Date: 5/31/26 3:10 pm
From: Deborah Allen <dallenyc...>
Subject: [nysbirds-l] Central Park, NYC, Sun. May 31, 2026: Bicknell's and Gray-cheeked Thrushes, Mourning Warbler
Central Park, NYC
Sunday May 31, 2026
OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.


Highlights: Black-billed Cuckoo, Acadian Flycatcher, Bicknell's and Gray-cheeked Thrushes, Lincoln's Sparrow, Mourning Warbler.

Canada Goose - 12
Mallard - 9
Black-billed Cuckoo - 1 (Maintenance Field and Evodia Field)
Ring-billed Gull - 1 Reservoir (Deb - early)
American Herring Gull - 26
Double-crested Cormorant - 4 or 5
Great Egret - 1 Reservoir (Deb - early)
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3 or 4
Downy Woodpecker - 2 (Maintenance Field, Stone Arch)
Great Crested Flycatcher - 1 or 2 (3 locations)
Eastern Kingbird - pair Oven
Eastern Wood-Pewee - 1 Boathouse Hill
Acadian Flycatcher - 1 Azalea Pond (Bill Heck)
Eastern Warbling Vireo - pair north end of Iphigene's Walk
Red-eyed Vireo - 1 Boathouse Hill
Blue Jay - 4-6
American Crow - 2 or 3
Cedar Waxwing - pair Shakespeare Garden, 4-6 Summit Rock, flyovers
Gray Catbird - 6-8
Gray-cheeked Thrush - 3 or 4
Bicknell's Thrush - 1 Ramble (Ryan Serio and Bob)
Swainson's Thrush - 1 Indian Cave
Wood Thrush - 3 (2 males, 1 female)
American Robin - 25-30
House Finch - 2 (male Met. Museum, female Shakespeare Garden)
White-throated Sparrow - 3 or 4 Captain's Bench
Lincoln's Sparrow - 1 south side Turtle Pond
Baltimore Oriole - pair at Maintenance Field nest, 3 or 4 others
Red-winged Blackbird - 3 or 4
Common Grackle - 14-16
Northern Waterthrush - 1 south side Turtle Pond
Mourning Warbler - 1 male southeast corner Evodia Field (Ryan Serio)
Common Yellowthroat - 2 (Maintenance Field, south side Turtle Pond)
American Redstart - 6-8
Northern Parula - 1 Boathouse Hill
Magnolia Warbler - 3
Blackpoll Warbler - 1 female Boathouse Hill
Black-throated Blue Warbler - 1 female Source of the Gill (Ryan Serio)
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 1 east of Belvedere Castle
Northern Cardinal - 5-7

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Deb Allen

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