Bird Finder

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

based on 90133 checklists in 1805 hotspots

This page shows the probability of a species appearing on a checklist during the month of April. 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 April 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 March April Change
1   American Robin
58.6% 74.8% 16.1%
2   Northern Cardinal
49.7% 60.6% 11.0%
3   White-throated Sparrow
42.3% 57.1% 14.8%
4   European Starling
46.3% 56.7% 10.4%
5   Red-winged Blackbird
43.1% 54.7% 11.6%
6   Mallard
53.5% 54.7% 1.2%
7   House Sparrow
44.0% 53.2% 9.2%
8   Canada Goose
56.8% 52.9% 3.9%
9   Blue Jay
41.3% 52.6% 11.2%
10   Mourning Dove
42.6% 51.6% 9.0%
11   Common Grackle
33.6% 48.8% 15.2%
12   Song Sparrow
50.8% 48.8% 2.0%
13   Northern Flicker
14.0% 45.2% 31.2%
14   Red-bellied Woodpecker
30.4% 39.7% 9.3%
15   Downy Woodpecker
31.6% 38.0% 6.4%
16   Double-crested Cormorant
17.1% 36.8% 19.6%
17   Rock Pigeon
30.2% 34.1% 4.0%
18   Yellow-rumped Warbler
5.8% 31.2% 25.4%
19   Ruby-crowned Kinglet
2.2% 29.4% 27.2%
20   American Goldfinch
15.2% 28.5% 13.3%
21   Northern Mockingbird
27.4% 28.3% 0.9%
22   Palm Warbler
0.6% 28.0% 27.4%
23   Herring Gull
35.0% 26.4% 8.6%
24   Tufted Titmouse
24.6% 25.7% 1.2%
25   Hermit Thrush
2.4% 25.5% 23.0%
26   Chipping Sparrow
1.7% 25.1% 23.4%
27   Red-tailed Hawk
25.3% 24.8% 0.5%
28   Ring-billed Gull
42.6% 23.3% 19.3%
29   Brown-headed Cowbird
8.4% 23.0% 14.6%
30   Great Egret
4.6% 22.7% 18.1%
31   Carolina Wren
18.7% 22.3% 3.6%
32   Tree Swallow
6.3% 22.1% 15.8%
33   Eastern Towhee
2.3% 21.9% 19.7%
34   Black-capped Chickadee
26.0% 21.9% 4.1%
35   Dark-eyed Junco
26.4% 20.2% 6.3%
36   American Crow
24.5% 19.4% 5.2%
37   Osprey
7.1% 19.2% 12.2%
38   Eastern Phoebe
14.0% 19.0% 5.1%
39   White-breasted Nuthatch
20.8% 17.9% 2.9%
40   Swamp Sparrow
4.4% 17.8% 13.4%
41   Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
0.1% 17.1% 17.0%
42   House Finch
15.3% 16.6% 1.3%
43   Pine Warbler
3.2% 15.7% 12.6%
44   Great Black-backed Gull
23.6% 15.6% 8.0%
45   Fish Crow
13.1% 15.6% 2.5%
46   Mute Swan
16.9% 15.4% 1.4%
47   Barn Swallow
0.1% 14.4% 14.2%
48   Wood Duck
11.9% 14.3% 2.4%
49   Brant
19.2% 13.8% 5.3%
50   Turkey Vulture
11.6% 12.5% 0.9%
51   Black-and-white Warbler
0.0% 12.0% 12.0%
52   Bufflehead
26.9% 11.9% 15.0%
53   Golden-crowned Kinglet
8.3% 11.8% 3.5%
54   Great Blue Heron
11.7% 11.1% 0.5%
55   Laughing Gull
0.7% 11.1% 10.4%
56   Northern Rough-winged Swallow
0.4% 10.9% 10.6%
57   Ruddy Duck
15.3% 10.8% 4.5%
58   Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
6.5% 10.4% 3.8%
59   Belted Kingfisher
6.1% 10.2% 4.1%
60   American Black Duck
22.8% 10.2% 12.6%
61   Hairy Woodpecker
8.8% 10.0% 1.3%
62   Blue-headed Vireo
0.0% 9.5% 9.5%
