Among highlights found & photographed by multiple observers in Central Park (Manhattan, N.Y. City) throughout Sunday, February 16 were these birds:
BOAT-TAILED GRACKLE, RED-HEADED WOODPECKER, WOOD DUCK, RED-BREASTED MERGANSER, GREEN-WINGED TEAL, AMERICAN WOODCOCK, MERLIN, EASTERN TOWHEE, and many other species, many of them lingering. Also, notable in New York County in N.Y. City was a still-lingering YELLOW-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON at Randall’s Island. A more-complete list of some of the species (including the above-noted ones) as seen by 50++ observers thru the day on Sunday, 2/16: Pied-billed Grebe (ongoing at CP reservoir) Double-crested Cormorant (ongoing) Great Blue Heron (minimum of two, wintering/lingering) Black-crowned Night-Heron (lingering, Pond - well-hidden) Snow Goose (same 2 birds in the general area for many, many weeks) Canada Goose (all geese sometimes visit N. Meadow, o/w on res.) Wood Duck (drake, lingering, lately at the Meer) Northern Shoveler (hundreds) Gadwall American Black Duck Mallard Green-winged Teal (ongoing, female-plumaged) Bufflehead Hooded Merganser Red-breasted Merganser (drake, continuing, CP reservoir) Ruddy Duck American Coot (in several locations) Bald Eagle (flyover, end of day, west) Cooper's Hawk Red-tailed Hawk American Woodcock (n. woods, & late-day) Ring-billed Gull [American] Herring Gull Great Black-backed Gull ['feral'] Rock Pigeon Mourning Dove American Kestrel Merlin (photos, multiple obs. - also seen & photo’d. in n. Manhattan) Peregrine Falcon Red-headed Woodpecker (wintering first-year bird, still w. side CP, e. of park’s W. Drive nr. W. 97th St.) Red-bellied Woodpecker Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (multiple locations, but not that many) Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Yellow-shafted Flicker (multiple locations, but not that many; some were present for 1 month+) Blue Jay Common Raven (irregular but not that infrequent, for Manhattan or N.Y. City; bit less so in C.P.) American Crow Tufted Titmouse White-breasted Nuthatch Brown Creeper (regular - present all this winter) Carolina Wren (multiple) Winter Wren (wintering) Ruby-crowned Kinglet (overwintered) Hermit Thrush (minimum of several have overwintered, CP; with more in Manhattan & N.Y. City) American Robin (widespread, some in v. small groups) Gray Catbird (several overwintered in C.P., many more locations thru Manhattan, & elsewhere in area( Northern Mockingbird Brown Thrasher (few overwintering, & some very local movements - within Manhattan, as well) European Starling Eastern Towhee (multiple, with up to 3 in Shakespeare Garden area on Sunday 2/16, many observers) Chipping Sparrow (several wintering in C.P. & a few more elsewhere in Manhattan, part of broad/well-doc. region-w.pattern this winter) [Red] Fox Sparrow (multiple) Song Sparrow Swamp Sparrow (multiple) White-throated Sparrow (many) Slate-colored Junco (multiple) Northern Cardinal Red-winged Blackbird (few lingering in park yet, some movement in past week+) Rusty Blackbird (1, a recent arrival? - Pond area) Boat-tailed Grackle (1 seen & photo’d. by many - present many weeks now in C.P. with a roaming Common Grackle flock) Common Grackle (many) House Finch American Goldfinch House Sparrow Additionally various other species were noted from elsewhere on Manhattan, its’ waters & several islands near to it all part of New York County, N.Y. City. Some, or most of these were lingering or regular in the locations where seen on Sunday, 2/16. .... “Oh! had I the ability, and could reach the nation's ear, I would, to-day, pour out a fiery stream of biting ridicule, blasting reproach, withering sarcasm, and stern rebuke. For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake." - Frederick Douglass (statesman, orator, publisher, American), July 5th, 1852. Good and ethical birding, with thanks to all those who keep the best interests of birds at heart - and in practice! 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/[email protected]/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/ --
