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From: <ebird-alert@birds.cornell.edu>
Date: Sat, Oct 4, 2025, 3:42 PM
Subject: [eBird Alert] Kings County Rare Bird Alert <hourly>
To: <prosbird@gmail.com>
From: <ebird-alert@birds.cornell.edu>
Date: Sat, Oct 4, 2025, 3:42 PM
Subject: [eBird Alert] Kings County Rare Bird Alert <hourly>
To: <prosbird@gmail.com>
*** Species Summary:
- Ring-necked Duck (1 report)
- Virginia Rail (5 reports)
- White-rumped Sandpiper (1 report)
- Least Sandpiper (1 report)
- Nelson's Sparrow (1 report)
- Boat-tailed Grackle (1 report)
- Orange-crowned Warbler (1 report)
- Hooded Warbler (4 reports)
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Thank you for subscribing to the <hourly> Kings County Rare Bird Alert. The report below shows observations of rare birds in Kings County. View or unsubscribe to this alert at https://ebird.org/alert/summary?sid=SN35645
NOTE: all sightings are UNCONFIRMED unless indicated.
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Ring-necked Duck (Aythya collaris) (1)
- Reported Oct 04, 2025 09:45 by Susie Dippel
- 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/S277256060
- Comments: "Small"
Virginia Rail (Rallus limicola) (1)
- Reported Oct 04, 2025 12:51 by Brooke Winter-DiGirolamo
- 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/S277259708
- Comments: "Saw with BBC"
Virginia Rail (Rallus limicola) (1)
- Reported Oct 04, 2025 09:45 by Susie Dippel
- 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/S277256060
- Comments: "Continuing. Hiding in the reeds."
Virginia Rail (Rallus limicola) (1)
- Reported Oct 04, 2025 08:05 by Marcela Bucci
- 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/S277254068
- Comments: "40°39′23″ N 73°58′9″ W"
Virginia Rail (Rallus limicola) (1)
- Reported Oct 04, 2025 08:04 by Susie Dippel
- 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/S277253025
- Comments: "Reeds by Wellhouse. Brown, patterned bird with a long curved beak, peachy orangey underbelly"
Virginia Rail (Rallus limicola) (1)
- Reported Oct 04, 2025 07:14 by Valerie Masten
- 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/S277257068
- Comments: "Continuing in the phragmites by Well House... moving between several of the 'protected' mudflats along the lake. Small rail, reddish-brown upper belly with black and white barring below, gray face, and long orange-red bill."
White-rumped Sandpiper (Calidris fuscicollis) (2)
- Reported Oct 04, 2025 09:03 by KZ F
- Plumb Beach, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.5823284,-73.9153746&ll=40.5823284,-73.9153746
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S277259886
- Comments: "*circled the flats at 11:25. Long-winged Calidris with broken streaks on flanks, uninterrupted white uppertail patch, and cricket-like flight calls."
Least Sandpiper (Calidris minutilla) (1)
- Reported Oct 04, 2025 09:03 by KZ F
- Plumb Beach, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.5823284,-73.9153746&ll=40.5823284,-73.9153746
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S277259886
- Comments: "*flagged as late. Juvenile in interior marsh. Photos"
Nelson's Sparrow (Ammospiza nelsoni) (2)
- Reported Oct 04, 2025 09:03 by KZ F
- Plumb Beach, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.5823284,-73.9153746&ll=40.5823284,-73.9153746
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S277259886
- Comments: "*at least this many, photos of both"
Boat-tailed Grackle (Quiscalus major) (2)
- Reported Oct 04, 2025 09:03 by KZ F
- Plumb Beach, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.5823284,-73.9153746&ll=40.5823284,-73.9153746
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S277259886
- Comments: "*known location but rarely seen in the county after mid-august; they seem to vacate the Brooklyn mainland shortly after breeding. Eastbound over the marsh as I arrived, seemed to descent as they reached the water but they weren't seen again. Photos"
Orange-crowned Warbler (Leiothlypis celata) (1)
- Reported Oct 04, 2025 08:00 by Al Duvall
- Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6523083,-73.9904281&ll=40.6523083,-73.9904281
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S277249196
- Media: 4 Photos
- Comments: "Gray head, dark line through broken eye ring. Yellow under tail coverts. Photos"
Hooded Warbler (Setophaga citrina) (1)
- Reported Oct 04, 2025 12:51 by Brooke Winter-DiGirolamo
- 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/S277259708
- Comments: "With BBC, Dennis walk"
Hooded Warbler (Setophaga citrina) (1)
- Reported Oct 04, 2025 12:13 by Seth Barr
- 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/S277259365
- Comments: "First reported by Forrest - adult male - bright yellow face surrounded by black hood."
Hooded Warbler (Setophaga citrina) (1)
- Reported Oct 04, 2025 08:05 by Marcela Bucci
- 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/S277254068
- Comments: "Very distinct hood 40°40′8″ N 73°58′5″ W"
Hooded Warbler (Setophaga citrina) (1)
- Reported Oct 04, 2025 07:14 by Valerie Masten
- 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/S277257068
- Comments: "Vale of Cashmere, thank you Forrest for the tip! Young male, electric yellow, distinct black hood. White outer tail feathers. Cell phone photos."
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