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
Compiler: Tom Burke Coverage: New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
Transcriber: Ben Cacace
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Greetings. This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for *Friday, April 18th 2025* at 11pm. The highlights of today's tape are BLACK-NECKED STILT, PROTHONOTARY and YELLOW-THROATED WARBLERS, EURASIAN WIGEON and HARLEQUIN DUCK, BLACK-HEADED and GLAUCOUS GULLS, CASPIAN TERN, RED-HEADED WOODPECKER, GRASSHOPPER SPARROW, Spring migrants and more.
Spring continues to move forward, though slowly, but it's nice to have a BLACK-NECKED STILT again appear along Long Island's south shore early in the season. This year's bird was spotted Sunday around the dune pools off the Roosevelt Nature Center at Jones Beach West End moving around that area at least through Tuesday.
A male PROTHONOTARY WARBLER found yesterday at Fuch's Pond Preserve in Fort Salonga was still present there today. This area a favored location of this species so please do nothing to disturb this bird's activities. A mini invasion of YELLOW-THROATED WARBLERS this week produced sightings today at Hempstead Lake State Park and out at the Quogue Wildlife Refuge with another in Brooklyn's Green-wood Cemetery Tuesday and one the day before at the Massapequa Preserve while one present last week at Patriot's Preserve in Shirley was still present Sunday.
The drake EURASIAN WIGEON viewable in New Jersey waters from Hudson River Park in lower Manhattan was last reported Monday while a HARLEQUIN DUCK in Brooklyn was still present off Coney Island last weekend.
A BLACK-HEADED GULL was seen off Conference House Park in southern Staten Island today with another photographed Wednesday in Sheepshead Bay Brooklyn. A GLAUCOUS GULL was still at Brooklyn Army Terminal Pier 4 last Saturday. Single CASPIAN TERNS were seen along the Hudson River off Westchester on both Monday and Wednesday as these birds continue their journey north.
Lingering RED-HEADED WOODPECKER were still in Green-wood Cemetery today while the one at Sunken Meadow State Park was present at least to last Sunday.
A GRASSHOPPER SPARROW was uncovered Tuesday at Fort Washington Park in northern Manhattan and several VESPER SPARROWS were again found in various local parks while single ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLERS were noted in Manhattan's Carl Schurz Park and in Brooklyn's Prospect Park and Green-wood Cemetery during the week.
A growing number of arrivals this week featured BLACK SKIMMER, BROAD-WINGED HAWK, WHITE-EYED and YELLOW-THROATED VIREOS, WOOD THRUSH, SEASIDE SPARROW, ORCHARD and BALTIMORE ORIOLES, various warblers including OVENBIRD, CAPE MAY, PRAIRIE and BLACK-THROATED GREEN and SCARLET TANAGER and ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK and we await many more.
To phone in reports, call Tom Burke at (914) 967-4922.
This service is sponsored by the Linnaean Society of New York and the National Audubon Society. Thank you for calling.
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