Re: [nysbirds-l] American Golden-Plover, Randalls Island NYC

[Ethan Goodman]

The American Golden Plover flew back into the NE fields of Randall’s Island 
just before 6pm today.  When I left it at about 6:30pm it was in the vicinity 
of field 34. 

Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone


On Friday, October 9, 2020, 5:40 PM, Deborah Allen  
wrote:


Hi All, 

It's important to point out that news of the American Golden-Plover initially 
went out via the Manhattan Bird Alert @BirdCentralPark maintained by David 
Barrett on twitter in a tweet from the finder, Gloria Hong @Lucent508. 

--

Just to confirm the i.d. on this bird: this plover is a 
hatch-year/first-fall/first-cycle American Golden-Plover. 

It has a more rounded head and smaller, more slender bill than Black-bellied 
Plover and lacks the latter's black wingpits (axillaries). This young bird has 
a more distinctly speckled breast than that of an adult American Golden-Plover 
and a less sharply-defined eyebrow (supercilium). 

Here are two views of the bird in flight:

pic.twitter.com/TDVOdjynBZ


Comparing it to Pacific Golden-Plover:

It has longer wings, that is, the wings stick out farther past the end of the 
tail, and a shorter bill. 

It lacks the warm-toned underparts of a Pacific Golden-Plover in the same age 
class. The tertials and scapulars of the bird are less pointed than those of a 
Pacific Golden-Plover. In Pacific Golden-Plover these feathers have thinner, 
plainer borders that contrast more with the dark centers of the feathers. 

Another couple of photos posted on the twitter Manhattan Bird Alert earlier:

pic.twitter.com/pzNdS50uTh

The length of the wings vis-a-vis the tail can be seen in the photo on the left.

--
After relocating the bird with the help of Mary Beth Kooper at around 11:10 
this morning, on a mudflat in the Bronx Kill on the northwest side of Randall's 
Island, Benny Romera, Jordana Mattioli and I waited until it flew off on a 
rising tide with a few Killdeer in a northeasterly direction at around 11:30am. 
We later learned from Junko Suzuki and Linda LaBella that the bird had flown to 
the northeast corner of Randall's Island where they had seen it, and then it 
had flown back west. 

It may be worthwhile checking the northern shore of Randall's Island again 
tomorrow morning at low- to mid-tide.

Deb Allen



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>Subject: [nysbirds-l] American Golden-Plover, Randalls Island NYC
>
>Gloria Hong just found an American Golden-Plover on the northeast corner of 
>Randalls Island, on the East River. Bird is associating with a flock of 
>Killdeer near Ballfields 33 and 34. Appears to be the first New York County 
>record.
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>Good birding,
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>New York, NY
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[nysbirds-l] 10/13: Join LSNY for "The Salmon Eating Owls of Russia”

[Kathleen Matthews]

FREE and open to all! 

Join the Linnaean Society of New York for its 7pm, 10/13 Zoom presentation, 
“The Salmon Eating Owls of Russia,” by Jonathan C. Slaght, a widely published 
American researcher and conservationist with the Wildlife Conservation Society. 
 

Twenty years ago - Slaght encountered these rare, reclusive, eagle-sized owls 
in a southern region of Russia, the first documented sighting in over 100 years 
- and became totally enamoured. The study and protection of the magnificent 
Blakiston’s fish owl soon became his life’s work.  Come learn about the 
extraordinary fieldwork and conservation efforts Slaght, and a team of Russian 
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[nysbirds-l] Siskins/redpolls and brant

[Andrew Block]

Had a large flock of siskins or redpolls fly off from a tree in my yard this am 
in Yonkers.  they called a little but not the typical siskin call so not 100% 
sure which they were.  Looking to be a big finch winter.  Also, while fishing 
in Verplanck I had five flocks of brant going south low over the river at about 
10 minute intervals.  Wonder if they were fresh from Canada:-)  Both firsts of 
the season for me.
Andrew
Andrew v. F. Block
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Yonkers, Westchester Co., New York 10705-4780 
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[nysbirds-l] Central Park NYC - Fri. Oct9, 2020: Barred Owl, 11 Species of Wood Warblers, Pine Siskin, & a Nice Variety of Sparrows

[Deborah Allen]

Central Park North End, NYC
Friday October 9, 2020
OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.

Highlights: Barred Owl, Eleven Species of Wood Warblers, Pine Siskin, and a 
nice variety of Sparrows. 

