- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 04/19/2019 * NYBU1904.19 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to dsu...@buffaloornithologicalsociety.org -------------------------------------------
EASTERN WHIP-POOR-WILL EVENING GROSBEAK D.-crest. Cormorant Great Blue Heron Great Egret Bl.-cr. Night-Heron Red-br. Merganser Osprey Red-shouldered Hawk Broad-winged Hawk Merlin Peregrine Falcon Wild Turkey Bonaparte's Gull Herring Gull Snowy Owl Pileated Woodpecker Eastern Phoebe Common Raven Brown Creeper Carolina Wren Winter Wren Golden-cr. Kinglet Ruby-cr. Kinglet Hermit Thrush Pine Warbler Eastern Towhee Savannah Sparrow Eastern Meadowlark - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 04/19/2019 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Friday, April 19 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 11 through April 19 from the Niagara Frontier Region. The BOS April Count was conducted on April 14. Despite a rain-soaked day, the section including the upper Niagara River and Lake Erie from Tonawanda to Buffalo and Hamburg, tallied an impressive 12,000 individuals of 96 species. Fifteen waterfowl species included 1200 RED-BR. MERGANSERS. Also on the Niagara River - 1200 BONAPARTE'S GULLS, 114 HERRING GULLS, 700 D.- CREST. CORMORANTS, 134 GREAT BLUE HERONS, 61 GREAT EGRETS, 7 BL.-CR. NIGHT-HERONS and a single SNOWY OWL. Landbirds in this populated section - PILEATED WOODPECKER, MERLIN, PEREGRINE FALCON, EASTERN PHOEBE, BROWN CREEPER, WINTER WREN, CAROLINA WREN, GOLDEN-CR. KINGLET, RUBY-CR. KINGLET, 29 HERMIT THRUSHES, EASTERN TOWHEE and PINE WARBLER. April 18, at the Hamburg Hawkwatch, at the Williams Ballfield in Hamburg, an EASTERN WHIP- POOR-WILL was photographed resting on the ground. In the Southern Tier, April 17, at Hanging Bog WMA in Allegany County, 4 EVENING GROSBEAKS, territorial BROAD-WINGED HAWK and RED- SHOULDERED HAWK, COMMON RAVEN, WINTER WREN and PINE WARBLER. Other reports - COMMON RAVEN also at the former steel plant on Route 5 in Lackawanna. MERLINS at three potential breeding locations in Buffalo. An OSPREY carrying a fish over the Orchard Park Country Club. Flocks of 10 to 20 WILD TURKEYS at four locations in Orleans County in the Lake Ontario Plains. A migrant EASTERN MEADOWLARK on the soccer field at Beaver Island State Park on Grand Island. And a SAVANNAH SPARROW at a feeder in Cheektowaga. 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
