Central Park, Manhattan, N.Y. City - sightings from scores of observers on Wed. and Thursday, Aug. 9th and 10th:
Among the many many birds found by birders (out all day long in total) were at least 18 species of American warblers, all of the species having been seen previously this month in that park and also none unexpected by this date, albeit some a slight-bit earlier than the peak-periods of numbers (for some given species). This full list of sightings includes a very few that were seen only as fly-overs or fly-by sightings - Osprey, Swifts, some Egrets, some swallows are among such sightings. A full list of sightings: Canada Goose Wood Duck Northern Shoveler Gadwall Mallard American Black Duck Mallard x American Black Duck (hybrid) Mallard/American Black Duck feral-type Rock Pigeon Mourning Dove Yellow-billed Cuckoo Black-billed Cuckoo Chimney Swift Ruby-throated Hummingbird Spotted Sandpiper Solitary Sandpiper Laughing Gull Ring-billed Gull [American] Herring Gull Great Black-backed Gull Double-crested Cormorant Great Blue Heron Great Egret Snowy Egret Green Heron Black-crowned Night-Heron Osprey Red-tailed Hawk Great Horned Owl, Eurasian Eagle-Owl (the latter escaped from captivity and still remaining in Central Park; the former now a long-time lingerer within the park) Belted Kingfisher Red-bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Yellow-shafted Flicker American Kestrel Peregrine Falcon Olive-sided Flycatcher Eastern Wood-Pewee Yellow-bellied Flycatcher (as noted above; seen by multiple observers and well-documented by some as-of Wed., August 9th - at the Central Park Ramble area) Acadian Flycatcher Alder/Willow Flycatcher (Traill's-type flycatcher as some refer to these when not vocalizing at all) Least Flycatcher Empidonax [genus] sp. (multiple birds in this category) Great Crested Flycatcher Eastern Kingbird Warbling Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Blue Jay American Crow Fish Crow Common Raven Black-capped Chickadee Tufted Titmouse Northern Rough-winged Swallow Tree Swallow Bank Swallow ( Barn Swallow White-breasted Nuthatch Blue-gray Gnatcatcher House Wren Carolina Wren European Starling Gray Catbird Brown Thrasher Northern Mockingbird Veery, and also "Catharus [genus] sp." (brown-backed type thrushes, not identified to species) Wood Thrush American Robin Cedar Waxwing House Sparrow House Finch American Goldfinch Chipping Sparrow White-throated Sparrow (those which have summered-thru, and are not "early" arrivers) Song Sparrow Swamp Sparrow (also summered-thru) Eastern Towhee Orchard Oriole Baltimore Oriole Red-winged Blackbird Brown-headed Cowbird Common Grackle -- American Warbler species found in Central Park [only] on August 9th and 10th: Ovenbird (multiple) Worm-eating Warbler (several) Louisiana Waterthrush Northern Waterthrush (multiple) Blue-winged Warbler (multiple) Brewster's Warbler (hybrid of Golden-winged/Blue-winged Warblers) Black-and-white Warbler (multiple) Tennessee Warbler (multiple) Mourning Warbler Common Yellowthroat (multiple) American Redstart (fair no's. in many locations within Central Park) Northern Parula (multiple) Bay-breasted Warbler (multiple) Blackburnian Warbler Yellow Warbler (multiple) Chestnut-sided Warbler (multiple) Pine Warbler Prairie Warbler Canada Warbler (multiple) warbler sp. (Parulidae sp. - likely as not, a few other species of warblers may have occcurred as well.) -- Scarlet Tanager (multiple) Northern Cardinal Rose-breasted Grosbeak (multiple, both Wed. and Thursday, Aug. 9 and 10th) Indigo Bunting (multiple) Thanks to the many quiet and keen observers out and about finding so many birds on both of the days of this report. Good birding to all, Tom Fiore, manhattan -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm 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://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
