Re: [cayugabirds-l] Northern Shrike, Trumpeter Swans, Turkey Vultures, Peregrine Falcon

[Ann Mitchell]

Hi All,
After I was dropped of in Ithaca, I went to work via Burdick Hill Road.  At
1:00 P.M. there were no vultures around.  Interesting
Best, Ann

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 8:44 PM, Dave Nutter  wrote:

>  Yesterday (Sunday 30 Jan) Ann Mitchell, Bob McGuire & I went to
> Summerhill in the morning
> hoping to see the Hoary Redpolls in the big flock of Common Redpols which
> Matt Young
> reported on Lane E along Lake Como Rd.  We met Jay McGowan there with
> similar hopes,
> and although we saw a lot of COMMON REDPOLLS at times, which is quite fun,
> it was a very
> challenging viewing situation, with birds flying between close spruce trees
> and behind the house
> with the feeders.  Although Ann said she briefly saw a light colored
> individual, none of the rest
> of us saw any solid candidates.  We also swung by the Hovel Chalet on our
> way there and back,
> where there were impressive numbers of BLUE JAYS and lots of other species,
> but we did not find
> any Evening Grosbeaks.  However we did find a very cooperative and
> gratifying immature
> NORTHERN SHRIKE atop the tallest twig of a tree on Eaton Rd.
>
> Ann then had to go to work, but after dropping her off in Ithaca, Bob & I
> went clockwise around the lake.
> One thing we noticed was TUNDRA SWANS seemingly scattered along all the
> shoreline.  When we
> got to the north end of the lake we saw solid birdless ice.  There were no
> openings even at Mud Lock
> or Harris Park.  However near Mud Lock there were 5 TRUMPETER SWANS sitting
> on the ice.  They
> were not veryclose, yet they did not tolerate us using a scope and
> binoculars through the open window
> of Bob's car.  The 4 adults bobbed their heads then flew north through a
> heavy snowfall, making their loud
> bleating call as they went.  The single immature stayed sitting on the ice,
> neck vertical.  I wonder where the
> adults went and how long it was before they were reunited.  The ice comes
> south well past Lower Lake Rd
> on the west.  We did not drive that road, as we saw people walking many
> places on the ice, but instead went
> west to Van Cleef Lake  That, too, was frozen solid and birdless.  On the
> east, the ice comes past
> Union Springs, as far south as Farley's Point  In Union Springs we saw an
> Eastern Screech-Owl plugging
> the hole of the box in the Factory Street Pond.
>
> We did not see vultures yesterday, but early this afternoon (1220) I had a
> chance to drive by Burdick
> Hill Road briefly.  I wish I could've stayed longer.  Instead of 14 Turkey
> Vultures and 1 Black Vulture
> on the back row of fenceposts around the big yard on the north (as we saw
> on Saturday at 1030)
> today there were 15 TURKEY VULTURES and zero Black Vulture, which I found
> very amusing as
> there were no doubts about ID.  The TVs were sunning themselves in various
> positions, facing toward
> or away from the sun, some with spread wings, others closed.  Turkey
> Vulture #15 arrived from the
> north as I watched.  Is there a carcass beyond the trees?  Was the Black
> Vulture still feeding?   By 4pm,
> the next time I could check, they had all left, which is not surprising
> because the sun was low no longer
> so attractive in that area.
>
> This evening as I left work at 5pm it was still light, and none of the
> American Crows had yet returned
> to their roost site of the past several days, the treetops along Spencer Rd
> north and south of the intersection
> of Stone Quarry Rd.  I walk under them in the darkness on my way to work.
> A possible reason there were
> no crows around as I began my walk home was a PEREGRINE FALCON which came
> winging overhead,
> circled once and disappeared over South Hill  After the Peregrine left, a
> single AMERICAN CROW flew past.
>
> --Dave Nutter
>
>
>
>
>

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[cayugabirds-l] larks, buntings

[B Mcaneny]

For the past two days, maybe more, there has been a mixed flock of about 25 
birds along the shoulders of Cayuga View Rd (Trumansburg) between Rte 89 and 
Rice Rd.  Most of the birds are Horned Larks but 3 or 4 are Snow Buntings.  
None appear to be longspurs or pipits.

