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From: <ebird-alert@birds.cornell.edu>
Date: Thu, Apr 24, 2025, 4:48 PM
Subject: [eBird Alert] Kings County Rare Bird Alert <hourly>
To: <prosbird@gmail.com>
From: <ebird-alert@birds.cornell.edu>
Date: Thu, Apr 24, 2025, 4:48 PM
Subject: [eBird Alert] Kings County Rare Bird Alert <hourly>
To: <prosbird@gmail.com>
*** Species Summary:
- Least Bittern (7 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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Least Bittern (Botaurus exilis) (1)
- Reported Apr 24, 2025 15:10 by E R
- 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/S228976202
- Media: 1 Photo
- Comments: "Great find by Juan Salas this morning! Continuing along edge of upper pool, around the SE corner and best seen from path by fallkill falls when I was there. Tiny orange heron with vertical stripes up the front and long thin bill"
Least Bittern (Botaurus exilis) (1)
- Reported Apr 24, 2025 15:05 by Carl Biers
- 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/S228967644
- Comments: "Perching and creeping slowly on branch in Upper Pool. Whitish breast with thick tawny stripes and secondaries, darker browns on back and crown. Pointy yellow bill and yellow legs and feet."
Least Bittern (Botaurus exilis) (1)
- Reported Apr 24, 2025 15:03 by B F
- 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/S228969457
- Media: 3 Photos
- Comments: "Found and reported by Juan S. Photos."
Least Bittern (Botaurus exilis) (1)
- Reported Apr 24, 2025 15:00 by Kaitlin Mahar
- 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/S228974740
- Comments: "Continuing. Being watched/photographed by many other birders. Along water in fallen tree at (40.6620000, -73.9708333)"
Least Bittern (Botaurus exilis) (1)
- Reported Apr 24, 2025 14:19 by Ingrid Messbauer
- 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/S228976581
- Comments: "Continuing. Very small bittern— smaller than nearby common grackle. Caramel-and-cream plumage, darker brown cap and back, pinkish bill, pale golden eye. Very active along the south shore of the Upper Pool. May have doc shot."
Least Bittern (Botaurus exilis) (1)
- Reported Apr 24, 2025 11:50 by Sara Mcclelland
- 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/S228975674
- Comments: "located 40.66199° N, 73.97080° W"
Least Bittern (Botaurus exilis) (1)
- Reported Apr 24, 2025 10:23 by Adam Goldberg
- 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/S228965935
- Comments: "Upper pool"
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