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, October 24th 2025* at 11pm. The highlights of today's tape are COMMON CUCKOO, PINK-FOOTED GOOSE, HENSLOW'S SPARROW, WESTERN KINGBIRD, YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD, EARED GREBE, BROWN PELICAN, AMERICAN AVOCET, HUDSONIAN GODWIT, YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT, LARK and CLAY-COLORED SPARROWS, BLUE GROSBEAK, DICKCISSEL and more.
Another spectacular occurrence for New York State features an unfamiliar bird photographed on a Riverhead golf course Thursday that has keyed out to be a COMMON CUCKOO, the first state record pending approval by NYSARC. This Eurasian CUCKOO was relocated Friday morning along the fence lines separating the Cherry Creek Country Club from the adjoining farm and corn fields. This area viewable looking east from Roanoke Avenue a short distance south of Reeves Avenue. With birders initially obtaining permission to visit the golf course and farm would seem to perhaps be an over zealous approach in tracking this vagrant causing it to disappear for a few hours. Later, refound at a paddock next to the golf course parking lot the CUCKOO suddenly took off and headed in a northerly direction. If on Saturday it does return to the fence line and corn field along Roanoke where it was feeding quite successfully, hopefully the bird will be given adequate space to avoid its being pressured off again and in the same spot a PINK-FOOTED GOOSE spent much of Friday in a large Canada Goose flock feeding on the west side of Roanoke Avenue at the south end of the Buffalo Farm. CACKLING GOOSE was also seen.
Westchester County last Saturday, a HENSLOW'S SPARROW was photographed on the landfill at Croton Point Park but could not be relocated.
Last weekend a WESTERN KINGBIRD visited All Faiths Cemetery in southwestern Queens and on Tuesday a female type YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD was spotted in a blackbird flock along Horse Mill Lane in Watermill.
The EARED GREBE was spotted again Wednesday on the West Pond at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge where 4 CASPIAN TERNS visited the East Pond last Sunday.
Three BROWN PELICANS were spotted Wednesday morning heading west off Coney Island and this morning 4 more were also moving west past Fort Tilden.
Among the shorebirds on Tuesday two AMERICAN AVOCETS stopped by Meadow Lake in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park while the 2 HUDSONIAN GODWITS, often at the south end of Jamaica Bay's East Pond, had decreased to just one by Wednesday.
At least one of two RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS present last Saturday at Marshlands Conservancy in Rye has continued there and a COMMON EIDER paid a surprise visit there last Wednesday.
A YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT appeared Wednesday in Prospect Park where a LARK SPARROW was noted last Saturday.
A CLAY-COLORED SPARROW Saturday at Coney Island Creek was followed by one in Central Park Sunday, another at Randall's Island Tuesday and another staying in lower Manhattan at Gansevoort Peninsular through today. Several VESPER SPARROWS were encountered.
Warblers included a couple of late CONNECTICUTS and several ORANGE-CROWNEDS while the VE Macy Park and Great Hunger Memorial in Irvington recently hosted a BLUE GROSBEAK and up to 4 DICKCISSELS with another BLUE GROSBEAK at Calvert Vaux Park Sunday and several other DICKCISSELS throughout the area.
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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