63   Killdeer
11.0% 9.3% 1.7%
64   Brown Creeper
6.2% 9.3% 3.1%
65   Gray Catbird
1.6% 9.1% 7.5%
66   Northern Shoveler
16.9% 8.7% 8.2%
67   Gadwall
14.1% 8.5% 5.6%
68   Field Sparrow
2.3% 8.1% 5.7%
69   Yellow Warbler
0% 7.8% 7.8%
70   Savannah Sparrow
1.0% 7.8% 6.8%
71   House Wren
0.0% 7.6% 7.6%
72   Black-crowned Night-Heron
1.6% 7.6% 6.0%
73   Snowy Egret
0.5% 7.2% 6.7%
74   American Coot
10.4% 7.1% 3.3%
75   Louisiana Waterthrush
0.1% 7.0% 6.9%
76   American Oystercatcher
5.4% 7.0% 1.7%
77   Red-breasted Merganser
16.3% 7.0% 9.3%
78   Greater Yellowlegs
1.7% 6.4% 4.7%
79   Brown Thrasher
0.7% 6.2% 5.4%
80   American Kestrel
4.1% 5.5% 1.4%
81   Chimney Swift
0.0% 5.4% 5.4%
82   Common Loon
6.7% 5.2% 1.5%
83   Northern Waterthrush
0.0% 5.2% 5.1%
84   Green-winged Teal
7.8% 5.1% 2.7%
85   Northern Parula
0.0% 4.8% 4.8%
86   Red-throated Loon
6.7% 4.4% 2.4%
87   Rusty Blackbird
3.3% 4.3% 1.1%
88   Boat-tailed Grackle
2.0% 4.1% 2.1%
89   Bald Eagle
4.6% 3.9% 0.7%
90   Winter Wren
2.7% 3.7% 1.0%
91   Cooper's Hawk
5.6% 3.7% 1.9%
92   Forster's Tern
0.0% 3.7% 3.6%
93   Common Raven
4.0% 3.7% 0.3%
94   Ovenbird
0.0% 3.6% 3.6%
95   Cedar Waxwing
3.1% 3.6% 0.5%
96   Green Heron
0.0% 3.6% 3.6%
97   Common Yellowthroat
0.0% 3.5% 3.5%
98   Warbling Vireo
0% 3.4% 3.4%
99   Fox Sparrow
12.0% 3.2% 8.8%
100   Ring-necked Duck
9.4% 3.0% 6.4%
101   Peregrine Falcon
4.0% 2.9% 1.0%
102   Red-breasted Nuthatch
1.9% 2.9% 1.0%
103   Baltimore Oriole
0.2% 2.8% 2.7%
104   Horned Grebe
7.5% 2.8% 4.7%
105   Hooded Merganser
14.2% 2.8% 11.4%
106   Pied-billed Grebe
5.1% 2.8% 2.3%
107   Prairie Warbler
0.0% 2.7% 2.7%
108   Common Merganser
8.6% 2.6% 6.0%
109   Black Vulture
2.2% 2.5% 0.3%
110   Great Horned Owl
1.9% 2.5% 0.6%
111   Monk Parakeet
2.4% 2.5% 0.1%
112   Sharp-shinned Hawk
2.3% 2.5% 0.2%
113   Wild Turkey
1.5% 2.4% 0.9%
114   Glossy Ibis
0.1% 2.3% 2.3%
115   Pileated Woodpecker
1.6% 2.3% 0.8%
116   Black-throated Green Warbler
0% 2.3% 2.3%
117   Northern Gannet
2.8% 2.3% 0.6%
118   Wood Thrush
0% 2.1% 2.1%
119   Merlin
2.0% 2.0% 0.0%
120   Wilson's Snipe
1.5% 2.0% 0.5%
121   Purple Finch
0.3% 1.9% 1.6%
122   Northern Harrier
3.1% 1.8% 1.3%
123   Blue-winged Warbler
0% 1.8% 1.8%
124   Spotted Sandpiper
0% 1.8% 1.8%
125   Blue-winged Teal
0.5% 1.7% 1.2%
126   Prothonotary Warbler
0.0% 1.7% 1.7%
127   Black-throated Blue Warbler
0% 1.7% 1.7%
128   Yellow-throated Warbler
0.0% 1.7% 1.7%
129   Orchard Oriole
0% 1.6% 1.6%
130   Rose-breasted Grosbeak
0% 1.6% 1.6%
131   White-eyed Vireo
0.0% 1.6% 1.6%
132   Lesser Yellowlegs
0.1% 1.4% 1.3%
133   Veery
0% 1.4% 1.4%
134   Greater Scaup
6.2% 1.4% 4.8%
135   Willet
0.0% 1.4% 1.4%
136   Broad-winged Hawk
0% 1.4% 1.4%
137   American Wigeon
6.7% 1.3% 5.4%
138   American Redstart
0% 1.3% 1.3%
