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, March 28th 2025* at 11pm. The highlights of today's tape are GRAY-BREASTED MARTIN, PAINTED BUNTING, BLACK-HEADED and ICELAND GULLS and the enigmatic HERRING type gull, HARLEQUIN DUCK, RED-HEADED WOODPECKER, CLAY-COLORED and VESPER SPARROWS, Spring arrivals and more.
Out on Staten Island Tuesday a puzzling MARTIN, initially seen foraging along with a PURPLE MARTIN, fortunately has lingered along the New Creek Watershed allowing for decent study and photographs. It seems to best fit a GRAY-BREASTED MARTIN. This is thus potentially a second record for New York. The first occurring around Prospect Park Lake from April 1st to 3rd in 2021. A couple of other similar MARTINS from Central and South America and the Caribbean have been considered but deemed less likely due to a variety of field marks. The MARTIN has been feeding over the New Creek Watershed much of the time and also drifts into the adjoining neighborhoods on both the north and south sides of the marsh venturing towards Nugent Avenue and Slater Boulevard on the north side and this evening roosting at the intersection of Mason Avenue and Rowan Avenue along the south side. This entire area is between Ocean Breeze and Midland Beach and we wish you luck.
A wintering female PAINTED BUNTING and sometimes accompanying CLAY-COLORED SPARROW were both still present Sunday in Far Rockaway where they range from Beach 27th Street east to Beach 20th Street. On Sunday the BUNTING was around Beach 24th to 25th and the sparrow at Beach 24th.
The BLACK-HEADED GULL visiting Central Park Reservoir was last reported on Wednesday and one also was noted at Randall's Island Saturday. The yellow legged HERRING type gull was still present yesterday at Old Field Point and Lighthouse and an ICELAND GULL visited Northport Wednesday.
A CACKLING GOOSE was found today at the Stone Barns Center at the Rockefeller State Park Preserve in Westchester. A female HARLEQUIN DUCK continues off Coney Island Beach still present today and a RED-NECKED GREBE was noted up to Sunday off Floyd Bennett Field.
RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS feature continuing birds at Green-wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, at Sunken Meadow State Park and in Westchester at [Sis-court] Reservoir in Blue Mountain Reservation.
Three VESPER SPARROWS were still out off Hulse Landing Road in Calverton last Sunday.
Providing some relief from the March doldrums migrants beginning to show up locally have included CLAPPER and VIRGINIA RAILS, PECTORAL SANDPIPER and LESSER YELLOWLEGS, FORSTER'S TERN, LITTLE BLUE HERON, PURPLE MARTIN, CHIPPING SPARROW, COMMON YELLOWTHROAT and PALM, PINE and YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLERS.
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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