Bird Finder

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

based on 113040 checklists in 1805 hotspots

This page shows the probability of a species appearing on a checklist during the month of May. 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 May 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 April May Change
1   American Robin
74.8% 73.3% 1.5%
2   Gray Catbird
9.1% 65.9% 56.8%
3   Northern Cardinal
60.6% 59.0% 1.6%
4   European Starling
56.7% 58.4% 1.7%
5   House Sparrow
53.2% 57.0% 3.8%
6   Common Grackle
48.8% 54.9% 6.1%
7   Mourning Dove
51.6% 53.4% 1.8%
8   Red-winged Blackbird
54.7% 53.3% 1.4%
9   Mallard
54.7% 49.3% 5.4%
10   Blue Jay
52.6% 49.3% 3.3%
11   Common Yellowthroat
3.5% 47.5% 44.1%
12   Canada Goose
52.9% 45.1% 7.8%
13   Baltimore Oriole
2.8% 44.7% 41.8%
14   Yellow Warbler
7.8% 42.6% 34.8%
15   American Redstart
1.3% 40.4% 39.1%
16   Black-and-white Warbler
12.0% 39.5% 27.5%
17   Red-bellied Woodpecker
39.7% 38.2% 1.5%
18   Northern Parula
4.8% 35.7% 30.9%
19   Song Sparrow
48.8% 35.5% 13.3%
20   Rock Pigeon
34.1% 35.5% 1.3%
21   White-throated Sparrow
57.1% 34.3% 22.8%
22   Double-crested Cormorant
36.8% 34.0% 2.7%
23   Yellow-rumped Warbler
31.2% 33.8% 2.6%
24   Ovenbird
3.6% 32.7% 29.1%
25   Warbling Vireo
3.4% 32.2% 28.8%
26   Barn Swallow
14.4% 31.7% 17.3%
27   Chimney Swift
5.4% 29.8% 24.4%
28   Northern Flicker
45.2% 29.1% 16.1%
29   American Goldfinch
28.5% 28.7% 0.2%
30   Downy Woodpecker
38.0% 28.1% 9.9%
31   Black-throated Blue Warbler
1.7% 28.0% 26.3%
32   Magnolia Warbler
0.2% 27.5% 27.3%
33   House Wren
7.6% 26.7% 19.1%
34   Northern Mockingbird
28.3% 26.7% 1.6%
35   Great Egret
22.7% 25.4% 2.7%
36   Herring Gull
26.4% 23.4% 3.0%
37   Northern Waterthrush
5.2% 23.2% 18.1%
38   Wood Thrush
2.1% 23.1% 21.0%
39   Red-eyed Vireo
0.4% 22.8% 22.4%
40   Tree Swallow
22.1% 22.4% 0.3%
41   Blackpoll Warbler
0.2% 21.9% 21.7%
42   Brown-headed Cowbird
23.0% 20.8% 2.2%
43   Black-throated Green Warbler
2.3% 20.2% 17.9%
44   Veery
1.4% 20.1% 18.6%
45   Eastern Towhee
21.9% 19.9% 2.1%
46   Carolina Wren
22.3% 19.8% 2.5%
47   Red-tailed Hawk
24.8% 19.8% 5.1%
48   Scarlet Tanager
0.6% 18.9% 18.3%
49   Chipping Sparrow
25.1% 18.3% 6.8%
50   Great Crested Flycatcher
0.9% 18.1% 17.2%
51   Swainson's Thrush
0.2% 17.8% 17.6%
52   American Crow
19.4% 17.6% 1.7%
53   Laughing Gull
11.1% 16.9% 5.8%
54   Eastern Kingbird
1.2% 16.8% 15.7%
55   Cedar Waxwing
3.6% 16.8% 13.2%
56   Rose-breasted Grosbeak
1.6% 16.5% 14.9%
57   Osprey
19.2% 16.4% 2.8%
58   Chestnut-sided Warbler
0.4% 16.3% 15.9%
59   House Finch
16.6% 16.0% 0.6%
