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 25th 2025* at 11pm. The highlights of today's tape are SWAINSON'S WARBLER, LITTLE GULL, CHUCK-WILL'S-WIDOW, GLAUCOUS GULL, CASPIAN TERN, WESTERN CATTLE EGRET, LEAST BITTERN, PROTHONOTARY, YELLOW-THROATED and KENTUCKY WARBLERS, YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT, BLUE GROSBEAK and Spring migrants and more.
As migration heats up this week's best find was a SWAINSON'S WARBLER photographed Tuesday as it foraged around the Dellwater in Green-wood Cemetery in Brooklyn.
Watching birds moving north along the Hudson River produced another LITTLE GULL, this one off Jones Point in Rockland County seen Tuesday afternoon with a flock of Bonaparte's Gulls.
What appeared to be a CHUCK-WILL'S-WIDOW was seen Wednesday evening in Forest Park, Queens this following an EASTERN WHIP-POOR-WILL spotted at a daytime roost Monday and Tuesday in Green-wood Cemetery.
A late GLAUCOUS GULL was seen off Plumb Beach in Brooklyn last Sunday with another sighting today off Fort Tilden and a CASPIAN TERN was at Willow Lake in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park last Tuesday.
A WESTERN CATTLE EGRET paid a brief visit to Hempstead Lake State Park last Sunday while a LEAST BITTERN roosting in an open tree at Marshlands Conservancy in Rye on Wednesday was followed by one more concealed around the Upper Pool at Prospect Park Lake yesterday and today.
A SORA was spotted Tuesday rummaging around in leaf litter in Green-wood Cemetery where the RED-HEADED WOODPECKER was still present today.
Among the more unusual warblers this week were 5 PROTHONOTARY WARBLERS featuring the carryover to Sunday from last week at Fuch's Pond Preserve in Fort Salonga, one at Massapequa Preserve Saturday, in Westchester one at Rockefeller State Park Preserve Sunday followed by one at Croton Point Park Tuesday and one at Crocheron Park in Queens today. Single YELLOW-THROATED WARBLERS included one still at Hempstead Lake State Park on Saturday and sightings in Central Park Sunday and Monday and again today when it was joined by the first KENTUCKY WARBLER of the Spring as well as the YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT in the Ramble. Single ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLERS were noted Wednesday in Central Park as well as at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and in Green-wood Cemetery and other recently arriving warblers have included WORM-EATING, BLUE-WINGED, NASHVILLE, HOODED, AMERICAN REDSTART, MAGNOLIA, CHESTNUT-SIDED, BLACKPOLL and BLACK-THROATED BLUE.
VESPER SPARROW was noted in Central Park Saturday and Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge Wednesday and a BLUE GROSBEAK visited Brooklyn Bridge Park Monday.
Among other species appearing this week were also YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO, RUBY-THROATED HUMMINGBIRD, LEAST and COMMON TERNS, plus the first two ROSEATE TERNS back at Great Gull Island, GREAT CRESTED and LEAST FLYCATCHERS, WARBLING and RED-EYED VIREOS, BANK SWALLOW, VEERY and INDIGO BUNTING.
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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