Cedar
Point County Park in Northwest Harbor last Saturday.

Besides some lingering PINE SISKINS locally, lower numbers of COMMON
REDPOLLS did include 10 in Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery yesterday,
and 4 RED CROSSBILLS were spotted out in Georgica today.

Also lingering as well have been a VESPER SPARROW out at the Calverton
Grasslands and a couple of LINCOLN’S SPARROWS in Manhattan at Bryant
Park and in Central Park.

Peak numbers of AMERICAN WOODCOCKS are now displaying in appropriate
habitat, and some new recent arrivals, replacing our departing
waterfowl, have included AMERICAN OYSTERCATCHER, PIPING PLOVER,
WILSON’S SNIPE and WILLET, LAUGHING GULL, OSPREY, and such early
passerines as EASTERN PHOEBE and PINE WARBLER.

And, not to forget, the extralimital FERRUGINOUS HAWK was still up in
the Orange County black dirt region Wednesday.

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

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[nysbirds-l] NYC Area RBA: 12 March 2021

[Gail Benson]

-RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* Mar. 12, 2021
* NYNY2103.12

MEW GULL+
FERRUGINOUS HAWK (extralimital)+
WESTERN TANAGER+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)

GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE
KING EIDER
Common Eider
Red-necked Grebe
Common Gallinule
American Oystercatcher
Piping Plover
American Woodcock
Wilson’s Snipe
Willet
Razorbill
Black-legged Kittiwake
BLACK-HEADED GULL
Laughing Gull
Iceland Gull
American Bittern
Osprey
ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK
RED-HEADED WOODPECKER
Eastern Phoebe
Common Redpoll
Red Crossbill
Pine Siskin
Vesper Sparrow
Lincoln’s Sparrow
Pine 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
nysarc44nybirdsorg

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 12,
2021 at 11:00 pm.

The highlights of today’s tape are MEW GULL, WESTERN TANAGER,
BLACK-HEADED GULL, GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE, KING EIDER,
ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK, RED-HEADED WOODPECKER, winter finches and spring
arrivals and more.

The immature MEW GULL visiting both Bush Terminal Piers Park and
Prospect Park lake in Brooklyn the past couple of weeks was last
reported at the lake on Tuesday, while the immature BLACK-HEADED GULL
continued around Bush Terminal Piers Park at least through Wednesday.

Of the two Manhattan WESTERN TANAGERS, only the one at Carl Schurz
Park was reported this week, this bird often spotted near the feeders
located just inside the park off East End Avenue slightly south of
East 86th Street.

A GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE was photographed on Tuesday in a field
along Sagg Main Street in Bridgehampton.

The drake KING EIDER at Great Kills Park on Staten Island was seen on
the beach there today, while of two KING EIDERS noted recently at
Jones Beach West End, the young male was photographed in a COMMON
EIDER flock off the West End jetty Monday, and the immature male KING
wintering at Shinnecock Inlet was still present last Sunday.

Also last Sunday single ROUGH-LEGGED HAWKS were spotted along the
Meadowbrook Parkway at Jones Beach West End and in Amityville, while
highlights that same day at Montauk Point included 4 BLACK-LEGGED
KITTIWAKES and 13 RAZORBILLS.

Also notable this week were a RED-NECKED GREBE seen again off Pelham
Bay Park in the Bronx on Monday, the continuing COMMON GALLINULE at
Mill Pond Park in Bellmore, an ICELAND GULL still around Randall’s
Island Wednesday, and AMERICAN BITTERNS at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
and along Dune Road.  A RED-HEADED WOODPECKER was still out at Cedar
Point County Park in Northwest Harbor last Saturday.

Besides some lingering PINE SISKINS locally, lower numbers of COMMON
REDPOLLS did include 10 in Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery yesterday,
and 4 RED CROSSBILLS were spotted out in Georgica today.

