- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 12/08/2011
* NYBU1112.08
- Birds mentioned
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SLATY-BACKED GULL
POMARINE JAEGER
MARSH WREN
WILSON'S WARBLER
RAZORBILL
AMER. WHITE PELICAN
Tundra Swan
Snow Goose
Wood Duck
American Black Duck
Northern Pintail
Northern Shoveler
Gadwall
Greater Scaup
Lesser Scaup
Harlequin Duck
Common Goldeneye
Hooded Merganser
Common Merganser
Ruddy Duck
American Coot
Purple Sandpiper
Parasitic Jaeger
Franklin's Gull
Little Gull
Thayer's Gull
Iceland Gull
Iceland Gull
L. Black-b. Gull
Glaucous Gull
Black-leg. Kittiwake
Marsh Wren
Northern Mockingbird
Northern Shrike
- Transcript
Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Date: 12/08/2011
Number: 716-896-1271
To Report: Same
Compiler: David F. Suggs (dfsuggs localnet com)
Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario
Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org
Thursday, December 8, 2011
[BOS Meeting, Wednesday, December 14, 7 PM at the Buffalo Museum of
Science. The meeting will be the annual holiday party and election of
officers. Please bring a desert or treat for the evening.]
The Buffalo Bird Report is a service provided by your Buffalo Museum
of Science and the Buffalo Ornithological Society. To contact the
Science Museum, call 896-5200.
Highlights of reports received December 1 through December 8 from
the Niagara Frontier Region include SLATY-BACKED GULL, POMARINE
JAEGER, MARSH WREN and WILSON'S WARBLER.
At Niagara Falls, December 3 through at least the 6th, an adult
SLATY-BACKED GULL above the Horseshoe Falls. Seen from both the
Ontario and New York State sides of the falls. In Ontario, the gull
has roosted at times on the breakwall at the water control gates, and
from New York, it has been seen at a distance from the upper river
side of the the Three Sisters Islands at Goat Island.
Also above the falls, ICELAND GULL, L. BLACK-B. GULL and GLAUCOUS
GULL, 2 to 3 female HARLEQUIN DUCKS at the control gates breakwall,
and a PURPLE SANDPIPER off the Engineerium building in Ontario.
JAEGERS are unusual on the Niagara River, away from the Great Lakes.
December 3, a very rare, juvenile POMARINE JAEGER at the lower river
power plants, and a juvenile PARASITIC JAEGER several days above and
below the falls.
Other Niagara River gulls - FRANKLIN'S GULL still at the power
plants with THAYER'S GULLS and ICELAND GULLS. BLACK-
LEG. KITTIWAKE again at the Whirlpool. And LITTLE GULLS at several
locations on the lower river.
The RAZORBILL off Fort Niagara State Park at Lake Ontario was last
reported December 3 and has likely perished.
On December 1, the AMER. WHITE PELICAN in Niagara-on-the-
Lake, Ontario, took flight from the Custer Sanctuary, and was later
seen crossing the lower Niagara River at Lewiston.
Away from the Niagara River, December 1, a very late MARSH WREN at
the Batavia Waste Water Plant, in the cattails before the railroad
tunnel. Waterfowl at the plant included AMERICAN BLACK DUCK, NORTHERN
SHOVELER, NORTHERN PINTAIL, GREATER SCAUP, LESSER SCAUP, COMMON
MERGANSER and 336 RUDDY DUCKS, plus NORTHERN SHRIKE and NORTHERN
MOCKINGBIRD.
From the Oak Orchard Wildlife Management Area, at Windmill Marsh, 2
SNOW GEESE, 28 TUNDRA SWANS, COMMON GOLDENEYE and WOOD DUCK. In the
Iroquois Refuge, abundant HOODED MERGANSERS at Ring-neck Marsh, and at
Cayuga Pool, 126 AMERICAN COOTS with numbers of GADWALL and NORTHERN
SHOVELERS.
And for six weeks now, a WILSON'S WARBLER still in a Williamsville
yard in Amherst.
The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, December 15.
Please call in your sightings by noon Thursday. You may report
sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting.
- End Transcript
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