Registrar: Kathleen Howley
Participants: 75
Weather: Sunny, wind calm, 64—80 F
Bird Species: 65
This morning was one of those spring migration days when you could sense the excitement in the air and feel the joy of the birders on seeing so many beautiful migrants. As you can see from the bird list below and the photographs, it was a morning that well rewarded those birders who rose early and headed into Central Park.
Species Lists
Birds
Canada Goose
Mallard
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Black-billed Cuckoo
Chimney Swift
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Egret
Black-crowned Night-Heron
Red-tailed Hawk
Barred Owl
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Great Crested Flycatcher
Eastern Kingbird
Blue-headed Vireo
Warbling Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo
Blue Jay
American Crow
Black-capped Chickadee
White-breasted Nuthatch
Veery
Swainson’s Thrush
American Robin
Gray Catbird
Northern Mockingbird
European Starling
Cedar Waxwing
House Sparrow
House Finch
Field Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
Baltimore Oriole
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackle
Ovenbird
Northern Waterthrush
Black-and-white Warbler
Prothonotary Warbler
Tennessee Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Hooded Warbler
American Redstart
Cape May Warbler
Northern Parula
Magnolia Warbler
Bay-breasted Warbler
Blackburnian Warbler
Yellow Warbler
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
Canada Warbler
Wilson’s Warbler
Scarlet Tanager
Northern Cardinal
Indigo Bunting