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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, December 12th 2025* at 11pm. The highlights of today's tape are CASSIN'S SPARROW, TUNDRA BEAN-GOOSE, ROSS'S and GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GEESE, EURASIAN WIGEON, BROWN PELICAN, pelagic trip results including THICK-BILLED MURRE, BLACK-HEADED GULL, CLAY-COLORED SPARROW, YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER, DICKCISSEL and much more.
Last Saturday at Montauk Point a CASSIN'S SPARROW was discovered along the park entrance road and amazingly has remained there all week including today providing New York with its second state record. The bird, perhaps distressingly tame so far, is usually found in the short grass either bordering the upper parking lot or in the adjoining short grass down along the entrance road. The GRASSHOPPER SPARROW accompanying it for much of the week was last reported on Wednesday.
A TUNDRA BEAN-GOOSE residing in the Oyster Bay area since November 3rd moved a little west during the week and was spotted Tuesday on Dosoris Pond in Glen Cove. Also joining the Canada Goose flock that the TUNDRA SWAN has been associating with have been a ROSS'S GOOSE, two SNOW GEESE including an immature BLUE GOOSE and a GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE. This pond can be viewed from the Pryibil Beach parking lot at the end of East Beach Road but the birds have also moved to the adjacent Glen Cove golf course. Please respect the local parking rules when visiting there. Another ROSS'S GOOSE was present all week on a pond in St. James that is off Mills Pond Road while other single GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GEESE featured one continuing to visit the Nassau County Stormwater Basin No. 21 west of New Hyde Park Road, one at Miller Field on Staten Island from Monday through today, one on Short's Pond in Bridgehampton yesterday and one continuing in lower Westchester seen on Playland Lake in Rye today. EURASIAN WIGEONS include one at the south end of Hempstead Lake State Park all week at least to Thursday, one continuing at Connetquot River State Park and one or two on Mill Pond on the north side of Montauk Highway in Sayville during the week while single HARLEQUIN DUCKS were reported off Montauk Point Saturday and Wednesday.
Decent numbers of BROWN PELICANS were seen throughout the week in the waters off southern Brooklyn over to Staten Island with 9 off Brighton Beach Saturday and 14 off Coney Island Wednesday but the peak actually was the 19 counted as the American Princess pelagic trip was leaving Brooklyn Saturday morning. This 8 hour venture into ocean waters also tallied a THICK-BILLED MURRE, 78 RAZORBILLS, a BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKE, one ICELAND, 10 LESSER BLACK-BACKED and 822 BONAPARTE'S GULLS and 267 NORTHERN GANNETS plus a nice variety of cetaceans. Out at Montauk 2 BLACK-HEADED GULLS were seen around the Lake Montauk jetties on Sunday and a GLAUCOUS GULL was photographed off the point Wednesday and 6 RAZORBILLS counted today and a RED-NECKED GREBE noted Tuesday. Another RED-NECKED GREBE was present in the north end of Jamaica Bay Sunday through Tuesday.
A MARBLED GODWIT was off the Jones Beach West End Coast Guard Station Thursday to today while continuing birds feature a RED-HEADED WOODPECKER at Marshlands Conservancy in Rye and a YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER at Carl Schurz Park in Manhattan.
Single REDPOLLS were reported from Napeague State Park Sunday and Jones Beach West End Tuesday while single CLAY-COLORED SPARROWS included one lingering in Heckscher State Park to Wednesday, one off Dune Road Tuesday and one today at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park with a DICKCISSEL near the Central Park Reservoir last weekend.
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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