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 10th, 2026*, at 11 pm. The highlights of today's tape are SANDHILL CRANE, BOHEMIAN WAXWING, a deceased COMMON GROUND DOVE, EURASIAN WIGEON, TUFTED, and HARLEQUIN DUCKS, GLAUCOUS GULL, RED-HEADED WOODPECKER, LARK SPARROW, RED CROSSBILL, some new Spring arrivals, and more.
A couple of interesting overhead sightings this week involved two SANDHILL CRANES moving west over the Rockefeller State Park Preserve in Westchester yesterday afternoon and a BOHEMIAN WAXWING reported migrating with a flock of Cedar Waxwings over Robert Moses State Park last Saturday morning.
Not moving by but instead delivered recently to the American Museum of Natural History was an apparently wild but deceased COMMON GROUND DOVE found in late March in Kew Gardens, Queens.
Interesting waterfowl included a drake EURASIAN WIGEON seen again Thursday on Agawam Lake off Pond Lane in Southampton, a drake TUFTED DUCK visiting Cammann's Pond Park Saturday to Monday off Merrick Road in Nassau, and 13 HARLEQUIN DUCKS counted Saturday off Montauk Point.
A GLAUCOUS GULL was spotted again today at Bush Terminal Piers Park, with another at Rockaway Beach last Sunday, while an ICELAND GULL and 3 LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS were at Fort Tilden on Tuesday.
The 6-hour inshore pelagic trip Saturday aboard the American Princess also recorded an ICELAND GULL plus 2 LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS, along with a RAZORBILL and well over one-thousand NORTHERN GANNETS plus some nice whales.
A CASPIAN TERN was seen moving south past Fort Tryon Park Sunday. An AMERICAN BITTERN was photographed roosting in Brooklyn's Green-wood Cemetery Saturday. A RED-NECKED GREBE was still off City Island in the Bronx last weekend, and a RED-HEADED WOODPECKER continues at Marshlands Conservancy in Rye. A female RED CROSSBILL was seen feeding at Croton Point Park Thursday afternoon, and a late SNOW BUNTING visited Heckscher State Park field 7 last Saturday, and an apparent LARK SPARROW appeared at a Riverhead feeder Wednesday as well as an ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER was recorded singing at Ridgewood Reservoir in Queens last Saturday.
Among the various recent arrivals have been CHIMNEY SWIFT, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, FORSTER'S TERN, BROAD-WINGED HAWK, PURPLE MARTIN, and, among the warblers, a BLACK-AND-WHITE WARBLER in Central Park Saturday and a NORTHERN PARULA in Prospect Park today.
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.
