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: Gail Benson
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Greetings! This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for Friday, March 6, 2026
at 11:00 pm.
The highlights of today’s tape are SWAINSON’S HAWK, PACIFIC LOON, TRUMPETER
SWAN, THICK-BILLED MURRE, AMERICAN GOSHAWK, EURASIAN WIGEON, KING EIDER,
BLACK-HEADED and GLAUCOUS GULLS, RED-HEADED WOODPECKER, LAPLAND LONGSPUR
and more.
The adult SWAINSON'S HAWK currently wintering in Brooklyn was present at
least to Wednesday around the SIMS Municipal Recycling Center located
around 29th Street, west of Second Avenue - access to this facility is
restricted but the area can be viewed from outside the surrounding
fencing. Also watch for it flying around the local neighborhood, including
over Green-Wood Cemetery.
A PACIFIC LOON apparently still hanging around Jones Inlet was seen off
Jones Beach West End on Tuesday and reported there again today.
Causing quite a stir recently has been a TRUMPETER SWAN lingering in the
East River along the Brooklyn and Queens shorelines with an accompanying
MUTE SWAN. This pair has been moving up as far as Hunters Point in Queens
on the north end of their travels and then down river as far as Wallabout
Channel in Brooklyn, today spending some time around the Austin Nichols
House a little north of the Williamsburg Bridge.
A THICK-BILLED MURRE was photographed last Saturday as it fed along the
west side of Shinnecock Inlet, but more challenging has been a fairly
elusive immature AMERICAN GOSHAWK seen briefly several times over the last
week or so as it travels around the vegetation in the dunes at Jones Beach
West End.
Among the waterfowl, a EURASIAN WIGEON continues to be seen on Agawam Lake
in Southampton, a female KING EIDER was spotted Wednesday in Gardiners Bay
with a group of COMMON EIDERS, and 12 HARLEQUIN DUCKS were counted off
Point Lookout last Saturday.
A BLACK-HEADED GULL was photographed again Saturday at Plumb Beach in
Brooklyn, with another continuing in Jones Inlet, often seen at the Point
Lookout side.
A GLAUCOUS GULL was spotted Saturday in Gravesend Bay in Brooklyn, along
with a couple of ICELAND GULLS, and among several other ICELANDS were birds
noted at Great Kills Park, Floyd Bennett Field, Crab Meadow Beach, Robert
Moses State Park and Oldfield Point and Lighthouse. Some LESSER
BLACK-BACKED GULLS also continue locally at coastal sites where gulls
gather.
A couple of RED-NECKED GREBES were present Sunday and Wednesday off City
Island in the Bronx, and a single was viewed Wednesday and today off Floyd
Bennett Field.
An adult RED-HEADED WOODPECKER continues at Marshlands Conservancy in Rye,
and a LAPLAND LONGSPUR was seen Sunday to Wednesday at Smith Point County
Park.
Recent arrivals regionally, hopefully showing good judgment, included a few
AMERICAN OYSTERCATCHERS, a PIPING PLOVER at Jones Beach, a few vocalizing
AMERICAN WOODCOCK, and a TREE SWALLOW or two.
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.
