Manhattan, N.Y. City - into Tuesday, April 16th - A brightly-colored adult-male BLUE Grosbeak, among at least several of this species to arrive in the local region recently as part of what is now becoming-clearer as a recent quite-strong overshoot and early-arrivals migration of many species into the area, including into New York County and Manhattan island - the Grosbeak having shown in the East Village area of Manhattan, with photographs made available in the Macaulay Library archives via eBird reports, and this bird also quickly alerted to local birders via the groupme systems that so many check for the most-current updates on rarer or unexpected birds, as well as via eBird alerts - this was just one of a number of arrivals indicating the breadth of the weeks good diversity of species showing up in the area, and specifically also in Manhattan, N.Y. City. N.B., there are also some Indigo Buntings in bright-plumage in the area now, and this grosbeak had initially been taken to be an Indigo Bunting but that ID was quickly corrected for that individual, seen in the vicinity of East 4th Street.
Among other sightings - many already mentioned in my last report to this list, have been both VEERY and WOOD Thrush, in a number of locations but in particular as seen by multiple observers, including within Central Park in Manhattan, also having been reported in Manhattan, and some for Central Park were Scarlet Tanager, SUMMER Tanager, and among the less-commonly seen warblers, Worm-eating Warbler in Central Parks north end. Further sightings or reports from within New York County -and Manhattan- include Cliff Swallow, and at-least for Governors Island, which is within New York County, Purple Martin there, and in various locations some interesting sparrows, possibly including the Ammospiza and Ammodramus genera, while these and some other reports recently are still awaiting ID-verifications. More is to be reported on in the near future, it would seem, as more interesting arrivals of various migrants are being uncovered-discovered and also being noted by more observers. Far more sightings of recent migrant arrivals are from -the 4 other counties- in N.Y. City, and the surrounding areas, with some regular-but-rarer species having shown such as Prothonotary and Yellow-throated Warblers and a lot of other species in the past week or less, many if not all of these sightings in eBird alerts. Thanks to all of the many out in the field with optics recently and finding-reporting so much, this includes increasingly, leaders and participants on not-for-profit guided bird and nature walks in many locations, with such organizations as the -formerly known as- NY City Audubon, the American Museum of Natural History field-walks, and the Linnaean Society of New York regular spring walks, as well as for many additional non-profit organizations. Many of these walks are guided by women birders, not surprisingly, and many ages of participants are seen, with all welcomed to join on such walks - many, but not all, will require a pre-registration to join, and will sometimes, not always, include a fee which helps support these conservation and science-based organizations. Good 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/ --
