- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 04/19/2018 * NYBU1804.19 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to dsu...@buffaloornithologicalsociety.org -------------------------------------------
SNOWY OWL COMMON LOON FOX SPARROW Red-throated Loon Horned Grebe Red-necked Grebe D.-crest. Cormorant American Bittern Wood Duck Red-br. Merganser Virginia Rail Greater Yellowlegs American Woodcock Bonaparte's Gull Glaucous Gull Caspian Tern Common Tern Forster's Tern Red-bellied Wdpkr. Yellow-b. Sapsucker Northern Flicker Eastern Phoebe Purple Martin Tree Swallow N. Rough-w. Swallow Bank Swallow Barn Swallow Brown Creeper Winter Wren Golden-cr. Kinglet Hermit Thrush Northern Mockingbird Brown Thrasher Yellow-r. Warbler Pine Warbler Eastern Towhee Chipping Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Song Sparrow Swamp Sparrow White-thr. Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Rusty Blackbird Purple Finch Pine Siskin - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 04/19/2018 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, April 19, 2018 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. Press the pound key to report sightings before the end of this report. Highlights of reports received April 12 through April 19 from the Niagara Frontier Region. Snow, ice and rain grounded and exposed many migrants this week. Whether migrant fallouts or a concentration of lingering winter birds, a record count of 22 to 26 SNOWY OWLS on the Buffalo waterfront. The owls were viewed at dusk from the former Small Boat Harbor, now Buffalo Harbor State Park, on April 17 and 18. Also on the waterfront and across the region, a fallout of COMMON LOONS. Seventy COMMON LOONS and one RED-THROATED LOON inside the breakwall at the Small Boat Harbor, 30 COMMON LOONS with 40 HORNED GREBES and one RED-NECKED GREBE at Tifft Nature Preserve and five COMMON LOONS on a small pond south of the Williamsville North High School. Single COMMON LOONS reported from Buffalo to Genesee County, and three grounded COMMON LOONS rescued from roadways on Grand Island. More fallouts included 14 FOX SPARROWS at Forest Lawn in Buffalo and 18 EASTERN PHOEBES at Tifft Nature Preserve. Other reports included YELLOW-B. SAPSUCKER, RED-BELLIED WDPKR., NORTHERN FLICKER, PURPLE MARTIN, TREE SWALLOW, N. ROUGH-W. SWALLOW, BANK SWALLOW, BARN SWALLOW, BROWN CREEPER, WINTER WREN, GOLDEN-CR. KINGLET, HERMIT THRUSH, NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRD, BROWN THRASHER, PINE WARBLER, YELLOW-R. WARBLER, EASTERN TOWHEE, CHIPPING SPARROW, SAVANNAH SPARROW, SONG SPARROW, SWAMP SPARROW, WHITE-THR. SPARROW, DARK-EYED JUNCO, RUSTY BLACKBIRD, PURPLE FINCH and PINE SISKIN. On the waterfront and Niagara River - GLAUCOUS GULL, COMMON TERN, CASPIAN TERN and flocks of BONAPARTE'S GULLS and RED-BR. MERGANSERS. At Dunkirk Harbor - FORSTER'S TERN, 250 BONAPARTE'S GULLS and 750 DOUBLE-CRESTED CORMORANTS. Also this week - AMERICAN BITTERN and VIRGINIA RAIL at Tifft Nature Preserve. COMMON MOORHEN at the Berry Road Marsh in Chautauqua County. GREATER YELLOWLEGS at Kumpf marsh in the Iroquois Refuge. AMERICAN WOODCOCK at Beaver Island State Park on Grand Island. And, pairs of WOOD DUCKS on a yard pond in North Tonawanda. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, April 26. Please call in your sightings by noon Thursday. You may report sightings after the tone. Thank you for calling and reporting. - End Transcript _______________________________________________ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists (OFO) - the provincial birding organization. Send bird reports to birdalert@ontbirds.ca For information about ONTBIRDS including how to unsubscribe visit http://www.ofo.ca/site/page/view/information.ontbirdssetup Posting guidelines can be found at http://www.ofo.ca/site/page/view/information.ontbirdsguide Visit the OFO Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/OntarioFieldOrnithologists