60   Tufted Titmouse
25.7% 15.6% 10.2%
61   Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
17.1% 14.5% 2.6%
62   Ring-billed Gull
23.3% 14.3% 9.0%
63   Blue-headed Vireo
9.5% 14.3% 4.7%
64   Great Black-backed Gull
15.6% 13.3% 2.3%
65   Ruby-crowned Kinglet
29.4% 13.2% 16.2%
66   Swamp Sparrow
17.8% 13.1% 4.8%
67   Spotted Sandpiper
1.8% 12.4% 10.6%
68   Black-capped Chickadee
21.9% 12.1% 9.8%
69   Northern Rough-winged Swallow
10.9% 12.0% 1.1%
70   Canada Warbler
0.1% 11.7% 11.6%
71   Black-crowned Night-Heron
7.6% 11.7% 4.1%
72   Mute Swan
15.4% 11.5% 3.9%
73   Eastern Wood-Pewee
0.0% 11.1% 11.1%
74   Hermit Thrush
25.5% 11.1% 14.4%
75   Fish Crow
15.6% 10.9% 4.7%
76   Brant
13.8% 10.8% 3.1%
77   White-breasted Nuthatch
17.9% 10.7% 7.2%
78   Orchard Oriole
1.6% 10.2% 8.6%
79   Indigo Bunting
0.9% 10.0% 9.2%
80   Snowy Egret
7.2% 9.9% 2.8%
81   Turkey Vulture
12.5% 9.8% 2.8%
82   Great Blue Heron
11.1% 9.6% 1.6%
83   Blackburnian Warbler
0.5% 9.4% 9.0%
84   Wood Duck
14.3% 9.3% 5.0%
85   Killdeer
9.3% 9.3% 0.0%
86   Green Heron
3.6% 9.0% 5.4%
87   Nashville Warbler
0.8% 8.9% 8.1%
88   Wilson's Warbler
0.0% 8.8% 8.8%
89   Prairie Warbler
2.7% 8.5% 5.8%
90   Hairy Woodpecker
10.0% 8.3% 1.7%
91   Bay-breasted Warbler
0.0% 8.0% 8.0%
92   American Oystercatcher
7.0% 7.9% 0.9%
93   Forster's Tern
3.7% 7.9% 4.3%
94   Brown Thrasher
6.2% 7.3% 1.2%
95   Least Sandpiper
0.6% 7.1% 6.5%
96   Cape May Warbler
0.2% 7.0% 6.8%
97   Gadwall
8.5% 7.0% 1.6%
98   Blue-winged Warbler
1.8% 6.6% 4.9%
99   Ruby-throated Hummingbird
0.5% 6.3% 5.8%
100   Least Flycatcher
0.1% 5.9% 5.8%
101   Greater Yellowlegs
6.4% 5.9% 0.6%
102   Willet
1.4% 5.8% 4.4%
103   Common Tern
0.2% 5.8% 5.6%
104   Solitary Sandpiper
0.8% 5.8% 5.0%
105   Savannah Sparrow
7.8% 5.5% 2.3%
106   Willow Flycatcher
0.0% 5.4% 5.4%
107   Palm Warbler
28.0% 5.3% 22.7%
108   Boat-tailed Grackle
4.1% 5.2% 1.0%
109   American Black Duck
10.2% 5.0% 5.2%
110   Eastern Phoebe
19.0% 4.9% 14.1%
111   Semipalmated Sandpiper
0.0% 4.9% 4.8%
112   Marsh Wren
0.9% 4.6% 3.7%
113   Yellow-throated Vireo
0.8% 4.6% 3.8%
114   Semipalmated Plover
0.1% 4.5% 4.5%
115   White-eyed Vireo
1.6% 4.3% 2.7%
116   Glossy Ibis
2.3% 4.2% 1.9%
117   Belted Kingfisher
10.2% 4.2% 6.0%
118   Hooded Warbler
1.2% 4.0% 2.8%
119   Worm-eating Warbler
0.9% 3.9% 3.0%
120   Least Tern
0.0% 3.9% 3.9%
121   Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
1.3% 3.9% 2.6%
122   White-crowned Sparrow
0.9% 3.7% 2.7%
123   Yellow-billed Cuckoo
0.1% 3.5% 3.5%
124   Black-bellied Plover
0.6% 3.5% 2.8%
125   Field Sparrow
8.1% 3.4% 4.7%
126   Tennessee Warbler
