Date: 1/26/25 1:06 pm From: Deborah Allen <dallenyc...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Central Park, NYC. Sun. Jan. 26, 2025: Short-billed, Lesser Black-backed, and Glaucous Gulls, Co. Merganser, E. Towhee
Central Park, NYC
Sunday, January 26, 2025
OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Short-billed, Lesser Black-backed, and Glaucous Gulls, Snow Goose, Common Merganser, Brown Creeper, Eastern Towhee.
Snow Goose - 1 adult Reservoir
Canada Goose - around 300
Wood Duck - 6
Northern Shoveler - 50-60
Mallard - 60-80
American Black Duck - 10
Hooded Merganser - 3
Common Merganser - 2 Reservoir (Dan Stevenson)
Ruddy Duck - 2 Reservoir
Mourning Dove - 30-40
American Coot - 2 Reservoir
Short-billed Gull - seen by NJ birder Andy Egan on Reservoir before 8:30am
Ring-billed Gull - 400-500
Herring Gull - 75-100
Lesser Black-backed Gull - reported at Reservoir at around 11am
Glaucous Gull - 1 on ice east of fountain at Reservoir (found by Andy Egan)
Great Black-backed Gull - 15-20
Great Blue Heron - 1 flyover Boathouse
Cooper's Hawk - 2 or 3
Red-tailed Hawk - 1 Maintenance Field
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3
Downy Woodpecker - 2 or 3
Blue Jay - 2 or 3
American Crow - flock of 34
Black-capped Chickadee - 8-10
Tufted Titmouse - 20-25
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 1 male continuing today at Azalea Pond
White-breasted Nuthatch - 8-10
Brown Creeper - 1 west of Azalea Pond (Dan Stevenson)
Carolina Wren - pair Azalea Pond
American Robin - 9-11
House Finch - 3 Maintenance Field (Andrea Hessel)
American Goldfinch - 4-6 (Paul Curtis)
White-throated Sparrow - 30-40
Eastern Towhee - 1 male west side of Shakespeare Garden (Val from Minnesota)
Northern Cardinal - 4 or 5
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Deb Allen
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