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[cayugabirds-l] Northern Shrike, Trumpeter Swans, Turkey Vultures, Peregrine Falcon

[Dave Nutter]

Yesterday (Sunday 30 Jan) Ann Mitchell, Bob McGuire & I went to Summerhill in the morning hoping to see the Hoary Redpolls in the big flock of Common Redpols which Matt Young reported on Lane E along Lake Como Rd.  We met Jay McGowan there with similar hopes, and although we saw a lot of COMMON REDPOLLS at times, which is quite fun, it was a very challenging viewing situation, with birds flying between close spruce trees and behind the house with the feeders.  Although Ann said she briefly saw a light colored individual, none of the rest of us saw any solid candidates.  We also swung by the Hovel Chalet on our way there and back,  where there were impressive numbers of BLUE JAYS and lots of other species, but we did not find any Evening Grosbeaks.  However we did find a very cooperative and gratifying immature NORTHERN SHRIKE atop the tallest twig of a tree on Eaton Rd.  Ann then had to go to work, but after dropping her off in Ithaca, Bob & I went clockwise around the lake.  One thing we noticed was TUNDRA SWANS seemingly scattered along all the shoreline.  When we got to the north end of the lake we saw solid birdless ice.  There were no openings even at Mud Lock or Harris Park.  However near Mud Lock there were 5 TRUMPETER SWANS sitting on the ice.  They were not veryclose, yet they did not tolerate us using a scope and binoculars through the open window of Bob's car.  The 4 adults bobbed their heads then flew north through a heavy snowfall, making their loud bleating call as they went.  The single immature stayed sitting on the ice, neck vertical.  I wonder where the adults went and how long it was before they were reunited.  The ice comes south well past Lower Lake Rd on the west.  We did not drive that road, as we saw people walking many places on the ice, but instead went west to Van Cleef Lake  That, too, was frozen solid and birdless.  On the east, the ice comes past Union Springs, as far south as Farley's Point  In Union Springs we saw an Eastern Screech-Owl plugging the hole of the box in the Factory Street Pond. We did not see vultures yesterday, but early this afternoon (1220) I had a chance to drive by Burdick Hill Road briefly.  I wish I could've stayed longer.  Instead of 14 Turkey Vultures and 1 Black Vulture on the back row of fenceposts around the big yard on the north (as we saw on Saturday at 1030) today there were 15 TURKEY VULTURES and zero Black Vulture, which I found very amusing as there were no doubts about ID.  The TVs were sunning themselves in various positions, facing toward or away from the sun, some with spread wings, others closed.  Turkey Vulture #15 arrived from the north as I watched.  Is there a carcass beyond the trees?  Was the Black Vulture still feeding?   By 4pm, the next time I could check, they had all left, which is not surprising because the sun was low no longer so attractive in that area.  This evening as I left work at 5pm it was still light, and none of the American Crows had yet returned to their roost site of the past several days, the treetops along Spencer Rd north and south of the intersection of Stone Quarry Rd.  I walk under them in the darkness on my way to work.  A possible reason there were no crows around as I began my walk home was a PEREGRINE FALCON which came winging overhead, circled once and disappeared over South Hill  After the Peregrine left, a single AMERICAN CROW flew past.  --Dave Nutter 

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Aurora Bay Aythya raft

[Candace Cornell]

Marie,



What a dramatic composition capturing the many rhythms of duck life! Your
photo taken from the bluffs above affords the opportunity of looking down
into the raft and witnessing the immense amount of ducks, all clamoring
for interrelationships and individual space. If you look closely, you can
pick out courting behaviors, the chance  breeding, male
challenges, individuals preening, sleeping, and feeding behaviors.



I usually see the great Aythya rafts from a horizontal perspective near the
island across from Union. They usually present themselves as one
enormous seething mass of living creatures moving en masse.



Great work!


