Date: 6/30/25 6:20 pm From: Andrew Block <ablock22168...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Hunter Lake Trumpeter Swans
Went to see the family of Trumpeter Swans up in Sullivan Co. on Hunter Lake in Bethel yesterday. Saw all four cruising around mostly oblivious to all the fishermen out there. Hope they come back. Good to see they aren't bothered by them much. Fathest south in NYS I've seen them nesting. Awesome.
Andrew
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Greetings! This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for Friday, June 27,
2025 at 11:00 pm.
The highlights of today’s tape are SWALLOW-TAILED KITE, a pelagic trip
featuring BAND-RUMPED and LEACH’S STORM-PETRELS and MANX and SCOPOLI’S
SHEARWATERS, onshore SANDWICH and ARCTIC TERNS, AMERICAN WHITE and
BROWN PELICANS, LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE, PROTHONOTARY WARBLER, BLUE GROSBEAK
and more.
Last Sunday a SWALLOW-TAILED KITE was photographed mid-day as its
soared along the east side of the Hudson River over
Hastings-on-Hudson, only to once again quickly disappear.
A pelagic trip aboard the American Princess left Sheepshead Bay,
Brooklyn, Sunday evening, reaching deep water around Hudson Canyon by
dawn, and returning by Monday evening. Species encountered included 2
BLACK TERNS off Breezy Point, 1 BAND-RUMPED, 6 LEACH’S and 2,186
WILSON’S STORM-PETRELS, and 24 CORY’S, 8 SCOPOLI’S, 555 GREAT, 7 SOOTY
and 2 MANX SHEARWATERS. Also counted were 63 CORY’S or SCOPOLI’S
SHEARWATERS, indicating the problem both pelagic and onshore
sea-watchers now face in separating these two recently split but very
similar species. Good photographs, especially of the underwing
pattern, will be quite instrumental in species determination.
Pelagics seen recently from shore under appropriate weather
conditions, especially off Robert Moses State Park and points East,
have included the above-mentioned SHEARWATERS, WILSON’S STORM-PETRELS,
and also PARASITIC JAEGER.
Out on the low tide flats at Cupsogue Beach County Park in Westhampton
Beach, a SANDWICH TERN was photographed on Monday and an immature
ARCTIC TERN was spotted several times from Saturday to Tuesday, while
other TERNS included. 11. ROSEATES counted Saturday and 2 BLACK TERNS
seen Sunday.
An AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN was present again at Mecox Inlet Monday,
while BROWN PELICANS along the coast included at least 3 off Robert
Moses State Park and another at Shinnecock Inlet Thursday, preceded by
1 noted off Great Gull Island back on Friday the 20th.
An ACADIAN FLYCATCHER was still in Prospect Park Monday, while
surprising were a PROTHONOTARY WARBLER at the Mount Loretto Unique
Area on Staten Island last Saturday and a LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE visiting
Croton Point Park in Westchester on the 20th but not seen thereafter .
BLUE GROSBEAKS continue in the Calverton area, including around the
Preston's Pond complex
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Greetings. This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for *Friday, June 20th 2025* at 11pm. The highlights of today's tape are MISSISSIPPI KITE, AMERICAN WHITE and BROWN PELICANS, AMERICAN AVOCET, WHITE-FACED IBIS, ARCTIC TERN, probable SOUTH POLAR SKUA and other onshore pelagics, YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT, SUMMER TANAGER, BLUE GROSBEAK and more.
Again this week a MISSISSIPPI KITE appeared in our area this time last Sunday briefly over the Rockefeller State Park Preserve in Westchester County, that park's second species of kite within a week, and our hope is that with this hatch year for the 17-Year Cicada that a few more kites might find their way up here.
Two species of pelicans this week featured an AMERICAN WHITE seen over the West Pond at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge midday Monday with another reported at Bellport Bay yesterday while an immature BROWN PELICAN was reported Sunday and Thursday mornings off Nickerson Beach and off Staten Island Wednesday.
An AMERICAN AVOCET was seen today on the bay side at Smith Point County Park in Shirley but missed subsequently while the WHITE-FACED IBIS was still being seen in the West Pond at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge at least to Monday.
This is the season that ARCTIC TERNS have been showing up at tern gathering locations with one noted at Cupsogue County Park both Tuesday and Thursday and another at Nickerson Beach on Wednesday the latter location also a decent one at which to see ROSEATE and GULL-BILLED TERNS around the colony there.
The Captree Summer Bird Count recorded about 127 species last Saturday with both the ICELAND GULL at Heckscher State Park and the CASPIAN TERN in Sayville new for the count. Other highlights included LEAST BITTERN, ACADIAN FLYCATCHER and the YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER at the Bayard Cutting Arboretum in Great River but also quite notable was the ocean flight witnessed off Robert Moses State Park a day later on Sunday.
Finally some CORY'S and GREAT SHEARWATERS began showing up as did a MANX and 3 SOOTY SHEARWATERS plus a few WILSON'S STORM-PETRELS but the most interesting bird spent its time harassing the larger shearwaters and though dealing with long distance and not ideal viewing conditions but spurred by discernable field marks was thought to be a SOUTH POLAR SKUA unfortunately moving on shortly thereafter.
A couple of CASPIAN TERNS flew over Playland Lake in Rye Wednesday evening with another at Great Kills Park today.
A YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT was noted in the woods at Wagner College off Hillside Avenue on Staten Island today.
