New York County (in N.Y. City), including Manhattan, Randall's, and Governors Islands - recent days into Tuesday, Aug. 22nd - with many Central Park sightings included here.
The 2 Red-necked Phalaropes seen only late-in-day on Aug. 20 were not re-found at all the next day, by those searching in that area. Those birds rare-for-the county had been initially photo'd and reported to an out-of-state group-alert, then after that alert was relayed, later on just a small number of county-birders here convened in time to re-find, with some photos again obtained. A Yellow-breasted Chat was found in Central Park at least for Sunday, Aug. 20th in the Ramble area; that bird might well still be present as will often happen, esp. for fall-migration-occurrence chats in that park; these chats also will often move around the area or even entire park, from where first noticed. One of many highlight warblers for this report's period was a Golden-winged Warbler found in Central Park's Ramble area on Monday (p.m.), Aug. 21. This might also be lingering, however there was an excellent migration with stop-ins and drop-ins beginning overnight on Mon./21st to Tuesday, and some migrants may have picked up to move on. There was also excellent migration for prior nights as well, the difference mostly being as to how many millions of the migrants of all kinds went onward, with one prior night featuring strong migratory movement from as far north as in e. Canada's northern reaches, stretching south and west to Florida and beyond, even for some migrants departing the U.S. mainland, into Caribbean isles and also even as far as northern S. America. This certainly included a fair number (i.e., countless many many thousands) of warblers departing the North American region for their winter-ing homes, where many species can spend up to 7 or 8 months of their lives per each 12 months. At least 28 species of American Warblers were found in N.Y. County on Monday, Aug. 21st and chances are fairly good that the majority of those species were again occurring (or on the wing early) for Tuesday 8/22. Note - ALL 28 species of warblers noted were also found within Central Park (many also elsewhere) in just the two days for this report. A Brewster's-type (named hybrid) is not counted as one of the 28 spp. Some of the many migrants occurring into Monday / Tuesday, Aug. 21-22 in New York County: Canada Goose Mute Swan Wood Duck (ongoing) Northern Shoveler (ongoing) Gadwall Mallard American Black Duck Mallard x American Black Duck (hybrid) Green-winged Teal (Pool and Meer of Central Park) Rock Pigeon Mourning Dove Yellow-billed Cuckoo (ongoing in at least several locations) Black-billed Cuckoo (most observers noting a few, long-lingering in Central Park in particular) Common Nighthawk (passing thru on both early mornings and late-day hours, in multiple locations including along the Hudson River next to Riverside Park and north, including from Inwood Hill Park, also over Central Park, latter on recent eve's.) Chimney Swift Ruby-throated Hummingbird (some ongoing plus a few new migrants, multiple locations) Semipalmated Plover (Swindler Cove - Sherman Creek area, Harlem River - Manhattan) Killdeer (multiple) Least Sandpiper (small numbers in few locations) Pectoral Sandpiper (at least one on Randall's Island, but not re-located after early 8/21) Semipalmated Sandpiper (multiple with photographs from at least 4 discrete locations) Spotted Sandpiper (many locations) Solitary Sandpiper (multiple, various locations including again in several areas of Central Park) Greater Yellowlegs (as per 8/21 from Randall's Island, unfortunately perhaps not fully-birded on that morning) Lesser Yellowlegs (as per prior species) Tringa sp. / shorebird sp. (and some seen not well enough, or heard well, for definitive ID's to species) + Red-necked Phalaropes, only seen on 8/20. Laughing Gull Ring-billed Gull [American] Herring Gull Great Black-backed Gull Common Tern (still in numbers in 'usual areas') Double-crested Cormorant Great Blue Heron Great Egret Snowy Egret Green Heron Black-crowned Night-Heron Yellow-crowned Night-Heron (Randall's Island, ongoing lately) Black Vulture (from n. Manhattan) Turkey Vulture Osprey (fairly good flight on Tues., 8/22) Sharp-shinned Hawk Cooper's Hawk Bald Eagle Broad-winged Hawk (fly-by on Tues., 8/22) Red-tailed Hawk E. Screech-Owl, Great Horned Owl, and (escaped from captivity, lingering) Eurasian Eagle-Owl (the first 2 owl spp. have been fully resident on Manhattan island) Belted Kingfisher