Candace




On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 3:43 PM, Marie P Read  wrote:

> Aurora Bay hosted an enormous raft (actually several) of mostly Redheads
> with some Ring-necked Ducks mixed in this morning. The flock was almost
> directly below the Lake Road bluffs when I arrived around 9:15 am and had
> slowly moved southward farther along the lake when I returned around 10:45
> am. I had a lot of fun shooting still and video, especially the latter,
> watching as the raft slowly changed shape as the mass of birds moved around.
> One still photo, showing just part of the raft, is here:
>
> http://www.marieread.com/cpg/displayimage.php?album=42&pos=10
>
> Anybody want to count 'em???
>
> Otherwise, Center Road had just a single Horned Lark, but a newly manured
> field just south of the Triangle Diner (on Lake Ridge Road - correct name??)
> had a large flock of possible 200 Horned Larks.
> There were scatted Tundra Swans along the lake, but the closest swans that
> got me all excited along Lake Road turned out to be Mutes!
>
> A pretty winter day.
>
> Marie
>
>
>
> Marie Read Wildlife Photography
> 452 Ringwood Road
> Freeville NY  13068 USA
>
> Phone  607-539-6608
> e-mail   m...@cornell.edu
>
> http://www.marieread.com
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Re:[cayugabirds-l] Grebe Sweep

[bob mcguire]

Yeah, forgot to mention Pied-billed Grebes (3) at the Yacht Club and  
Eared Grebe at Aurora.


Bob



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[cayugabirds-l] questions about the pheasant farm

[Andrew Myers]

Hello list,

I have a couple questions about the Reynolds Game Farm, which I see every
day out my back window.

A few days ago I was running on Stevenson Rd and I noticed someone next to
the game farm fence swinging a whistle on a string over his/her head.  Does
anyone know what the person was up to?

And I am sure this has been discussed before, but are the red tailed hawks
attracted by the pheasants or by rodents attracted by the pheasant food?  I
have witnessed them eating pheasants, and I occasionally find a pheasant
body part in my backyard, but I'm wondering why they don't just clean
house?  I often see them sitting on the fence alongside pheasants.

Thanks for satisfying my curiosity!

Andrew Myers

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[cayugabirds-l] Grebe Sweep

[bob mcguire]

I headed up to Sheldrake this morning to look for the reported Red- 
necked Grebes. Lake viewing conditions were nearly ideal, with almost  
no wind and little shimmer. Try as I might, I could not locate any Red- 
necks but did manage to find a flock of 9 Horned Grebes to the north  
of the point and a pair of Long-tailed Ducks at the bottom of the  
first road in from the south. Also one Common Loon off the point. No  
grebes along Elm Beach Road nor at Dean's Cove.


Finally, from the parking lot above the Aurora boathouse I found two  
distant Red-necked Grebes. They spend most of the time under water,  
but while on the surface one could see the overall dark color, longish  
bill, and size larger than the closer Horned Grebes (of which there  
were five).


Bob McGuire



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[cayugabirds-l] SW corner Cayuga Lake-Tundra Swans back

[Elaina McCartney]

Always fun to see what shows up after I push the submit button on my ebird 
list:  Just now 5 Tundra Swans showed up, they were kind of noisy as they 
settled in.  The immature grayish one was among them—haven't seen it in weeks.  
Also earlier this afternoon there was a solitary Lesser Black-backed Gull 
swimming not too far out.

Elaina

Location: SW corner Cayuga Lake
Observation date: 1/31/11
Notes: Sunny, not too windy.  The raft was spread out between 800 and 1000 
blocks of Taughannock Blvd.  Missed some waterfowl to the north obscured by 
trees, didn't count anything past the cluster buoy, lots of ambiguous dots out 
there.  An American Wigeon swam to shore with a Mallard and some Redheads to 
have its picture taken and then left. Absence of Goldfinches today, and the 
usual 2-3 yard American Crows are spending the day elsewhere.
Number of species: 22

Canada Goose 550
American Wigeon 1
Mallard 14
Canvasback 450
Redhead 1850
Ring-necked Duck 11
Greater/Lesser Scaup 12
Bufflehead 6
Common Goldeneye 4
Common Merganser 13
Ring-billed Gull 10
Herring Gull (American) 1
Great Black-backed Gull 2
gull sp. 62
Mourning Dove 4
Red-bellied Woodpecker 1
Downy Woodpecker 3
Hairy Woodpecker 2
Blue Jay 1
White-breasted Nuthatch (Eastern) 2
Carolina Wren 1
Golden-crowned Kinglet 1
Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored) 1
House Sparrow 9

This report was generated automatically by eBird 
v2(http://ebird.org)


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[cayugabirds-l] Syracuse RBA

[Joseph Brin]

