Fwd: [eBird Alert] Kings County Rare Bird Alert

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From: <ebird-alert@birds.cornell.edu>
Date: Wed, Oct 16, 2024, 1:50 PM
Subject: [eBird Alert] Kings County Rare Bird Alert <hourly>
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*** Species Summary:

- Yellow-billed Cuckoo (1 report)
- American Bittern (1 report)
- Wood Thrush (1 report)
- Clay-colored Sparrow (1 report)
- Vesper Sparrow (1 report)

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Yellow-billed Cuckoo (Coccyzus americanus) (1)
- Reported Oct 16, 2024 10:30 by Zach Smart
- 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/S199137876
- Comments: "Cuckoo seen in the ailanthus trees by the sumac thicket above the peninsula, casually feasting on lanternflies for at least ten minutes. Prominently yellow lower mandible, warm cast in flight feathers. Had been reported yesterday as well I believe. In the rightmost ailanthus."

American Bittern (Botaurus lentiginosus) (1)
- Reported Oct 15, 2024 08:36 by Zohara Nguyen
- 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/S199136942
- Comments: "Hiding in the phragmites along the lake edge. Long, pointed bill and bold stripes down chest."

Wood Thrush (Hylocichla mustelina) (1)
- Reported Oct 16, 2024 10:48 by Alex Tey
- 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/S199135704
- Comments: "medium large thrush with exceptionally large, perceptive-seeming eye. rounder and bigger than Catharus spp. uniformly rufous-brown above, white below with black spotting"

Clay-colored Sparrow (Spizella pallida) (1)
- Reported Oct 16, 2024 10:19 by karen o'hearn
- 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/S199135100
- Comments: "Close-up look while it purched on the fence.  Similar to chipping sparrow, but overall very "blond" looking with ultra buffy, blond breast and clean lores."

Vesper Sparrow (Pooecetes gramineus) (1)
- Reported Oct 16, 2024 10:30 by Zach Smart
- 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/S199137876
- Comments: "At least one of the birds reported yesterday, seen as soon as I walked up, around 10:50-11am in the "delta" enclosure where trails meet towards the center of nethermead. Exact match for the individuals photographed yesterday, dark streaky chest, prominent white eye ring. Perched up in one of the saplings briefly, not re-found."

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