Date: 5/8/26 9:36 am From: Tom Fiore <tomfi2...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Chuck-wills-widow, Central Park, NYC - Fri., May 8 (& many more migrants)
Friday, May 8th -
Thanks to Karen Fung for the find of a Chuck-wills-widow, perched in Central Parks northern woodsy end, this being in Manhattan, N.Y. City, and with multiple subsequent observers and other photographers, alerts via the Discord app and also in eBird with the Macaulay Library for media.
Other birds on Friday morning at Central Park - so far - have included at least 24 species of warblers, Orange-crowned among the many other boreal-breeding species again present, such as Wilsons, Tennessee, Bay-breasted, Cape May, Blackpoll, and other warblers many of which were singing at times. Also present in Central again have been both Black-billed and Yellow-billed Cuckoos, at least 5 species of brown-backed thrushes including gray-cheeked types, 4 or more species of vireos, at least 6 species of flycatchers including Olive-sided Flycatcher again, and many many more migrant, breeding, visitant, and some resident species. N.B., Orange-crowned Warbler also was noted from Thursday in the Central Park Ramble, perhaps a continuing individual to Friday.
Many of these migrants are also being seen in various other parks and greenspaces, in particular for great diversity, in northern Manhattan as well.
With many observers as part of not-for-profit guided bird walks, ongoing near-daily this month, and of course also many independently walking observers and photographers as well. Thanks to all for many sightings, alerts and reports - in the media as noted above.
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Incidental to all of the migration going on at good pace now - through the continent, and in the northeast, and in NY state - such species as Mourning Warbler and, by reports, some of the species-pair of Will-der Empidonax-genus flycatchers are arriving to some breeding areas now. For Mournings, there are already photos and sound recordings in some NY state counties, particularly west of the NYC region. Some of these in eBird but also coming thru in N.F.C., nocturnal flight calls recording stations in this state.