RBA
 
*  New York
*  Syracuse
*  January 31, 2011
*  NYSY 3101.11
 
Hotline: Syracuse Rare bird Alert
Dates(s):
January 24, 2010 - January 31, 2011
to report by e-mail: brinjoseph AT yahoo.com
covering upstate NY counties: Cayuga, Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge
and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC) (just outside Cayuga County),
Onondaga, Oswego, Lewis, Jefferson, Oneida, Herkimer,  Madison & Cortland
compiled:January 31 AT 4:00 p.m. (EST)
compiler: Joseph Brin
Onondaga Audubon Homepage: www.onondagaaudubon.org
 
 
#241 -Monday January 31, 2011
 
 
Greetings! This is the Syracuse Area Rare Bird Alert for the week of January 24 
, 2010
 
Highlights:
---

COMMON LOON
TUNDRA SWAN
MERLIN
SCREECH OWL
BARRED OWL
TOWNSEND’S SOLITAIRE
BOHEMIAN WAXWING
YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER
LAPLAND LONGSPUR
COMMON REDPOLL
HOARY REDPOLL



Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge (MNWR) and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC)

 1/28: 22 species were found on a walk at Howland Island WMA. Highlights 
were SCREECH OWL, 2 BARRED OWLS, and 3 YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLERS.


Onondaga County


 BALD EAGLES were in the news again this week with a front page spread in 
the Sunday edition of the Syracuse Herald American. They are again collecting 
in 
numbers at the south end on Onondaga Lake near Carousel Mall. Another place to 
try is the walking trail starting at the Inner Harbor parking area and walking 
north toward Bear Street. Eagles are often in the trees along the creek.
 1/25: 5 TUNDRA SWANS were in the Seneca River below the dam in 
Baldwinsville.
 1/29: 50 COMMON and 1 HOARY REDPOLL were seen on Shakham Road near the 
Cortland County border. 19 TUNDRA SWANS were seen on Onondaga Lake at the mouth 
of Nine Mile Creek in Lakeland. A COMMON LOON continues to be seen in the Inner 
Harbor off of Kirkpatrick Street.
 1/30: A HOARY REDPOLL continues to be seen with a lagre group of COMMON 
REDPOLLS at Beaver Lake Nature Center west of Baldwinsville. A single LAPLAND 
LONGSPUR was seen with numbers of HORNED LARKS and SNOW BUNTINGS on Masters 
Road 
south of Marcellus. A YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER continues to be seen and heard at 
the corner of Rt.31 and Conners Road west of Baldwinsville.


Oneida County


 1/25: 2 BARRED OWLS were found in the area at the north end of Delta Lake 
near Rome. One was seen on Town Line Road.
 1/26: A MERLIN was seen at the intersection of Sulphur Springs and 
Doolittle Roads in Saquoit.

Cayuga County


 1/26: 1 YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER and 15 BOHEMIAN WAXWINGS were seen alon the 
entry road to Fair Have State Park. 



Jefferson County


  The TOWNSEND’S SOLITAIRE continues at Point Peninsula west of Watertown. 
There were positive sightings made on 1/26 and 1/30.
 



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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Aurora Bay Aythya raft

[Asher Hockett]

That photo reminds me of those MagicEye images where when you hold it close
and move it slowly away you will be able to see a hidden picture. This one
has Donald Duck, I think.

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 3:43 PM, Marie P Read  wrote:

> Aurora Bay hosted an enormous raft (actually several) of mostly Redheads
> with some Ring-necked Ducks mixed in this morning. The flock was almost
> directly below the Lake Road bluffs when I arrived around 9:15 am and had
> slowly moved southward farther along the lake when I returned around 10:45
> am. I had a lot of fun shooting still and video, especially the latter,
> watching as the raft slowly changed shape as the mass of birds moved around.
> One still photo, showing just part of the raft, is here:
>
> http://www.marieread.com/cpg/displayimage.php?album=42&pos=10
>
> Anybody want to count 'em???
>
> Otherwise, Center Road had just a single Horned Lark, but a newly manured
> field just south of the Triangle Diner (on Lake Ridge Road - correct name??)
> had a large flock of possible 200 Horned Larks.
> There were scatted Tundra Swans along the lake, but the closest swans that
> got me all excited along Lake Road turned out to be Mutes!
>
> A pretty winter day.
>
> Marie
>
>
>
> Marie Read Wildlife Photography
> 452 Ringwood Road
> Freeville NY  13068 USA
>
> Phone  607-539-6608
> e-mail   m...@cornell.edu
>
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[cayugabirds-l] Aurora Bay Aythya raft

