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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: Gail Benson
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Greetings! This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for Friday, May 2,
2025 at 11:00 pm.
The highlights of today’s tape are SWALLOW-TAILED KITE, BLACK-NECKED
STILT, TUFTED DUCK, LITTLE and BLACK-HEADED GULLS, YELLOW-BREASTED
CHAT, PROTHONOTARY, YELLOW-THROATED and KENTUCKY WARBLERS, SUMMER
TANAGER, BLUE GROSBEAK, spring migrants and more.
Following a decent recent influx of SWALLOW-TAILED KITES into the Cape
May area and a report lacking details of one over Forest Park in
Queens last Saturday, a SWALLOW-TAILED KITE was nicely photographed
hunting around Jones Beach West End near the Coast Guard Station
Wednesday morning, and hopefully other sightings will be forthcoming .
A BLACK-NECKED STILT was present last weekend at Georgica Cove on
Eastern Long Island, perhaps the prior Jones Beach bird continuing to
move around.
A drake TUFTED DUCK was found last Saturday on Great Pond in Southold
and still present Sunday but not noted again until spotted on the same
pond on this Thursday.
A flock of BONAPARTE'S GULLS seen Saturday on the Hudson River from
Conference House Park on southern Staten Island also contained three
LITTLE GULLS, and an immature LITTLE GULL was spotted on the Hudson
this morning with BONAPARTE'S from lower Manhattan, while a
BLACK-HEADED GULL appeared along the Newtown Creek Nature Walk in
Brooklyn this Wednesday morning. Two CASPIAN TERNS were seen Sunday
at Georgica Beach in Easthampton, and another was noted as recently as
today at Werthheim NWR in Shirley.
Interestingly, both LEAST and AMERICAN BITTERNS were noted along
Prospect Park Lake this week.
A few RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS featured one still at Green-Wood
Cemetery, plus singles near Shinnecock Tuesday, at Fort Tryon Park
Wednesday and on Thursday in Central Park and at Larchmont Reservoir
in Westchester.
A YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT was found in Prospect Park yesterday.
A welcome but seasonally expected increase in Warbler numbers and
variety during the week produced one or two PROTHONOTARY WARBLERS in
Central Park starting Monday, following one last Sunday at Mount
Loretto Unique Area on Staten Island and one continuing at Crocheron
Park in Queens to today. Single YELLOW-THROATED WARBLERS were in
Central Park Sunday and Wednesday and at Inwood Hill Park Thursday,
with one returning to the Bayard Cutting Arboretum in Great River as
of today. KENTUCKY WARBLERS visited Prospect Park Saturday to Monday
and Central Park Sunday to Tuesday plus Hasting-on-Hudson in
Westchester on Thursday, and three ORANGE-CROWNEDS were reported.
Other arriving WARBLERS included TENNESSEE, CERULEAN, BAY-BREASTED,
BLACKBURNIAN, CANADA and WILSON'S.
A few reports of SUMMER TANAGER this week included birds in Kissena
Park, Queens, on Sunday, Central Park and the Bayard Cutting Arboretum
Wednesday as well as Prospect Park today, while a female BLUE GROSBEAK
was found yesterday at Cunningham Park in Queens. Other species
making appearances this week featured BLACK-BILLED CUCKOO, EASTERN
WOOD-PEWEE, SWAINSON’S THRUSH, LINCOLN’S SPARROW and BOBOLINK.
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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