Also lingering as well have been a VESPER SPARROW out at the Calverton
Grasslands and a couple of LINCOLN’S SPARROWS in Manhattan at Bryant
Park and in Central Park.

Peak numbers of AMERICAN WOODCOCKS are now displaying in appropriate
habitat, and some new recent arrivals, replacing our departing
waterfowl, have included AMERICAN OYSTERCATCHER, PIPING PLOVER,
WILSON’S SNIPE and WILLET, LAUGHING GULL, OSPREY, and such early
passerines as EASTERN PHOEBE and PINE WARBLER.

And, not to forget, the extralimital FERRUGINOUS HAWK was still up in
the Orange County black dirt region Wednesday.

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

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[nysbirds-l] "New Discoveries in Songbird Migration" by Prof. Bridget Stutchbury - Queens County Bird Club presentation.

[Nancy Tognan]

The Queens County Bird Club will hold its next meeting via Zoom on Wednesday, 
March 17, 2021 at 7:30 pm. 

The presentation will be “New Discoveries in Songbird Migration” by Prof. 
Bridget Stutchbury.

Registration link is on the home page of www.qcbirdclub.org 
  Or use this link 
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAlde6pqjkpHNKU2cH2U7p64elBqQxmZ5AR 


Each fall, billions of songbirds leave Canada on an epic journey to their 
far-away wintering grounds in Central and South America where many live in 
tropical forests shared by toucans, howler monkeys, and jaguars. Dozens of 
species have experienced serious, long-term population declines that are driven 
in part by the threats that these birds face on migration and while in the 
tropics.  But only recently has it been possible to track the migration of 
individual songbirds over part, or all, of their migration journey. Bridget 
Stutchbury talks about her research on uncovering the mysteries of songbird 
migration behaviour, and what this tells about the threats they face during 
their travels.

Bridget Stutchbury is a Distinguished Research Professor of Biology at York 
University in Toronto, Ontario, where she is in charge of the Stutchbury Lab of 
Behavioural and Conservation Ecology.  See her website 
http://www.yorku.ca/bstutch  . She is the author 
of the books Silence of the Songbirds and The Bird Detective and is featured in 
the movie The Messenger.

Hope to “see" you then.

Nancy Tognan
nancy.tog...@gmail.com  
Vice President, Queens County Bird Club 

See http://www.qcbirdclub.org  for more information 
on trips, speakers, and other events.
See our "Birding Sites" page for directions to and info about many local 
birding hotspots.
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[nysbirds-l] "New Discoveries in Songbird Migration" by Prof. Bridget Stutchbury - Queens County Bird Club presentation.

[Nancy Tognan]

The Queens County Bird Club will hold its next meeting via Zoom on Wednesday, 
March 17, 2021 at 7:30 pm. 

The presentation will be “New Discoveries in Songbird Migration” by Prof. 
Bridget Stutchbury.

Registration link is on the home page of www.qcbirdclub.org 
  Or use this link 
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAlde6pqjkpHNKU2cH2U7p64elBqQxmZ5AR 


Each fall, billions of songbirds leave Canada on an epic journey to their 
far-away wintering grounds in Central and South America where many live in 
tropical forests shared by toucans, howler monkeys, and jaguars. Dozens of 
species have experienced serious, long-term population declines that are driven 
in part by the threats that these birds face on migration and while in the 
tropics.  But only recently has it been possible to track the migration of 
individual songbirds over part, or all, of their migration journey. Bridget 
Stutchbury talks about her research on uncovering the mysteries of songbird 
migration behaviour, and what this tells about the threats they face during 
their travels.

Bridget Stutchbury is a Distinguished Research Professor of Biology at York 
University in Toronto, Ontario, where she is in charge of the Stutchbury Lab of 
Behavioural and Conservation Ecology.  See her website 
http://www.yorku.ca/bstutch  . She is the author 
of the books Silence of the Songbirds and The Bird Detective and is featured in 
the movie The Messenger.

