Warbler Daze

Magnolia Warbler
photo by CAL VORNBERGER
May15, 2005

Of the 25 species of warbler reported yesterday [on the New York City Bird Report [www.NYCBirdreport.com] the Magnolia is one of the most beautiful. Luckily for most of us, the Magnolia is one of the more common warblers in the park, starting around now. Cal's photo gives a clue to a good identification shortcut --- the wide black and white bands of its tail. No other warbler has them. Below is the stunning list of yesterday's birds brom the NYCBR website:

	Double-crested Cormorant* Great Blue Heron* Great Egret* Snowy Egret* Green Heron* Black-crowned Night-Heron* Canada Goose* Wood Duck* Gadwall* American Black Duck* Mallard Red-tailed Hawk* American Kestrel* Peregrine Falcon* Solitary Sandpiper* Spotted Sandpiper* Laughing Gull* Ring-billed Gull Herring Gull* Great Black-backed Gull* Rock Pigeon Mourning Dove Yellow-billed Cuckoo* Common Nighthawk* Chimney Swift* Red-bellied Woodpecker* Downy Woodpecker* Hairy Woodpecker* Northern Flicker Olive-sided Flycatcher* Eastern Wood-Pewee* Yellow-bellied Flycatcher Least Flycatcher Great Crested Flycatcher Eastern Kingbird Blue-headed Vireo* Yellow-throated Vireo* Warbling Vireo Red-eyed Vireo* Blue Jay American Crow Tree Swallow* Northern Rough-winged Swallow* Barn Swallow* Tufted Titmouse* White-breasted Nuthatch* House Wren* Veery* Gray-cheeked Thrush* Bicknell's Thrush* 70% Swainson's Thrush* Hermit Thrush* Wood Thrush* American Robin Gray Catbird* Northern Mockingbird Brown Thrasher* European Starling Cedar Waxwing Blue-winged Warbler* Tennessee Warbler* Nashville Warbler* Northern Parula* Yellow Warbler* Chestnut-sided Warbler* Magnolia Warbler* Cape May Warbler* Black-throated Blue Warbler* Yellow-rumped Warbler* Black-throated Green Warbler* Blackburnian Warbler* Yellow-throated Warbler* (D) Prairie Warbler* Palm Warbler* (D) Bay-breasted Warbler* (D) Blackpoll Warbler* Black-and-white Warbler* American Redstart* Ovenbird* Northern Waterthrush* Common Yellowthroat* Hooded Warbler* (D) Wilson's Warbler* Canada Warbler* Scarlet Tanager* Eastern Towhee* (D) Chipping Sparrow* Field Sparrow* (D) Song Sparrow* Lincoln's Sparrow* Swamp Sparrow* White-throated Sparrow* Northern Cardinal Rose-breasted Grosbeak* Indigo Bunting* Red-winged Blackbird Common Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird* Baltimore Oriole* House Finch American Goldfinch House Sparrow 100 species (excluding hybrids and reported with full confidence)