Bird Finder

Top Birds in October
within 25 miles of New York, NY, USA

based on 66825 checklists in 1805 hotspots

This page shows the probability of a species appearing on a checklist during the month of October. The change in probability from the previous month is also shown, to highlight which birds are coming and going. Rows with significant changes (< 0.5x or > 2x) are highlighted in red or green. Species that peak in October are indicated with a star. This is based on historical data from eBird, and does not include recently submitted checklists.

Rank Info Species Chart Peak September October Change
1   White-throated Sparrow
9.6% 57.7% 48.1%
2   American Robin
60.3% 57.6% 2.7%
3   Blue Jay
51.8% 56.2% 4.5%
4   Song Sparrow
28.7% 55.2% 26.6%
5   Yellow-rumped Warbler
8.5% 50.4% 42.0%
6   House Sparrow
45.9% 46.8% 0.9%
7   European Starling
48.4% 46.6% 1.8%
8   Mourning Dove
53.2% 45.8% 7.5%
9   Ruby-crowned Kinglet
8.1% 45.6% 37.5%
10   Northern Cardinal
50.4% 44.5% 5.9%
11   Canada Goose
37.8% 40.8% 3.0%
12   Mallard
36.6% 38.6% 2.0%
13   Northern Flicker
43.2% 38.5% 4.6%
14   Gray Catbird
60.6% 38.5% 22.1%
15   Eastern Phoebe
17.9% 36.4% 18.5%
16   Northern Mockingbird
31.6% 36.3% 4.6%
17   Rock Pigeon
36.8% 35.5% 1.3%
18   Red-bellied Woodpecker
29.6% 35.0% 5.4%
19   Swamp Sparrow
5.0% 32.8% 27.8%
20   Herring Gull
30.9% 32.7% 1.8%
21   Double-crested Cormorant
32.0% 31.9% 0.1%
22   Palm Warbler
15.1% 31.0% 15.9%
23   Ring-billed Gull
25.2% 30.4% 5.2%
24   Downy Woodpecker
31.8% 29.6% 2.2%
25   Golden-crowned Kinglet
2.1% 28.9% 26.7%
26   Common Yellowthroat
45.2% 26.3% 18.9%
27   Dark-eyed Junco
1.4% 26.0% 24.6%
28   American Goldfinch
27.8% 23.8% 3.9%
29   Hermit Thrush
0.5% 23.6% 23.1%
30   American Crow
17.0% 23.4% 6.4%
31   Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
3.8% 22.7% 18.9%
32   Red-tailed Hawk
18.7% 22.5% 3.8%
33   Carolina Wren
26.9% 22.2% 4.6%
34   Great Blue Heron
24.7% 21.8% 2.9%
35   Common Grackle
24.0% 21.1% 2.8%
36   Eastern Towhee
7.8% 21.0% 13.2%
37   Chipping Sparrow
6.6% 20.8% 14.2%
38   White-breasted Nuthatch
13.5% 20.2% 6.7%
39   Savannah Sparrow
6.3% 19.4% 13.1%
40   Tufted Titmouse
10.0% 19.0% 9.0%
41   Great Black-backed Gull
18.6% 18.9% 0.3%
42   Black-capped Chickadee
12.7% 18.3% 5.6%
43   House Finch
14.9% 18.0% 3.1%
44   Red-winged Blackbird
12.1% 15.8% 3.7%
45   Cooper's Hawk
7.4% 14.5% 7.2%
46   Great Egret
20.0% 14.2% 5.8%
47   Laughing Gull
18.6% 13.7% 4.9%
48   American Black Duck
8.0% 13.3% 5.3%
49   Belted Kingfisher
12.1% 13.0% 1.0%
50   American Kestrel
10.8% 12.9% 2.1%
51   Osprey
25.5% 12.5% 13.0%
52   Black-throated Blue Warbler
16.8% 12.0% 4.8%
53   Field Sparrow
2.4% 11.5% 9.1%
54   White-crowned Sparrow
0.4% 11.2% 10.8%
55   Blue-headed Vireo
3.3% 11.2% 7.8%
56   Northern Parula
27.0% 11.0% 16.0%
57   Mute Swan
11.4% 10.8% 0.6%
58   Brown Creeper
1.3% 10.7% 9.3%
59   Blackpoll Warbler
10.4% 10.2% 0.2%
60   Cedar Waxwing
16.4% 10.1% 6.3%
61   Winter Wren
1.8% 9.9% 8.2%
62   Sharp-shinned Hawk
5.3% 9.9% 4.6%
63   Wood Duck
10.0% 9.9% 0.1%
64   Turkey Vulture
8.4% 9.6% 1.2%
65   Brant
0.5% 9.6% 9.1%
66   Black-and-white Warbler
31.7% 9.4% 22.3%
