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Central Park's famous inter-species couple, the Wood Duck male and Mallard female, are still courting, swimming, and feeding together, but no ducklings are on the way. They seem delighted with each other nevertheless. 🦆❤️

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Wednesday night's New York Philharmonic fireworks over Bethesda Fountain in Central Park. 🎆

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Astoria the Wild Turkey in a garden of Battery Park, where she can forage or rest peacefully. 🦃 ❤️

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This Chipping Sparrow was singing on Central Park's Cedar Hill last week. The species is abundant, and some come through late (like this one) in both spring and autumn migration.

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We photographed the sun to see the sunspots (areas of intense magnetic field) that gave rise to the solar flare and coronal mass ejection that caused strong geomagnetic storms over the weekend. Clouds and timing denied NYC the northern lights.

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A Baltimore Oriole in Central Park. Some will nest here. 🟠

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Astoria the Wild Turkey seems curious about life on the other side of the fence. She can easily hop or fly over but she does not always want to, in Battery Park. 🦃 ❤️

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A Chestnut-sided Warbler in the Central Park Ramble. 💛

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As of last Thursday the Central Park Ramble still had a singing Ovenbird. These warblers won't breed in Central Park—they prefer large, mature forests. ❤️

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Astoria the Wild Turkey stands tall on a Battery Park lawn. 🦃 ❤️

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A Cedar Waxwing came down to bathe at the Central Park Pool.

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What is Astoria the Wild Turkey thinking? 🦃 ❤️

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A gorgeous Green Heron has been visiting the Central Park Pool.

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An Olive-sided Flycatcher surprised us by singing its song on Sunday over the entrance to the Point, something we have heard only once before in Central Park. 🎶

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A Snowy Egret on the waters of Randall's Island, a reliable place to see this species that often flies over Central Park but rarely lands there.

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Astoria the Wild Turkey shows her magnificent tail on a lawn in Battery Park. 🦃 ❤️

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A Blackpoll Warbler in Central Park, a late-season migrant passing through on its way northward to breeding grounds in the boreal forest.

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A better look at this week's rare Bicknell's Thrush in the Central Park Ramble. The reddish tail and mostly-yellow bill are classic features that distinguish many members of this species from Gray-cheeked Thrush.

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The continuing ultra-rare vagrant Fork-tailed Flycatcher, the first-ever record for Manhattan, seen at the former driving range on Randall's Island.

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Astoria the Wild Turkey walks in Battery Park. 🦃 ❤️

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One of a pair of rare Cliff Swallows on its nest of mud pellets built on the structure supporting the elevated railroad tracks of Field 43 on Randall's Island. This species nested there previously in 2022 and 2023.

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A Chestnut-sided Warbler in Central Park. 💛

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"Starling, get out of my photo!" — Astoria the Wild Turkey of Battery Park.

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We found this rare Bicknell's Thrush in the Central Park Ramble on Sunday and recorded it singing, as voice is the only reliable way to distinguish it in the field from the similar-looking Gray-cheeked Thrush.

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A Great Crested Flycatcher in the Central Park Ramble.

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A Common Nighthawk chose to rest above one of the most popular viewing places in Central Park on Saturday, the Charles Stover Bench in Shakespeare Garden, giving close looks to many.

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Astoria the Wild Turkey seems to be enjoying her life in Battery Park. Come out and see her if you like. 🦃 ❤️

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A Common Nighthawk rests in good view high above the Balancing Rock area of Central Park's Great Hill.

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A Wood Thrush using its full voice to sing its beautiful song in the Central Park Ramble. ❤️ 🎶

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A Winter Wren showed up in the Central Park Ramble during late April when Astoria the Wild Turkey was making news. Now the wren deservedly but belatedly gets its day.

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