Both SUMMER TANAGER and BLUE GROSBEAK continue in the Calverton area especially around the Preston's Pond Complex off Grumman Boulevard.
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Date: 6/20/25 3:46 am From: Tom Fiore <tomfi2...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] N.Y. County, NYC - into June 19th
New York County -in N.Y. City- including Manhattan, Governors, Randalls, and Roosevelt islands and the adjacent waters and skies above -
thru June 19th, the last full day of spring on the calendar -
Glossy Ibis occurred as a fly-by over Governors Island on June 14th. On June 19th -also known as Juneteenth- 2 American Oystercatchers were noted passing Governors Island moving towards western Brooklyn, and also noted again at Governors were Willow Flycatchers, potentially a breeding pair, although full confirmation will be if-when any young are seen, and that any young also are seen to fledge successfully as well. A Black Skimmer was again noted for this county on June 14, seen from Roosevelt Island.
Ruby-throated Hummingbirds were ongoing in several sites, particularly and most-recently in the garden of Fort Tryon Park, upper Manhattan. This species has sometimes bred in this county, including in parks in Manhattan in the modern era. Manhattan will typically have a number of summering Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers, and this summer looks to be no-exception, with some of these individuals -which are not breeding here- in even the smallest of greenspaces, or occasionally in street trees, in and along various neighborhoods streets or boulevards. Some of the individuals may be lingering beyond one full calendar year.
Lingering birds at Bryant Park in midtown Manhattan included at least several warblers, with Magnolia Warbler the more unusual for the date and location, this week. Other warblers still being seen in the county have included Canada, N. Parula, Ovenbird, Common Yellowthroat, Black-and-white, and Yellow Warblers, plus American Redstarts - all of these species found in multiple sites to this week. A few Mourning Warblers were also straggling thru to this week, and at least one female Blackpoll, but other female warblers could remain lurking in deep foliage and being rather quiet as well. More-usual lingerers at Bryant Park have been numbers of White-throated Sparrow, some Gray Catbirds, and at least Swamp Sparrow as well as some other species - often a couple of warblers which may summer thru in that park, in particular Ovenbird and-or Common Yellowthroat.
Northern Parulas were still being found around N.Y. City in some locations this week, and that also included in New York County, in part on Manhattan island. This is a species that has - very rarely - bred or attempted to nest in this city in approximations of appropriate habitat, so quietly watching any lingering birds, especially if paired, might be interesting. American Redstart is also at least possible as a breeder in the county, and Yellow Warbler and Common Yellowthroat have bred or attempted to regularly, if in limited sites in the county.Overall, a fair majority of all bird species still in this county now are breeding here, or are regular, perhaps daily visitors or non breeding lingerers.
At Randalls Island, numbers of night-herons continued with more than one Yellow-crowned Night-Heron semi-regular through this week, and many Black-crowneds in varying plumages, which are also seen from around the county, particularly at night and dawn or dusk hours - the latter can be seen coming and going at multiple locations in the county, at those tween-the-dark-and-the-light hours. Cliff Swallows are also still around Randalls Island with at least 2 successful fledges already-recently, and hopefully more, while in the county overall, Barn Swallow is by far most common with Tree and N. Rough-winged Swallows also regular in multiple locations. Regular in the past 10 or more days at Randalls Island have been Green Heron, Snowy and Great Egret, all including fly-by birds, and a modest variety of birds that may potentially be breeding there, but which also may be breeding elsewhere nearby -or, not breeding in this calender year- and are simply regular visitors.
This county has had Indigo Bunting attempt nesting over the years in various locations, and has also had individuals linger into calendar summer with no evident nesting, there are still at least a few of this species around, the males generally more obvious but some females also lingered as well. Monk Parakeets are ongoing, particularly at one long-favored site where they have nested in the past at the western edge of upper Manhattan. A few reports also have come from other locations recently.
Happy Summer Solstice to all in the northern hemisphere,
Tom Fiore
manhattan
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Date: 6/16/25 9:07 pm From: <marciaaabrahams...> <marciaaabrahams...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] The next Queens County Bird Club hybrid meeting (in person and via Zoom) is this Wednesday, June 18th at 7:30 PM featuring Jennifer Pines "Birding in England with side trips to Amsterdam and Germany"
The next Queens County Bird Club meeting is this Wednesday, June 18th at 7:30 PM at the Alley Pond Environmental Center, 229-10 Northern Blvd, Douglaston, NY 11362. This meeting will be hybrid (in person and also available via Zoom)Jennifer Pines will present "Birding in England with side trips to Amsterdam and Germany".Jennifer had the opportunity to visit Great Britain twice last year, in January and May, with add on trips to Germany and the Netherlands in the spring trip. While it wasn't a birding trip, she had finally put her foot down after family trips yielded almost no birds. (Italy 11 species, China 8 species) and said, "There will be birding!" Seeing two different seasons, winter ducks in January and arriving migrants in May gives a fuller picture of the variety of species found in northern Europe and Great Britain.Jennifer Wilson-Pines has loved birds since age 10 when her parents put up a bird feeder. She has been active with the North Shore Audubon Society since 1997 as Conservation Chair, field trip leader, Newsletter editor, and President. She is the Co-compiler for Northern Nassau Christmas Count. She managed a large format still life advertising photography studio in the city for 12 years in the pre-digital age but now shoots for ID and enjoyment because she is no longer willing to cart 50 lbs. of camera gear. Nikon Coolpix p950 Bridge super zoom, 5 spare batteries and 2 chips.Please be prompt and ring the bell to be let in since there won't be any coverage at the front desk.To register for this event via Zoom, click on to:
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Date: 6/14/25 8:52 am From: Andrew Block <ablock22168...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] New bird for Westchester
I was surprised to get my 250th bird for Westchester yesterday by driving past the Yonkers Home Depot. I had a Cliff Swallow picking up mud from a puddle right next to the store. I assume they are nesting somewhere on that building or nearby. I'm surprised it took me so long to find on in this part of NY. Â
Andrew
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Greetings. This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for *Friday, June 13th 2025* at 11pm. The highlights of today's tape are SWALLOW-TAILED and MISSISSIPPI KITES, AMERICAN WHITE and BROWN PELICANS, FRANKLIN'S and LITTLE GULLS, WHITE and WHITE-FACED IBIS, ARCTIC TERN, BLACK-NECKED STILT, SUMMER TANAGER, BLUE GROSBEAK and more.