[Marie P Read]

Aurora Bay hosted an enormous raft (actually several) of mostly Redheads with 
some Ring-necked Ducks mixed in this morning. The flock was almost directly 
below the Lake Road bluffs when I arrived around 9:15 am and had slowly moved 
southward farther along the lake when I returned around 10:45 am. I had a lot 
of fun shooting still and video, especially the latter, watching as the raft 
slowly changed shape as the mass of birds moved around. One still photo, 
showing just part of the raft, is here:

http://www.marieread.com/cpg/displayimage.php?album=42&pos=10

Anybody want to count 'em???

Otherwise, Center Road had just a single Horned Lark, but a newly manured field 
just south of the Triangle Diner (on Lake Ridge Road - correct name??) had a 
large flock of possible 200 Horned Larks.
There were scatted Tundra Swans along the lake, but the closest swans that got 
me all excited along Lake Road turned out to be Mutes!

A pretty winter day.

Marie



Marie Read Wildlife Photography
452 Ringwood Road
Freeville NY  13068 USA

Phone  607-539-6608
e-mail   m...@cornell.edu

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[cayugabirds-l] Help-out the Cornell Lab of Ornithology YardMap Project?

[Rhiannon L. Crain]

Hello Ithaca-area birders and gardeners,

As you may have already heard, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology is creating an
exciting new project called YardMap. YardMap will be a website where birders
and gardeners can come together to map their yards, or any green space, to
see how they can make them more bird-friendly.

Right now YardMap is still being developed and tested, and we’re looking for
a few birders and gardeners to try it out for us in its current iteration.
Would you be willing to help us out?

What we are asking is for people to volunteer to come to the Cornell Lab of
Ornithology and spend 90 minutes with us trying out the new web site. It
hasn’t launched publicly yet, so you’ll be one of the first people to try it
out, tell us what you think, and give valuable feedback about how it can be
improved on a one-on-one basis.

This is a very important phase of the project and we hope you can join us.
As a thank you for participating, we can offer you a $40 gift card!

If you are interested, please take this short survey to let us know:
https://ilinet.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_40X0b8fk7EUNAiM

Testing dates include a variety of times on February 8th and 9th.


Sincerely,

The Cornell YardMap Team


YardMap.org 

Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Sapsucker Woods

Ithaca, NY

[image: lab-logo.png]

FYI: The organization name, ILI, found in the survey url (ilinet.com) is our
partner organization responsible for conducting evaluations of the YardMap.
We just want to make sure you feel comfortable clicking on an unfamiliar
link!

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[cayugabirds-l] Question

[Kurt Falvey]

We built a Kestrel house and a Screech Owl  house and put them out last
spring.with no takers.now they are occupied by squirrels.  Our question
is.will a Kestrel or Screech Owl dislodge a squirrel from a prospective
nesting sight?  Or are we going to have to build more nest boxes?

 

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Kurt

 

  

 

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Broken Road Farms

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Re:[cayugabirds-l] [nysbirds-l] NYS Birding Checklists

[Jerry Lazarczyk]

