Date: 8/3/25 6:20 pm From: Tom Fiore <tomfi2...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] N.Y. County, mainly-Manhattan, NYC - 14 warbler spp., etc.
New York County -in N.Y. City- including Manhattan, and mainly focused in that island and its adjacent waters and skies-above -
At least 14 warbler species were found in N.Y. County by Aug. 2nd, with all but 1 of those having been included among sightings for Central Park in Manhattan.. Still more warblers, in terms of overall numbers of individuals, came in by Sunday, 8-3.
Ovenbird - small numbers arrived by Sunday, plus the few that may have lingered in Manhattan, mainly, since late spring there.
Worm-eating Warbler - some new arrivals by Saturday, August 2nd.
Louisiana Waterthrush - fresh arrivals for Sunday, with far more of the Northern congener both in place and especially, on morning-flight passage.
Northern Waterthrush - many more arrivals this weekend, especially so by Sun.- some are showing in odd-spots, not necessarily by water.
Blue-winged Warbler - multiple new arrivals by Saturday, August 2nd and still more for Sunday, in multiple areas.
Black-and-white Warbler - more by Sunday, with a fairly good morning flight, as well as drop-ins in many places.
Common Yellowthroat - some new arrivals, and still some in select locations where the species may have bred in this county.
Hooded Warbler - few so far, in at least 2 locations, Sunday.
American Redstart - more, but hardly the full-on push still to come, this species starting to appear in more county-locations.
Northern Parula - a few more, coming in over the weekend.
Blackburnian Warbler - first, at least known-of in definitive southbound movement of this season, and certainly for this month.
Yellow Warbler - large numbers are moving almost daily, including many-many dozens pushing thru over the weekend.
Prairie Warbler - still few, but by now more than singleton-status.
Canada Warbler - a few new arrivals by Sunday.
As a heard-only flyover from lower Manhattan, a Semipalmated Plover is just slightly odd for the additions to southbound-migrators for the county this past week, but Saturday&rsquo;s recording -A. Cunningham- puts that into the list, a recently-recognized as annual migrant thru the county, but not all that often detected as such. Other shorebirds, including Least, Spotted, and Solitary Sandpipers continued to come thru, and further sightings of Killdeer but as is often the case for the latter, most if not all in places where they are near-resident, or at least may be seen for more than 8 months out of any given year in specific sites.
Along with many dozens of other species including a lot of passerines, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher is one of those that may breed in at least some years in this county, however just lately, some are moving thru as well, such perhaps the case for one at Inwood Hill Park, on 8-2, while others are also coming through - indeed, by Sunday the nocturnal and morning-flight of that species was fairly strong. Some other species starting to move on include E. Kingbird in low numbers for now, and, as noted in a previous report, some hirundines - certainly including Purple Martin moving on from around the wider region.
Scarlet Tanager has begun to show, in at least a few location, where strictly a migrant and not all that early for first-southbounders thru this county. Along with ongoing playful-parakeets of the Monk species - which are a local-area breeding bird and have been showing in this county for many decades, occasionally more-regular, usually not-that-regular over time - there are some new sightings from the upper east side of Manhattan, along with the ongoing two up along the west-Hudson River path area off west Harlem - Monk Parakeets have turned up in other locations this year, but not as often.
More on migrations as more migrators show up here. Thanks to all observers using non-x-bird-alerts and giving reports via eBird, with the Macaulay Library for media.
Good birding to all,
Tom Fiore
manhattan
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