A decent week for rarities with for instance two species of kites reported while neither stayed for long. A SWALLOW-TAILED KITE was seen briefly a few times over Rockefeller State Park Preserve in Westchester Tuesday afternoon before moving on and a MISSISSIPPI KITE was reported Wednesday afternoon near Great Kills Park on Staten Island.
The AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN visiting Mecox Bay since Wednesday the 4th was still present this morning but may have decided to later change locations while perhaps the same adult BROWN PELICAN as noted back on the 5th off Breezy Point was photographed Wednesday afternoon off Nickerson Beach.
An adult FRANKLIN'S GULL was photographed loafing with Laughing Gulls on the bar off the Coast Guard Station at Jones Beach West End Thursday morning while an immature LITTLE GULL first spotted June 5th on the West Pond at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge was still being seen there through today though it has ventured occasionally as far north as the Cross Bay Boulevard Bridge to Howard Beach.
A WHITE-FACED IBIS has also been present with Glossy Ibis feeding on the West Pond since Monday though the BLACK-NECKED STILT also frequenting the refuge's West Pond since June 5th was last noted there on Wednesday. Three immature WHITE IBIS were reported moving over central Staten Island last Monday but not noted since.
A WHIMBREL was out at Jamaica Bay Monday.
An ICELAND GULL was noted at field 7 at Heckscher State Park from Monday through Thursday and various terns included an ARCTIC TERN at Nickerson Beach Sunday, one or two adults at Pike's Beach and Cupsogue Beach County Park early in the week and an immature on Democrat Point at Robert Moses State Park Thursday along with one or more CASPIAN and BLACK TERNS along the coast and a few ROYALS arriving.
YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER continues at the Bayard Cutting Arboretum in Great River while both SUMMER TANAGER and BLUE GROSBEAK are still present around the Preston's Pond Complex in Calverton.
The 50th Annual Greenwich-Stamford Summer Bird Count including much of eastern Westchester last weekend recorded 135 species, rarities including RED-NECKED GREBE, GLOSSY IBIS, WHITE-WINGED SCOTER, BLACK-BELLIED and SEMIPALMATED PLOVERS, RUDDY TURNSTONE, FORSTER'S TERN, ACADIAN and ALDER FLYCATCHERS and BLACK-THROATED BLUE, MOURNING, and HOODED WARBLERS.
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Date: 6/13/25 8:13 pm From: <marciaaabrahams...> <marciaaabrahams...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Do not miss the next Queens County Bird Club meeting on Wednesday, June 18th at 7:30 PM featuring Jennifer Pines "Birding in England with side trips to Amsterdam and Germany"
This meeting will be hybrid. More information to follow at the beginning of next week.
Marcia AbrahamsVP/Programs CoordinatorQueens County Bird Clubhttps://qcbirdclub.org/Email:Â <MarciaAAbrahams...>Â
----- Forwarded Message ----- From: <marciaaabrahams...> <marciaaabrahams...>To: NYSBIRDS-L <nysbirds-l...>Sent: Monday, June 2, 2025 at 06:08:06 PM EDTSubject: Do not miss the next Queens County Bird Club meeting on Wednesday, June 18th at 7:30 PM featuring Jennifer Pines "Birding in England with side trips to Amsterdam and Germany"
Do not miss the next Queens County Bird Club meeting on Wednesday, June 18th at 7:30 PM at the Alley Pond Environmental Center, 229-10 Northern Blvd, Douglaston, NYÂ 11362.
Jennifer Pines will present "Birding in England with side trips to Amsterdam and Germany".
Jennifer had the opportunity to visit Great Britain twice last year, in January and May, with add on trips to Germany and the Netherlands in the spring trip. While it wasn't a birding trip, she had finally put her foot down after family trips yielded almost no birds. (Italy 11 species, China 8 species) and said, "There will be birding!" Seeing two different seasons, winter ducks in January and arriving migrants in May gives a fuller picture of the variety of species found in northern Europe and Great Britain.Â
Jennifer Wilson-Pines has loved birds since age 10 when her parents put up a bird feeder. She has been active with the North Shore Audubon Society since 1997 as Conservation Chair, field trip leader, Newsletter editor, and President. She is the Co-compiler for Northern Nassau Christmas Count. She managed a large format still life advertising photography studio in the city for 12 years in the pre-digital age but now shoots for ID and enjoyment because she is no longer willing to cart 50 lbs. of camera gear. Nikon Coolpix p950 Bridge super zoom, 5 spare batteries and 2 chips.