Canada Goose - 45
Mallard - around 50
Northern Shoveler - 13
Ruddy Duck - 7
Mourning Dove - 15
Chimney Swift - 1 over the Green Bench
Ring-billed Gull - 40
Herring Gull - 10
Double-crested Cormorant - 3 or 4
Cooper's Hawk - 3 (Enrico Leonardi)
Barred Owl - perched at the Loch
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3 or 4
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 7
Downy Woodpecker - 1 Grassy Knoll
Northern Flicker - 10 flyovers
Empidonax Flycatcher - Grassy Knoll
Eastern Phoebe - 3
Blue-headed Vireo - 4
Blue Jay around 15
American Crow - 6 headed North (early-morning RDC)
Black-capped Chickadee - 2 (Wildflower Meadow (Jordana Mattioli) & the Loch)
Tufted Titmouse - around a dozen
Red-breasted Nuthatch - 1 North Meadow Ball Fields (RDC - early)
White-breasted Nuthatch - 4
House Wren - 1 Grassy Knoll
Winter Wren - 3
Carolina Wren - singing at the Compost Area
Golden-crowned Kinglet - around 7 along the Loch
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 15
Swainson's Thrush - 4
Hermit Thrush - around 8 early in the morning
American Robin - around 15
Gray Catbird - 5
Brown Thrasher - 1 Compost Area
Northern Mockingbird - 1
Cedar Waxwing - flock of 10
House Finch - around 5
Purple Finch - around 7 (all females)
Pine Siskin - 30 in one flock
American Goldfinch - around 10
Eastern Towhee - 3
Chipping Sparrow - 7
Field Sparrow - 1 Plant Nursery (Deb)
Song Sparrow - 25
Lincoln's Sparrow - 2 North Meadow Ball Fields
Swamp Sparrow - 7
White-throated Sparrow - 30
White-crowned Sparrow - 1 hatch-year bird Plant Nursery
Dark-eyed Junco - 1 Plant Nursery (Deb)
Common Grackle - 15
Tennessee Warbler - 1 Compost Area
Nashville Warbler - 1 Compost Area (Enrico Leonardi)
Common Yellowthroat - 3
American Redstart - 1 west side Wildflower Meadow (Jordana Mattioli)
Northern Parula - around 7
Magnolia Warbler - 3
Blackpoll Warbler - 3
Black-throated Blue Warbler - 5
Palm Warbler - 3
Pine Warbler - 2 (Green Bench & Grassy Knoll)
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 5
Northern Cardinal - 5
Indigo Bunting - 1 Plant Nursery (Deb)

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Late-breaking Bulletin: Ethan Goodman @emginnyc reported on twitter that the 
American Golden-Plover had returned to the north end of Randall's Island at 
Field 34 at around 6:07pm. 
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Re: [nysbirds-l] American Golden-Plover, Randalls Island NYC

[Deborah Allen]

Hi All, 

It's important to point out that news of the American Golden-Plover initially 
went out via the Manhattan Bird Alert @BirdCentralPark maintained by David 
Barrett on twitter in a tweet from the finder, Gloria Hong @Lucent508. 

--

Just to confirm the i.d. on this bird: this plover is a 
hatch-year/first-fall/first-cycle American Golden-Plover. 

It has a more rounded head and smaller, more slender bill than Black-bellied 
Plover and lacks the latter's black wingpits (axillaries). This young bird has 
a more distinctly speckled breast than that of an adult American Golden-Plover 
and a less sharply-defined eyebrow (supercilium). 

Here are two views of the bird in flight:

pic.twitter.com/TDVOdjynBZ


Comparing it to Pacific Golden-Plover:

It has longer wings, that is, the wings stick out farther past the end of the 
tail, and a shorter bill. 

It lacks the warm-toned underparts of a Pacific Golden-Plover in the same age 
class. The tertials and scapulars of the bird are less pointed than those of a 
Pacific Golden-Plover. In Pacific Golden-Plover these feathers have thinner, 
plainer borders that contrast more with the dark centers of the feathers. 

Another couple of photos posted on the twitter Manhattan Bird Alert earlier:

pic.twitter.com/pzNdS50uTh

The length of the wings vis-a-vis the tail can be seen in the photo on the left.

--
After relocating the bird with the help of Mary Beth Kooper at around 11:10 
this morning, on a mudflat in the Bronx Kill on the northwest side of Randall's 
Island, Benny Romera, Jordana Mattioli and I waited until it flew off on a 
rising tide with a few Killdeer in a northeasterly direction at around 11:30am. 
We later learned from Junko Suzuki and Linda LaBella that the bird had flown to 
the northeast corner of Randall's Island where they had seen it, and then it 
had flown back west. 

It may be worthwhile checking the northern shore of Randall's Island again 
tomorrow morning at low- to mid-tide.

Deb Allen



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>From: Ryan Zucker 
>Sent: Oct 9, 2020 9:15 AM
>To: NYSBIRDS-L@cornell.edu
>Subject: [nysbirds-l] American Golden-Plover, Randalls Island NYC
>
>Gloria Hong just found an American Golden-Plover on the northeast corner of 
>Randalls Island, on the East River. Bird is associating with a flock of 
>Killdeer near Ballfields 33 and 34. Appears to be the first New York County 
>record.
>
>Good birding,
>
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>New York, NY
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Re: [nysbirds-l] American Golden-Plover, Randalls Island NYC

[Adrian Burke]

American Golden-Plover continues on Randall’s Island, now on mudflats NW
corner of island in Bronx Kill (40.8023489, -73.9239275)

Thanks, Gloria!

