Date: 5/2/26 3:47 am From: Tom Fiore <tomfi2...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Central Park + N.Y. County arrivals, Fri., May 1st - 5 Swallow spp., 21+ Warbler spp., etc. - Pileated WP ongoing, n. Manhattan
Some newly arrived to New York County -in N.Y. City- birds at Randalls Island included Cliff Swallow near its prior nesting place, as well as Bank Swallow, and the more-regular-throughout Barn, N. Rough-winged, and Tree Swallows all seen there on Friday, thanks to A. Cunningham for some of the latest from that location. Other nice finds from the same visit included Worm-eating and other Warblers, Lincolns and White-crowned among other native sparrows, and many more birds, which included more than 500 Brant, most not having left the area yet.
At Inwood Hill Park in northern Manhattan, a grail-bird for some in this county was seen by more observers than on most prior days of its lingering there - Pileated Woodpecker, seemingly staying in that parks wooded areas for many days now, and sometimes found in the general area of the woods known as The Clove. Some sightings came quite late in the day on May 1.
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At Central Park, Manhattan, N.Y. City on Friday, May 1st -
New arrival among the 21 or more species of Americas-hemisphere migratory warblers on the day -the first of May- in this one park was Wilsons Warbler, and now making for at least 28 species of warblers so far this year in that park, seen on the deck or, of course in varied vegetation. A Kentucky Warbler noted by numbers of observers on Thursday in the Ramble area of Central was apparently not re-found on Friday, very possible it had moved on. There were still at least 8 species of native sparrows in Central Park on May 1st, including Lincolns, White-crowned and Savannah, as well as Dark-eyed Junco which is classed with all the other native sparrows, and now slightly-late here for the latter species. Other slightly-late migrants were Louisiana Waterthrush, Pine Warbler, and not all that late Palm Warbler - but there are many later records here of all of these.
Scarlet Tanager, Rose-breasted Grosbeak, and the 2 regular Oriole species were among many more of the migrant and breeding species of Central Park found on May 1st, seen by multiple to many observers.
Thanks to many observers and photographers all using non-x birding apps to alert and report, the most-used alert for birders locally and regionally by far being the Discord app, and of course also eBird with the Macaulay Library for media, with hourly-auto-updated sightings from eBird, often more rapidly for rarer birds, all of which rarer species would then be confirmed in a standardized process, and by a reliable team, not by any single individual in the case of tricky ID or extremely rare species. Some reports as always also come in thru old-fashioned word-of-mouth, from out in the field.