Please be prompt and ring the bell to be let in since there won't be any coverage at the front desk.Â
Marcia AbrahamsVP/Programs CoordinatorQueens County Bird Clubhttps://qcbirdclub.org/Email:Â <MarciaAAbrahams...>Â
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Date: 6/12/25 5:46 pm From: Tom Fiore <tomfi2...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Manhattan, NYC - warblers and other birds, to June 12
Manhattan, N.Y. City -
thru Thursday, June 12th -
A Blue-winged Warbler in the Central Park Ramble on June 6 was rather late for this county. Other warbler species have persisted, most less-unusual as stragglers or very-late migrators for this location, and then we also have the inside-the-urban-matrix of some smaller parks, possibly exemplified by the midtown Bryant Park, with at least 7 lingering species of American warblers hopefully able to move on as much as possible this month. In total, at least 11 species of warblers were still in Manhattan later in this week. A small number of other late-moving migrants included some cuckoos, mainly Yellow-bllled Cuckoo, and some migrant flycatchers such as Yellow-bellied Flycatcher. Very few other migrants were still on the move here, in part also due to much easterly or southerly with an east components wind in recent days. Blackpoll Warblers -all of which are strictly migrants- were still around in very low numbers thru Thursday, in multiple locations including in Central Park.
Lingering Acadian Flycatchers, and any Indigo Buntings in this county ought be quietly watched to see if there is any nesting activity noticed, and all species of native nesting birds should be given space and quiet in order to give each pair of birds the best chance at success. There are also many uncommon-for-June birds still lingering, some of which do not and will not breed in this county, including many of the still-lingering migratory warblers… while there are also some species of birds for which breeding is at least a possibility, such as Rose-breasted Grosbeak or Scarlet Tanager, especially in the most mature woods of Manhattan island, much of that in the northern half of the island.
Monk Parakeets have come back to a location in upper far-west Manhattan where the species has resided in past years and past decades, perhaps rather irregularly there, to build nests in highway infrastructure - this area had been used at least by the 1980s by nesting and nest-attempting Monks -which are a countable breeding species in N.Y. City and much of the immediate region, in select areas or specific locations.
Scores of native and migratory birds are now nesting and some pairs have eggs or young by now - please do nothing at all that would disturb any native nesting bird.
Just east of Manhattan at or rather from Randalls Island in N.Y. County, some Black Skimmers have again been noticed mainly at dusk-hour, by observers seeking out that species, into this week. There are even multiple-year past records in the modern era for this species visiting Central Park in Manhattan, feeding at dusk, at night and in dawn hours in June thru midsummer, as well as the occasional sightings from the N.Y. harbor and along the rivers surrounding Manhattan.
Thanks to all who were observing and some also photographing for finds, and reports via non-x bird alerts and via eBird with the Macaulay Library for media.
Good mid-June birding to all,
Tom Fiore
manhattan
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Date: 6/10/25 11:40 am From: Meena Madhav Haribal <mmh3...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Register Now for the 2025 New York State Ornithological Association conference in Ithaca
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Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Register Now for the 2025 New York State Ornithological Association conference in Ithaca
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Join us this September for a weekend of celebrating the birds and birders of New York State! The 2025 New York State Ornithological Association<https://nybirds.org/> Conference, hosted by the Cayuga Bird Club<http://www.cayugabirdclub.org/>, will be held September 19-21, 2025 in Ithaca, NY. The conference dates coincide with Fall migration, and field trips will be offered to a variety of area birding hot spots, including Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge. There will be a variety of social and educational activities, including tours at the Cornell Lab Visitor Center, vendors, a silent auction, NY Breeding Bird Atlas celebration, a paper session with short talks, and a Bird ID challenge presented by members of the NYS Young Birders Club.
Friday’s Welcome Reception will be followed by a presentation by Dr. Adriaan Dokter on BirdCast -- A Large-scale Perspective on Bird Migration.
Saturday evening’s banquet will feature keynote speaker Peter Kaestner, who will present a pictorial journey through his lifetime of birding to become the first person to see 10,000 bird species around the world, In Search of the Orange-tufted Spiderhunter.
The conference is open to the public and attendance is encouraged for anyone with an interest in New York State birds, birding, and conservation. Early Bird Registration before June 30th is $70. The conference registration fee will go up to $85 July 1 – August 31. Young birders 21 and under may register for $5, thanks to youth sponsorship provided by Visit Ithaca<https://www.visitithaca.com/>.
For more information and a complete conference schedule, please visit www.nysoa2025.org<https://www.nysoa2025.org/>.
Date: 6/8/25 3:59 am From: Tom Fiore <tomfi2...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Central Park, NYC - Saturday, 6/7 - 12 Warbler species
Central Park, Manhattan, N.Y. City
Saturday, June 7th -
One dozen species of migratory American warblers were found in Central Park on Saturday, by keen observers in multiple sectors of the park on the day, some visiting the Ramble section and vicinity, some centered around the reservoir area, and some observers at the north end of the park. The species seen are listed below -
Ovenbird, Northern Waterthrush, Black-and-white Warbler, Mourning Warbler, Common Yellowthroat, American Redstart, Northern Parula, Blackburnian Warbler, Yellow Warbler, Blackpoll Warbler, Canada Warbler, and Wilsons Warbler - all in the multiple with the possible exception of the female Blackburnian.
