Please note:  Non-Dutchess County sightings are in a separate list at the bottom.

All RBA birds are interesting at the time of the alert, but not all of them are really rarities.  Some sightings are rarities when they occur but later become interesting only from a historical perspective (the 1953 sighting of the county's second Tufted Titmouse since 1929, for example).

Key to Symbols:

Historical (pre-1958)  Photo  Photo lost Dutchess report accepted by NYSARC

Note:  NYSARC, the New York State Avian Records Committee, was established in 1977 but welcomes report submissions at any time regardless of the actual sighting date.  Thus "old" sightings may be submitted at a later date.  For more information on NYSARC, see the NYS Ornithological Association website.

Dutchess County(Listed in Checklist Order)

			Greater White-fronted Goose (Upper Kay's Pond, Pleasant Valley, NY, Dec. 2002)
			Barnacle Goose (LaGrange/Pleasant Valley, NY, October-November 2003)
			Cackling Goose (Poughkeepsie, NY, March 2002)
			Hybrid Geese (Rhinebeck, NY & Stony Kill Farm, November 2002)
			Blue-winged Teal (Pine Plains, January 2007) 1/3/08
			Redhead (Beekman, Dec 2006) 1/3/08
			Common Eider (Quaker Lake, Pawling, October 1979)
			White-winged Scoter (Rhinecliff, January 2007) 1/3/08
			Black Scoter (Vanderburgh Cove, November 1970, also 1990 and 2001)
			Red-throated Loon (Millerton, November 1992; Millbrook, November 2003; Beekman 2005 & 2006)
			Red-necked Grebe (Norrie Point & Madam Brett Park, Mar-Apr 2003; Stissing Lake, Nov 2006)
			Northern Gannet (Poughkeepsie, NY, October 1986)
			Great Cormorant (Pleasant Valley, Nov-Dec 2006) 1/3/08
			Cattle Egret (LaGrange, May 1977)
			Yellow-crowned Night-Heron (Poughkeepsie, May 1992)
			Glossy Ibis (Pleasant Valley, NY, March 2003)
			Northern Harrier (photo of nest, early 20th century, by L.S. Horton) PHOTO LOST:  Last nest (photo by George Decker, 1956)
			Albino Red-tailed Hawk (Verbank, 1967-81)
			Gyrfalcon (Pine Plains, 1987)
			Clapper Rail (Baird Park, LaGrange, August 2004) FIRST DUTCHESS COUNTY RECORD
			American Golden-Plover (Pine Plains, April 2006)
			Hudsonian Godwit (Rhinebeck, NY, November 2002) FIRST DUTCHESS COUNTY RECORD
			Marbled Godwit (Sharon Station, NY, June 1979)
			PHOTO LOST: White-rumped Sandpiper (Sharon Station, June 1, 1979) SECOND DUTCHESS COUNTY RECORD
			Baird's Sandpiper (Sharon Station, NY, May-June 1979)
			Dunlin (Pleasant Valley, May 2003 and October 2004)
			Wilson's Snipe (Town of North East, May 2000)
			PHOTO LOST: Red-necked Phalarope (1970)
			Laughing Gull (Poughkeepsie, NY, November 2002)
			Bonaparte's Gull (Poughkeepsie, NY, April 2003)
			Iceland Gull (Indian Lake, December 2005)
			Lesser Black-backed Gull (Chelsea, NY, July 2002)
			Forster's Tern (Baird Park, May 16, 1986)
			Sooty Tern (New Hamburg, September 1979)
			Atlantic Puffin (Rhinebeck, 1963)
			Barn Owl (Stanford, 1953)
			Long-eared Owl (photos taken 1903, 2003, and 2004)
			Northern Saw-whet Owl (various dates)
			Red-headed Woodpecker (Adult male, 1972; immature, 2004)
			PHOTO LOST: Red-bellied Woodpecker, 2nd county record (1963)
			Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (Depot Hill, May-June 1994) FIRST NESTING RECORD
			PHOTO LOST: Black-backed Woodpecker (1965)
			Acadian Flycatcher (nest, Deep Hollow, 1973)
			Albino Eastern Kingbird (Stanfordville, 1967)
			Northern Shrike (Wappingers Falls, Dec 2006) 1/3/08
			Blue-headed Vireo (photo of juvenile, Deep Hollow, 2002)
			Gray Jay (Sky Acres Airport, 1975-76)   EARLIER PHOTO LOST: 1963
			Common Raven & Fish Crow (at Common Raven nest, Staatsburgh, 2005)
			Horned Lark (nest, Poughkeepsie, 1961)
			Horned Lark (Greig Farm, Red Hook, July 2006) 1/3/08
			Sedge Wren (ca. 1900) EARLY HISTORICAL NESTING RECORD
			Mountain Bluebird (Schultzville, 1978)
			Townsend's Solitaire (1953, 1990, 1995) EARLY HISTORICAL RECORD
			PHOTO LOST: First Northern Mockingbird nest (photo by Paul Haight, 1961)
			Golden-winged Warbler & Brewster's Warbler (Poughkeepsie, NY, May 2001, 2002, 2004)
			Orange-crowned Warbler (Amenia, February-March, 2005) FIRST WINTER RECORD FOR DUTCHESS COUNTY
			Audubon's Warbler (subsp. of Yellow-rumped) (Red Oaks Mill, Feb. 1976)
			Kentucky Warbler (Poughkeepsie, NY, May 2002)
			Chipping Sparrow (winter records)
			Clay-colored Sparrow (Rhinebeck, NY, December 2002 - April 2003)
			Vesper Sparrow (Greig Farm, August 2005)
			Vesper Sparrow (Greig Farm, July 2006) 1/3/08
			Lark Sparrow (Poughkeepsie, NY, October 18, 1997)   EARLIER PHOTO LOST: (1965)
			Lark Bunting (seen at Stissing, 1970 - but not a Dutchess photo)
			Savannah Sparrow (Greig Farm, July 2006) 1/3/08
			Grasshopper Sparrow (Greig Farm, 2006)
			Harris's Sparrow (Dover Plains, 1968)
			Dark-eyed Junco, unusual plumage (Billings, NY, January 2004)
			PHOTO LOST: Oregon Junco (photo by Ken Davis, 1963)
			Lapland Longspur (Southlands Farm, Rhinebeck, December 2006) 1/3/08
			Snow Bunting (Poughkeepsie, December 2006) 1/3/08
			Rose-breasted Grosbeak (Poughkeepsie, December 1966 - March 1967) FIRST WINTER RECORD FOR DUTCHESS COUNTY
			Black-headed Grosbeak (Pleasant Valley, 1965)
			Blue Grosbeak (Fishkill, May 1996)
			PHOTO LOST: Yellow-headed Blackbird (photo by Nathan Hoose, Wappingers, Falls, April 1989)
			Yellow-headed Blackbird (Thompson Pond, February 2006)
			Brambling (Pleasant Valley, 1984)

