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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, January 24th 2025* at 11pm. The highlights of today's tape are PINK-FOOTED and BARNACLE GEESE, plus an extralimital TAIGA BEAN-GOOSE, SHORT-BILLED GULL, PAINTED BUNTING, GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE, KING EIDER and BARROW'S GOLDENEYE, DOVEKIE and THICK-BILLED MURRE, BLACK-HEADED GULL, CLAY-COLORED SPARROW, YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT, DICKCISSEL and more.
The 3 PINK-FOOTED GEESE formerly frequenting the Northport Soccer Park off [...] Eaton's Neck Road did visit there last Sunday after leaving Crab Meadow Beach but have since then apparently split up and changed venues. At least one PINK-FOOTED was seen Thursday and Friday in Centerport around the Mill Pond in nearby private Tung Ting Pond. One or two GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GEESE have also been present in that same area recently and another WHITE-FRONTED was spotted at the Buffalo Farm along Reeves Avenue north of Riverhead Thursday. The lower Westchester WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE has had to change roosting sites due to freezing conditions at times visiting frozen Playland Lake in Rye. Today a BARNACLE GOOSE was found in a large Canada Goose flock visiting farm fields on the north fork between Mattituck and Cutchogue. Remember, it is still hunting season in that area.
As a note, the extralimital TAIGA BEAN-GOOSE continues in Schuylerville a little north of Saratoga Lake and regional birding services have been timely in providing current information on the goose's location.
Central Park Reservoir has been drawing in a decent number of gulls recently including one photographed last Sunday and identified as a SHORT-BILLED GULL perhaps a returning individual which was apparently spotted again on the ice Wednesday afternoon. Other gulls noted on the reservoir this week have included a BLACK-HEADED on several different days, a GLAUCOUS today, a couple of different ICELANDS and a LESSER BLACK-BACKED. Other BLACK-HEADED GULLS include one or two in the Jones Beach area, one at Smith Point County Park Sunday and one at Sagg Pond Saturday to Monday. GLAUCOUS and ICELAND GULLS continue in the North Bellport area and a GLAUCOUS at the Ponquogue Bridge Saturday and ICELANDS also noted around Coney Island and the Lake Montauk inlet early in the week.
A recent PAINTED BUNTING and CLAY-COLORED SPARROW hanging together between Beach 26th and 27th Streets in Far Rockaway were last reported last Sunday but may continue around there. Another female type PAINTED BUNTING was spotted Sunday on Staten Island at the Snug Harbor Cultural Center Heritage Farm.
The drake KING EIDER was seen again around Shinnecock Inlet as recently as Wednesday. The drake BARROW'S GOLDENEYE plus 2 BARROW'S X COMMON hybrids continue off Crab Meadow Beach and HARLEQUIN DUCKS remain around Jones Inlet, Moriches Inlet and Ditch Plains.
A small coastal flight of DOVEKIES commencing last weekend produced a few sightings from Montauk Point and environs along the coast west of Hook Pond and East Hampton and Tiana Beach off Dune Road while farther west a THICK-BILLED MURRE was spotted nicely in Jones Inlet last Saturday and seen briefly again Sunday. RAZORBILLS also joined this activity.
The YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT recently staying at the Mill Pond Preserve in Wantagh was last reported on Monday and a DICKCISSEL lingering in Riverside Park in northern Manhattan was still present today but less reliable in the area south of the tennis courts below West 119th Street.
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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