Date: 10/23/26 3:34 pm From: Deborah Allen <dallenyc...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Central Park NYC, Fri. Oct. 23, 2026: Am. Wigeon, Merlin, Pine Siskin, Magnolia Warbler
Central Park NYC
Friday, October 23, 2026
OBS: Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: American Wigeon, Green-winged Teal, Merlin, Pine Siskin Flock, Field, Savannah and Other Sparrows, Magnolia, Pine, Palm, and Yellow-rumped Warblers. Others reported a Barred Owl.
In the Bronx, a Black-throated Gray Warbler was reliably reported at Wave Hill.
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Canada Goose - 70-80
Northern Shoveler - 42
Gadwall - 8-10
American Wigeon - 2 at the Pool
Mallard - around 50
American Black Duck - 2 Harlem Meer
Green-winged Teal - 4 at the Pool
Hooded Merganser - 4 Reservoir
Mourning Dove - 13
Laughing Gull - 2 Reservoir
Ring-billed Gull - around 400
American Herring Gull - half-a-dozen flyovers (many others at the Reservoir)
Great Black-backed Gull - 5
Double-crested Cormorant - 1 Reservoir
Cooper's Hawk - 1 flyover Great Hill (Paul Curtis)
Red-tailed Hawk - 4 or 5 flyovers
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 4 or 5
Northern Flicker - 1 female Green Bench
Merlin - 1 North Meadow Ballfields (Sabine Schumacher, Tom Walsh)
Eastern Phoebe - 4
Blue Jay - 4 or 5
American Crow - around 50 in 2 flocks
Common Raven - 1 or 2 heard
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - around 20
Golden-crowned Kinglet - 3 (Scott Brevda)
Gray Catbird - 2 Sparrow Rock
Hermit Thrush - 20-30
American Robin - 30-40
Pine Siskin - flyover flock of around 40
American Goldfinch - 5
Chipping Sparrow - 8-10
Field Sparrow - 3
Dark-eyed Junco - around 200
White-throated Sparrow - 70-90
Savannah Sparrow - 1 Grassy Knoll (Scott Brevda)
Song Sparrow - 55-60
Swamp Sparrow - 3
Eastern Towhee - 1 Grassy Knoll
Red-winged Blackbird - 1 male at the Pool (Scott Brevda)
Common Grackle - around 50
Magnolia Warbler - 1 at the Seep (Tom Walsh, Paul Curtis)
Palm Warbler - 6
Pine Warbler - 1 male West Blowdown
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 6
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