Fwd: [eBird Alert] Kings County Rare Bird Alert HOWA

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From: <ebird-alert@birds.cornell.edu>
Date: Sat, Oct 4, 2025, 4:45 PM
Subject: [eBird Alert] Kings County Rare Bird Alert <hourly>
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*** Species Summary:

- Ring-necked Duck (1 report)
- Virginia Rail (4 reports)
- Veery (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 09:49 by D K
- 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/S277264881
- Comments: "Young male on lake. Chocolate brown with lighter side, coming up to a point behind neck"

Virginia Rail (Rallus limicola) (1)
- Reported Oct 04, 2025 12:12 by C N
- 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/S277269275
- Media: 1 Photo
- Comments: "Seen by many. See photo."

Virginia Rail (Rallus limicola) (1)
- Reported Oct 04, 2025 09:58 by Paul Merle
- 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/S277264738
- Comments: "Small dark rail in the reeds by the well house. Long reddish bill. Grey face. Reddish brown overall. Large spotty back. Small patch of vertical black and whites stripes visible on flanks above each leg."

Virginia Rail (Rallus limicola) (1)
- Reported Oct 04, 2025 09:49 by D K
- 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/S277264881
- Comments: "Continuing bird in phrags on peninsula across from wellhouse, though now a little further west towards the beach area. Gorgeous small reddish tail being very confiding"

Virginia Rail (Rallus limicola) (1)
- Reported Oct 04, 2025 07:56 by Joseph Coureur
- 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/S277267259
- Comments: "Photo coming"

Veery (Catharus fuscescens) (1)
- Reported Oct 02, 2025 07:37 by Joseph Coureur
- 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/S277267410
- Comments: "Photo coming"

Hooded Warbler (Setophaga citrina) (1)
- Reported Oct 04, 2025 09:58 by Paul Merle
- 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/S277264738
- Comments: "At the Vale. Fully developed male"

Hooded Warbler (Setophaga citrina) (1)
- Reported Oct 04, 2025 09:49 by D K
- 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/S277264881
- Comments: "Unmistakeable yellow warb with black hood ¨̮ continuing in vale, found by Forrest this morning"

Hooded Warbler (Setophaga citrina) (1)
- Reported Oct 04, 2025 07:56 by Joseph Coureur
- 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/S277267259
- Comments: "Photo coming"

Hooded Warbler (Setophaga citrina) (1)
- Reported Oct 04, 2025 07:25 by Bennett Yates
- 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/S277261734
- Comments: "Bright yellow face with black hood spotted in the vale"

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