Date: 7/19/25 2:08 am From: Ben Cacace <bcacace...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] NYC Area RBA: 18 July 2025
- RBA * New York * New York City, Long Island, Westchester County * Jul. 18, 2025 * NYNY2507.18
- Birds mentioned PURPLE GALLINULE+ WHITE IBIS+ (+ Details requested by NYSARC)
KING EIDER BLACK-NECKED STILT WHIMBREL MARBLED GODWIT LITTLE GULL Wilson's Storm-Petrel Cory's Shearwater Scopoli's Shearwater Great Shearwater Sooty Shearwater Manx Shearwater AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN BROWN PELICAN
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, July 18th 2025* at 11pm. The highlights of today's vacation shortened tape are PURPLE GALLINULE, WHITE IBIS, LITTLE GULL, AMERICAN WHITE and BROWN PELICANS, BLACK-NECKED STILT, MARBLED GODWIT and WHIMBREL, KING EIDER and more.
The adult PURPLE GALLINULE frequenting Sharrots Pond on Staten Island since June 29th was last reported there last Tuesday but might still be around.
The recent incursion of immature WHITE IBIS locally included likely the same four soaring over the Prospect Park and Green-wood Cemetery section of Brooklyn Thursday before shortly thereafter appearing at the New Creek Watershed area off Olympia Boulevard on Staten Island, two also briefly visiting Fort Wadsworth on the way. At least one was also noted at New Creek today.
At Breezy Point an immature LITTLE GULL has been present out near the tip from last Sunday through today.
An AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN has been residing at the north end of the East Pond at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge all week. Water level remains high but is dropping with shorebird numbers so far are low.
A decent number of BROWN PELICANS have recently been gathering in the Breezy Point area of Queens and Brooklyn with counts of 19 last Monday, 7 Wednesday and 6 today with 4 farther east off Oak Beach on Monday. Be watchful for them along Long Island's south shore.
BLACK-NECKED STILT appeared today out near the Ponquogue Bridge in Shinnecock moving later to a nearby marsh. Three MARBLED GODWITS visited the Jones Beach West End Coast Guard Station area last Sunday and several WHIMBREL appeared at Breezy Point last Sunday with four more there Thursday.
A female KING EIDER was seen again off Great Gull Island Saturday to Tuesday with a second also there Monday.
An informal pelagic off Montauk Point Wednesday reported 50 WILSON'S STORM-PETRELS, 3 MANX, 2 SOOTY, 130 GREAT, 25 CORY'S and 2 SCOPOLI'S SHEARWATERS. The separation of the latter two recently split species at sea still a work in progress.
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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