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Chimney swift, northern flicker, fish crow, killdeer, Baltimore oriole and gray catbird among them.

“We have two crows around here: the American crow, which is the normal crow, then something called the fish crow,” Bruce said.

“There’s something beautiful about this fish crow perched where Audubon breathed his last,” said Mr. Gitler of a gorgeously alert bird glaring four stories high above a gas station on West 155th Street that now occupies part of the old Audubon estate.

Responding to a report about an injured hawk, officers found an injured fish crow.

Only the fish crow population has held on, but not surprisingly, they tend to congregate along the shorelines.