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, 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.
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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