Forwarded by Jerry Lazarczyk  Thanks to everyone who shared info and knowledge 
about old checklists from around New York State.  There are lots!
First, having a reference librarian respond is helpful, as Donna Schulman let 
me know about a tool to find some lists (I will include her information about 
that below my signature).  Thanks to Andy Guthrie (who also pointed out that 
many of the older works are available for free online as google books), Joseph 
Dicostanzo (who provided a ton of info), Jerry Lazarczyk, Harry Maas, Bill 
Purcell, Brett Ewald, and Sally Svenson for responding with information about 
checklists from around New York State.  Below are all of the checklists about 
which I was informed.  Sorry about the different formats but I largely 
cut-and-pasted and edited directly from other folks' emails.  Please note that 
the geographical areas I divided the lists into are pretty rough...
WESTERN NEW YORKBirds of Western New York by Ernest Short from 1893. He lived 
in Chili, NY (a suburb of Rochester), and the checklist was printed by A. M. 
Eddy in Albion, NY. It is a 13 page checklist.
A Popular Account of the Bird life of the Finger Lakes Section of New York, 
with Main Reference to the Summer Season by C. J. Spiker (1935, Roosevelt 
Wildlife Bulletin Volume 6, Number 3)
The Birds of Livingston County , New York by K. Fox (1998, Proceedings of the 
Rochester Academy of Science, vol. 18, no. 4)
Studies of breeding birds in the Allegany State Park by A. A. Saunders (1938, 
New York State Museum bulletin, no. 318)
Birds of the Niagara Frontier Region: An Annotated Checklist by C. S. Beardslee 
and H. D. Mitchell (1965, Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences)
CENTRAL NEW YORKAnnotated list of the birds of Oneida County, N.Y., and of the 
west Canada Creek Valley by Egbert Bagg, published in Utica, NY, by the Press 
of T.J. Griffiths, 1912
The Birds of Central New York Marshes by A. A. Saunders (1926, Roosevelt 
Wildlife Bulletin Volume 3, Number 3)
Ornithology of the Oneida Lake Region: with reference to the late spring and 
summer seasons by D. Stoner (1932, Roosevelt Wild Life Annuals, volume 2, nos. 
3 and 4, New York State College of Forestry at Syracuse University)
ADIRONDACKS / NORTHERN NYSummer Birds of the Adirondacks in Franklin County, 
N.Y., from 1877, by Roosevelt and Minot.
Birdlife of the Adirondack Park by B. Beehler (1978, Adirondack Mountain Club)
The Summer Birds of the Northern Adirondack Mountains by A. A. Saunders (1929, 
Roosevelt Wildlife Bulletin Volume 5, Number 3)
Birds of Essex County, New York by G. Carleton (1999, High Peaks Audubon 
Society)
Birds of Clinton County, Second Edition by C. W. Mitchell and W. E. Krueger 
(1997, High Peaks Audubon Society)
There was a list put together by resident/members of the "Trudeau Bird Club" at 
the Trudeau tuberculosis sanitarium in Saranac Lake, reprinted from the October 
1904 issue of Outdoor Life.  It recorded local arrival dates of 163 birds. It 
is on file as a pamphlet in the Adirondack Room at the Saranac Lake Library: 
T867b pam.

MOUNTAIN REGIONSNotes on Some Birds of the Adirondack and Catskill Mountains, 
New York by K. C. Parkes (1954, Annals of the Carnegie Museum )
CATSKILLSA Review of the Summer Birds of a Part of the Catskill Mountains, with 
Prefatory Remarks on the Faunal and Floral Features of the Region by E. P. 
Bicknell (1882, in Transactions of the Linnaean Society of New York , vol. I)
LONG ISLANDA list of the birds of Oyster Bay and vicinity, Long Island, by 
Rudyerd Boulton and J T Nichols, published in Roslyn, NY by the The Bird Club 
of Long Island, 1940
The Birds of Great Gull Island, 1966-1972 by D. C. Duffy and C. LaFarge (1973, 
privately published)
The Birds of Long Island - Jacob P. Giraud, 1844
 A List of the Birds of Long Island, New York, Dr. William C. Braislin, 1907 
CAPITAL REGIONThe Birds of Albany County by Wilbur Webster Judd, 1907
Birds of Washington Park, Albany , New York by D. Stoner and L. C. Stoner 
(1952, New York State Museum Bulletin 344)
DOWNSTATEGuide to the summer birds of the Bear Mountain and Harriman Park 
sections of the Palisades Interstate Park by P M Silloway; New York State 
College of Forestry at Syracuse University.; Palisades Interstate Park 
Commission and published in Syracuse, NY by the State University College of 
Forestry at Syracuse University, 1920. (Syracuse University publications vol. 
9, no. 21; Bulletin of the New York State College of Forestry at Syracuse 
University, no. 11)

The Birds of Dutchess County, New York by L. Griscom (1933, Transactions of the 
Linnaean Society of New York , vol. III)
NYCBirds Around New York City , Where and When to Find Them by A. D. 
Cruickshank (1942, American Museum of Natural History)
Birds of the New York City Region by L. Griscom (1923, American Museum of 
Natural History) Birds of the New York Area by J. Bull (1964, Harper & Row)
The Birds of the New York City Area; A Guide to the Exhibit of Local Birds in 
the