Adrian Burke
NYC

El El vie, oct. 9, 2020 a la(s) 9:17 a. m., Ryan Zucker 
escribió:

> Gloria Hong just found an American Golden-Plover on the northeast corner
> of Randalls Island, on the East River. Bird is associating with a flock of
> Killdeer near Ballfields 33 and 34. Appears to be the first New York County
> record.
>
> Good birding,
>
> Ryan Zucker
> New York, NY
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[nysbirds-l] American Golden-Plover, Randalls Island NYC

[Ryan Zucker]

Gloria Hong just found an American Golden-Plover on the northeast corner of 
Randalls Island, on the East River. Bird is associating with a flock of 
Killdeer near Ballfields 33 and 34. Appears to be the first New York County 
record.

Good birding,

Ryan Zucker
New York, NY



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[nysbirds-l] Manhattan, NYC - major migration again Thurs., 10/8 - also Wilson's Snipe at Central Park, etc.

[Thomas Fiore]

Manhattan (in N.Y. County), N.Y. City -

Thursday, Oct. 8 - A cold front passed early on the prior night, with a few 
showers locally, while a stronger rain came thru parts of New England also Wed. 
night; this front was pushed through all of the region on very gusty NW winds 
which continued all day.

21 species of American Warblers were found in Central Park alone on Thursday, 
10/8, & many or all of those species were also found around all of the county, 
these included a few species now running a bit ‘late’, although none 
unprecedentedly so, & in keeping with many warbler spp. still being seen around 
the area & some quite a bit farther north as well, in recent days. (One species 
most definitely not seen, & has never been recorded in the 48 contiguous U.S. 
states, & in the Americas apparently just in the western & central Aleutians 
and associated far-west areas of the state of Alaska, is the Wood Warbler, a 
Palearctic (old world) warbler species [Phylloscopus sibilatrix], which is 
unrelated to the American Warblers, and which is not found breeding in the 
Americas. One citation & search result: 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood_warbler 
 )  Some other Phylloscopus-genus 
‘old-world’ warblers do occur, some being very rare, at least one breeding, 
(Arctic Warbler) in parts of N. America -particularly Alaska & the 
west/northwest- but the Wood Warbler has not been seen in eastern North America.

Further note on the American warblers moving through, all of the species noted 
from Manhattan & N.Y. County are also being seen in other N.Y. City counties / 
locations, some even in fair no’s. (overall) such as Yellow Warbler as one 
example. Many of these species are simply in slightly greater no’s. for the 
start of the 2nd week in October, as relative to their average or ‘typical’ 
peak autumn dates, which for many would be a bit earlier, a few spp. much 
earlier, such as (for example) Blackburnian, which are scarce now (& neither 
expected this late, nor at all unprecedented). We also continue to see the 
long-term effects of (in part) a series of years of strong spruce budworm 
outbreaks in boreal forests of N. America, much of that in eastern Canada, and 
that giving rise to increases in well-fed neotropical migrants when on their 
breeding grounds, including (but hardly limited to) such species as Tennessee, 
Bay-breasted, & Cape May Warblers, just to single out those in particular. This 
is an ongoing trend in parts of the great boreal forests, which (potentially) 
could go on for some years.

A Wilson’s Snipe was photographed at the Great Lawn of Central Park, & with 
multiple observers; however this bird did not stay in place for the day. This 
cold-front arrival day featured a fairly strong diurnal migration / movement 
that went on for all of the morning, & to a lesser extent right on to the end 
of the day. Multiple observers saw PINE SISKIN into double-digit numbers in 
this park (also in other parks) on the day, including some spending much of the 
day in same areas; also seen were high no’s. of Purple Finch and there also 
were good no’s. of American Goldfinch.  A Marsh Wren was still lingering at 
Inwood Hill Park in northern Manhattan.

Several Rusty Blackbirds came into Central Park & Riverside Park (north 
sector), although this species may well have already been present. The multiple 
E. Meadowlarks seen moving past Manhattan (sadly a rarer sight in the county 
than had once been) are noted in the individual flight notes below; this 
species should still be watched-for in coming weeks; can be surprisingly 
skulking & even in open sports fields & such, can find small bits in which to 
hide themselves, the more so where taller grasses or shrubs are present.

Waterfowl in (all of) Central Park for Thursday included at least 1 Ring-necked 
Duck (female or non-breeding male), 5 Wood Duck (in 3 locations), 3 
Green-winged Teal, 65+ N. Shovelers, 18+ Gadwall, 54+ Ruddy Duck, as well as 
American Black Duck, Mallard, & Canada Goose; there were some fly-over Brant 
seen from the park as well, in the morning.  Additional waterbirds - 
Pied-billed Grebe, American Coot (reservoir).  Great Egret out at Randall’s 
Island, & Great Blue & Black-crowned Night- Herons in various locations.  A 
flock of fly-over Killdeer was reported by A. Burke, with R. Pasquier, at 
Central Park (and these observers had a great morning-flight observation from 
Central Park with many, many other spp. of migrants recorded).  There were many 
observers out & about at various times, and as has been so all this season, 
some great sightings also came from smaller parks & greenspaces in many areas.

A selection of the birds seen in morning flight from near the Hudson River on 
the higher ground at Riverbank State Park, n. end near W. 144 St. and mainly 
counting birds in flight only)

Brant [Atlantic form] (49, in several groups)

Blue Jay (36+, a seemingly very light flight in