139   Eastern Bluebird
1.2% 1.3% 0.1%
140   Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
0.3% 1.3% 1.0%
141   Red-shouldered Hawk
2.0% 1.2% 0.8%
142   Ring-necked Pheasant
1.2% 1.2% 0.0%
143   Hooded Warbler
0% 1.2% 1.2%
144   Eastern Kingbird
0% 1.2% 1.2%
145   Lesser Scaup
3.7% 1.1% 2.6%
146   Long-tailed Duck
4.7% 1.0% 3.7%
147   Worm-eating Warbler
0% 0.9% 0.9%
148   White-crowned Sparrow
0.6% 0.9% 0.4%
149   Clapper Rail
0.1% 0.9% 0.8%
150   Bonaparte's Gull
0.6% 0.9% 0.3%
151   Marsh Wren
0.2% 0.9% 0.7%
152   Great Crested Flycatcher
0% 0.9% 0.9%
153   Indigo Bunting
0% 0.9% 0.9%
154   Nashville Warbler
0% 0.8% 0.8%
155   Piping Plover
0.7% 0.8% 0.1%
156   Little Blue Heron
0.0% 0.8% 0.8%
157   Yellow-throated Vireo
0% 0.8% 0.8%
158   Pine Siskin
1.2% 0.8% 0.4%
159   Solitary Sandpiper
0% 0.8% 0.8%
160   American Woodcock
5.2% 0.7% 4.5%
161   Dunlin
0.7% 0.7% 0.0%
162   Sanderling
1.5% 0.7% 0.8%
163   Barred Owl
0.7% 0.7% 0.0%
164   European Goldfinch
0.9% 0.7% 0.3%
165   American Tree Sparrow
4.5% 0.7% 3.9%
166   Northern Pintail
2.6% 0.7% 1.9%
167   Red-headed Woodpecker
0.6% 0.6% 0.1%
168   Great Cormorant
3.8% 0.6% 3.2%
169   Black-bellied Plover
0.3% 0.6% 0.3%
170   Least Sandpiper
0.0% 0.6% 0.6%
171   Scarlet Tanager
0% 0.6% 0.6%
172   Bank Swallow
0.0% 0.6% 0.6%
173   Snow Goose
2.3% 0.6% 1.8%
174   American Bittern
0.3% 0.5% 0.2%
175   Black Scoter
1.5% 0.5% 1.0%
176   Surf Scoter
1.4% 0.5% 0.9%
177   Eastern Screech-Owl
0.8% 0.5% 0.3%
178   Red-necked Grebe
1.3% 0.5% 0.8%
179   Ruby-throated Hummingbird
0% 0.5% 0.5%
180   Purple Martin
0.0% 0.5% 0.4%
181   Blackburnian Warbler
0% 0.5% 0.5%
182   Eastern Meadowlark
0.4% 0.5% 0.1%
183   Vesper Sparrow
0.0% 0.4% 0.4%
184   Red-eyed Vireo
0% 0.4% 0.4%
185   Chestnut-sided Warbler
0% 0.4% 0.4%
186   Orange-crowned Warbler
0.2% 0.4% 0.1%
187   Least Bittern
0.0% 0.4% 0.4%
188   Evening Grosbeak
0.0% 0.4% 0.3%
189   Virginia Rail
0.1% 0.3% 0.3%
190   Lesser Black-backed Gull
0.4% 0.3% 0.1%
191   Tricolored Heron
0.0% 0.3% 0.3%
192   Summer Tanager
0% 0.3% 0.3%
193   White-winged Scoter
0.9% 0.3% 0.6%
194   Kentucky Warbler
0% 0.3% 0.3%
195   Eurasian Eagle-Owl
0.2% 0.3% 0.1%
196   Anhinga
0% 0.3% 0.3%
197   Blue Grosbeak
0.0% 0.3% 0.3%
198   Cliff Swallow
0.0% 0.3% 0.2%
199   Magnolia Warbler
0% 0.2% 0.2%
200   Canvasback
2.0% 0.2% 1.8%
201   Cape May Warbler
0% 0.2% 0.2%
202   Gray-breasted Martin
0% 0.2% 0.2%
203   Common Goldeneye
3.2% 0.2% 3.0%
204   Chuck-will's-widow
0% 0.2% 0.2%
205   Redhead
1.4% 0.2% 1.2%
206   Blackpoll Warbler
0% 0.2% 0.2%
207   Iceland Gull
0.3% 0.2% 0.1%
208   Swainson's Thrush
0.0% 0.2% 0.2%
209   Purple Sandpiper
0.5% 0.2% 0.3%
210   Common Tern
0% 0.2% 0.2%
211   Pectoral Sandpiper
0.0% 0.2% 0.1%
212   Saltmarsh Sparrow
