Date: 6/12/25 5:46 pm From: Tom Fiore <tomfi2...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Manhattan, NYC - warblers and other birds, to June 12
Manhattan, N.Y. City -
thru Thursday, June 12th -
A Blue-winged Warbler in the Central Park Ramble on June 6 was rather late for this county. Other warbler species have persisted, most less-unusual as stragglers or very-late migrators for this location, and then we also have the inside-the-urban-matrix of some smaller parks, possibly exemplified by the midtown Bryant Park, with at least 7 lingering species of American warblers hopefully able to move on as much as possible this month. In total, at least 11 species of warblers were still in Manhattan later in this week. A small number of other late-moving migrants included some cuckoos, mainly Yellow-bllled Cuckoo, and some migrant flycatchers such as Yellow-bellied Flycatcher. Very few other migrants were still on the move here, in part also due to much easterly or southerly with an east components wind in recent days. Blackpoll Warblers -all of which are strictly migrants- were still around in very low numbers thru Thursday, in multiple locations including in Central Park.
Lingering Acadian Flycatchers, and any Indigo Buntings in this county ought be quietly watched to see if there is any nesting activity noticed, and all species of native nesting birds should be given space and quiet in order to give each pair of birds the best chance at success. There are also many uncommon-for-June birds still lingering, some of which do not and will not breed in this county, including many of the still-lingering migratory warblers… while there are also some species of birds for which breeding is at least a possibility, such as Rose-breasted Grosbeak or Scarlet Tanager, especially in the most mature woods of Manhattan island, much of that in the northern half of the island.
Monk Parakeets have come back to a location in upper far-west Manhattan where the species has resided in past years and past decades, perhaps rather irregularly there, to build nests in highway infrastructure - this area had been used at least by the 1980s by nesting and nest-attempting Monks -which are a countable breeding species in N.Y. City and much of the immediate region, in select areas or specific locations.
Scores of native and migratory birds are now nesting and some pairs have eggs or young by now - please do nothing at all that would disturb any native nesting bird.
Just east of Manhattan at or rather from Randalls Island in N.Y. County, some Black Skimmers have again been noticed mainly at dusk-hour, by observers seeking out that species, into this week. There are even multiple-year past records in the modern era for this species visiting Central Park in Manhattan, feeding at dusk, at night and in dawn hours in June thru midsummer, as well as the occasional sightings from the N.Y. harbor and along the rivers surrounding Manhattan.
Thanks to all who were observing and some also photographing for finds, and reports via non-x bird alerts and via eBird with the Macaulay Library for media.
Good mid-June birding to all,
Tom Fiore
manhattan
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