Ken, This is great question. I have "The Birds of Central Park" checklist which has 280 birds. I needed to add Belted Kingfisher to my version and Saltmarsh Sharp-tailed Sparrow is now two spp. I'm not sure which one was seen in the park so I added both. I'm not counting the warbler hybrids from the checklist.
To see the 265 spp. of birds reported to eBird.org for Central Park you'll need to combine all sub-locations. The easiest way to do this is to go to the wiki page below and click on "Central Park" below the label "Combined Bar Charts ...". It might take a few minutes for the bar charts to load: http://ebirding-nys.wikispaces.com/Central+Park I found that the following 14 birds are on the eBird.org list but not on the Central Park checklist. eBird includes European Goldfinch: Barnacle Goose Greater Scaup Great Cormorant Boreal Owl Rufous Hummingbird Monk Parakeet Pacific-slope Flycatcher Common Raven Varied Thrush Hermit Warbler Baird's Sparrow Boat-tailed Grackle Pine Grosbeak European Goldfinch More interesting are the 29 birds on the Central Park checklist that have yet to make it into the eBird.org database. BTW, I've seen Mississippi Kite twice in Central Park but these haven't been accepted. One sighting was on 12-Jun-2008: http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S3933333 (includes image of field notes) Common Eider Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Long-tailed Duck Ruffed Grouse Least Bittern Little Blue Heron Tricolored Heron Cattle Egret Mississippi Kite Clapper Rail Semipalmated Plover Whimbrel White-rumped Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Red Phalarope Caspian Tern Forster's Tern Snowy Owl Short-eared Owl Black-backed Woodpecker Bell's Vireo Horned Lark Northern Wheatear Snow Bunting Townsend's Warbler Le Conte's Sparrow Nelson's Sparrow Yellow-headed Blackbird Adding up the 265 spp. in eBird plus the 29 spp. not entered into eBird yet from the Central Park checklist would bring the total to 294 spp. If you have a sighting that appears on the list of 29 these would be a great addition to the eBird database. Historical sightings can be added. I've added a few based on articles in journals. These are reviewed by the moderator as are all other sightings. Here's a sighting of Mississippi Kite by Ken Allaire on 25-May-2008 that I've added. The report was accepted by NYSARC. I pasted an image of the report onto the checklist: http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S17960715 Ben Cacace Manhattan, NYC On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 8:38 AM, Ken Gale <nuffs...@riseup.net> wrote: > > Thank you, Ben! > I didn't expect to see Central Park broken down into sections. > > I had been under the impression that the Central Park list was over 300. > Is the lower number due to the criteria used in listing something? > > Happy bird-day, > Ken > > On 9/26/2016 7:35 PM, Ben Cacace bcac...@gmail.com [ebirdsnyc] wrote: > >> >> For the New York County (Boro of Manhattan) wiki pages I've determined >> the Top 12 locations by species # and have kept the dynamic character for >> these location pages. These include color highlighting based on the # of >> spp. as shown on eBird maps, total # of spp. on the bar charts and a >> 'Notable Finds' section showing the rarer species seen based on an >> algorithm I've developed. This is similar to the Westchester County page. >> The other locations are static and don't need month to month maintenance >> making it possible to expand the Top 10 concept to more counties. >> >> Here are the top 15 locations for NY County. The Top 12 locations will be >> highlighted in green to denote that these are dynamic pages: >> >> Central Park (265 spp.) >> Inwood Hill Park (224 spp.) >> Randall's Island (203 spp.) >> Riverside Park (178 spp.) >> Governors Island (168 spp.) >> Peter Detmold (152 spp.) >> Battery Park City Area (146 spp.) >> Roosevelt Island (137 spp.) >> Fort Tryon Park (130 spp.) >> Hudson River Greenway--22nd-29th St. (125 spp.) >> Swindler Cove Park (125 spp.) >> Bryant Park (121 spp.) >> >> Morningside Park (Manhattan) (105 spp.) >> Fort Washington Park (104 spp.) >> Tribute in Light Memorial (100 spp.) >> >> http://ebirding-nys.wikispaces.com/New%20York >> http://ebirding-nys.wikispaces.com/Westchester >> -- >> Ben Cacace >> Manhattan, NYC >> Wiki for NYS eBird Hotspots <http://ebirding-nys.wikispace >> s.com/Birding+in+New+York> >> Facebook Discussion for NYS eBird Hotspots <https://www.facebook.com/grou >> ps/NYeBirdHotspots/> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Posted by: Ben Cacace <bcac...@gmail.com> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> > > -- Ben Cacace Manhattan, NYC Wiki for NYS eBird Hotspots <http://ebirding-nys.wikispaces.com/Birding+in+New+York> Facebook Discussion for NYS eBird Hotspots <https://www.facebook.com/groups/NYeBirdHotspots/> -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES 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://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