Outside of Dutchess County

	Tundra Swan (Wallkill, January 2007)
	Purple Gallinule (Sullivan County, NY, October 2002)
	Red-necked Stint (Milford Point, CT, July 2006) 1/3/08
	Baird's Sandpiper (Putnam County, NY, August 2002)
	Wilson's Phalarope (Putnam County, NY, August 2002)
	Ivory Gull (Newburgh, January 1981)
	Snowy Owl (Kingston, November 2002; New Hamburg, January 2007) 1/3/08
	Northern Hawk Owl (Root, Montgomery County, NY, December 2002 - March 2003)
	Rufous Hummingbird; Archilochus Hummingbird; Selasphorus Hummingbird(s) (Lenoir Preserve, Yonkers, Westchester County, NY, Nov 2001-Jan 2002, Oct - Nov 2002)
	Calliope Hummingbird (New York, NY, December 2001)
	Hammond's Flycatcher ( New Paltz, NY, May-June 2004) 1/3/08
	Sedge Wren (New Paltz, NY, May-June 2004)
	Northern Wheatear (New Paltz, NY, May-June 2004) 1/3/08
	Golden-winged Warbler (New Paltz, NY, May 2002)
	MacGillivray's Warbler (Milford, CT & New Milford, CT, Dec. 2001 & Jan. 2002)
	LeConte's Sparrow (Bashakill, Sullivan County, October 2006) 1/3/08
	Lapland Longspur (Croton Point, Westchester County, October 2006) 1/3/08
	Pine Grosbeak (Cherry Plain, NY, January 2002)