Central Park, Manhattan, N.Y. City - into Thursday-Friday, August 22nd - 23rd -
Starting off with the migratory American warbler species seen into - and on - Thursday, August 22nd for ALL of Central Park and as seen by many, many dozens of observers, independently watching and photographing - ALL of the following were seen into Thursday, at Central Park - a majority of these species were in the multiple, and a few were well into double-digits numbers, within this one park on Thursday. Some of the other migrants and regular birds of this park are additionally listed below the warblers. Many of these birds are also starting to be seen for Friday, August 23rd. Ovenbird Worm-eating Warbler Louisiana Waterthrush Northern Waterthrush Blue-winged Warbler Black-and-white Warbler Tennessee Warbler Nashville Warbler Mourning Warbler Common Yellowthroat Hooded Warbler American Redstart Cape May Warbler - multiple, as ongoing and new arrivals for some days by now. Northern Parula Magnolia Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Yellow Warbler Chestnut-sided Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Black-throated Blue Warbler Pine Warbler Myrtle -a.k.a Yellow-rumped- Warbler Prairie Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler Canada Warbler Wilsons Warbler - and - - Double-crested Cormorant Great Blue Heron Great Egret Snowy Egret - flyovers Green Heron Black-crowned Night-Heron Turkey Vulture Canada Goose Wood Duck Gadwall Mallard Northern Shoveler Green-winged Teal Hooded Merganser Osprey Bald Eagle Cooper's Hawk Red-tailed Hawk American Kestrel Peregrine Falcon Solitary Sandpiper Spotted Sandpiper Least Sandpiper American Woodcock Laughing Gull Ring-billed Gull American Herring Gull Great Black-backed Gull feral Rock Pigeon Mourning Dove Black-billed Cuckoo Yellow-billed Cuckoo Chimney Swift Ruby-throated Hummingbird Belted Kingfisher Red-bellied Woodpecker Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Yellow-shafted Flicker Olive-sided Flycatcher Eastern Wood-Pewee Yellow-bellied Flycatcher Acadian Flycatcher Alder - Willow type Empidonax-genus Flycatcher Least Flycatcher Eastern Phoebe Great Crested Flycatcher Eastern Kingbird Yellow-throated Vireo - at least several, multiple observers, photos. Warbling Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Blue Jay Common Raven American Crow Tree Swallow Northern Rough-winged Swallow Barn Swallow Black-capped Chickadee Tufted Titmouse White-breasted Nuthatch Carolina Wren House Wren Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - multiple, and having been seen for much of August in the park. Veery Swainson's Thrush Wood Thrush American Robin Gray Catbird Northern Mockingbird Brown Thrasher European Starling House Sparrow Cedar Waxwing Scarlet Tanager Eastern Towhee Chipping Sparrow - present all summer in the park. Song Sparrow Swamp Sparrow White-throated Sparrow Northern Cardinal Rose-breasted Grosbeak Indigo Bunting Bobolink - modest nos. of flyovers. Red-winged Blackbird Common Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird Orchard Oriole Baltimore Oriole House Finch American Goldfinch There are likely some additional species that are not listed above which have occurred and there are as is typical various additional species having been seen in other parts of N.Y. County, of which Central Park is just a small fraction of the available bird habitat. In the coming weeks we will announce some not-for-profit organizations public birding walks for the area. Thanks to all keen, quiet, courteous observers and photographers representing the diversity of the city and the world, for local sightings and many reports of all these birds, via the much-used Discord alterts and as-always via eBird and its RBA as well as thru the associated Macaluay Library online, for excellent digital media. An update on some of the birds all around N.Y. County will also be given in coming days. Good birding to all, Tom Fiore manhattan -- (copy & paste any URL below, then modify any text "_DOT_" to a period ".") NYSbirds-L List Info: NortheastBirding_DOT_com/NYSbirdsWELCOME_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/NYSbirdsRULES_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave_DOT_htm ARCHIVES: 1) mail-archive_DOT_com/nysbirds-l@cornell_DOT_edu/maillist_DOT_html 2) surfbirds_DOT_com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) birding_DOT_aba_DOT_org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: ebird_DOT_org/content/ebird/ --