0.2% 0.2% 0.0%
213   Seaside Sparrow
0.0% 0.1% 0.1%
214   Lincoln's Sparrow
0.1% 0.1% 0.1%
215   Cattle Egret
0.0% 0.1% 0.1%
216   Swainson's Warbler
0% 0.1% 0.1%
217   Glaucous Gull
0.2% 0.1% 0.1%
218   Eurasian Wigeon
0.4% 0.1% 0.3%
219   Short-billed Dowitcher
0% 0.1% 0.1%
220   American Pipit
0.2% 0.1% 0.1%
221   Common Gallinule
0.0% 0.1% 0.1%
222   Muscovy Duck
0.1% 0.1% 0.0%
223   Caspian Tern
0% 0.1% 0.1%
224   Eastern Whip-poor-will
0.0% 0.1% 0.1%
225   Grasshopper Sparrow
0.0% 0.1% 0.1%
226   Sora
0.0% 0.1% 0.1%
227   Least Flycatcher
0% 0.1% 0.1%
228   Ruddy Turnstone
0.1% 0.1% 0.0%
229   Black-necked Stilt
0% 0.1% 0.1%
230   Common Eider
0.3% 0.1% 0.2%
231   King Eider
0.1% 0.1% 0.0%
232   Cerulean Warbler
0% 0.1% 0.1%
233   Semipalmated Plover
0.0% 0.1% 0.1%
234   Harlequin Duck
0.3% 0.1% 0.2%
235   Black-throated Gray Warbler
0% 0.1% 0.1%
236   Painted Bunting
0.0% 0.1% 0.1%
237   White-winged Crossbill
0.1% 0.1% 0.0%
238   Yellow-billed Cuckoo
0% 0.1% 0.1%
239   Tennessee Warbler
0% 0.1% 0.1%
240   Canada Warbler
0% 0.1% 0.1%
241   American Golden-Plover
0% 0.1% 0.1%
242   Black-billed Cuckoo
0% 0.0% 0.0%
243   Stilt Sandpiper
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
244   Semipalmated Sandpiper
0% 0.0% 0.0%
245   Black Skimmer
0% 0.0% 0.0%
246   Whimbrel
0% 0.0% 0.0%
247   Smith's Longspur
0% 0.0% 0.0%
248   Yellow-breasted Chat
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
249   Northern Saw-whet Owl
0.2% 0.0% 0.2%
250   Horned Lark
0.7% 0.0% 0.7%
251   White-winged Dove
0% 0.0% 0.0%
252   Wilson's Warbler
0% 0.0% 0.0%
253   Least Tern
0% 0.0% 0.0%
254   Little Gull
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
255   Say's Phoebe
0% 0.0% 0.0%
256   Short-eared Owl
0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
257   Snowy Owl
0.4% 0.0% 0.3%
258   Swallow-tailed Kite
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
259   Bobolink
0% 0.0% 0.0%
260   Golden-winged Warbler
0% 0.0% 0.0%
261   Western Tanager
0.2% 0.0% 0.1%
262   White-faced Ibis
0% 0.0% 0.0%
263   Common Redpoll
0.6% 0.0% 0.5%
264   Western Grebe
0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
265   Red Knot
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
266   Lark Sparrow
0% 0.0% 0.0%
267   Budgerigar
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
268   Eastern Wood-Pewee
0% 0.0% 0.0%
269   Ruff
0% 0.0% 0.0%
270   Barn Owl
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
271   Black-headed Gull
0.3% 0.0% 0.3%
272   Bay-breasted Warbler
0% 0.0% 0.0%
273   Carolina Chickadee
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
274   Trumpeter Swan
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
275   Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
0% 0.0% 0.0%
276   Gull-billed Tern
