- RBA * New York * New York City, Long Island, Westchester County * May. 2, 2014 * NYNY1405.02
- Birds mentioned WILSON'S PLOVER+ BLACK-NECKED STILT+ THICK-BILLED MURRE+ (+ Details requested by NYSARC) Red-necked Grebe EARED GREBE MANX SHEARWATER American Bittern Semipalmated Plover Solitary Sandpiper MARBLED GODWIT Semipalmated Sandpiper Iceland Gull Lesser Black-backed Gull Glaucous Gull Caspian Tern Parasitic Jaeger Common Nighthawk Red-headed Woodpecker Least Flycatcher Great Crested Flycatcher Eastern Kingbird White-eyed Vireo Yellow-throated Vireo Warbling Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Bank Swallow Veery Wood Thrush Gray Catbird Blue-winged Warbler Orange-crowned Warbler Nashville Warbler Northern Parula Yellow Warbler Chestnut-sided Warbler Magnolia Warbler Black-throated Blue Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler Blackburnian Warbler YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER Pine Warbler Prairie Warbler Palm Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Cerulean Warbler Black-and-white Warbler American Redstart PROTHONOTARY WARBLER Worm-eating Warbler Ovenbird Northern Waterthrush Louisiana Waterthrush Common Yellowthroat Hooded Warbler Canada Warbler SUMMER TANAGER Scarlet Tanager Rose-breasted Grosbeak BLUE GROSBEAK Indigo Bunting Bobolink Orchard Oriole Baltimore Oriole - Transcript If followed by (+) please submit documentation of your report electronically and use the NYSARC online submission form found at http://www.nybirds.org/NYSARC/goodreport.htm You can also send reports and digital image files via email to nysarc44(at)nybirds{dot}org. If electronic submission is not possible, hardcopy reports and photos or sketches are welcome. Hardcopy documentation should be mailed to: Gary Chapin - Secretary NYS Avian Records Committee (NYSARC) 125 Pine Springs Drive Ticonderoga, NY 12883 Hotline: New York City Area Rare Bird Alert Number: (212) 979-3070 To report sightings call: Tom Burke (212) 372-1483 (weekdays, during the day) Tony Lauro at (631) 734-4126 (Long Island) Compiler: Tom Burke, Tony Lauro Coverage: New York City, Long Island, Westchester County Transcriber: Ben Cacace BEGIN TAPE Greetings. This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for Friday, May 2nd 2014 at 7pm. The highlights of today's tape are WILSON'S PLOVER, EARED GREBE, BLACK-NECKED STILT, THICK-BILLED MURRE, MANX SHEARWATER, MARBLED GODWIT, and such Spring migrants as YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER and PROTHONOTARY WARBLER, BLUE GROSBEAK and SUMMER TANAGER. Finally, coming in on the heels of the storm Wednesday night was the first decent wave of Spring migrants. Thursday's beginning followed by a stronger push Friday. The best of the rarities however occurred earlier in the week with a breeding plumaged EARED GREBE photographed Monday west of the bridge from Shirley over to Smith Point County Park and then on Tuesday a male WILSON'S PLOVER seen on the bay side beach just west of the main parking lot at Cupsogue County Park in Westhampton Dunes. Neither bird has been seen since. Not as unusual were an apparent THICK-BILLED MURRE picked up from a roadway puddle at Robert Moses State Park Thursday morning and a BLACK-NECKED STILT reported flying over the Maryland Monument in Prospect Park early this morning. Also enjoyed this week were four nice southern birds that struggle up here each Spring. A YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER has been present in Central Park usually south of the Tavern on the Green from Monday through today and another was in Prospect Park this morning these following one at Hempstead Lake State Park on Monday. A PROTHONOTARY WARBLER was in Prospect Park through Monday with another in Central Park today. The PROTHONOTARY at Fuch's Pond in Northport has not been noted since last weekend but one was spotted in Canarsie Park on the north side of Jamaica Bay Thursday. Canarsie Park also produced a BLUE GROSBEAK Thursday with another reported from Green-wood Cemetery in Brooklyn today and a SUMMER TANAGER, possibly two, at Jones Beach West End Thursday were followed by one in Prospect Park this afternoon. Otherwise the last two days produced decent numbers of the anticipated earlier migrants and a few additional surprises. Among the latter were single AMERICAN BITTERNS in Prospect Park Monday and Central Park today. Among the warblers over two dozen species have been noted this week mostly in the last two days including an ORANGE-CROWNED in Central Park today along with a CERULEAN report and an early BLACKPOLL. Others noted in modest to reasonable numbers have included BLUE-WINGED, NASHVILLE, NORTHERN PARULA, YELLOW, MAGNOLIA, BLACK-THROATED BLUE and GREEN, BLACKBURNIAN, CHESTNUT-SIDED, PRAIRIE, OVENBIRD, NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH, WORM-EATING, COMMON YELLOWTHROAT, HOODED, CANADA and AMERICAN REDSTART while continuing have been BLACK-AND-WHITE, PINE, PALM, YELLOW-RUMPED and even a LOUISIANA WATERTHRUSH or two. Other landbirds arriving have featured GREAT CRESTED and LEAST FLYCATCHERS, EASTERN KINGBIRD, BANK SWALLOW, WOOD THRUSH and VEERY, YELLOW-THROATED, WARBLING, WHITE-EYED and RED-EYED VIREOS, a BOBOLINK in Central Park today, ORCHARD and BALTIMORE ORIOLES, SCARLET TANAGER, ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK, INDIGO BUNTING and even GRAY CATBIRD. We are reminded that it is getting time for ocean watching again with the appearance of a MANX SHEARWATER and a PARASITIC JAEGER off Riis Park in the storm Tuesday. Interesting was a report Thursday of up to six MARBLED GODWITS at Lido Beach Park in Point Lookout. Also there were SEMIPALMATED PLOVERS and SANDPIPERS. Other arrivals have included a COMMON NIGHTHAWK in Hauppauge Saturday and SOLITARY SANDPIPER. GLAUCOUS GULL was still at Coney Island Tuesday and ICELAND GULL at Floyd Bennett Field Wednesday and a few LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS have been present lately. Some RED-NECKED GREBES continue, four CASPIAN TERNS were at Mecox last Saturday and various RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS remain in place. To phone in reports on Long Island, call Tony Lauro at (631) 734-4126 or weekdays call Tom Burke at (212) 372-1483. This service is sponsored by the Linnaean Society of New York and the National Audubon Society. 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