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Latest Sightings

What Might You See This Week?

Please have a look at Bob's weekly narrative report on what was seen on his Central Park walks in recent days and weeks. A good way to predict what birds you might possibly see on this week's walks.

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Robert DeCandido PhD

Feb 12
11 min

Gyrfalcons, Golden Eagles + = Winter Birds of the Short-Grass Prairie

Deborah Allen sends photos of Gyrfalcons, Golden Eagles and other rare raptors from our recent trip to the short grass prairie of South Dako

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Robert DeCandido PhD

Jan 29
19 min

GEESE! Grand Birds of NYC in Winter

Up until the 1960s most waterfowl species were rare in NYC. Indeed the Canada Goose was an occasional flyover Central Park until the the mid

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Robert DeCandido PhD

Jan 23
19 min

OWL MAN: Irving Kassoy, Barn Owls and the BCBC

In 1936, New Yorker magazine published an article on nesting Barn Owls in the Bronx, and the man (Irving Kassoy) who studied them. We send t

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Robert DeCandido PhD

Jan 15
9 min

Wishing You Eastern Screech-owls for Mid-January 2020

We present a summary of the weather in NYC for November-December 2019, as well as articles about Crossbills in upper Manhattan (1899), and p

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Robert DeCandido PhD

Jan 8
26 min

Winter Birds of the NYC Area - Jan. 2020

This has been a mild January so far, and southern birds such as Painted Buntings can be found in our area. We send photos of this fair weath

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Robert DeCandido PhD

Jan 2
23 min

Iceland Gull (Central Park) + Christmas Bird Counts 1919: LI, SI, NJ and CT

We present the December 1919 Christmas Bird Count from the NYC area to show what birds were commonly found in early winter one hundred years

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Robert DeCandido PhD

Dec 24, 2019
12 min

OWL WALKS by Night + Historical Christmas Counts of Central Park: 1919/1949

We present historical Christmas Bird Count results from 1919 in NYC including three from Central Park. There are so many more birds seen now

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Robert DeCandido PhD

Dec 17, 2019
31 min

GANNETS of New Zealand + Central Park Birding

Lots of bird walks coming up: Owl walks on several nights including Christmas and New Years evenings - check the Newsletter info or the sche

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Robert DeCandido PhD

Dec 4, 2019
21 min

ALBATROSS!

Besides Hummingbirds and the Needletail Swifts, no other group of birds has impressed us as the Albatrosses of New Zealand. We document five

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Robert DeCandido PhD

Nov 13, 2019
16 min

November Birding in Central Park is Snail Dynamite BOOM!

November is the beginning of the slow winter season - but there are always surprises. We compare what we've seen so far to November 1982

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Robert DeCandido PhD

Nov 6, 2019
16 min

Purple Gallinule: First Occurrence in Central Park Since 1928

For only the second time in the history of Central Park, a Purple Gallinule was seen...some 90 years after the first. We present the history

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Robert DeCandido PhD

Oct 30, 2019
11 min

Rare October Migrant: the Orange-crowned Warbler in NYC

Since people began looking for birds in NYC, the Orange-crowned Warbler has always been one of the rarer species seen in both spring and aut

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Robert DeCandido PhD

Oct 24, 2019
16 min

More Tales of Migrant Virginia Rails on NYC Streets - October Birding!

Late October is a time of surprises in NYC from rare sparrows (two Vesper Sparrows and a Lark Sparrow were seen in Central Park this week),

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Robert DeCandido PhD

Oct 16, 2019
16 min

Mid-October Birding: Bring on the Kinglets, Sparrows, Waterfowl and Owls

Mid-October marks a change in birding Central Park: with cooler weather, the 9:30am walks are just as good as the early (7:30am) ones. And n

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Robert DeCandido PhD

Oct 10, 2019
15 min

Owls at Night / Migrants by Day: Birding Central Park and Manhattan

We are adding an Owl walk at 6pm this Sunday night (13 October), the night before Columbus Day. In our Newsletter, we present info on an ext

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Robert DeCandido PhD

Oct 3, 2019
17 min

ATTACKED while Birding in Central Park: September 2019

Sometimes a bird walk is interrupted by interesting events - usually it is an amazing bird! This week, there was someone who physically assa

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Robert DeCandido PhD

Sep 25, 2019
14 min

The Cuckoo and the GOAT: a Parable of Central Park Birding, September 2019

We present the ancient birders fairy tail of the Cuckoo and GOAT in Central Park. Meanwhile, Emmet Logan writes what it was like to be home

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Robert DeCandido PhD

Sep 18, 2019
21 min

Late September Birding: Great Weather and Even Better Birds

We enter the time of the autumn when the most migrants can be seen in the New York City area from warblers and vireos to raptors including o

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Robert DeCandido PhD

Sep 11, 2019
23 min

Autumn Migration Peaking: Mid-September in Central Park

September-October is prime season for bird migration. If you want to see warblers, now through mid-October is your season. No other group fi

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Robert DeCandido PhD

Sep 4, 2019
16 min

Night Migration of Birds in New York City

We briefly trace the history of the study of the night migration of birds here in NYC. First at the Statue of Liberty after lights were inst

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Latest Sightings

​What Might You See This Week?​

Please have a look at Bob's weekly narrative report on what was seen on his Central Park walks in recent days and weeks. A good way to predict what birds you might possibly see on this week's walks.

Sign up for our Newsletter to receive weekly updates in your inbox.

Gyrfalcons, Golden Eagles + = Winter Birds of the Short-Grass Prairie

GEESE! Grand Birds of NYC in Winter

OWL MAN: Irving Kassoy, Barn Owls and the BCBC

Wishing You Eastern Screech-owls for Mid-January 2020

Winter Birds of the NYC Area - Jan. 2020

Iceland Gull (Central Park) + Christmas Bird Counts 1919: LI, SI, NJ and CT

OWL WALKS by Night + Historical Christmas Counts of Central Park: 1919/1949

GANNETS of New Zealand + Central Park Birding

ALBATROSS!

November Birding in Central Park is Snail Dynamite BOOM!

Purple Gallinule: First Occurrence in Central Park Since 1928

Rare October Migrant: the Orange-crowned Warbler in NYC

More Tales of Migrant Virginia Rails on NYC Streets - October Birding!

Mid-October Birding: Bring on the Kinglets, Sparrows, Waterfowl and Owls

Owls at Night / Migrants by Day: Birding Central Park and Manhattan

ATTACKED while Birding in Central Park: September 2019

The Cuckoo and the GOAT: a Parable of Central Park Birding, September 2019

Late September Birding: Great Weather and Even Better Birds

Autumn Migration Peaking: Mid-September in Central Park

Night Migration of Birds in New York City

What Might You See This Week?