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: Gail Benson
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Greetings! This is the New York Rare Bird Alert for Friday, November
6, 2026 at 11:00 pm. The highlights of today’s tape are TUNDRA
BEAN-GOOSE, BLACK-THROATED GRAY WARBLER, RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD, BULLOCK’S
ORIOLE, SANDHILL CRANE, SANDWICH TERN, BROWN PELICAN, EARED GREBE,
LONG-TAILED and POMARINE JAEGERS, MARBLED GODWIT, YELLOW-BREASTED
CHAT, YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER, DICKCISSEL and more.
The TUNRA BEAN -GOOSE continues in Nassau County, now occurring
regularly on the golf course at the Nassau Country Club in Glen Cove,
where it has been spending much of each day on a pond and surrounding
fairways. This area is visible looking through a chain-link fence
along Nassau Road on the northwest side of the golf course just south
of Forest Avenue, near where Nassau Road meets Forest Place. It is
unknown whether the geese are still spending the overnight on Beaver
Lake to the north, though this seems likely.
Both the BLACK-THROATED GRAY WARBLER and the RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD were
still visiting the Wave Hill Public Garden and Cultural Center in the
Bronx today, the address 4900 Independence Avenue. The Warbler is
usually seen feeding in vegetation below the Pergola Overlook, and the
Hummingbird is often visiting flowers nearby in the gardens by the
entrance to the Stufano Conservatory just uphill from the Overlook,
though both birds do move around.
A young male BULLOCK’S ORIOLE was found Wednesday at Morningside Park
in northern Manhattan and was still there today; it has been feeding
in the southern end of the park, where it often visits Sapsucker holes
in a tree near a staircase south of the pond there.
An exciting sighting involved 15 SANDHILL CRANES photographed as they
flew calling over Marine Park in Brooklyn last Sunday morning, and
quite unexpected were 2 SANDWICH TERNS spotted Wednesday at Plumb
Beach in Brooklyn, an adult and an accompanying young leaving Thursday
morning.
A group of 5 BROWN PELICANS feeding near Hoffman Island in Lower New
York Bay was spotted from Brooklyn last Saturday, these followed by 14
occurring near Swinburne Island viewed from Coney Island Beach on
Wednesday.
The EARED GREBE was still on the West Pond at Jamaica Bay Wildlife
Refuge at least to Monday.
Pelagic birding during the week began last Saturday with a morning
watch off Robert Moses State Park that produced a LONG-TAILED JAEGER
moving west; another watch today at the same location added 1 POMARINE
and 3 PARASITIC JAEGERS as well as a BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKE, 11 LESSER
BLACK-BACKED GULLS and over 3,100 NORTHERN GANNETS. A watch from
Montauk Point last Saturday included singles of PARASITIC JAEGER and
BLACK-LEGGED KITIWAKE as well as 1 each of GREAT and MANX SHEARWATERS,
while boat trips off Montauk Sunday and Monday produced a combined 20
GREAT SHEARWATERS and over 60 WILSON’S STORM-PETRELS plus a PARASITIC
JAEGER Monday.
Up to 4 MARBLED GODWITS were seen during the week visiting the low
tide sandbar off the Coast Guard Station at Jones Beach West End.
One or 2 LAPLAND LONGSPURS were seen during the week at Plumb Beach, a
YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT visited Morningside Park last Wednesday, and a
YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER was photographed at Southard’s Pond in Babylon
last Sunday.
Groups of PINE SISKINS continue to appear locally under proper flight
conditions, and a few DICKCISSELS included singles in Prospect Park to
Tuesday and at Robert Moses State Park last Saturday.
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.
