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, with apologies, a very shortened New York Rare Bird Alert for *Friday, September 19th 2025*. Highlights include WHITE-WINGED DOVE, WHITE-FACED STORM-PETREL, AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN, MARBLED and HUDSONIAN GODWITS and other shorebirds, CLAY-COLORED and LARK SPARROWS, PROTHONOTARY and GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLERS, BLUE GROSBEAK, DICKCISSEL and more.
Exciting birds continue at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge mostly on the East Pond but the highlight there was actually in the north garden near the West Pond where a WHITE-WINGED DOVE was perched for a while last Sunday and apparently photographed. The AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN continues on the East Pond usually at the north end among Mute Swans and increasing numbers of ducks. Two MARBLED and up to 5 HUDSONIAN GODWITS also continue on the East Pond with a variety of other shorebirds.
Three MARBLED GODWITS were also at Mecox last Saturday and 11 HUDSONIAN GODWITS continued at Old Inlet west of Smith Point County Park to Sunday with at least 5 there Thursday. Other shorebirds included an UPLAND SANDPIPER at Croton Point Park last Saturday when 2 WHIMBREL were present at Floyd Bennett Field. A few BAIRD'S SANDPIPERS included 2 at Nickerson Beach to Monday, one at Mecox to Tuesday and one at Point Lookout Monday to Friday. Four RED-NECKED PHALAROPES were reported Sunday off the Port Jefferson ferry close to Connecticut.
A WHITE-FACED STORM-PETREL was photographed Sunday from a fishing boat well offshore and a seawatch off Montauk Point last Saturday noted small numbers of WILSON'S STORM-PETRELS and CORY'S and GREAT SHEARWATERS and single SOOTY and MANX SHEARWATERS.
Single CLAY-COLORED SPARROWS were seen in Central Park Monday and Tuesday and in Green-wood Cemetery Friday when a LARK SPARROW was also spotted again at Robert Moses State Park.
Among the good variety of warblers this week were GOLDEN-WINGED at Calvert Vaux Park Thursday and a PROTHONOTARY at Prospect Park today, both photographed, as well as over 6 CONNECTICUTS in various local parks and decent numbers of other species.
Single BLUE GROSBEAKS were noted at Jamaica Bay and in Prospect Park Sunday and in Green-wood Cemetery Monday and several mostly overhead DICKCISSELS included one at Breezy Point today.
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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