Thanks to the many observers and photographers out and about, reporting many finds and some photos to the non-x bird alert and as always via eBird with the Macaulay library for media.
Good birding to all,
Tom Fiore
manhattan
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Date: 6/6/25 6:53 pm From: Gail Benson <gbensonny...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] NYC Area RBA: 6 June 2025
-RBA
* New York
* New York City, Long Island, Westchester County
* June 6, 2025
* NYNY2506.06
- Birds Mentioned
LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE+
(+ Details requested by NYSARC)
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Black-billed Cuckoo
BLACK-NECKED STILT
AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER
Parasitic Jaeger
LITTLE GULL
Gull-billed Tern
Caspian Tern
Royal Tern
AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN
BROWN PELICAN
WESTERN CATTLE EGRET
Acadian Flycatcher
Alder Flycatcher
Bank Swallow
Mourning Warbler
SUMMER TANAGER
BLUE GROSBEAK
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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, June 6,
2025 at 11:00 pm.
The highlights of today’s tape are LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE, AMERICAN WHITE
and BROWN PELICANS, BLACK-NECKED STILT, LITTLE GULL, AMERICAN
GOLDEN-PLOVER, WESTERN CATTLE EGRET, SUMMER TANAGER, BLUE GROSBEAK and
more.
A LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE paid a surprise visit to Heckscher State Park last
Monday, but unfortunately had disappeared by Tuesday morning.
An AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN spotted on Mecox Bay Wednesday was still
present today at the east end of the bay, and a CASPIAN TERN has also
been visiting Mecox through today.
An adult BROWN PELICAN was photographed Thursday afternoon from the
American Princess boat, sitting in the water just southeast of the
Breezy Point jetty.
A BLACK-NECKED STILT spotted on the West Pond at Jamaica Bay Wildlife
Refuge on Wednesday was still present today, and also visiting the
West Pond for the last two days has been an immature LITTLE GULL
A recent substantial push of shorebirds through our region included an
AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER spotted Monday at Heckscher State Park opposite
Field 8.
A WESTERN CATTLE EGRET appeared at Point Lookout last Saturday.
A couple of GULL-BILLED TERNS have been seen at Jamaica Bay Wildlife
Refuge the last few days, with one or two others and a few ROYAL TERNS
also present recently at Nickerson Beach, where a PARASITIC JAEGER was
seen offshore on Thursday.
Both SUMMER TANAGERS and BLUE GROSBEAKS have been noted recently
around the Prestons Pond Complex in Calverton, but please remember not
to disturb, especially, localized breeding birds such as these.
Small numbers of spring migrants continue to trickle through, but not
for long, these including both YELLOW-BILLED and BLACK-BILLED CUCKOOS.
ACADIAN and ALDER FLYCATCHERS, BANK SWALLOWS and various WARBLERS
including MOURNING.
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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Date: 6/6/25 4:50 pm From: Deborah Allen <dallenyc...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Central Park NYC, Fri. June 6, 2025: Yellow-billed Cuckoo, Flycatchers
Central Park NYC - North End
Friday June 6, 2025
OBS: Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Yellow-billed Cuckoo, Great Crested Flycatcher, Eastern Kingbird, Eastern Wood-Pewee.
Canada Goose - 3
Mallard - 10
Mourning Dove - 5
Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 2 at the Pool (Kate Wollin, Jennifer from Ohio)
Chimney Swift - 6
Herring Gull - a few flyovers
Double-crested Cormorant - 6
Black-crowned Night-Heron - 3 (2 adults, 1 second-year)
Great Egret - 9
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 1 female Great Hill, others heard
Downy Woodpecker - 1 male at the Seep
Northern Flicker - 1 Harlem Meer
Great Crested Flycatcher - pair Great Hill
Eastern Kingbird - pair Harlem Meer
Eastern Wood-Pewee - heard at the Pool
Warbling Vireo - heard at the Harlem Meer and the Pool
Red-eyed Vireo - 1 Great Hill, others heard
Blue Jay - 4
Cedar Waxwing - 1 Harlem Meer, 1 flyover
Carolina Wren - 1 or 2 Conservatory Garden building nest
Gray Catbird - 5 or 6 singing, nest with young at the Pool
American Robin - singing birds and nests in several locations
Song Sparrow - 1 singing at Harlem Meer
Baltimore Oriole - 1 adult male Harlem Meer island
Red-winged Blackbird - 10-14, 2 nests at Harlem Meer
Common Grackle - 12-15
Common Yellowthroat - heard "tch" call Harlem Meer
American Redstart - heard at the Pool
Northern Cardinal - 4
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Date: 6/6/25 5:39 am From: Tom Fiore <tomfi2...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] N.Y. County, NYC - further June migrants or visitors, to 6/5
New York County -in N.Y. City- including Manhattan, Randalls, Governors and Roosevelt Islands, as well as adjacent waters and skies above-
thru Thursday, June 5th -
Black Skimmer was placed in the June list of species for the county this year with a sighting from a boat off Manhattan dedicated to looking for birds in the evening of 6-1.