Red-bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Yellow-shafted Flicker (multiple) American Kestrel Peregrine Falcon Monk Parakeet Olive-sided Flycatcher (several, including at least 2 in Central Park, one ongoing at the Ramble for at least 4 days now) Eastern Wood-Pewee Yellow-bellied Flycatcher (some ID'd. to species) Acadian Flycatcher (one or 2 ID'd. to species) Willow Flycatcher (several ID'd. to species) Alder/Willow Flycatcher (or "Traill's Flycatcher" - several or more of this type, being one of the species-pair, either are quite plausible by now) Least Flycatcher (at least several ID'd. to species) Empidonax [genus] Flycatchers (still a majority of the increased numbers of this genus on their southbound, often-rather-silent passage!) Eastern Phoebe Great Crested Flycatcher Eastern Kingbird (nearly-massive flights of these in last 3 days, and also still present in some locations) White-eyed Vireo Yellow-throated Vireo Philadelphia Vireo (at least one at Central Park, 8/22) Warbling Vireo Red-eyed Vireo (many now) Blue Jay American Crow Fish Crow Common Raven Black-capped Chickadee Tufted Titmouse Northern Rough-winged Swallow Tree Swallow Barn Swallow (most-common swallow in the county, as is often typical) Cliff Swallow Red-breasted Nuthatch (still lingering or, fresh/recent passage migrant) White-breasted Nuthatch Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (many; fresh arrivals and passage-migrators) House Wren Carolina Wren European Starling Gray Catbird Brown Thrasher Northern Mockingbird Veery (multiple, increased a bit) Swainson's Thrush (first arrivals in recent days, still very scant so far) Hermit Thrush (one lingering in Central Park all summer, still present) Wood Thrush (multiple, many locations) American Robin Cedar Waxwing House Sparrow House Finch American Goldfinch Chipping Sparrow Song Sparrow Swamp Sparrow White-throated Sparrow (ongoing lingerers, in many small parks and greenspaces and also some wandering in and into Central Park, etc. - still summering-nonbreeders of this county) Eastern Towhee Yellow-breasted Chat (as noted above, seen in Central Park's Ramble on Sunday, 8/20) Bobolink (many passage-migrants on morning of 8/22) Orchard Oriole (scant) Baltimore Oriole (good numbers, some passage migrants showing as well as local nesters) Red-winged Blackbird Brown-headed Cowbird Common Grackle Ovenbird (multiple) Worm-eating Warbler (multiple) Louisiana Waterthrush (scant, but some well-identified and/or well-photographed) Northern Waterthrush (fairly numerous) Golden-winged Warbler (in Central Park on Monday, 8/21) Blue-winged Warbler (multiple and in many locations) Brewster's-type Warbler (hybrid of Golden-winged/Blue-winged Warbler) Black-and-white Warbler (multiple) Tennessee Warbler (fair numbers) Nashville Warbler (first seen by Sunday, 8/20, slightly early for this species) Mourning Warbler (modest numbers, as fully-expected now - this is NOT a rare species on-passage right now) Common Yellowthroat (multiple) Hooded Warbler (at least 5 individuals have been present in Central Park alone in various plumages, including bright full-breeding-type plumage, and one of those a male that sang a bit at times, multiple locations and some with many dozens of observers-photographers) American Redstart (near-common, and being seen in many many locations, including even in some street trees) Cape May Warbler (numerous with as many as one-dozen in Central Park alone on each of last several days, many observers, also in many other locations in the county) Northern Parula (multiple) Magnolia Warbler (multiple but not great numbers here yet) Bay-breasted Warbler (multiple; some in large beech trees) Blackburnian Warbler (fair numbers - some, hard to detect!) Yellow Warbler (many) Chestnut-sided Warbler (many locations) Blackpoll Warbler (very few definitive, so far) Black-throated Blue Warbler (modest uptick; some of these being seen by many in Central Park) Pine Warbler (multiple) [Myrtle] Yellow-rumped Warbler (few) Prairie Warbler (slight increase) Black-throated Green Warbler (increased a bit in past few days) Canada Warbler (multiple) Wilson's Warbler (very slight increases) Scarlet Tanager (multiple, for some locations such as Central Park, up to ten+ per day being found now) Northern Cardinal Rose-breasted Grosbeak (increased numbers) Indigo Bunting (multiple) Thanks to large numbers of keen and quiet observers out at all times of day (and some pre-sunrise and after sunset) recently, finding so many migrant and resident species. 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