0% 0.0% 0.0%
277   Common Nighthawk
0% 0.0% 0.0%
278   Varied Thrush
0.2% 0.0% 0.2%
279   Sandhill Crane
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
280   Lawrence's Warbler (hybrid)
0% 0.0% 0.0%
281   American Goshawk
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
282   Northern Bobwhite
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
283   Clay-colored Sparrow
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
284   Nelson's Sparrow
0% 0.0% 0.0%
285   Brewster's Warbler (hybrid)
0% 0.0% 0.0%
286   Long-billed Dowitcher
0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
287   White Ibis
0% 0.0% 0.0%
288   Eared Grebe
0.1% 0.0% 0.1%
289   Mew Gull
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
290   Graylag Goose
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
291   Wilson's Phalarope
0% 0.0% 0.0%
292   Townsend's Warbler
0% 0.0% 0.0%
293   Ross's Goose
0.1% 0.0% 0.1%
294   Red-necked Phalarope
0% 0.0% 0.0%
295   Red Phalarope
0% 0.0% 0.0%
296   Zone-tailed Hawk
0% 0.0% 0.0%
297   American Avocet
0% 0.0% 0.0%
298   Willow Flycatcher
0% 0.0% 0.0%
299   Western Meadowlark
0.2% 0.0% 0.2%
300   Golden Eagle
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
301   European Greenfinch
0% 0.0% 0.0%
302   Tundra Swan
0.1% 0.0% 0.1%
303   Cackling Goose
0.1% 0.0% 0.1%
304   Razorbill
0.2% 0.0% 0.2%
305   Upland Sandpiper
0% 0.0% 0.0%
306   Cockatiel
0% 0.0% 0.0%
307   Yellow-headed Blackbird
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
308   Brown Pelican
0% 0.0% 0.0%
309   Pacific Loon
0.1% 0.0% 0.1%
310   Royal Tern
0% 0.0% 0.0%
311   Greater White-fronted Goose
0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
312   Ash-throated Flycatcher
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
313   Parasitic Jaeger
0% 0.0% 0.0%
314   Olive-sided Flycatcher
0% 0.0% 0.0%
315   Red Crossbill
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
316   Acadian Flycatcher
0% 0.0% 0.0%
317   White-rumped Sandpiper
0% 0.0% 0.0%
318   Helmeted Guineafowl
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
319   Manx Shearwater
0% 0.0% 0.0%
320   Sedge Wren
0% 0.0% 0.0%
321   Snow Bunting
0.2% 0.0% 0.2%
322   Western Sandpiper
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
323   Mississippi Kite
0% 0.0% 0.0%
324   American White Pelican
0% 0.0% 0.0%
325   Barrow's Goldeneye
0.1% 0.0% 0.1%
326   Northern Shrike
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
327   Rough-legged Hawk
0.2% 0.0% 0.2%
328   Philadelphia Vireo
0% 0.0% 0.0%
329   Mandarin Duck
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
330   Bohemian Waxwing
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
331   Swan Goose
0.0% 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.