Hope to “see" you then.

Nancy Tognan
nancy.tog...@gmail.com  
Vice President, Queens County Bird Club 

See http://www.qcbirdclub.org  for more information 
on trips, speakers, and other events.
See our "Birding Sites" page for directions to and info about many local 
birding hotspots.
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[nysbirds-l] NYC Audubon March Zoom Lecture on Monday: Bird Love by Dr. Wenfei Tong

[Kathryn Heintz]

Please join NYC Audubon on Monday for our free March virtual lecture:
BIRD LOVE

By Dr. Wenfei Tong

Monday, March 15, 7-8pm

Learn about the extraordinary mating customs of the avian world with Dr. Wenfei 
Tong, author of the book Bird Love. From courtship and nest-building to 
protecting eggs and raising chicks, Wenfei will explore the fascinating variety 
of practices that can be found among birds. Dr. Wenfei Tong is a research 
associate in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard 
University.

Registration required. 
Limited to 500. Free

This series has been made possible by the generous support of Claude and 
Lucienne Bloch.

Register for the Virtual Event Here:
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Registration link is also available at our home page:
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[nysbirds-l] NYC Audubon March Zoom Lecture on Monday: Bird Love by Dr. Wenfei Tong

[Kathryn Heintz]

Please join NYC Audubon on Monday for our free March virtual lecture:
BIRD LOVE

By Dr. Wenfei Tong

Monday, March 15, 7-8pm

Learn about the extraordinary mating customs of the avian world with Dr. Wenfei 
Tong, author of the book Bird Love. From courtship and nest-building to 
protecting eggs and raising chicks, Wenfei will explore the fascinating variety 
of practices that can be found among birds. Dr. Wenfei Tong is a research 
associate in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard 
University.

Registration required. 
Limited to 500. Free

This series has been made possible by the generous support of Claude and 
Lucienne Bloch.

Register for the Virtual Event Here:
https://nycaudubon.z2systems.com/np/clients/nycaudubon/eventRegistration.jsp?event=984;

Registration link is also available at our home page:
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[nysbirds-l] N.Y. County, Monday-Thursday, 3/8-9-10-11 - new arrivals, lingering birds, etc.

[Thomas Fiore]

N.Y. County (in N.Y. City) including Manhattan and Randall’s Island & adjacent 
waters & sky -

At least one of the 2 female Western Tanagers which have wintered succesfully 
in Manhattan was still being seen thru this week so far, at Carl Schurz Park; 
it’s likelier to show at feeders a bit more if/when the weather is frosty, & 
less-so when weather is very mild and it & other birds can find food without 
the extra assistance. The feeder array is just east of East End Ave. inside the 
park, & a bit south of East 86th St. (near the n.w. corner of Catbird 
playground).  The Chelsea neighborhood W. Tanager is reasonably likely to be 
continuing also, for now, but has been tough to find, with sightings on both 
West 22nd, W. 23rd, by Tenth Ave., & perhaps now & then a bit farther afield. 
When will either tanager choose to move on? - perhaps when more & more 
songbirds start migrating through, either may then join up with a (nocturnal) 
take-off.

There was a very strong goose flight northward on Tuesday, 3/9, with (at least 
passing Manhattan) only Canada Geese noted, and of those, more than 2,500 
passed in the hours from first-light (before 6 a.m.) & noon, as seen esp. from 
the Hudson river, and at several points with no gaps in observations, from W. 
79th on up to near Dyckman Street in northern Manhattan. The flights of geese 
described elsewhere in parts of NY state & a number of other eastern states 
were far greater in numbers, & also included Snow Geese on the move.   An adult 
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron has been ongoing at Randall’s Island where it 
overwintered.  Multiple American Woodcock were continung to be found in a 
number of places, & just to add some further upland-type shorebird movement, 
Wilson’s Snipe are also moving along with a few passing thru as of Monday, 3/8. 
Killdeer also continue in some locations.

