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Date: Friday, February 21, 2025
Subject: [eBird Alert] Kings County Rare Bird Alert <hourly>
To: prosbird@gmail.com
*** Species Summary:
- Common Merganser (2 reports)
- Bald Eagle (1 report)
- Swainson's Hawk (3 reports)
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NOTE: all sightings are UNCONFIRMED unless indicated.
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Common Merganser (Mergus merganser) (4) CONFIRMED
- Reported Feb 21, 2025 13:40 by Z .
- 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/S214720193
- Comments: "males on edge of and diving under the ice - nice enough to get close to a hooded to show substantially larger size, dark head- no spikes, white /pale chest"
Common Merganser (Mergus merganser) (4)
- Reported Feb 21, 2025 07:39 by Peter Paul
- 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/S214721353
- Media: 2 Photos
- Comments: "All male - white mergansers with green heads, red bills. At one point three took off, but later there were four again, so presumably they came back."
Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Feb 21, 2025 13:40 by Z .
- 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/S214720193
- Comments: "adult, white head/tail hunting briefly over lake, took a dive at a duck and then seemed to throw in the towel, vaguely toward greenwood"
Swainson's Hawk (Buteo swainsoni) (1)
- Reported Feb 21, 2025 13:05 by Rafael Campos-RamÃrez
- Green-Wood Cemetery, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6555736,-73.9938211&ll=40.6555736,-73.9938211
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S214715595
- Comments: "Dark throat large hawk, no reddish tail. Reported before (02/15/2025) by others."
Swainson's Hawk (Buteo swainsoni) (1)
- Reported Feb 21, 2025 13:05 by Jane Zucker
- Green-Wood Cemetery, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6555736,-73.9938211&ll=40.6555736,-73.9938211
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S214720011
- Comments: "Dark throat large hawk, no reddish tail. Reported before (02/15/2025) by others."
Swainson's Hawk (Buteo swainsoni) (1)
- Reported Feb 21, 2025 13:21 by Peter Paul
- 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/S214717253
- Media: 5 Photos
- Comments: "Huge thank you to Michael S. for the alert that this bird was in the cemetery! I headed that way and met up with him, and it wasn't long before we saw it over Sylvan, eventually tracked it back up towards Pine Hill, and saw it once or twice more. It never landed, and was hard to keep track of. But with RTHAs bullying it around at Sims, perhaps it'll use the cemetery more (or venture into Prospect next??). Buteo with dark bib, buffy arms with dark flight feathers, pointy wing shape, thick dark band at the end of the tail."
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