Date: 8/15/26 3:52 pm From: Deborah Allen <dallenyc...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Central Park NYC, Sat. Aug. 15, 2026: 11 Species of Wood Warblers
Central Park NYC
Saturday, August 15, 2026
OBS: Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Semipalmated and Spotted Sandpipers, Green Heron, Wood Thrush, Eleven Species of Wood Warblers including Blue-winged, Chestnut-sided, Yellow-rumped, Canada and Wilson's Warblers, and Northern Parula.
Canada Goose - 23
Wood Duck - 1 male Reservoir
Mallard - 73
Mourning Dove - 10-15
Semipalmated Sandpiper - 1 Reservoir
Spotted Sandpiper - 1 Reservoir
Laughing Gull - 20-30
Ring-billed Gull - 25-30
American Herring Gull - around 20
Great Black-backed Gull - 1 Reservoir
Double-crested Cormorant - 3
Black-crowned Night-Heron - 1 at the Riviera (Phyllis Newman)
Green Heron - 2 Turtle Pond
Red-tailed Hawk - 1 flyover
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2 or 3
Downy Woodpecker - 4
Northern Flicker - 5
Great Crested Flycatcher - 1 Tupelo Field (Dan Stevenson)
Eastern Warbler Vireo - 4 or 5
Red-eyed Vireo - 1 Tupelo field
Blue Jay - 5 or 6
Barn Swallow - flock of around 40
Gray Catbird - 6-8
Wood Thrush - 1 west side of Tupelo
American Robin - 10-15
House Finch - 1 male at the Oven
Song Sparrow - 2 singing Reservoir
Baltimore Oriole - 10-12
Common Grackle - flock of 35-40 and a few others
Ovenbird - 1 Captain's Bench
Northern Waterthrush - 2 (Turtle Pond, Evodia Field)
Blue-winged Warbler - 2 (Boathouse Hill, Maintenance Field)
Black-and-white Warbler - 3
American Redstart - 5-7
Northern Parula - 1 Azalea Pond (Karen Evans)
Northern Yellow Warbler - 1 Captain's Bench
Chestnut-sided Warbler - 3
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 1 Turtle Pond
Canada Warbler - 4
Wilson's Warbler - 1 Maintenance Field
Northern Cardinal - 4 or 5
