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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: Gail Benson
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Greetings! This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for Friday, October
10, 2025 at 11:00 pm. The highlights of today's tape are SAY’S
PHOEBE, EARED GREBE, BROWN PELICAN, SUMMER TANAGER, AMERICAN AVOCET,
MARBLED and HUDSONIAN GODWITS, LARK and CLAY-COLORED SPARROWS,
YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT, BLUE GROSBEAK, DICKCISSEL and more.
This week's top highlight is thanks to a posting on Facebook which
turned out to be a SAY’S PHOEBE photographed Tuesday at Jones Beach
West End, but we know of no successful follow-ups. Certainly data on
birds of this local rarity are worthy of more rapid circulation.
At Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge the EARED GREBE was seen regularly on
the West Pond through Tuesday and was reported there again today,
while last Saturday a single HUDSONIAN GODWIT paid a visit to the East
Pond.
Also on Saturday three BROWN PELICANS moving east along western Fire
Island were followed later in the day by perhaps a fourth individual
also working its way east over the ocean.
The two AMERICAN AVOCETS visiting the Oceanside Marine Nature Study
Area since September 30 were not reported there after last Saturday,
while a MARBLED GODWIT was spotted at the Jones Beach West End Coast
Guard Station Thursday.
Another migrant EASTERN WHIP-POOR-WILL was found roosting in Central
Park last Saturday, when an immature RED-HEADED WOODPECKER was also
spotted there; other RED-HEADEDS this week featured two immatures
migrating west past Robert Moses State Park last Saturday, one at
Pelham Bay Park Tuesday, and one visiting Brooklyn's Green-Wood
Cemetery today.
A nice find, especially for fall, was a SUMMER TANAGER photographed in
Inwood Hill Park on northern Manhattan last Monday, perhaps the same
bird reported Thursday and Friday in Fort Tryon Park just south of
there.
Among the quickly increasing numbers of SPARROWS this week were a LARK
SPARROW at Robert Moses State Park last Saturday and several
CLAY-COLORED, sightings starting with singles in Central Park and Fort
Tilden Saturday, Prospect Park Monday to Wednesday, Alley Pond Park
Tuesday, Flushing Meadows Corona Park Wednesday, and today at Inwood
Hill Park and Jones Beach West End. A VESPER SPARROW visited Prospect
Park yesterday and today, with 2 at Randalls Island today, and a
decent number of NELSON’S SPARROWS, including a few inland forms, have
arrived recently, mostly in our coastal marshes.
A YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT visited Central Park last Saturday, with
another in Green-Wood Cemetery Thursday, while another has been in
plantings at the Verizon Plaza just west of Bryant Park between West
41st and 42nd Streets in Central Manhattan since last week.
Among the decent variety of WARBLERS have been a few ORANGE-CROWNEDS
as well as a CONNECTICUT present Thursday and today at the Trinity
Church gardens just off Wall Street in lower Manhattan.
Single BLUE GROSBEAKS on Thursday at Hunters Point South Park in
Queens, Kissena Park and Robert Moses State Park followed birds last
Sunday in the Bronx and in Irvington in Westchester. This last site,
at the VE Macy Park - Great Hunger Memorial, also featured two
DICKCISSELS Sunday, with singles also at Alley Pond Park Tuesday and
Fort Tilden today.
Among the various migrants arriving recently have been early reports
of CACKLING GOOSE and PINE SISKIN.
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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