67   House Wren
17.3% 9.2% 8.1%
68   Northern Shoveler
3.8% 8.7% 4.9%
69   Chimney Swift
22.5% 8.5% 14.0%
70   Ruddy Duck
1.4% 8.2% 6.7%
71   Gadwall
4.6% 8.0% 3.5%
72   Red-breasted Nuthatch
7.6% 7.9% 0.3%
73   American Redstart
43.0% 7.9% 35.1%
74   Peregrine Falcon
7.4% 7.8% 0.4%
75   Hairy Woodpecker
8.5% 7.8% 0.7%
76   Magnolia Warbler
22.8% 7.6% 15.2%
77   Swainson's Thrush
14.8% 7.5% 7.3%
78   Merlin
5.4% 7.4% 2.1%
79   Greater Yellowlegs
8.8% 7.2% 1.6%
80   Purple Finch
1.4% 7.0% 5.6%
81   Lincoln's Sparrow
4.0% 6.8% 2.8%
82   Pine Warbler
5.4% 6.6% 1.2%
83   Killdeer
7.5% 6.1% 1.3%
84   Green-winged Teal
3.7% 6.0% 2.3%
85   Northern Harrier
3.6% 5.9% 2.3%
86   Brown-headed Cowbird
4.0% 5.8% 1.7%
87   Common Raven
5.4% 5.8% 0.3%
88   Tree Swallow
7.0% 5.7% 1.3%
89   Red-eyed Vireo
25.1% 5.7% 19.4%
90   Black-throated Green Warbler
12.2% 5.6% 6.6%
91   Snowy Egret
12.1% 5.5% 6.7%
92   Ovenbird
12.6% 5.4% 7.2%
93   Brown Thrasher
8.7% 5.4% 3.3%
94   Bald Eagle
4.8% 5.4% 0.6%
95   Indigo Bunting
4.4% 4.7% 0.3%
96   Pine Siskin
0.0% 4.5% 4.5%
97   Eastern Wood-Pewee
19.5% 4.4% 15.1%
98   Black-crowned Night-Heron
8.0% 4.3% 3.7%
99   American Coot
1.1% 4.2% 3.2%
100   Black-bellied Plover
4.4% 4.1% 0.4%
101   Pied-billed Grebe
1.8% 4.0% 2.1%
102   Nashville Warbler
4.7% 3.6% 1.1%
103   Scarlet Tanager
9.7% 3.5% 6.2%
104   Royal Tern
2.9% 3.4% 0.5%
105   American Wigeon
1.0% 3.0% 2.1%
106   Cape May Warbler
6.9% 2.7% 4.2%
107   Fish Crow
2.9% 2.6% 0.3%
108   Lesser Yellowlegs
6.4% 2.5% 3.9%
109   Dunlin
0.7% 2.5% 1.9%
110   Black Vulture
2.7% 2.5% 0.2%
111   Tennessee Warbler
6.0% 2.5% 3.5%
112   Northern Waterthrush
15.8% 2.5% 13.3%
113   Forster's Tern
4.1% 2.4% 1.7%
114   American Pipit
0.4% 2.4% 2.1%
115   Vesper Sparrow
0.0% 2.3% 2.3%
116   Monk Parakeet
2.2% 2.3% 0.1%
117   Common Loon
0.5% 2.3% 1.7%
118   Marsh Wren
3.5% 2.3% 1.3%
119   Nelson's Sparrow
0.2% 2.1% 1.9%
120   American Oystercatcher
5.0% 2.0% 3.0%
121   Red-shouldered Hawk
1.1% 1.9% 0.8%
122   Rose-breasted Grosbeak
11.5% 1.9% 9.6%
123   Eastern Bluebird
0.7% 1.9% 1.2%
124   Wood Thrush
5.2% 1.8% 3.4%
125   Eastern Meadowlark
0.0% 1.8% 1.7%
126   Sanderling
2.9% 1.7% 1.2%
127   Northern Pintail
0.8% 1.7% 0.9%
128   Bufflehead
0.0% 1.6% 1.6%
129   Saltmarsh Sparrow
1.1% 1.5% 0.4%
130   Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
4.0% 1.5% 2.5%
131   Rusty Blackbird
0.1% 1.4% 1.3%
132   Wild Turkey
1.5% 1.4% 0.1%
133   Pileated Woodpecker
2.0% 1.4% 0.6%
134   Semipalmated Plover
7.0% 1.4% 5.7%
135   Yellow-billed Cuckoo
2.6% 1.3% 1.3%
136   Semipalmated Sandpiper
7.9% 1.2% 6.7%
137   Ruby-throated Hummingbird
16.6% 1.2% 15.4%
138   Great Cormorant
0.3% 1.2% 0.9%
139   Gray-cheeked Thrush
1.5% 1.2% 0.4%
140   Yellow Warbler
12.3% 1.2% 11.1%
141   Baltimore Oriole
7.8% 1.1% 6.6%
142   Hooded Merganser
0.1% 1.1% 1.0%
143   Green Heron
7.5% 1.1% 6.5%
144   Clapper Rail
1.9% 1.0% 0.9%
145   Pectoral Sandpiper
2.0% 1.0% 1.0%
146   Orange-crowned Warbler
0.1% 1.0% 0.9%
147   Blue-winged Teal
2.1% 1.0% 1.2%
148   Dickcissel
0.9% 0.9% 0.0%
149   Common Nighthawk
2.8% 0.9% 1.9%
150   Clay-colored Sparrow
0.8% 0.9% 0.1%
151   American Woodcock
