- RBA * New York * Buffalo * 04/21/2016 * NYBU1604.21 - Birds mentioned ------------------------------------------- Please submit reports to dsu...@buffaloornithologicalsociety.org -------------------------------------------
NORTHERN GOSHAWK SANDHILL CRANE PURPLE MARTIN Common Loon Pied-billed Grebe Ring-necked Pheasant Wild Turkey Eastern Towhee Dark-eyed Junco - Transcript Hotline: Buffalo Bird Report at the Buffalo Museum of Science Date: 04/21/2016 Number: 716-896-1271 To Report: Same Compiler: David F. Suggs Coverage: Western New York and adjacent Ontario Website: www.BuffaloOrnithologicalSociety.org Thursday, April 21, 2016 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 14 through April 21 from the Niagara Frontier Region. The BOS raptor identification workshop at the Hamburg Hawkwatch on April 16 reported 10 raptor species, highlighted by a NORTHERN GOSHAWK, plus a SANDHILL CRANE. The watch is a daily operation during spring, at either Lakeside Memorial Park on Camp Road, or at the nearby Roger Road ball park. Local hawks on the 16th, a pair of RED-SHOULDERED HAWKS on territory at the Beaver Meadow Center in Wyoming County, and a single, roadside, BROAD-WINGED HAWK in the Chautauqua County Town of Sheridan. Arriving PURPLE MARTIN on the 16th, at the martin house by the DEC office at Point Gratiot in Dunkirk. Suburban game birds - from Amherst, a RING-NECKED PHEASANT in Snyder and a WILD TURKEY in Eggertsville, and six WILD TURKEYS at White Chapel Cemetery in the Tonawandas. Also this week, a COMMON LOON at Sinking Ponds in East Aurora, and two COMMON LOONS and three PIED-BILLED GREBES on Delaware Park Lake in Buffalo. And, an EASTERN TOWHEE with DARK-EYED JUNCOS at a feeder in West Seneca. The Bird Report will be updated Thursday evening, April 28. 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 - 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
