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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 *Thursday, December 18th 2025* at 11pm. The highlights of today's tape are CASSIN'S SPARROW, TUNDRA BEAN-GOOSE and a Rockland County PINK-FOOTED GOOSE, ROSS'S GOOSE, BARROW'S GOLDENEYE, PACIFIC LOON, BROWN PELICAN, BLACK-HEADED GULL, CLAY-COLORED and GRASSHOPPER SPARROWS, YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT, TOWNSEND'S and YELLOW-THROATED WARBLERS and much more.
Despite last Sunday's snowstorm the CASSIN'S SPARROW, lingering recently at Montauk Point, continues to feed in the short grass along the entrance road near the tip or in adjacent grasses along the edge of the upper parking lot. A previously accompanying GRASSHOPPER SPARROW was also seen again with it last Saturday.
A TUNDRA BEAN-GOOSE, most recently visiting Dosoris Pond off Pryibil Beach in Oyster Bay, was last seen there on Tuesday but likely continuing in the area with one of the many roaming Canada Goose flocks. Both the ROSS'S and GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GEESE also occurring there were not reported after Monday at that location though scattered ROSS'S were also noted during the week in mid-Long Island at Sunken Meadow State Park Tuesday, at Timber Point Golf Course Sunday and at Connetquot River State Park over last weekend so a few seem to be around. Same for GREATER WHITE-FRONTEDS with one visiting the Alley Pond Park Restoration Pond Wednesday and Thursday, one at Nassau County Country Club on Saturday and one now visiting Playland Lake in Rye after being frozen out of the Bowman Avenue Pond in Rye Brook. The PINK-FOOTED GOOSE was also seen Wednesday at the Haverstraw Landfill in Rockland County. Among the ducks a EURASIAN WIGEON was still on the lake at Connetquot River State Park to today, a young male KING EIDER was in a Common Eider flock in Shinnecock Bay Thursday and a young male BARROW'S GOLDENEYE has been seen off Sunken Meadow State Park since last Saturday with a female also back on New Croton Reservoir in Westchester since Wednesday.
A PACIFIC LOON was described from Hallock Landing Beach in Rocky Point on Wednesday.
A few BROWN PELICANS have remained in the Staten Island to lower Brooklyn waters with 6 off Manhattan Beach Park Saturday and a couple off Coney Island Sunday and northern Staten Island Monday but more unexpected was one seen off Glen Cove Thursday.
A BLACK-HEADED GULL was still present around the Lake Montauk Harbor entrance during the week with another off Robert Moses State Park mixed in with some Bonaparte's Gulls Sunday morning. Four BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKES and 14 RAZORBILLS were also noted off Moses Sunday both of these also occurring off Montauk Point. A GLAUCOUS GULL visited Argyle Lake in Babylon last Sunday and several ICELAND GULLS were noted during the week including 2 at Bellport Bay on Monday, singles at Lake Montauk Inlet and Plumb Beach Thursday and a THAYER'S-type visiting Prospect Park Lake Monday through Thursday.
A ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK has been around the Cedar Beach area since Sunday. Presumably lingering CLAY-COLORED SPARROWS were still at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park and Heckscher State Park last weekend and a YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT was spotted at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge last Sunday. A TOWNSEND'S WARBLER was a good find at the Bayard Cutting Arboretum last Saturday while a YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER was still being seen in Carl Schurz Park in central Manhattan 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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