Eastern Phoebe arrived on Tuesday, 3/9 at least at Central Park & quite 
possibly elsewhere in N.Y. County, with several seen (also reported by others) 
at the latter park by Wednesday, 3/10. The species was arriving elsewhere in 
the region (including other parts of the city) as well including well into a 
few locations in the state. There also is a chance that a *very* few wintered 
succesfully in the city, and a few did so elsewhere in NYS.  Some other 
movement has included both vulture species (mostly Turkey, few Black Vultures), 
and some other raptor migration including N. Harrier, Bald Eagle, the 2 smaller 
accipiters, and a few Red-tailed Hawks passing through, rather than the many 
that are local and nest-making.  Song & [Red] Fox Sparrow have been moving and 
so have Slate-colored Junco, all in modest no’s. and the few overwintered 
Lincoln’s Sparrows of Manhattan continued on (Bryant Park, Central Park’s 
compost pile area), as have some Chipping Sparrows, which also are showing up 
here & there from points-south. American Tree Sparrows have still been seen, 
but likely have diminished as is expected for them in March. 

Even though a small number wintered succesfully, it was interesting to find a 
few extra or anyhow a larger no. of Ruby-crowned Kinglets in my wanderings on 
Tues. 3/9, and in reports from others, around Manhattan (including 4 seen in 
Central Park on the day) as well as finding a couple more Winter Wrens, some in 
locations not seen nor reported from since late last autumn. Still more of 
(mainly) Ruby-crowned Kinglets came in by Thursday.  And the addition of a few 
breeding-plumaged Rusty Blackbirds to the few that wintered (with varying 
winter plumages) also corresponded to an increase of that species in some other 
areas regionally.  Good numbers of blackbirds, as expected mostly Red-winged 
Blackbird (of both sexes) and Common Grackles had already been moving by this 
month, & more have passed thru - evidenced by the first-of-year reports to as 
far as the U.S.-Canadian border in some eastern places.  There are a few 
Golden-crowned Kinglets also being seen.  Fish Crows have been seen (& heard) 
in a number of locations, esp. near the 2 rivers, while some American Crows & a 
few Common Ravens have been noted seemingly on the move, along with the all of 
these corvids in potential nesting areas.

An Iceland Gull was continuing in one area, sometimes on the Harlem river below 
(south of) or near the bridges at 125th St., & also at times over along the 
Bronx kill which divides Randall’s Island (& N.Y. County) from the mainland of 
the U.S. at the Bronx (County).  A Red-throated Loon in basic plumage was 
continuing on the Central Park reservoir (with Double-crested Cormorants 
increasingly regular) & multiple other loons of the 2 expected species have 
been on the rivers of late, Red-throated Loons also seen on the move on some 
mornings.  Some other waterbird movements have included modest no’s. of Common 
Merganser, never a ‘common’ species for N.Y. County.  Other duckage continuing 
includes Wood Duck (with an increase by 3/11), Red-breasted 

[nysbirds-l] N.Y. County, Monday-Thursday, 3/8-9-10-11 - new arrivals, lingering birds, etc.

[Thomas Fiore]

N.Y. County (in N.Y. City) including Manhattan and Randall’s Island & adjacent 
waters & sky -

At least one of the 2 female Western Tanagers which have wintered succesfully 
in Manhattan was still being seen thru this week so far, at Carl Schurz Park; 
it’s likelier to show at feeders a bit more if/when the weather is frosty, & 
less-so when weather is very mild and it & other birds can find food without 
the extra assistance. The feeder array is just east of East End Ave. inside the 
park, & a bit south of East 86th St. (near the n.w. corner of Catbird 
playground).  The Chelsea neighborhood W. Tanager is reasonably likely to be 
continuing also, for now, but has been tough to find, with sightings on both 
West 22nd, W. 23rd, by Tenth Ave., & perhaps now & then a bit farther afield. 
When will either tanager choose to move on? - perhaps when more & more 
songbirds start migrating through, either may then join up with a (nocturnal) 
take-off.

