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From: <ebird-alert@birds.cornell.edu>
Date: Thu, Oct 15, 2026, 1:05 PM
Subject: [eBird Alert] Kings County Rare Bird Alert <hourly>
To: <prosbird@gmail.com>
From: <ebird-alert@birds.cornell.edu>
Date: Thu, Oct 15, 2026, 1:05 PM
Subject: [eBird Alert] Kings County Rare Bird Alert <hourly>
To: <prosbird@gmail.com>
*** Species Summary:
- Yellow-billed Cuckoo (2 reports)
- Eastern Wood-Pewee (1 report)
- Vesper Sparrow (4 reports)
- Chestnut-sided Warbler (1 report)
- Scarlet Tanager (1 report)
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Yellow-billed Cuckoo (Coccyzus americanus) (1)
- Reported Oct 15, 2026 10:01 by Ryan Treves
- Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6680222,-73.96367&ll=40.6680222,-73.96367
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S402541640
- Media: 1 Photo
- Comments: "Long-tailed, slender, pale-bellied, unobtrusive, dropped into water garden."
Yellow-billed Cuckoo (Coccyzus americanus) (2)
- Reported Oct 15, 2026 09:19 by Christine Gu
- 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/S402544044
- Media: 2 Photos
- Comments: "Crazy encounter with a sunning cuckoo. It was completely out in the open on the north edge of Dell staring into the water, fumbled all my pics in extreme excitement but there are some usable ones. Another seen in flight at Winter Walk from the direction of Cedar Dell, very white underneath but with pointy, conspicuously rufous wings. Swooping wingbeats. Tail not seen well. County/year bird for me."
Eastern Wood-Pewee (Contopus virens) (1)
- Reported Oct 15, 2026 09:19 by Christine Gu
- 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/S402544044
- Media: 2 Photos
- Comments: "Flagged for date. Just a hair late. Upright posture, nondescript eyering, dull wingbars, a bit of a vest. Silent, perched across from Morse. A lot of pictures."
Vesper Sparrow (Pooecetes gramineus) (2)
- Reported Oct 15, 2026 10:37 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/S402551088
- Comments: "Two together on baseball fields (I think 2 and 3), maybe more. Peachy Buffy tones overall, a bit bigger than Chippings and Savannahs, bold white eye ring, white outer tail feathers in flight. Might have gotten some audio of these two, will check."
Vesper Sparrow (Pooecetes gramineus) (2)
- Reported Oct 15, 2026 10:00 by Joshua Lam
- 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/S402542700
- Comments: "continuing, between ballfields 2+3 w/ chipping/mixed flock; tall sparrow, nice white eyering, streaking limited to chest, rufous shoulder, pale cheek spot with thick black outline, slight peek at rufous shoulder?"
Vesper Sparrow (Pooecetes gramineus) (2)
- Reported Oct 15, 2026 08:51 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/S402536700
- Media: 1 Photo
- Comments: "Continuing. The first seen only briefly near ballfield 1, first an a tree and then in flight. Briefly saw streaky chest and bold white eyering and, as it flew west, white outer tail feathers. The second was mixed in with Chipping Sparrows between ballfields 2 and 3 as reported earlier. Bad photos of this bird."
Vesper Sparrow (Pooecetes gramineus) (1)
- Reported Oct 15, 2026 08:43 by Seth Barr
- 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/S402550080
- Comments: "Large(ish) sparrow, distinctive white eye ring, less fidgety movements than the chipping and house sparrows."
Chestnut-sided Warbler (Setophaga pensylvanica) (1)
- Reported Oct 15, 2026 07:40 by Doug Gochfeld
- Cadman Plaza Park, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.69873,-73.99059&ll=40.69873,-73.99059
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S402541258
- Comments: "Foraging on the concrete just south of the roses at the big war memorial, then flew up into a lower (cherry?) tree, foraged there for a minute or two, then ascended to the London Plane canopy. Green—backed warbler with gray face and bold white eyering, and a little bit of brown on the lower flanks."
Scarlet Tanager (Piranga olivacea) (1)
- Reported Oct 15, 2026 07:25 by Nick Dawson
- Bush Terminal Piers Park, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6541609,-74.0204451&ll=40.6541609,-74.0204451
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S402547808
- Comments: "Late non-breeding male. Photos."
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