Date: 5/17/26 2:44 am From: Tom Fiore <tomfi2...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Central Park, NYC - Saturday, May 16 - 26+ warbler spp., 6 vireo spp., 8 flycatcher spp., C. Nighthawks, 2 Cuckoo spp., etc.
Central Park, Manhattan, N.Y. City -
Sunday, May 16th -
The park still had a minimum of 26 species of warblers, including -photographed- Louisiana Waterthrush getting late here now, and almost all of the mnorthern boreal-breeding species, including Tennessee, and also Mourning Warbler and the many others, which were found by the collective of many many hundreds of observers and photographers, park-wide and thru all of the day from sunrise into sunset.
Also seen were every species of annually-occurring vireos, 8 or more species of flycatchers, including at least 3 species of the regularly-occurring Empidonax-genus, Yellow-bellied Flycatchers the most recently-arrived of those, as well as more singing Acadian Flycatchers, and ongoing Olive-sided Flycatchers, as well as the 3 more-common, regular and breeding in this park flycatcher species - which include Great Crested Flycatcher, E. Wood-Pewee, and E. Kingbird, as well as some lingering or later-moving E. Phoebes and the diminutive Least Flycatcher.
Also seen yet again were Common Nighthawks as well as both of our regular Cuckoo spp., Black-billed the scarcer and Yellow-billed in multiple locations, some calling at times.
Far more than 110 species of wild, native birds were found on Sunday, May 16 in Central Park by the collective of hundreds and hundreds. Many of the groups were on guided walks led by and for not-for-profit Institution’s and organizations, as well as many walking independently or in informal groups.
Thanks to so many who found birds, offered alerts all in the Discord app or via eBird, and for reports of which many arrived thru eBird with the Macaulay Library for media, and also much of these busy migration days, tips, alerts and sightings noted by good old word-of-mouth.