There was a very strong goose flight northward on Tuesday, 3/9, with (at least 
passing Manhattan) only Canada Geese noted, and of those, more than 2,500 
passed in the hours from first-light (before 6 a.m.) & noon, as seen esp. from 
the Hudson river, and at several points with no gaps in observations, from W. 
79th on up to near Dyckman Street in northern Manhattan. The flights of geese 
described elsewhere in parts of NY state & a number of other eastern states 
were far greater in numbers, & also included Snow Geese on the move.   An adult 
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron has been ongoing at Randall’s Island where it 
overwintered.  Multiple American Woodcock were continung to be found in a 
number of places, & just to add some further upland-type shorebird movement, 
Wilson’s Snipe are also moving along with a few passing thru as of Monday, 3/8. 
Killdeer also continue in some locations.

Eastern Phoebe arrived on Tuesday, 3/9 at least at Central Park & quite 
possibly elsewhere in N.Y. County, with several seen (also reported by others) 
at the latter park by Wednesday, 3/10. The species was arriving elsewhere in 
the region (including other parts of the city) as well including well into a 
few locations in the state. There also is a chance that a *very* few wintered 
succesfully in the city, and a few did so elsewhere in NYS.  Some other 
movement has included both vulture species (mostly Turkey, few Black Vultures), 
and some other raptor migration including N. Harrier, Bald Eagle, the 2 smaller 
accipiters, and a few Red-tailed Hawks passing through, rather than the many 
that are local and nest-making.  Song & [Red] Fox Sparrow have been moving and 
so have Slate-colored Junco, all in modest no’s. and the few overwintered 
Lincoln’s Sparrows of Manhattan continued on (Bryant Park, Central Park’s 
compost pile area), as have some Chipping Sparrows, which also are showing up 
here & there from points-south. American Tree Sparrows have still been seen, 
but likely have diminished as is expected for them in March. 

Even though a small number wintered succesfully, it was interesting to find a 
few extra or anyhow a larger no. of Ruby-crowned Kinglets in my wanderings on 
Tues. 3/9, and in reports from others, around Manhattan (including 4 seen in 
Central Park on the day) as well as finding a couple more Winter Wrens, some in 
locations not seen nor reported from since late last autumn. Still more of 
(mainly) Ruby-crowned Kinglets came in by Thursday.  And the addition of a few 
breeding-plumaged Rusty Blackbirds to the few that wintered (with varying 
winter plumages) also corresponded to an increase of that species in some other 
areas regionally.  Good numbers of blackbirds, as expected mostly Red-winged 
Blackbird (of both sexes) and Common Grackles had already been moving by this 
month, & more have passed thru - evidenced by the first-of-year reports to as 
far as the U.S.-Canadian border in some eastern places.  There are a few 
Golden-crowned Kinglets also being seen.  Fish Crows have been seen (& heard) 
in a number of locations, esp. near the 2 rivers, while some American Crows & a 
few Common Ravens have been noted seemingly on the move, along with the all of 
these corvids in potential nesting areas.

An Iceland Gull was continuing in one area, sometimes on the Harlem river below 
(south of) or near the bridges at 125th St., & also at times over along the 
Bronx kill which divides Randall’s Island (& N.Y. County) from the mainland of 
the U.S. at the Bronx (County).  A Red-throated Loon in basic plumage was 
continuing on the Central Park reservoir (with Double-crested Cormorants 
increasingly regular) & multiple other loons of the 2 expected species have 
been on the rivers of late, Red-throated Loons also seen on the move on some 
mornings.  Some other waterbird movements have included modest no’s. of Common 
Merganser, never a ‘common’ species for N.Y. County.  Other duckage continuing 
includes Wood Duck (with an increase by 3/11), Red-breasted