Regional Jet 700 ER/LR (CRJ700)
Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Situational Awareness
Conflict NMAC
General None Reported / Taken
Human Factors
Shortly after rotation from runway 4 in LGA ATC advised us of a drone sighting at 1200 ft. As we climbed through 1000 ft I keyed the mike to acknowledge ATCs advisory and a drone passed just above my windscreen. I told the Tower we saw the drone and that we may have hit it. Apparently this was construed as we did hit it. I definitely could have phrased that better. We did not see an impact and all systems were operating normally. I advised Departure we would continue on to [destination]. The FAA met us at the gate [at destination] and I made a write up in the Maintenance log to get local Maintenance to do a strike inspection. No evidence of a strike was found.Previous aircraft reported the drone and we were not made aware of this until after we were airborne. I was conducting IOE with a new hire and my focus was more on the flight instruments than outside the aircraft.
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CRJ-700 flight crew reported a NMAC with a UAV climbing out of LGA.