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, with an abbreviated report, for *Friday, June 5th 2026* at 11 pm. The highlights of today's tape are WHITE and WHITE-FACED IBIS, RED-NECKED and WILSON'S PHALAROPES, ARCTIC TERN, MISSISSIPPI KITE, GLAUCOUS GULL, WHIMBREL, YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT, KENTUCKY WARBLER and EVENING GROSBEAK and more.
A WHITE-FACED IBIS continues to visit the East Pond at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge noted there over last weekend and also yesterday. The East Pond has also been hosting a WILSON'S PHALAROPE to Monday with 2 there Tuesday and Wednesday and a LEAST BITTERN seen both Monday and Thursday.
An adult WHITE IBIS was photographed Tuesday as it flew over Spring's Park in the town of East Hampton and birders a few miles off Montauk Point last Sunday enjoyed a nicely plumaged RED-NECKED PHALAROPE and 8 WILSON'S STORM-PETRELS with another RED-NECKED PHALAROPE also seen on the flats at Smith Point County Park Monday.
A GLAUCOUS GULL was photographed Monday at Breezy Point while among the terns reported this week were an ARCTIC Monday off Robert Moses State Park followed by 2 from Nickerson Beach Thursday, a BLACK at Nickerson's Sunday as well as a few ROSEATES, arriving ROYALS and late CASPIANS.
MISSISSIPPI KITES continue to be reported from Brooklyn with one over Green-wood Cemetery last Sunday and one over Prospect Park this evening.
On Tuesday a couple of WHIMBREL were seen out in Jamaica Bay with one also at Plumb Beach.
Notable passerines this week featured ACADIAN FLYCATCHER in Prospect Park, a YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT at the New Creek Watershed on Staten Island Tuesday, a KENTUCKY WARBLER at Wolfe's Pond Park last Sunday and perhaps the best bird of the week a male EVENING GROSBEAK photographed by a picture taking bird feeder out in Suffolk County last Sunday.
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.
