Central Park, Manhattan, N.Y. City -
Saturday and Sunday, April 20-21st
Some of the many species seen for the weekend just in or over Central Park are
listed below, including the at-least 12 species of migratory American warblers.
Common Loon - multiple early-morning flyovers, and a couple still on the CP
reservoir.
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret - flyovers
Green Heron
Black-crowned Night-Heron
Turkey Vulture
Canada Goose
Atlantic Brant - few flyovers
Wood Duck - lingering male.
Gadwall
American Black Duck - few.
Mallard
Northern Shoveler
Green-winged Teal - same lingering pair at The Pool.
Lesser Scaup - 3, with 2 bright males to Sat., 4-20.
Bufflehead - few lingering or passing.
Hooded Merganser - 2 females, lingering, reservoir.
Red-breasted Merganser - hen, reservoir.
Ruddy Duck - few remained.
Osprey
Bald Eagle
Northern Harrier
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Cooper's Hawk
Broad-winged Hawk - at least one flyover; also some seen from elsewhere around
Manhattan, etc.
Red-tailed Hawk
American Kestrel
Peregrine Falcon
Virginia Rail - as first noted in ebird reporting from Sat., 4-20 at The Pond
area in s.-e. part of park. Many observers all day Sunday.
American Coot
Laughing Gull - reservoir plus a few flyovers.
Ring-billed Gull
American Herring Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
feral Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Chimney Swift - multiple flyovers continuing and passing all of past week and
weekend.
Ruby-throated Hummingbird - several, into Sunday.
Belted Kingfisher
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Yellow-shafted Flicker
Eastern Phoebe
Great Crested Flycatcher
White-eyed Vireo - one.
Blue-headed Vireo - multiple, fairly good numbers.
Yellow-throated Vireo - continuing.
Warbling Vireo - few.
Red-eyed Vireo - few.
Northern Raven - several sightings.
Blue Jay
American Crow
Fish Crow - increased, and calling in some areas.
Tree Swallow
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Barn Swallow - the 3 swallow species listed have been regular in Central Park
all the past week and weekend.
Black-capped Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
White-breasted Nuthatch
Brown Creeper
Carolina Wren
House Wren - multiple.
Winter Wren - good passages, thru Sunday at Central Park.
Golden-crowned Kinglet - few, lingering thru Sunday.
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - many.
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Hermit Thrush - many.
Wood Thrush - several, this species also seen this past week in some other
Manhattan locations.
American Robin
Gray Catbird - still in v. modest numbers.
Northern Mockingbird
Brown Thrasher
European Starling
House Sparrow
Cedar Waxwing - nice numbers for all of the park.
Eastern Towhee - multiple.
Chipping Sparrow
Field Sparrow
Vesper Sparrow - N. end area.
Savannah Sparrow
Red Fox Sparrow - still some in various areas of the park, including within the
Ramble and elsewhere.
Song Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow - many.
Slate-colored Junco - small numbers remained.
Northern Cardinal
Rose-breasted Grosbeak - at least several, and not the first days of occurrence.
Indigo Bunting - several. This species has been appearing lately in a few other
Manhattan locations as well.
Red-winged Blackbird
Rusty Blackbird - several, continuing.
Common Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
Orchard Oriole - several, and singing. Additionally seen in some other sites in
Manhattan, including where they have bred.
Baltimore Oriole - few, and some not all that vocal.
Purple Finch - multiple, but in v. modest numbers.
House Finch
American Goldfinch - fairly good numbers passing.
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Northern Parula - at least several thru the weekend.
Yellow Warbler - several, thru the weekend.
Myrtle -a.k.a. Yellow-rumped- Warbler - modest numbers for what are still to
come thru.
Black-throated Green Warbler - at least several, in various sectors of Central
Park.
Pine Warbler - still passing, in modest numbers.
Prairie Warbler - several in various areas of the park, this species also
elsewhere in Manhattan.
Palm Warbler - many, continuing in many areas.
Black-and-white Warbler - multiple, scattered thru the park in modest numbers.
Ovenbird - few, widely scattered locations including the Ramble of Central Park.
Northern Waterthrush - multiple.
Louisiana Waterthrush - at least a few lingered thru both days of this weekend.
Common Yellowthroat - scarce, but newly-arrived singing males are around, also
in a few other sites in Manhattan.
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and quite likely some additional species for Central Park alone this weekend.
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The Blue Grosbeak was still in the Manhattan lower-East Village area at and
near East 3rd-4th Streets thru Sunday, 4-21 and was photographed in that area
again, with multiple observers.
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An adult-male-plumaged Hooded Warbler had continued in Madison Square Park in
Manhattan into at-least April 19th, possibly still there into the weekend.
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Seaside Sparrow had been confirmed from the Pier 44 area -W. 44th St.- of
Manhattan's Hudson River shore from back on April 16th.
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