0.2% 0.9% 0.7%
152   Spotted Sandpiper
5.0% 0.9% 4.1%
153   Black Scoter
0.2% 0.8% 0.7%
154   Yellow-breasted Chat
0.7% 0.8% 0.1%
155   Wilson's Snipe
0.3% 0.8% 0.5%
156   Surf Scoter
0.1% 0.8% 0.7%
157   Chestnut-sided Warbler
10.2% 0.8% 9.4%
158   Solitary Sandpiper
3.1% 0.7% 2.4%
159   Lesser Black-backed Gull
0.7% 0.7% 0.1%
160   Blue Grosbeak
0.5% 0.7% 0.3%
161   Red-throated Loon
0.0% 0.7% 0.7%
162   Boat-tailed Grackle
1.3% 0.7% 0.6%
163   Broad-winged Hawk
3.2% 0.7% 2.5%
164   Least Sandpiper
7.2% 0.7% 6.5%
165   Red-headed Woodpecker
0.6% 0.7% 0.1%
166   Northern Gannet
0.1% 0.7% 0.6%
167   Snow Goose
0.1% 0.6% 0.5%
168   American Golden-Plover
0.8% 0.6% 0.2%
169   Fox Sparrow
0% 0.6% 0.6%
170   Great Horned Owl
0.5% 0.6% 0.1%
171   Red-breasted Merganser
0.2% 0.6% 0.4%
172   Ring-necked Pheasant
0.5% 0.6% 0.2%
173   Wilson's Warbler
3.9% 0.6% 3.3%
174   Bobolink
3.2% 0.6% 2.6%
175   Greater Scaup
0.1% 0.6% 0.5%
176   Short-billed Dowitcher
3.0% 0.6% 2.4%
177   Black Skimmer
1.6% 0.6% 1.1%
178   Ring-necked Duck
0.0% 0.6% 0.5%
179   Lark Sparrow
0.6% 0.6% 0.0%
180   Prairie Warbler
4.3% 0.5% 3.8%
181   Bay-breasted Warbler
4.4% 0.5% 3.8%
182   White-winged Scoter
0.0% 0.5% 0.5%
183   Little Blue Heron
2.2% 0.5% 1.7%
184   Common Tern
4.0% 0.5% 3.5%
185   Sora
1.0% 0.5% 0.5%
186   Purple Gallinule
0% 0.5% 0.5%
187   Grasshopper Sparrow
0.1% 0.5% 0.4%
188   Ruddy Turnstone
1.3% 0.5% 0.9%
189   White-rumped Sandpiper
1.4% 0.4% 0.9%
190   Caspian Tern
1.5% 0.4% 1.1%
191   Lesser Scaup
0.1% 0.4% 0.3%
192   Bonaparte's Gull
0.2% 0.4% 0.2%
193   Veery
11.6% 0.4% 11.2%
194   Red Knot
0.4% 0.3% 0.1%
195   Long-billed Dowitcher
0.4% 0.3% 0.0%
196   Blackburnian Warbler
3.0% 0.3% 2.6%
197   Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
4.9% 0.3% 4.5%
198   American Bittern
0.2% 0.3% 0.1%
199   Horned Grebe
0.0% 0.3% 0.3%
200   Stilt Sandpiper
1.1% 0.3% 0.8%
201   Seaside Sparrow
0.3% 0.3% 0.0%
202   Barred Owl
0.1% 0.3% 0.2%
203   White-eyed Vireo
3.5% 0.3% 3.2%
204   Philadelphia Vireo
2.0% 0.3% 1.7%
205   Connecticut Warbler
2.0% 0.3% 1.7%
206   American Avocet
0.3% 0.3% 0.1%
207   Least Flycatcher
3.4% 0.3% 3.1%
208   Western Kingbird
0.2% 0.3% 0.1%
209   Hudsonian Godwit
0.5% 0.3% 0.2%
210   Hooded Warbler
0.9% 0.2% 0.7%
211   Eurasian Wigeon
0.1% 0.2% 0.1%
212   Barn Swallow
4.7% 0.2% 4.5%
213   Eastern Screech-Owl
0.2% 0.2% 0.0%
214   Common Merganser
0.1% 0.2% 0.1%
215   Black-billed Cuckoo
0.6% 0.2% 0.4%
216   American White Pelican
0.4% 0.2% 0.2%
217   Common Gallinule
0.2% 0.2% 0.0%
218   Horned Lark
0.0% 0.1% 0.1%
219   Virginia Rail
0.3% 0.1% 0.2%
220   Mourning Warbler
0.6% 0.1% 0.4%
221   Common Eider
0.1% 0.1% 0.1%
222   Budgerigar
0.2% 0.1% 0.0%
223   Brown Booby
0.1% 0.1% 0.0%
224   Cattle Egret
0.0% 0.1% 0.1%
225   LeConte's Sparrow
0% 0.1% 0.1%
226   Glossy Ibis
1.0% 0.1% 0.8%
227   Henslow's Sparrow
0% 0.1% 0.1%
228   Redhead
0.0% 0.1% 0.1%
229   Cackling Goose
0.0% 0.1% 0.1%
230   Western Sandpiper
0.9% 0.1% 0.8%
231   Willet
1.0% 0.1% 0.9%
232   Parasitic Jaeger
0.1% 0.1% 0.0%
233   Eurasian Eagle-Owl
0.0% 0.1% 0.1%
234   Ash-throated Flycatcher
0.0% 0.1% 0.1%
235   American Tree Sparrow