A Semipalmated Sandpiper found on June 1st and still present to June 2 was a rather-rare sighting for Central Park and not very common anywhere in this county in general. The individual found at the reservoir there may have had an injury, but was not seen by the 3rd, and hopefully it was fully capable of flight. No reports, of all thus far submitted and some with photos added in eBird noted more than a single individual of that species at the Central Park reservoir. This species has occurred more often in northern Manhattan than in the reliable records for Central Park, over multiple decades.
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron was seen at Randalls Island into June, that location the best site in the county for observing that rarer-in-county night-heron species. A Wild Turkey was continuing at Battery Park in lower Manhattan into this month.
There were still fair numbers of migrants in some locations but by now, the diversity of migrating birds here has - as expected - lowered from the larger May numbers. Such species as Common Nighthawk, Yellow-billed and Black-billed Cuckoos, Olive-sided and Yellow-bellied and Acadian and Alder and Willow Flycatchers, as well as other Flycatcher species, migratory thrushes which do not breed in this county including Swainsons and Gray-cheeked Thrushes, Scarlet Tanagers, as many as 16 or more migratory American Warbler species were still being seen here in the first couple days in June, and a subset of the above-noted were still in a few locations such as Central Park to June 5.
Blackpoll Warbler, American Redstart, Yellow Warbler, and Common Yellowthroat were among the more-numerous of these warblers but all of the species still being seen were still in the multiple, not single individuals. On June 5th, hot weather may have reduced numbers of observers out and about, in any event Warbler diversity may have reduced to as few as 8 species around the county, perhaps a half-dozen or more Warbler species in Central Park, with some of the birds ongoing at The Pool in recent days, and in other sections of that park. Mourning Warbler was among species still showing and for that also including singing males seen to June 5th at Central Park and elsewhere. We shall see if any further push of any size or diversity in migrant songbirds comes thru here, otherwise further reports will be later this month.
Eastern Wood-Pewees, Great Crested Flycatchers, Eastern Kingbirds, and E. Phoebe are among the species that can be found breeding in this county, as is so for Warbling and Red-eyed Vireos, Wood Thrush, Orchard and Baltimore Orioles, and a variety of other migratory species. Ruby-throated Hummingbird, seen as a scarce or rare breeder in this county, was still being seen, including males, in various locations including Central Park thru June 5.
Lincolns and Savannah Sparrows were each found to June 3 in Manhattan. The White-throated Sparrows which regularly summer in various sites in Manhattan, including some at Central Park, are all non-breeding, this is an annual summer occurrence for that species in fairly-modest numbers. Swamp Sparrow may also linger in this county and these too are all considered late stragglers and non-breeders here. E. Towhees in some sites in this county could be nesting or attempting to - please do nothing at all which could disturb any native nesting birds.
Waterfowl still around in the county is limited now to rather few species including the few Mute Swans that are regular at East River areas, Mallards in numbers, Wood Duck, American Black Duck, and Gadwall. The majority of our wintering Atlantic Brant have departed, many leaving even just before June began. Common Terns continue and the most reliable site to see them is still Governors Island and the N.Y. Harbor, with some occasionally seen farther up the rivers surrounding Manhattan especially on the Hudson.
Increasingly, birds being found in this county are those which breed here annually, and some birds which could linger and attempt to breed - those may include some species which would be considered scarce or rare breeders, such as for-example the possibility that Rose-breasted Grosbeak may attempt breeding in a very few locations with enough appropriate habitat, perhaps at the northern areas of Manhattan. At Governors Island and some other county locations including Randalls Island and perhaps elsewhere, species such as Willow Flycatcher should be watched for indications of potential-actual breeding, or attempts at breeding, and the same for Acadian Flycatcher in this county.
Some of the migrants were running slightly late but all the species seen have been noted in June in past years as well. After the first week of June in typical years, the songbird migration will be mostly passed-thru, and mainly straggling birds, eventually in late June including individuals that most-likely will not breed in that same year, can be found by those continuing to observe. Manhattan in particular has any number of such straggling and non-breeding later in June birds in the records and some individuals of this sort may also spend part of summer here. An example of just one such species would be Black-and-white Warbler which is not a breeding bird in this county, but of which multiple individuals may summer thru here, by mid to late summer joined by returning breeders of the same species.
…
Many species of insects in many families and large numbers of genera have been found recently in the county, and some of these are typical of the start of summer, by the overall long-term phenology of emergences of adult insects of these many species.
Good birding to all,
Tom Fiore
manhattan
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Date: 6/4/25 4:42 pm From: kevin rogers <kev31317...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Royal Terns- Nickerson Beach , Nassau County
Hi Everyone!!Heard a Royal Tern call from where it was sitting behind the roped off breeding area on the 'east colony' at Nickerson beach tonight. It was amongst the black skimmers! Then one by one they emerged to reveal four of them, and they loafed close to the water on the 'east colony' until flushed by a passer-by. Two flew towards the west colony, and i lost track of the others. Ol' Gull-billed was on the prowl chasing common terns for fish over the east colony as well. Thought it seemed an interesting (early) date for the Royals and worth mentioning here. Not many loafing terns when i was there from 6 to 7pm today. One immature common tern was the only individual that varied from the loafing common terns.Â
Good luck out there!! -Kev
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Date: 6/2/25 3:08 pm From: <marciaaabrahams...> <marciaaabrahams...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Do not miss the next Queens County Bird Club meeting on Wednesday, June 18th at 7:30 PM featuring Jennifer Pines "Birding in England with side trips to Amsterdam and Germany"
Do not miss the next Queens County Bird Club meeting on Wednesday, June 18th at 7:30 PM at the Alley Pond Environmental Center, 229-10 Northern Blvd, Douglaston, NYÂ 11362.
