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SLATY-BACKED GULL Harlequin Duck Black Vulture Little Gull Black-headed Gull Thayer's Gull Iceland Gull L. Black-b. Gull Glaucous Gull Northern Mockingbird Fox Sparrow - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 01/05/2017 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, January 5, 2017 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 December 30 through January 5 from the Niagara Frontier Region. January 1, a rare gem on the Niagara River, an adult SLATY-BACKED GULL at Goat Island, in Niagara Falls, New York. The gull was upstream of the Three Sisters Islands. January 2, the SLATY-BACKED GULL was reported at the Ontario water control gates, across the Niagara Falls rapids from Goat Island. The SLATY-BACKED GULL was one of 11 gull species on the Niagara River this week. An adult BLACK-HEADED GULL continues at the lower river whirlpool. Other gulls of note on the Niagara - LITTLE GULL, THAYER'S GULL, ICELAND GULL, L. BLACK-B. GULL and GLAUCOUS GULL. Also at Niagara Falls, up to five HARLEQUIN DUCKS, including four adult males. The HARLEQUINS move around in the rapids, and have been seen from Goat Island and the Ontario Hydro Building. Other reports this week - BLACK VULTURES on the lower river at Lewiston. And, FOX SPARROW and four NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRDS at Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo. The next BOS meeting will be on Wednesday, January 11, at 7 PM, at the Buffalo Museum of Science. The program will be the popular Rarities Roundup, a presentation on the rare species found in the region during 2016. Visitors are always welcome at BOS meetings. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, January 12. 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
