Date: 3/29/26 3:06 pm From: Deborah Allen <dallenyc...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Central Park NYC, Sun. March 29, 2026: Wood Duck (7), Ring-necked Duck, R-b Nuthatch, Pine Warbler
Central Park, NYC
Sunday, March 29, 2026
OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Wood Duck (7), Ring-necked Duck, Common Merganser (4), Red-breasted Merganser (9), Black-crowned Night-Heron (7), Red-breasted Nuthatch (2), Brown Creeper, Chipping Sparrow, Swamp Sparrow, Pine Warbler (2).
Canada Goose - 113
Wood Duck - 7 (6 males, 1 female)
Northern Shoveler - 16
Mallard - 25-30
American Black Duck - 1 male Lake
Ring-necked Duck - 1 male Reservoir (Deb)
Common Merganser - 4 including one adult male
Red-breasted Merganser - 9
Ruddy Duck - 3
Mourning Dove - 25-30
Ring-billed and American Herring Gulls - around 150, mostly Am. Herring
Great Black-backed Gull - 3
Double-crested Cormorant - 6
Black-crowned Night-Heron - 7
Great Blue Heron - 1 west side of the Lake
Red-tailed Hawk - 3
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 6-8
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 4 or 5
Downy Woodpecker - 3 or 4
Northern Flicker - 4 or 5
Eastern Phoebe - 4
Blue Jay - 10-15
American Crow - 2 flyovers Tupelo Field
Golden-crowned Kinglet - 9 or 10
Red-breasted Nuthatch - 2 Belvedere Castle (Edmund Berry)
Brown Creeper - 1 Evodia Field
Northern Mockingbird - 1 Oven/Willow Rock
American Robin - 20-25
House Finch - 4 Swampy Pin Oak
American Goldfinch - 4 or 5
Chipping Sparrow - 1 Evodia Field feeders (Caren Jahre)
Dark-eyed Junco - 20-25
White-throated Sparrow - 25-30
Song Sparrow - 4 or 5
Swamp Sparrow - 1 Evodia Field
Red-winged Blackbird - 1 male Evodia Field
Common Grackle - 25-30
Pine Warbler - 2 (Belvedere Castle (Edmund Berry), Upper Lobe (Sandra Critelli))
Northern Cardinal - 5 or 6
