A Hummingbird Clearwing moth feeding on nectar in Central Park's Conservatory Garden.

A Northern Parula in Central Park. 💛

This Belted Kingfisher visited Central Park's Turtle Pond last week. 🐟 ❤️

A Prairie Warbler in a Central Park North Meadow Butterfly Garden. 💛

Astoria the Wild Turkey used to spend much of her day on the lawns of Roosevelt Island, so it's great to see her venturing again onto the large lawn of The Battery, an excellent place to forage. 🦃 ❤️

A rare Clay-colored Sparrow on the Central Park North Meadow's Grassy Knoll last week.

Central Park's lost Budgerigar continues to thrive in her usual area, near West Drive from 81st to 85th Street, aided by warm weather that is expected to continue over the next week. 🦜 💛

This Central Park Red-tailed Hawk is not going to let anyone steal its rat. 👀

A Belted Kingfisher perches over Central Park's Turtle Pond.

Astoria the Wild Turkey shakes her feathers in The Battery. She has been living in Manhattan for 16 months now. 🦃 ❤️ 🎉

A Ruby-throated Hummingbird in the Central Park Ramble. ❤️

Central Park's lost Budgerigar eats seeds. She has extended her range north to 85th Street on either side of West Drive. She still needs a rescue. 🦜 💛

A Rose-breasted Grosbeak in the Central Park Ramble.

A Blackburnian Warbler in the Central Park Ramble. 💛

Astoria the Wild Turkey strolls The Battery. 🦃 ❤️

Central Park's lost Budgerigar showed up on the field immediately west of the Pinetum. She ate plenty of grass seeds and briefly rested on a tree. 🦜 💛

A Least Flycatcher perches in Central Park.

Astoria the Wild Turkey explores her favorite gardens in The Battery. Foraging opportunities abound now with insects, seeds, and other plant parts. 🦃 ❤️

Central Park's lost Budgerigar continues west of Winterdale Arch. She still can be yours if you rescue her, but she evades nets easily, and chasing her won't work—she is fast and wary. 🦜 💛

Astoria the Wild Turkey readies her wings for fly-up in the setting sun south of The Battery. 🦃 ❤️

Red-breasted Nuthatches have begun to appear in Central Park again in singles, nothing to suggest a large irruption yet. ❤️

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

A Rose-breasted Grosbeak in the Central Park Ramble, a sign that autumn is about to arrive.

Astoria the Wild Turkey poses atop a balustrade in The Battery. 🦃 ❤️ 👑

In keeping with today's national holiday, Astoria the Wild Turkey enjoys some peaceful rest in her favorite garden in The Battery. 🦃 ❤️

Central Park's lost Budgerigar spends much time perching on trees, where she is relatively safe and where she can rest quietly when not foraging. 🦜 💛

A bright Cape May Warbler showed in conifers west of Central Park's Shakespeare Garden. 💛

Astoria the Wild Turkey found a low branch that was perfect for daytime rest, with leaves concealing her and offering shade in The Battery. 🦃 ❤️ 👑

One of the earliest-migrating Broad-winged Hawks passing through Manhattan. In mid- to late September thousands of these will fly through the region on their way south.

A Baltimore Oriole in the Central Park Ramble. 💛

Astoria the Wild Turkey preened on a balustrade in The Battery. She seemed not to mind as a crowd of memorial visitors politely watched her. 🦃 ❤️

A lost Budgerigar has learned to survive in Central Park by foraging with a House Sparrow flock. It lives west of West Drive, from 79th to 81st Street. It will eventually need a rescue. 🦜 💛

The spectacular Eastern Tiger Swallowtail, a large butterfly that can be abundant in late August. This one was in Fort Tryon Park's Heather Garden finding plenty of nectar.

Astoria the Wild Turkey visits the bronze eagle, part of the World War II East Coast Memorial that has been in The Battery since 1963. 🦃 ❤️

Astoria the Wild Turkey gives a mighty wing-flap and walks around the area south of The Battery, passing a lost feather—it is molting time for her. 🦃 ❤️ 👑

Astoria the Wild Turkey strolls The Battery. 🦃 ❤️ 👑

Astoria the Wild Turkey enjoys the shade and tranquility of her garden in The Battery. 🦃 ❤️ 👑

Astoria the Wild Turkey has taken a liking to the entrance to The View restaurant south of The Battery. 🦃 ❤️ 👑

Astoria the Wild Turkey stretches a wing in The Battery. 🦃 ❤️ 👑

Like most Wild Turkeys, Astoria sleeps in a tree at night for safety. Here she is flying up to her favorite tree in The Battery. 🦃 🩷 🌳

Astoria the Wild Turkey likes to perch on metal bars at The Battery. She has excellent balance. 🦃 ❤️

Astoria the Wild Turkey stretches her wings at The Battery. 🦃 ❤️ 👑

Astoria the Wild Turkey appreciates how her friends offer her fresh water throughout the day in The Battery. 🦃 🩷 🫧

Astoria the Wild Turkey, The Battery's Queen. 🦃 ❤️

A Greater Yellowlegs, a rare shorebird on Manhattan mud, stretches its wings before taking flight from Sherman Creek on Tuesday morning.

The Battery Conservancy depends on its own fundraising to maintain Astoria the Wild Turkey's home, "a model of conservation and biodiversity" in downtown NYC. Please support them: thebattery.org/donate/

Astoria the Wild Turkey walks The Battery, her home since May 2025. 🦃 ❤️

Astoria the Wild Turkey in action in The Battery. 🦃 ❤️

This cluster of Eastern American Jack-O'-Lantern, a rare mushroom for Central Park, grows in the Ramble. It is bioluminescent and poisonous. 🧡

Friday night's full Sturgeon Moon rising over the Roosevelt Island Lighthouse and the East River.