A total of 85 records of birds involving 115 reports is treated here by the Committee. Eleven reports for 1993 are still being reviewed. Nonetheless, the number of reports submitted is a welcome increase from last year's submissions. These records add to the few from upstate New York of a species that is regular off Long Island. This bird apparently was brought northward by the major storm which moved from the Gulf of Mexico area along the Atlantic Coast.
Photographs are on file.
See also 1992 Accepted reports. Apparently at least two individuals were present along Lake Ontario west of Rochester in 1993. This species formerly bred locally on Lake Ontario, but is now only an exceptionally scarce migrant anywhere in upstate New York. This species is regularly reported from Long Island but very scarce upstate. There are fewer than a dozen upstate records of this endangered species.