Astoria the Wild Turkey in action in the Beer Garden of The Battery. 🦃 ❤️

One of the Green-winged Teal on the Central Park Pool that continue there in 2026, a colorful duck with fine patterns and iridescence. ❤️

Astoria the Wild Turkey strolls The Battery and drinks some water. 🦃 ❤️ 💦

A Great Horned Owl hoots 🔊 and its mate responds before flying out in Inwood Hill Park. 🦉 ❤️

Astoria the Wild Turkey walks through one of her favorite places, The Battery Playscape. 🦃 ❤️

A close look at our favorite bird of 2025, Astoria the Wild Turkey. 🦃 ❤️

The snow has melted, but we remember how Astoria the Wild Turkey explored a favorite place, the Battery Playscape, earlier this week. 🦃 ❤️ ❄️

Astoria the Wild Turkey perched on a planter by the Staten Island Ferry terminal Monday during her Financial District adventure. Her friends helped her across the street and safely back to The Battery. 🦃 ❤️

Astoria the Wild Turkey seemed to enjoy exploring the snow at The Battery. 🦃 ❤️ ❄️

Central Park's Belvedere Castle after four inches of snow, New York City's heaviest snowfall in several years. ❄️

Central Park's Oak Bridge with the midtown skyline in the distance after last night's snow. ❄️

Cardinal in central park. Birdcp @birdcpk.bsky.social

A minute with Astoria the Wild Turkey as she walks around The Battery. 🦃 ❤️

Thanks to photographer Stella Hamilton, who is at Astoria the Wild Turkey's side every evening to offer care (including fresh water) and guidance in the often-crowded urban park The Battery so that Astoria can safely fly up to her roosting tree. 🦃 ❤️

A Fox Sparrow in the Central Park Ramble. ❤️

Central Park's pair of coyotes, Romeo and Juliet, as seen on a recent night via thermal imaging (white is warm). 🐺 ❤️ 🐺

A Northern Cardinal in last week's snowy Central Park Ramble.

With One World Trade Center in the background, Astoria the Wild Turkey strolls The Battery in the early evening. 🦃 ❤️

A close look at an American Tree Sparrow, a rarity for Central Park seen Tuesday beneath the bird feeders in the Ramble. Note the red cap, bicolored bill, and dark breast spot. ❤️

Astoria the Wild Turkey explores her favorite The Battery playground in the snow. 🦃 ❤️ ❄️

This small diving duck is a Common Goldeneye, a rarity on Manhattan waters that visited the Central Park Reservoir on Thursday. Note the green iridescence on his head. 💛

Astoria the Wild Turkey in Sunday's snow in The Battery. 🦃 ❤️ ❄️

The Central Park Lake in Sunday's snowfall. ❄️

Central Park's Bow Bridge and the Lake in New York City's first snowfall of the season. ❄️

Central Park's Belvedere Castle with today's snow. ❄️

A Great Horned Owl does its pre-flyout stretches in the Inwood Hill Park forest. 🦉 ❤️

For reasons known only to Astoria the Wild Turkey, she decided to first fly up into a smaller tree this evening. After some looking around and repositioning, with our camera off, she then flew to her usual oak. Good night, Astoria! 🦃 ❤️ 💤

A Barn Owl in Central Park by the carousel (last night around 7:00pm) @birdcpk.bsky.social

Astoria the Wild Turkey drinks some water this evening in The Battery. Cold, dry weather increases her need for water. She gets all the water she wants. 🦃 ❤️ 💦

A rare winter visitor to Manhattan waters, this Common Merganser on the Central Park Reservoir. ❤️

A Great Horned Owl rests with its mate nearby (but out of sight) in the forest of Inwood Hill Park. 🦉 ❤️ 🦉

A Cooper's Hawk perches in Central Park.

Astoria the Wild Turkey hopped down from a tree to drink some water and then went back to her garden in The Battery. 🦃 ❤️ 💦

Astoria the Wild Turkey struts by a garden in The Battery. 🦃 ❤️

If you visit the Central Park Ramble, you certainly will see a Tufted Titmouse. The bird-feeder area is a great place to watch some in action.

Astoria the Wild Turkey poses for a scenic photo in The Battery. 🦃 ❤️ 👑

Tonight's full Cold Moon (a supermoon), rising over the East River as seen from Manhattan.

Astoria the Wild Turkey shows her golden hues in The Battery. 🦃 ❤️ 🍃

Why do large owls like Central Park? Easy meals! The bright white images in this thermal night-video of a lawn are rodents, mostly rats. Owls fly silently, seeing and hearing these abundant prey before swooping down on them. 🦉 🧡 🐁

Astoria the Wild Turkey fans her tail and shows her fast moves in The Battery. 🦃 ❤️

A Cooper's Hawk perches in the Central Park Ramble.

Astoria the Wild Turkey walks around the Beer Garden in The Battery. 🦃 ❤️

A Ruby-crowned Kinglet in the Central Park Ramble. These tiny migratory birds can linger into January in small numbers. ❤️

A rare and beautiful visitor to Central Park today, this Barn Owl resting high in the Pinetum in a fenced-off area. 🦉 ❤️

Astoria the Wild Turkey finds a sheltered spot in a garden and relaxes on a bed of fallen leaves in The Battery. 🦃 ❤️ 🍃

Astoria the Wild Turkey uses her flexible neck to care for her beautiful plumage by the Carousel in The Battery. 🦃 ❤️

Sunday night's waxing crescent Moon low over the lit Manhattan skyline. 🌙

Another look at Central Park's Evening Grosbeak, seen in the woods north of the Pool. 🧡

This Evening Grosbeak, a regionally-rare finch visiting Central Park this weekend in the woods north of the Pool. 🧡

A minute with Romeo and Juliet, the Central Park coyotes, as seen at night through thermal video. 🐺 ❤️