Date: 5/22/26 9:16 am From: Tom Fiore <tomfi2...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Central Park, NYC - Friday, 5/22 - Bicknells Thrushes, 20+ Warbler spp., 8+ flycatcher spp., 5+ vireo spp., etc.
Central Park, Manhattan, N.Y. City - into Friday, May 22 -
Bicknells Thrushes are still passing thru or lingering on their way to northeastern breeding grounds, including the s. portions of a few provinces of eastern Canada, as well as at least some of northern New England and the mainly-high elevations of NY state, as well as limited boreal areas that are less-elevated but closer to Canada.
Even by the noon hour of this Friday, the hundred-plus observers and photographers in Central Park had discovered at least 20 warbler species, including still such species as Hooded, Worm-eating, Prairie, and also many -most- of the boreal forest breeding migrants such as Wilsons, Tennessee, Bay-breasted, Cape May, and above all in numbers, Blackpoll Warblers along with all of the Common and expected middle-spring migrant warblers plus the few species that breed or attempt to in Manhattan regularly.
Such flycatchers as Olive-sided, Acadian, Yellow-bellied, and also other Empidonax-genus flycatchers all were again being seen and heard, along with the breeding species of this park which include Great Crested Flycatcher, E. Wood-Pewee, and E. Kingbirds. Also still being found, Ruby-throated Hummingbirds, Spotted and Solitary Sandpiper, and many many more of the migrants of May - all of above in reference to Central Park, and as seen by many, many watchers.
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- One warbler sighting, among many lately of this species, to make note of, Mourning Warbler occurred at the well-covered by birders Tompkins Square Park on Manhattans lower east sector, on Thursday May 21. Mournings have been found in at least 20 different parks and greenspaces of Manhattan in recent days and earlier this May. The females of the species are also passing thru by now, as are females of all the rest of the warbler species seen in the latter half of May, to today.
Any number of migrant songbirds and occasional other migrant species are showing in even some of the small greenspaces of Manhattan, including in some street trees and plantings in a variety of settings and neighborhoods, up thru this day of May.
Good birding, more updates for this entire county in due course.
