[BOS Rare Bird Alert] 12/14/2006

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- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 12/14/2006
* NYBU0612.14
- Birds mentioned
    ----------------------------------------------------------   Please 
phone in any rare sightings so they   may be shared via the DAB 
telephone update   system, and submit email contributions directly   to 
dfsuggs localnet com.
  Thank you, David
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  SLATY-BACKED GULL
  RAZORBILL
  EARED GREBE
  HARLEQUIN DUCK
  Pied-billed Grebe
  Horned Grebe
  Great Blue Heron
  Tundra Swan
  American Black Duck
  Canvasback
  Ring-necked Duck
  Common Goldeneye
  Bufflehead
  Hooded Merganser
  Common Merganser
  Red-br. Merganser
  Ruddy Duck
  Bald Eagle
  Purple Sandpiper
  Great Horned Owl
  Belted Kingfisher
  Eastern Bluebird

- Transcript
  Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
  Date:             12/14/2006
  Number:           716-896-1271
  To Report:        Same
  Compiler:         David F. Suggs (dfsuggs at localnet com)
  Coverage:         Western New York and adjacent Ontario
  Website:          www.BOSBirding.org

  Thursday, December 14, 2006

  Dial-a-Bird is a service provided by your Buffalo Museum of   Science 
and this answering system was donated by the Buffalo   Ornithological 
Society. Press (2) to leave a message, (3)   for updates, meeting and 
field trip information and (4) for   instructions on how to report 
sightings and use this system.   To contact the Science Museum, call 
896-5200.

  Highlights of reports received December 7 through December   14 from 
the Niagara Frontier Region include SLATY-BACKED   GULL, RAZORBILL, 
EARED GREBE and HARLEQUIN DUCK.

  The SLATY-BACKED GULL at Niagara Falls was reported December   10 and 
13. Both times, the gull was on the breakwall below   the water control 
gates, above the falls in Ontario. Also   above the falls, 3 PURPLE 
SANDPIPERS near the stranded   barge.

  At the mouth of the Niagara River, the RAZORBILL continues;   
reported most every day this week, including the 14th. It   has been 
seen from Queens Park on Front Street in Niagara-
  on-the-Lake, Ontario, and on the New York side of the river,   from 
Fort Niagara.

  December 9, at the eastern edge of the BOS region, a   BARROW'S 
GOLDENEYE on Lake Ontario at the Point Breeze   piers, in the Town of 
Carlton.

  On Lake Erie, at Dunkirk Harbor, an EARED GREBE and a male   
HARLEQUIN DUCK among abundant waterfowl on December 9 and   10, at the 
west end of the harbor. Other reports in the   harbor - PIED-BILLED 
GREBE, HORNED GREBE, GREAT BLUE HERON,   AMERICAN BLACK DUCK, 
CANVASBACK, RING-NECKED DUCK,   BUFFLEHEAD, COMMON GOLDENEYE, HOODED 
MERGANSER, COMMON   MERGANSER, RED-BR. MERGANSER, RUDDY DUCK and BELTED 
  KINGFISHER.

  Other reports this week - a GREAT HORNED OWL calling from   the roof 
of a house in the Village of Silver Creek. At the   Countryside Gravel 
Ponds on Route 62 in Dayton, 20 TUNDRA   SWANS, 15 RUDDY DUCKS and 2 
BALD EAGLES. Other EAGLES this   week - in the Town of Sardinia at the 
gravel works in   Chaffee; at the mouth of Silver Creek; and at Saint   
Columbans in Sheridan. And, in the Town of Pomfret, 4   EASTERN 
BLUEBIRDS on Wilbur Road.

  Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, December 21.   Please 
call in your sightings by noon Thursday. You may   report sightings 
after the tone. Thank you for calling and   reporting to Dial-a-Bird.

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