Jennifer Pines will present "Birding in England with side trips to Amsterdam and Germany".
Jennifer had the opportunity to visit Great Britain twice last year, in January and May, with add on trips to Germany and the Netherlands in the spring trip. While it wasn't a birding trip, she had finally put her foot down after family trips yielded almost no birds. (Italy 11 species, China 8 species) and said, "There will be birding!" Seeing two different seasons, winter ducks in January and arriving migrants in May gives a fuller picture of the variety of species found in northern Europe and Great Britain.Â
Jennifer Wilson-Pines has loved birds since age 10 when her parents put up a bird feeder. She has been active with the North Shore Audubon Society since 1997 as Conservation Chair, field trip leader, Newsletter editor, and President. She is the Co-compiler for Northern Nassau Christmas Count. She managed a large format still life advertising photography studio in the city for 12 years in the pre-digital age but now shoots for ID and enjoyment because she is no longer willing to cart 50 lbs. of camera gear. Nikon Coolpix p950 Bridge super zoom, 5 spare batteries and 2 chips.
Please be prompt and ring the bell to be let in since there won't be any coverage at the front desk.Â
Marcia AbrahamsVP/Programs CoordinatorQueens County Bird Clubhttps://qcbirdclub.org/Email:Â <MarciaAAbrahams...>Â
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Date: 6/2/25 2:22 pm From: Deborah Allen <dallenyc...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Central Park NYC, Mon. June 2, 2025: Ruby-throated Hummingbird, Osprey, 11 Wood Warbler Species
Central Park NYC
Monday June 2, 2025
OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Ruby-throated Hummingbird, Osprey, 11 Wood Warbler Species including Mourning and Blackburnian Warblers.
Canada Goose - 31
Mallard - 24
Mourning Dove - 30-40
Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1 Strawberry Fields
Herring Gull - 35-40
Double-crested Cormorant - 8
Black-crowned Night-Heron - 1 adult Lake south of Hernshead
Osprey - 1 flyover
Red-tailed Hawk - 3
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2 or 3
Downy Woodpecker - 1 drumming persistently at the Oven
Northern Flicker - 1 heard in Ramble
Great Crested Flycatcher - 2 Ramble
Eastern Kingbird - 1 Belvedere Castle
Eastern Wood-Pewee - 2 or 3
Empidonax Flycatcher - 1 south side Turtle Pond
Warbling Vireo - 2 or 3
Red-eyed Vireo - 10-12
Blue Jay - 4 or 5
Cedar Waxwing - 6-8
Gray Catbird - 7-9
Swainson's Thrush - 2 Iphigene's Walk (Deb-early)
American Robin - 30-40
House Finch - 9-11
Baltimore Oriole - 2 or 3
Red-winged Blackbird - 4
Common Grackle - 10-15
Northern Waterthrush - 2 (Azalea Pond, Oven)
Mourning Warbler - 1 on the Point (Karen Evans)
Common Yellowthroat - 1 south side Turtle Pond
American Redstart - 10-12
Northern Parula - 3
Magnolia Warbler - 13-15
Blackburnian Warbler - 2 Strawberry Fields
Yellow Warbler - 2 (male south side Turtle Pond, female Strawberry Fields)
Blackpoll Warbler - 2 or 3
Black-throated Green Warbler - 2 (south side Turtle Pond, Strawberry Fields)
Canada Warbler - 2 (south side Turtle Pond, Hernshead)
Northern Cardinal - 7 or 8
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Date: 6/1/25 2:13 pm From: Deborah Allen <dallenyc...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Central Park NYC, Sun. June 1, 2025: Semipalmated Sandpipers, Flycatchers, 11 Wood Warbler Species
Central Park NYC
Sunday June 1, 2025
OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Semipalmated Sandpiper, Yellow-bellied and Acadian Flycatchers, 11 Wood Warbler Species including Blackburnian Warbler.
Canada Goose - 16
Mallard - 10
Mourning Dove - 60-70
Chimney Swift - 10-15
Semipalmated Sandpiper - 9-12 Reservoir (Deb-early)
Ring-billed Gull - 1 Reservoir (Deb-early)
American Herring Gull - around 50
Great Black-backed Gull - 10
Double-crested Cormorant - 20-25 including northbound flock of 17
Great Egret - 1 Turtle Pond (Edmund Berry)
Red-tailed Hawk - 1 flyover
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 4 or 5
Downy Woodpecker - 4
Northern Flicker - heard in Ramble
Great Crested Flycatcher - 3
Eastern Kingbird - 1 south side Turtle Pond
Eastern Wood-Pewee - 1 Captain's Bench
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher - 1 Belvedere Overlook (Edmund Berry)
Acadian Flycatcher - 1 Warbler Rock (seen and heard)
Warbling Vireo - 4
Red-eyed Vireo - 5 or 6
Blue Jay - 4-6
Cedar Waxwing - 8-10
Northern House Wren - 1 upper Shakespeare Garden
Gray Catbird - 8-10
Swainson's Thrush - 3
American Robin - 30-40
House Finch - 5-10 (adults and juveniles)
White-throated Sparrow - 3
Baltimore Oriole - 3 or 4
Red-winged Blackbird - 3
Common Grackle - 8-10
Northern Waterthrush - 1 Upper Lobe
Common Yellowthroat - 2 (female Tupelo Field, male south side Turtle Pond)
American Redstart - 8-10
Northern Parula - 4 or 5
Magnolia Warbler - 8-10
Blackburnian Warbler - 4 or 5
Yellow Warbler - 1 female Belvedere Castle
Blackpoll Warbler - 5-7
Black-throated Blue Warbler - 1 female bet. Summer House and Warbler Rock (Edmund Berry)
Black-throated Green Warbler - 3
Canada Warbler - 2 males (Boathouse, bet. Summer House/ and Warbler Rock)
Northern Cardinal - 10-15
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Date: 6/1/25 1:27 pm From: Tom Fiore <tomfi2...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] N.Y. County, NYC - to June 1st
New York County -in N.Y. City- including Manhattan, Randalls, Governors, and Roosvelt islands and the adjacent waters and skies above -
thru June 1 -
The recent stormy weather seemed not to bring down many unexpected birds in this county, even while grounding more species of note in some surrounding counties - while somewhat more expected migrants, a small percentage of the species already running slightly late, were delayed a bit longer, on their northbound passages.
