[BOS Rare Bird Alert] 08/02/2007

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- RBA
* New York
* Buffalo
* 08/02/2007
* NYBU0708.02
- 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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  AMERICAN AVOCET
  AMERICAN PIPIT
  Cooper's Hawk
  American Kestrel
  Peregrine Falcon
  Semipalmated Plover
  Lesser Yellowlegs
  Spotted Sandpiper
  Ruddy Turnstone
  Sanderling
  Semipalm. Sandpiper
  Least Sandpiper

- Transcript
  Hotline: Dial-a-Bird at the Buffalo Museum of Science
  Date:             08/02/2007
  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, August 2, 2007

  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 July 26 through August 2 from  the 
Niagara Frontier Region include AMERICAN AVOCET and  AMERICAN PIPIT.

  Two highlights from the Lake Erie shore in Dunkirk this  week. July 
27, an AMERICAN AVOCET at the mouth of Canadaway  Creek, off Route 5, 
west of Dunkirk. This may be the same  avocet that has been at Dunkirk 
Harbor and Silver Creek in  recent weeks.

  Also at Dunkirk Harbor, July 30, an unexpected AMERICAN  PIPIT on the 
Main Street beach. From the BOS archives - this  is likely the region's 
first summer record of pipit.

  Shorebird species at Dunkirk Harbor this week included  SEMIPALMATED 
PLOVER, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, SPOTTED SANDPIPER,  RUDDY TURNSTONE, 
SANDERLING, SEMIPALM. SANDPIPER and LEAST  SANDPIPER.

  From Buffalo this week - a COOPER'S HAWK has been a regular  at the 
Buffalo Zoo this summer. Also, AMERICAN KESTREL at  the zoo. And, at 
Tifft Nature Preserve, a PEREGRINE FALCON  at the north end of the 
preserve, by the railroad tracks.

  Dial-a-Bird will be updated Thursday evening, August 9.  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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