Manhattan, N.Y. City - to Friday, July 31st - Much migration occurred on Thursday night into Friday morning, July 30-31 all around the region. The same is so again for Friday into Saturday which is August 1. Some numbers of migrants were detected in Nocturnal Flight Calls recording, with many individual birds also passing far and wide of Manhattan, or high and fast in transit, southbound. However some landings also took place, as well as a perhaps-modest amount of early morning flight thru at least portions of the area, and more-specifically to this report, across parts of Manhattan.
Some birds which are, and may have been, turning up as migrants include - Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, Veery, Wood Thrush, Bobolink, Orchard Oriole, Baltimore Oriole, Red-winged Blackbird and among warblers in particular, almost all of which are here found as migrants - at least 16 warbler species - Ovenbird, Worm-eating Warbler, Louisiana Waterthrush, Northern Waterthrush, Blue-winged Warbler, Black-and-white Warbler, Tennessee Warbler, Common Yellowthroat, Hooded Warbler, American Redstart, Northern Parula, Blackburnian Warbler, Northern Yellow Warbler, Chestnut-sided Warbler, Pine Warbler, Canada Warbler, and also some Scarlet Tanagers and Rose-breasted Grosbeaks. Of these and other migratory species, some were also found to have been lingering and some, including also such species as Ruby-throated Hummingbirds, also were breeding, all such breeders in very-limited numbers particularly as compared with migrant numbers of their species, as the southbound migrations tick-up. Additional species have also been showing as either migrators or local-wanderers just recently. And, none of the migrants thus far being found are early for a southbound movement, however the peak-periods of migration for almost all is still ahead. Among the warblers, by far the most numerous to be detected so far are N. Yellow Warblers, with American Redstarts far behind in overall numbers on the move. On Thursday, 7-30, a Black Skimmer was seen moving up the Hudson River off Manhattans upper west side, from Riverside Park by the old 79th St. boat-basin area. This is the first report of 2026 in N.Y. County for this species. Skimmers have been seen fairly often in other county-waters of N.Y. City including at times, not all that far away from Manhattan, although more-typically at a bit of a remove. A Forsters Tern was also reported from the Hudson River, a bit farther north from near the western terminus of Dyckman Street, in n, Manhattan, on 7-30. Thanks to many observers and photographers for some of the sightings, alerts, reports some of the latter via word-of-mouth, and many reports landing in eBird, with the Macaulay Library for media. Good August birding, Tom Fiore manhattan -- NYSbirds-L List Info: Visit: http://LISTS.cornell.edu for more information Posting Address: [email protected] Archives: The Mail Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html Sightings: Please submit your observations to eBird at http://www.ebird.org --