Just one species of shorebird was notable as a very-briefly grounded occurrence for this country, on May 29th and not staying long then, a quartet of Black-bellied Plovers seen by just 3 observers, the finder and then 2 more within the early hours, at Randalls Island that one morning, and not re-found by multiple other visiting and regular observers for that location in later hours and subsequent days. Despite being regular annually on shores and flats of other adjacent counties in the region, this species is decidedly rare in this county, even as flyovers that are sometimes detected.
Semipalmated Sandpipers and Least Sandpipers were reported at Governors Island on May 31. Other shorebirds recently in the county have only included American Oystercatchers in a very few locations not at Manhattan, but near or passing by the outlying islands of the county, as well as Lesser Yellowlegs, Killdeer, and both Solitary and Spotted Sandpipers.
Yellow-billed and Black-billed Cuckoos were still pushing thru, more so the former, into June 1, and a fair diversity of flycatchers continued to the weekend, with Olive-sided Flycatcher among these.
Perhaps a last-fling or surge of passerine and related birds on migration was seen for Friday, May 30 for this county, when for example at least twenty species of migratory American warblers were still found - by many observers in the collective - for the day, diminished just a bit in diversity by the very next day. Among species still showing in the multiple in the county, particularly in Manhattan including at Central Park was Mourning Warbler, thru Sunday, June 1st, with up to 12 additional species of warblers also still around.
Many species are already nesting, and please do nothing at all to disturb any nesting birds or their young. Thanks to the vast numbers of observers and photographers who offered reports via non-x alerts and thru eBird, with the Macaulay library for media.
Good June birding to all,
Tom Fiore
manhattan
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Date: 5/31/25 1:55 pm From: Deborah Allen <dallenyc...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Central Park NYC, Sat. May 31, 2025: Olive-sided Flycatcher, 10 Wood Warblers Species incl. Mourning and Blackburnian Warblers
Central Park NYC
Saturday May 31, 2025
OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Laughing Gull, Pereginre Falcon, Olive-sided Flycatcher, 10 Wood Warblers Species including Mourning and Blackburnian Warblers.
Canada Goose - 15
Gadwall - pair Reservoir (Deb-early)
Mallard - 9
Mourning Dove - 25-35
Chimney Swift - 6
Sandpipers - flock of 15-20 Reservoir (Deb-early)
Laughing Gull - 2 adults on berm Reservoir (Deb-early)
Ring-billed Gull - 1 Reservoir (Deb-early)
Herring Gull - around 45
Great Black-backed Gull - 12
Double-crested Cormorant - 6
Black-crowned Night-Heron - 2 flyover adults
Red-tailed Hawk - 2 adults over Sparrow Rock
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2 Ramble
Downy Woodpecker - 1 male Boathouse
Northern Flicker - 1 female Captain's Bench
Peregrine Falcon - 1 adult on berm Reservoir (Deb-early)
Great Crested Flycatcher - 1 heard in Ramble
Eastern Kingbird - 1 Belvedere Castle
Olive-sided Flycatcher - 1 Captain's Bench
Warbling Vireo - 5
Red-eyed Vireo - 4 or 5
Blue Jay - 6 to 8
Barn Swallow - 2 Reservoir (Deb-early)
Cedar Waxwing - around 25 in 2 flocks
Gray Catbird - 8-10
American Robin - 30-40
House Finch - 3 Turtle Pond
American Goldfinch - 1 male south side Turtle Pond (Edmund Berry)
White-throated Sparrow - 2 (Boathouse, Top of Point)
Song Sparrow - 1 singing north end Reservoir (Deb-early)
Baltimore Oriole - 6 or 7
Red-winged Blackbird - 3 or 4
Common Grackle - 15-20
Northern Waterthrush - 1 singing at the Oven
Mourning Warbler - 1 female Captain's Bench
American Redstart - 4 or 5
Northern Parula - 2 or 3
Magnolia Warbler - 1 first-spring male southwest Great Lawn
Blackburnian Warbler - 6 (2 males, 4 females)
Yellow Warbler - 1 Turtle Pond Island
Chestnut-sided Warbler - 1 female Belvedere Castle Overlook
Blackpoll Warbler - 4 or 5
Black-throated Green Warbler - 4 or 5
Northern Cardinal - 10-12 including juveniles
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