Fwd: [eBird Alert] Kings County Rare Bird Alert

Details on Sandhill Crane, Anhinga in prospect park airspace 

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From: <ebird-alert@birds.cornell.edu>
Date: Mon, May 12, 2025, 2:35 PM
Subject: [eBird Alert] Kings County Rare Bird Alert <hourly>
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*** Species Summary:

- Sandhill Crane (1 report)
- Anhinga (2 reports)

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Sandhill Crane (Antigone canadensis) (1)
- Reported May 12, 2025 11:12 by Sara Stokes
- Prospect Park, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6602841,-73.9689534&ll=40.6602841,-73.9689534
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S236993546
- Comments: "Spotted at 11:19 soaring high SSW over Long Meadow. I initially thought it was the Anhinga based on its its long stretched out neck and long beak. This bird was much lighter, had a more rounded body, and the large wings with a dark edge gave me pause on the Anhinga ID. I thought perhaps a weird goose, but my bird had long legs. As I was mulling over what it could be I saw Angela's Sandhill Crane sighting pop up and it clicked. I do have a really poor cell phone photo."

Anhinga (Anhinga anhinga) (1)
- Reported May 12, 2025 09:58 by Nelson Pascuzzi
- Prospect Park, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6602841,-73.9689534&ll=40.6602841,-73.9689534
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S236949565
- Comments: "Just before i made my way past music island (standing at the RuHu spot), i caught sight of a very slim all dark waterbird -in flight. The bird was spiraling above the water about 100yrds south of me, clockwise as seen from below, widening as i watched. I was only able to see it for a total of about 3-4 cycles as its trajectory took it close to overhead, and i last saw it through the canopy heading NNW. I spent half the time fumbling with my phone trying to Digibin to no avail.

Knowing i was looking for anhinga i tried my best to see field marks i remembered, but i was immediately certain only of partial impressions of the bird. Within the next couple minutes i saw one and then 4 more DC Cormorants in flight and was all the more certain after comparing, the perception still fresh in my memory.

The anhinga had a tail slightly spread in a tight party-hat rounded cone shape with a very narrow base. That was the most distinct feature i latched onto but i saw the general shape of its features too. Cormorants had necks that were proportionally at least twice as thick-looking as the anhinga's in relation to their bodies. The bill was clearly thinner on the anhinga too.

 I shared my presumed sighting to the NYS discord at 10:13 pretty immediately, and reportedly at 10:16, BF got a photograph of Anhinga from the Butterfly Meadow which is only a tad west from where i was."

Anhinga (Anhinga anhinga) (1)
- Reported May 12, 2025 07:45 by Amy and Toby
- Prospect Park, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6602841,-73.9689534&ll=40.6602841,-73.9689534
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S236966933
- Comments: "I was kicking myself for the fact that my camera was out of battery and that I couldn't document this bird when I realized that there were posts about it from Ryan and Ant, and that I'd seen it right between the two of them, as it flew east from Green-Wood into Prospect Park (I saw it looking south from Center Drive). Immediately recognizable by its long neck and long tail (much longer than a Double-crested Cormorant), with long wings and overall thin feel"



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