Date: 8/16/25 4:05 am From: Tom Fiore <tomfi2...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Central Park, NYC - 8/15 - 19 migrant Warbler spp., etc.
Central Park, Manhattan, N.Y. City - Friday, August 15th -
While other locations in N.Y. County also had some freshly-arrived migrant arrivals on Friday, a bit more reporting came from Central Park with its 100-plus observers and-or photographers out from sunrise thru dusk. The most obvious push of any groups of migrants for Central, and as-expected in terms of diversity, were of migratory American warblers - of at least 19 species found on the day. In some other Manhattan parks there were also new arrivals of various sorts, and perhaps a slight edge in migrant-diversity the locations more westerly, according to overall reports noted. For example, some areas in Riverside Park did better than those same sites in preceding days, for newer arrivals.
At Central Park, Friday was the first day of the southbound-season with more than 15 warbler spp. in the Ramble and central vicinity of the park, while as had often been, the northern half of Central still had a slight edge in noted warbler species, and perhaps in overall numbers of total -migrant- birds as well, incuding newer arrivals.
Warblers found at Central Park, on 8-15 alone-
Ovenbird - multiple locations.
Worm-eating Warbler - multiple locations.
Northern Waterthrush - many locations.
Blue-winged Warbler - many.
Black-and-white Warbler - many, slightly more than the previous 2 days.
Tennessee Warbler - at least 2 in 2 disparate locations.
Nashville Warbler - 1, north woods.
Mourning Warbler - at least 2, at least one in Ramble and at least one in north end of park.
Common Yellowthroat - multiple locations.
Hooded Warbler - several.
American Redstart - many, more than in recent days,
Northern Parula - multiple, an uptick again from the past few days here.
Magnolia Warbler - 1, Ramble area.
Blackburnian Warbler - multiple locations.
Yellow Warbler - many.
Chestnut-sided Warbler - multiple
Black-throated Blue Warbler - several, in male-type and female-type plumages.
Prairie Warbler - several.
Canada Warbler - multiple.
More than 90 total species of native and wild birds, many of them migrants, showed in or over Central Park on Friday, including some on morning-flight, the flight partially quite early and fairly-high. Near the park, earlier in the pre-dawn hours of Friday, N.F.C. - nocturnal flight calls showed that a good many and diverse migrants were passing, in the overnight thru early morning and that the flight may have had a westerly component relative to the roughly south-north alignment of the length of Manhattan island, and its adjacent surrounding waterways - which here means it was possible the Hudson river and closer-by experienced more flight esp in early Fri. morning, than elsewhere in this county.
More on the varied species -additional to warblers- in a future report. Thanks to many observers and photographers for sightings and reports, all via non-x alerts and as-always via eBird with the Macaulay Library for media archives.
Good birding to all,
Tom Fiore
manhattan
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