0% 0.1% 0.1%
236   Tropical Kingbird
0.0% 0.1% 0.1%
237   Snow Bunting
0% 0.1% 0.1%
238   Eared Grebe
0.1% 0.1% 0.0%
239   Northern Wheatear
0.1% 0.1% 0.0%
240   Piping Plover
0.7% 0.1% 0.7%
241   Pacific-slope Flycatcher
0% 0.1% 0.1%
242   Yellow-headed Blackbird
0.2% 0.1% 0.1%
243   Long-tailed Duck
0.0% 0.1% 0.1%
244   Evening Grosbeak
0.0% 0.1% 0.1%
245   Prothonotary Warbler
0.0% 0.1% 0.0%
246   Northern Red Bishop
0.0% 0.1% 0.0%
247   Brown Pelican
0.0% 0.1% 0.0%
248   Canada Warbler
4.1% 0.1% 4.0%
249   Tricolored Heron
0.2% 0.1% 0.1%
250   Yellow-throated Vireo
0.8% 0.1% 0.8%
251   European Goldfinch
0.0% 0.1% 0.0%
252   Sedge Wren
0.0% 0.1% 0.0%
253   Warbling Vireo
8.2% 0.1% 8.1%
254   Northern Saw-whet Owl
0.0% 0.1% 0.1%
255   Red-necked Grebe
0.1% 0.1% 0.0%
256   Lapland Longspur
0% 0.1% 0.1%
257   Barn Owl
0.0% 0.1% 0.0%
258   King Eider
0.0% 0.1% 0.1%
259   Short-eared Owl
0.0% 0.1% 0.1%
260   Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
1.7% 0.1% 1.7%
261   Great Crested Flycatcher
5.2% 0.1% 5.1%
262   Northern Rough-winged Swallow
0.3% 0.1% 0.2%
263   Whimbrel
0.5% 0.0% 0.5%
264   Black-headed Gull
0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
265   Muscovy Duck
0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
266   Barnacle Goose
0% 0.0% 0.0%
267   Black Swan
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
268   Harlequin Duck
0% 0.0% 0.0%
269   Blue-winged Warbler
1.5% 0.0% 1.4%
270   Mandarin Duck
0% 0.0% 0.0%
271   Wilson's Phalarope
0.3% 0.0% 0.3%
272   Painted Redstart
0% 0.0% 0.0%
273   Golden Eagle
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
274   Marbled Godwit
0.3% 0.0% 0.2%
275   Black-legged Kittiwake
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
276   Baird's Sandpiper
0.6% 0.0% 0.6%
277   Eastern Kingbird
3.0% 0.0% 3.0%
278   Sage Thrasher
0% 0.0% 0.0%
279   Tundra Swan
0% 0.0% 0.0%
280   Summer Tanager
0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
281   Ross's Goose
0% 0.0% 0.0%
282   Carolina Chickadee
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
283   Rufous Hummingbird
0% 0.0% 0.0%
284   American Goshawk
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
285   Greater White-fronted Goose
0% 0.0% 0.0%
286   Red Crossbill
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
287   Black Tern
0.5% 0.0% 0.4%
288   Buff-breasted Sandpiper
0.5% 0.0% 0.5%
289   Pin-tailed Whydah
0% 0.0% 0.0%
290   Say's Phoebe
0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
291   Yellow-throated Warbler
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
292   Red-necked Phalarope
0.1% 0.0% 0.1%
293   Vermilion Flycatcher
0% 0.0% 0.0%
294   White Ibis
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
295   Least Bittern
0.3% 0.0% 0.3%
296   Pacific Loon
0% 0.0% 0.0%
297   Northern Bobwhite
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
298   Bank Swallow
0.3% 0.0% 0.3%
299   Olive-sided Flycatcher
1.0% 0.0% 1.0%
300   Worm-eating Warbler
0.4% 0.0% 0.4%
301   Rough-legged Hawk
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
302   Iceland Gull
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
