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From: <ebird-alert@birds.cornell.edu>
Date: Friday, April 4, 2025
Subject: [eBird Alert] Kings County Rare Bird Alert <hourly>
To: prosbird@gmail.com
*** Species Summary:
- Glaucous Gull (1 report)
- Vesper Sparrow (1 report)
- Louisiana Waterthrush (4 reports)
- Orange-crowned Warbler (1 report)
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Glaucous Gull (Larus hyperboreus) (1)
- Reported Apr 04, 2025 13:53 by MCHL ____
- 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/S222946863
- Comments: "!!! Stood out amongst herring gulls…Large cream colored gull with bi-colored bill, lacking dark wingtips. Entire group got flushed off the lake by red-tailed hawk. Image."
Vesper Sparrow (Pooecetes gramineus) (1)
- Reported Apr 04, 2025 13:33 by Ant Tab
- 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/S222948538
- Comments: "Rare spring migrant (definitely my first one outside of fall in the city), much more expected in the fall, but one of a few seen in the city within the last week or so. Chunky sparrow with bold eyering. Dwarfed the FISPs it was foraging with. Photos."
Louisiana Waterthrush (Parkesia motacilla) (1)
- Reported Apr 04, 2025 13:53 by MCHL ____
- 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/S222946863
- Comments: "Flagged for date. Singing loudly at lily pond. Widening eyebrow. Buffy underside."
Louisiana Waterthrush (Parkesia motacilla) (1)
- Reported Apr 04, 2025 13:33 by Ant Tab
- 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/S222948538
- Comments: "Still earlyish, Lily Pond (likely place for it to be). Bright white supercilium, pink legs. More expected waterthrush species for this date. Photos."
Louisiana Waterthrush (Parkesia motacilla) (1)
- Reported Apr 04, 2025 12:59 by Trevor Williams
- 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/S222938288
- Comments: "Distinct white eyebrow, found bobbing around near water."
Louisiana Waterthrush (Parkesia motacilla) (2)
- Reported Apr 04, 2025 09:50 by Maureen Matthews
- 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/S222925996
- Comments: "Binnen Bridge and Rose Garden"
Orange-crowned Warbler (Leiothlypis celata) (1)
- Reported Apr 04, 2025 09:50 by Maureen Matthews
- 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/S222925996
- Comments: "Continuing at the Vale"
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