Date: 4/17/25 12:31 pm From: Deborah Allen <dallenyc...> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Central Park NYC, Thu, April 17, 2025: Osprey, Fish Crow, Winter Wren, Brown Thrasher, Fox Sparrow, 4 Species of Wood Warblers
Central Park, NYC
Thursday, April 17, 2025
OBS:Robert DeCandido, PhD, Deborah Allen, m.ob.
Highlights: Red-breasted Merganser, Osprey, Fish Crow, Winter Wren, Brown Thrasher, Fox Sparrow, 4 Species of Wood Warblers. Dan Stevenson and Peter Haskel reported a Black-and-white Warbler south of Tupelo Field on Monday 4/17/2025. See @mbalerter on "X" for reports of Evening Grosbeak and Prairie Warbler.
Canada Goose - 18, some nesting
Wood Duck - 2 males Reservoir
Northern Shoveler - 7
Gadwall - 13
Mallard - 28
Bufflehead - 11
Hooded Merganser - 2 first-cycle (second-year) males Reservoir
Red-breasted Merganser - 2 males (one adult, one first-cycle) Reservoir
Ruddy Duck - 19
Mourning Dove - 25
American Coot - 6
Ring-billed and Herring Gulls - 45
Great Black-backed Gull - 1 Reservoir
Double-crested Cormorant - 13
Black-crowned Night-Heron - 5 Balcony Bridge
Osprey - 1 flyover Belvedere Castle
Red-tailed Hawk - 3
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 6-8
Downy Woodpecker - 2 or 3
Northern Flicker - 7-9
Eastern Phoebe - 6-8
Blue Jay - 6-8
American Crow - 3
Fish Crow - 1 Ramble
Black-capped Chickadee - 3 or 4
Tufted Titmouse - 5 or 6
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 15-20
White-breasted Nuthatch - 3
Brown Creeper - 2 Ramble
Winter Wren - 2 or 3 (Dan Stevenson)
Brown Thrasher - 5 or 6
Hermit Thrush - 12-15
American Robin - 30-40
Fox Sparrow - 1 on the Point
Dark-eyed Junco - 2 or 3
White-throated Sparrow - 20-25
Song Sparrow - 6
Swamp Sparrow - 6-8
Eastern Towhee - 3 or 4 males
Red-winged Blackbird - 3 or 4 males
Common Grackle - 7-9
Louisiana Waterthrush - 1 Evodia Field (Dan Stevenson)
Palm Warbler - 8 or 9 "Yellow"
Pine Warbler - 10-12
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 1 adult male Turtle Pond Dock
Northern Cardinal - 6-8 Courtship and mating observed at the Maintenance Field
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Deb Allen
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