{"id":1000560,"date":"2007-04-19T10:23:36","date_gmt":"2007-04-19T15:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/birding\/2007\/04\/19\/sora-in-prospect-park\/"},"modified":"2008-09-03T09:50:47","modified_gmt":"2008-09-03T14:50:47","slug":"sora-in-prospect-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/birding\/2007\/04\/19\/sora-in-prospect-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Sora in Prospect Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

Migration’s getting weird. Normally Fall is when the rarities show up, but we’ve hit a triple this week. First there was the Blue Grosbeak Rafael Campos found in the Vale of Cashmere on Tuesday. Then Alex Wilson found a Yellow-throated Warbler on Three Sisters Island yesterday. Then last night John Ascher found the rarest bird yet, a Sora:<\/p>\n

Sora rail
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This is the first Sora seen in Prospect Park in about 12 years, though they’re a little more regular at Jamaica Bay. I got out bright and early to see it this morning shortly after dawn. For such a striking bird, it blends into the phragmites very well. Fortunately John had returned and was able to point out the bird to me. <\/p>\n

I also got this QuickTime video<\/a> of the bird walking around, though it’s roughly of the same quality as the famous Bigfoot or Ivory-billed Woodpecker films. (Warning: may crash some browsers.) <\/p>\n

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Total species count form about 6:30 A.M. to 9:15 A.M. was 39:<\/p>\n

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  • Pied-billed Grebe (3 Prospect Lake)<\/li>\n
  • Double-crested Cormorant<\/li>\n
  • Great Blue Heron<\/li>\n
  • Great Egret<\/li>\n
  • Black-crowned Night-Heron<\/li>\n
  • Canada Goose<\/li>\n
  • Brant (~170 flyover)<\/li>\n
  • Mute Swan<\/li>\n
  • Mallard<\/li>\n
  • Ring-necked Duck (1 M, 1 F, Upper Pool)<\/li>\n
  • Ruddy Duck<\/li>\n
  • Red-tailed Hawk<\/li>\n
  • American Coot<\/li>\n
  • Ring-billed Gull<\/li>\n
  • Herring Gull<\/li>\n
  • Rock Pigeon<\/li>\n
  • Mourning Dove<\/li>\n
  • Red-bellied Woodpecker<\/li>\n
  • Downy Woodpecker<\/li>\n
  • Northern Flicker<\/li>\n
  • Eastern Phoebe<\/li>\n
  • Blue Jay<\/li>\n
  • Carolina Wren<\/li>\n
  • American Robin<\/li>\n
  • European Starling<\/li>\n
  • Chipping Sparrow<\/li>\n
  • Fox Sparrow<\/li>\n
  • Song Sparrow<\/li>\n
  • Swamp Sparrow (Peninsula forest)<\/li>\n
  • White-throated Sparrow<\/li>\n
  • Dark-eyed Junco<\/li>\n
  • Northern Cardinal<\/li>\n
  • Rose-breasted Grosbeak (Vale of Cashmere)<\/li>\n
  • Blue Grosbeak (Vale of Cashmere)<\/li>\n
  • Red-winged Blackbird<\/li>\n
  • Common Grackle<\/li>\n
  • Brown-headed Cowbird<\/li>\n
  • House Sparrow<\/li>\n
  • Sora<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Also, although I did not see these next two myself today, Phil Payne relocated the Yellow-throated Warbler, and Orrin Tilevitz found the first White-crowned Sparrow of the year for the park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Migration’s getting weird. Normally Fall is when the rarities show up, but we’ve hit a triple this week. First there was the Blue Grosbeak Rafael Campos found in the Vale of Cashmere on Tuesday. Then Alex Wilson found a Yellow-throated Warbler on Three Sisters Island yesterday. Then last night John Ascher found the rarest bird […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[410],"class_list":["post-1000560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding","tag-flash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}