Central Park, Manhattan, N.Y. City - thru Thursday, May 25th - There were still at least 21 species of American warblers present in the park thru Thursday May 25th at Central Park, among the 100+ species of birds found for the past 2 days there. The warblers have (again) included multiple Mourning Warblers, at least one male of that species at the edge of the Ramble area, at a location that thousands of park visitors pass by each day in spring. That bird was singing very early in the day, and could again, if it lingers at all. Others have certainly shown a bit more proclivity to staying in less-busy sections of the park.
The other 20 spp. of warblers still present were these - Prairie Warbler Tennessee Warbler (multiple) Cape May Warbler (multiple) Blackburnian Warbler (multiple) Bay-breasted Warbler (multiple) Black-throated Blue Warbler (multiple) Black-throated Green Warbler (multiple) Black-and-white Warbler (multiple) Chestnut-sided Warbler (multiple) Yellow Warbler (multiple) Northern Parula (multiple) Myrtle/Yellow-rumped Warbler (few) Canada Warbler (multiple) Blackpoll Warbler (many) Wilson's Warbler (multiple) Magnolia Warbler (many) American Redstart (many) Northern Waterthrush (multiple) Ovenbird (multiple) Common Yellowthroat (many) Many other birds of interest in the park have included Wood Duck (drake), Great and Snowy (esp. as fly-overs) Egrets, Great Blue Heron, Black-crowned Night-Herons, Ospreys, Chimney Swifts, Yellow-billed Cuckoos (thru Thursday, including birds in the Ramble area), Olive-sided Flycatcher, Yellow-bellied Flycatchers, Acadian Flycatchers (with a singing individual at the Ramble thru Thursday), Least Flycatcher, and additional Empidonax-genus flycatchers that may not have been ID’d to species, Great Crested Flycatchers, E. Kingbirds, E. Wood-Pewees, Chimney Swifts, Northern Shovelers (2), Gadwall, Tree Swallows, Northern Rough-winged Swallows, Barn Swallows, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, at least 4 spp. of vireo including rather-late Blue-headed Vireo (to at least May 24th), and the more-typical Warbling, Red-eyed, as well as White-eyed Vireo[s], thrushes including Veery, Wood, Swainson’s, Gray-cheeked, Hermit (also heard singing and seen in a few other parks as well as heard; confirmed thru May 25th and quite-late, but not unprecedented for even early June, in Central Park over the years), and Bicknell's Thrush - photo’d on May 22nd - and both seen and heard singing, by multi observers. Also, this species was present in more than 1 location simultaneously, same day. Some birds that may have been this latter species were still around into May 25th in parts of the park. The Yellow-throated Vireo was confirmed by photos thru at-least May 22 at Central Park, and it is a species that has nested in that park more than several times, although not-commonly (nor at all commonly breeding in the county). Some additional species for Central Park have included Laughing Gulls (esp. at and over the Central Park reservoir, but may not linger there), Green Heron (which breeds in Central Park, with some successes), Fish Crow, American Crow, Common Raven (seen and heard from the park), Scarlet Tanager, Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Indigo Bunting, Baltimore Oriole, and Orchard Oriole. Cedar Waxwings have increased a lot and this is another sign of the latter stages of spring migration here. At the same time, we still have lingering White-throated Sparrows (and these can often summer, with no evidence of any breeding activities at all, in Central Park and even more-so in other Manhattan green-spaces, where many were still present into 5/25); other sparrow species still being found included Lincoln’s, Swamp, Chipping (which has nested in Central Park), and of course Song Sparrow, as well as Eastern Towhee. There continue to be some Tufted Titmice and Black-capped Chickadees around, although the vast majority that had overwintered cleared out a good while ago by now. Cooper's Hawk was still being seen into this week, as have the multiple Red-tailed Hawks (and not “Pale Male” who has definitively been found deceased and has been noted in the Urban Hawks blog, as well as in the NY Times and many more news sources), American Kestrels and Peregrine Falcons of the city, some of which show in or over Central Park regularly. Common Nighthawks were still passing thru this week, and this is a species *which once was* a regular nester in this city and in Manhattan, including some areas adjacent to Central Park. Summer Tanager[s] were present this week, and could still be floating about, within the park and/or in other areas in Manhattan. Miscelleanous other species showing in Central Park included: Great Horned Owl, escaped-from-the-zoo (in the park) non-native Eurasian Eagle-Owl, Ring-billed Gull, [American] Herring Gull, Great Black-backed Gull, Hairy Woodpecker, Yellow-shafted Flicker, Red-bellied Woodpecker, Downy Woodpecker, Blue Jay, American Goldfinch, House Finch, Red-winged Blackbird, Common Grackle, and a number of additional species as well. Thanks to many hundreds of quiet and keen observers, and including some bird-walk leaders for non-profit org’s. including the NYC Audubon org., the American Museum of Natural History org. and the Linnaean Society of New York org., for many sightings and good reports. Good birding to all, Tom Fiore manhattan -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
