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, August 22nd 2025* at 11pm. The highlights of today's tape are SANDWICH TERN, AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN, BLACK-NECKED STILT, MARBLED GODWIT, WILSON'S PHALAROPE, BAIRD'S and UPLAND SANDPIPERS and other shorebirds, OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER, GOLDEN-WINGED and other warblers, DICKCISSEL and more.
A few SANDWICH TERNS found last Friday on the flats at Cupsogue Beach County Park were both still present there last weekend but have not been seen since.
The AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN continues at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge where it is most often seen at the north end of the East Pond though it does also wander occasionally about the refuge or around the northern end of Jamaica Bay. While the conditions on the East Pond are not ideal for shorebirds a nice variety of shorebirds has been present recently and the East and West Ponds have been productive around high tide. Last Sunday for the Shorebird Festival a MARBLED GODWIT showed up on flats just south of the West Pond disappearing once the tide rose. While the ponds have been producing such shorebirds as a WILSON'S PHALAROPE on the East Pond Saturday and Monday, a WHIMBREL over the East Pond Saturday and such species as PECTORAL, STILT, WHITE-RUMPED and WESTERN SANDPIPERS and one or two LONG-BILLED DOWITCHERS among the more expected birds and the variety at the bay doesn't stop there with a SORA noted regularly along the southwest side of the East Pond and continued presence of a couple of GULL-BILLED TERNS mostly at the south end of the East Pond, a visiting CASPIAN TERN or two and a BLACK TERN on the East Pond Sunday to Tuesday. Jamaica Bay is certainly worth a visit despite the high water especially during the two to three hours before and after high tide but be careful of walking the edges of the East Pond.
Other local shorebirds featured a BLACK-NECKED STILT noted for a short while Tuesday on the bar off the Jones Beach West End Coast Guard Station before it flew off.
Also noteworthy was an UPLAND SANDPIPER dropping down at Green-wood Cemetery in Brooklyn last Friday the 15th.
Out at Cupsogue the variety of birds there also featured a LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER Saturday and two CASPIAN TERNS Tuesday while single BAIRD'S SANDPIPERS were spotted at Plumb Beach in Brooklyn Sunday and at Robert Moses State Park field 2 Monday.
RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS continue out in the Calverton area especially along the Paumanok Trail off Schultz Road near Jones Pond in Manorville.
Recent landbird migrants have featured single OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHERS in Green-wood Cemetery and Prospect Park as well as in the Bronx and YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHERS have also been mentioned.
While the increasing variety of warblers featured a GOLDEN-WINGED spotted in Central Park today as well as such species as WORM-EATING, TENNESSEE, NASHVILLE, MOURNING, HOODED, CAPE MAY and WILSON'S and a DICKCISSEL was heard moving over Coney Island Creek Park in Brooklyn early this morning.
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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