303   Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher
0% 0.0% 0.0%
304   Sandhill Crane
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
305   Swan Goose
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
306   Leach's Storm-Petrel
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
307   Roseate Spoonbill
0.2% 0.0% 0.2%
308   Red Phalarope
0.1% 0.0% 0.1%
309   Cory's Shearwater
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
310   Lined Seedeater
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
311   Pomarine Jaeger
0% 0.0% 0.0%
312   Cliff Swallow
0.1% 0.0% 0.1%
313   Graylag Goose
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
314   Hammond's Flycatcher
0% 0.0% 0.0%
315   Western Tanager
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
316   Canvasback
0% 0.0% 0.0%
317   Franklin's Gull
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
318   Northern Shrike
0% 0.0% 0.0%
319   Golden-winged Warbler
0.2% 0.0% 0.2%
320   Acadian Flycatcher
0.1% 0.0% 0.1%
321   Chukar
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
322   Least Tern
0.2% 0.0% 0.2%
323   Wilson's Storm-Petrel
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
324   Saffron Finch
0% 0.0% 0.0%
325   Yellow-fronted Canary
0% 0.0% 0.0%
326   Eastern Whip-poor-will
0.2% 0.0% 0.2%
327   Fork-tailed Flycatcher
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
328   Bicknell's Thrush
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
329   Cockatiel
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
330   Orchard Oriole
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
331   White-winged Crossbill
0% 0.0% 0.0%
332   Willow Flycatcher
0.5% 0.0% 0.5%
333   Common Redpoll
0% 0.0% 0.0%
334   Purple Martin
0.1% 0.0% 0.1%
335   Mississippi Kite
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
336   Eurasian Linnet
0% 0.0% 0.0%
337   Helmeted Guineafowl
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
338   Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
339   Little Gull
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
340   Mitred Parakeet
0% 0.0% 0.0%
341   European Serin
0% 0.0% 0.0%
342   Common Goldeneye
0% 0.0% 0.0%
343   Purple Sandpiper
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
344   Spotted Towhee
0% 0.0% 0.0%
345   Swainson's Hawk
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
346   Brewer's Sparrow
0% 0.0% 0.0%
347   Magnificent Frigatebird
0% 0.0% 0.0%
348   Varied Thrush
0% 0.0% 0.0%
349   Razorbill
0% 0.0% 0.0%
350   Cave Swallow
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
351   Tufted Duck
0% 0.0% 0.0%
352   Yellow-crowned Bishop
0% 0.0% 0.0%
353   Harris's Sparrow
0% 0.0% 0.0%
354   Kentucky Warbler
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
355   Whooper Swan
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
356   Yellow Rail
0% 0.0% 0.0%
357   Great Shearwater
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
358   Orange-cheeked Waxbill
0% 0.0% 0.0%

Created by Michael Fogleman.

Data from the eBird Basic Dataset. Version: EBD_relJan-2024. Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York. Jan 2024.