Central Park, Manhattan, N.Y. City - Sunday, September 15th - In addition to the migratory warblers that are still coming in good diversity in the county and more-generally in the local area, Central Park had at least 95 total species of native wild birds on Sunday. Among that diversity were at least 7 species of waterfowl, with Wood Duck and Hooded Merganser, Gadwall and N. Shovelers, plus Green-winged Teal also still there, and the usual suspects of Mallards, and Canada Geese. As flyovers, at least there were late-day American Black Ducks.
Solitary and Spotted Sandpipers each continued in the park, and for vireo-variety, there were still up to five species of those with the least-common for Central being an ongoing White-eyed Vireo, and not the lately-multiple Philadelphia Vireos of this past week. Of thrushes, many observers have still been pulling out Veery for the middle of September, and more of Wood, Swainsons, and Gray-cheeked, as well as some gray-cheeked types of Thrushes, with a -possibility- some are Bicknells. Ruby-crowned Kinglets and Brown Creepers in small numbers give a sense of impending shifts in the seasonal abundance of various migratory species, some of which - the two latter species - will also winter thru in modest numbers here. A lot of other migrants were again still present in the park, and amongst those passing over were a number of raptor species topped by Ospreys in high numbers. Also passing at least very late in the day were more Common Nighthawks - the time of year to seek those is sooner rather than later. The warbler species seen in Central Park on Sunday September 15th included all of the below, all seen by multiple observers and many also photographed, in all parts of the park, and for all of the day by the many people and about for all of the day. It is very possible that more species than the 25 listed here were found. Many species were found in the multiple, and the trend has been for a slow readjustment of which species are more-common, but American Redstart is still rather numerous and as always are rather readily seen, not skulking as some or very high in still-dense deciduous foliage. Ovenbird Worm-eating Warbler - multiple observers. Northern Waterthrush Black-and-white Warbler Tennessee Warbler Nashville Warbler Mourning Warbler - many observers. Common Yellowthroat American Redstart - still v. numerous. Cape May Warbler - multiple locations. Northern Parula - numerous. Magnolia Warbler Yellow Warbler Chestnut-sided Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Black-throated Blue Warbler Palm Warbler - multiple, and a few of apparent western form. Pine Warbler Myrtle -a.k.a Yellow-rumped- Warbler Yellow-throated Warbler Prairie Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler Canada Warbler Wilsons Warbler The above noted birds and many many more not noted above were all seen by individuals, small informal groups, and by some who lead guided not-for-profit walks in the interest of science and conservation, with accredited non-profit organizations and institutions - such as the NYC Bird Allliance, the American Museum of Natural History and the Linnaean Society of New York, among other non-profits. Thanks to these many keen. courteous, quiet observers and of them, also many photographers for many sightings, and reports including to the non-X alerts and of course to eBird with the Macaulay Library media archives. Many birds of far-more species were seen throughout N.Y. County, in N.Y. City on Sunday, and some sightings for all of the county may be in a near-future report. Good last-week of summer -calendar summer, not that of southbound bird-migration!- 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/ --
