Abbreviations AL: Monroe County Annotated ListBA: Birds Afield column by John Brown, see Rochester Times-Union on date cited.BBA: New York Breeding Bird AtlasBBS: Breeding Bird SurveyB&M: Beardslee and Mitchell’s Birds of the Niagara FrontierBNA: Birds of North America seriesCBC: Christmas Bird Count.DEC: New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.D&C: Rochester Democrat and ChronicleGNR: Goshawk noteworthy records for the month of the sighting, usually in edition printed two months later.GOS: Goshawk monthly newsletter of the Genesee Ornithological Society. (Established 1938, disbanded 2006. Last Goshawk 2004.)KB: Kingbird, cited by volume and page number. (Publication of NYSOA - New York State Ornithological Association.)LG: Little Gull monthly newsletter of the Rochester Birding Association. (Established 1987.)LGNR: Little Gull noteworthy records for the month of the sighting, usually in following month’s editionmob: multiple observersNWR: national wildlife refugeNYSARC: New York State Avian Records Committee (established 1977, part of NYSOA)SP: state parkSRA: State recreation areaTU: Rochester Times-UnionUA: Rochester Union and AdvertiserWBR: William Edson’s Weekly Bird Report. See local section, Democrat and Chronicle, on date cited.WMA: wildlife management area * (Endangered, meaning a native species is in imminent danger of extirpation or extinction in New York State.)** (Threatened, meaning the species is likely to become an endangered species within the foreseeable future in New York State.)*** (Of special concern, meaning a species for which there is a documented concern for its welfare, or risk of becoming endangered.)For a full listing of all wildlife species on these lists, visit www.dec.state.ny.us/website/dfwmr/wildlife/endspec/etsclist.html
Publications
Bull, John (1974) Birds of New York State. Doubleday/Natural History Press Bull, John (1998) Bull’s Birds of New York State. Edited Emanuel Levine. Ithaca, NY. Cornell University Press Eaton, Elon Howard (1910) Birds of New York - 2 Vols. [NY State Museum Memoir 12]. Albany, NY. University of the State of New York Birds of Monroe County, NY - Annotated List (1985) Genesee Ornithological Society (Rochester Academy of Science proceedings.) Kingbird (New York) Publication of New York State Ornithological Association (NYSOA) established 1946. Little Gull (Genesee Region) Publication of Rochester Birding Association (RBA) established 1987 Ewald, B. & Sherony, D. A Summary of the Hamlin Beach Lakewatch Fall and Winter Waterbird Migration Data, 1993-1999. (2001) The Federation of New York State Bird Clubs (Sponsored by Braddock Bay Raptor Research) https://nybirds.org/Publications/Monograph-HamlinBeachLakewatch2001.pdf
Notable Names William L.G. Edson - considered by some to be the “dean” of Rochester birders, was a president of the Burroughs-Audubon Nature Club and later first president of the Genesee Ornithological Society. Beginning in the early 1900s, Edson and Richard Horsey carefully tracked arrival and departure dates of various species on cards kept at the Highland Park herbarium. Edson’s Weekly Bird Report, a Democrat and Chronicle bird column that appeared for nearly 30 years, is a wonderful resource. It is invaluable, for example, in tracking the arrival of Northern Cardinals, Red-bellied Woodpeckers, Northern Mockingbirds, Carolina Wrens and other “southern invaders.” Allan Klonick - see Memories Abound of a Beloved Birder by Gerry Rising(March 10, 2003) [A story about a Silver Gull.] Walt Listman - one of those early birders who, as a youngster, occasionally had to climb the trees for a better look. In his prime, Listman redefined what birding was all about in our region, providing many of the noteworthy records that appear in these profiles. Most importantly, he calculated when and where certain previously unrecorded species might be expected to pass through our region, and then went out and found them. Howard Miller - another of the founding members of the Genesee Ornithological Society, overcame primitive optics with a keen ear and eye, and was a stickler for making correct field identifications. He set a very high standard for local birders. Laura Moon - instituted the daily spring hawk watch at Braddock Bay, and, with her husband Neil, conducted the count each day during three to four month stretches, for nine years. Not only did she spend her days observing raptors; she then spent her nights carefully tabulating what she had seen so that detailed charts could appear in the next month’s Goshawk.
Taxonomy Taxonomy based on the American Birding Association (ABA) List - Version 8.17 - 11/25/2024.