0.1% 3.4% 3.3%
127   Clapper Rail
0.9% 3.4% 2.4%
128   Ruddy Duck
10.8% 3.3% 7.5%
129   Gray-cheeked Thrush
0% 3.2% 3.2%
130   Lincoln's Sparrow
0.1% 2.9% 2.8%
131   Red-breasted Nuthatch
2.9% 2.8% 0.1%
132   Lesser Yellowlegs
1.4% 2.7% 1.3%
133   Peregrine Falcon
2.9% 2.7% 0.3%
134   Common Raven
3.7% 2.5% 1.1%
135   Bank Swallow
0.6% 2.5% 2.0%
136   Bald Eagle
3.9% 2.5% 1.4%
137   Pileated Woodpecker
2.3% 2.5% 0.1%
138   Common Loon
5.2% 2.4% 2.8%
139   Black Vulture
2.5% 2.2% 0.3%
140   Dunlin
0.7% 2.2% 1.5%
141   Wild Turkey
2.4% 2.2% 0.2%
142   American Kestrel
5.5% 2.2% 3.3%
143   Ruddy Turnstone
0.1% 2.2% 2.1%
144   Monk Parakeet
2.5% 2.0% 0.4%
145   Cooper's Hawk
3.7% 2.0% 1.7%
146   Mourning Warbler
0% 1.9% 1.9%
147   Louisiana Waterthrush
7.0% 1.8% 5.2%
148   Short-billed Dowitcher
0.1% 1.8% 1.7%
149   Red-breasted Merganser
7.0% 1.7% 5.3%
150   Summer Tanager
0.3% 1.7% 1.4%
151   Pine Warbler
15.7% 1.7% 14.1%
152   Black Skimmer
0.0% 1.7% 1.6%
153   Sanderling
0.7% 1.6% 0.9%
154   Black-billed Cuckoo
0.0% 1.6% 1.5%
155   Piping Plover
0.8% 1.4% 0.6%
156   Common Nighthawk
0.0% 1.4% 1.4%
157   Purple Martin
0.5% 1.4% 0.9%
158   Purple Finch
1.9% 1.3% 0.6%
159   Olive-sided Flycatcher
0.0% 1.3% 1.3%
160   Little Blue Heron
0.8% 1.2% 0.4%
161   Eastern Bluebird
1.3% 1.2% 0.1%
162   Bobolink
0.0% 1.2% 1.2%
163   Bufflehead
11.9% 1.2% 10.8%
164   Broad-winged Hawk
1.4% 1.1% 0.3%
165   Red-throated Loon
4.4% 1.1% 3.3%
166   Prothonotary Warbler
1.7% 1.1% 0.6%
167   Ring-necked Pheasant
1.2% 1.0% 0.2%
168   Great Horned Owl
2.5% 1.0% 1.5%
169   Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
10.4% 1.0% 9.4%
170   Northern Shoveler
8.7% 1.0% 7.7%
171   Merlin
2.0% 0.9% 1.1%
172   American Coot
7.1% 0.9% 6.3%
173   Sharp-shinned Hawk
2.5% 0.8% 1.6%
174   Red-headed Woodpecker
0.6% 0.8% 0.2%
175   Cliff Swallow
0.3% 0.8% 0.5%
176   Blue Grosbeak
0.3% 0.8% 0.5%
177   Seaside Sparrow
0.1% 0.8% 0.6%
178   Kentucky Warbler
0.3% 0.8% 0.5%
179   Saltmarsh Sparrow
0.2% 0.8% 0.6%
180   Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
0% 0.7% 0.7%
181   Red Knot
0.0% 0.7% 0.7%
182   Cerulean Warbler
0.1% 0.7% 0.6%
183   Northern Harrier
1.8% 0.6% 1.2%
184   Bonaparte's Gull
0.9% 0.6% 0.3%
185   Red-shouldered Hawk
1.2% 0.6% 0.6%
186   Green-winged Teal
5.1% 0.6% 4.5%
187   Alder Flycatcher
0% 0.6% 0.6%
188   Acadian Flycatcher
0.0% 0.6% 0.5%
189   Blue-winged Teal
1.7% 0.5% 1.2%
190   Dark-eyed Junco
20.2% 0.5% 19.7%
191   American Woodcock
0.7% 0.5% 0.2%
192   Chuck-will's-widow
0.2% 0.5% 0.3%
193   Rusty Blackbird
4.3% 0.5% 3.9%
194   Least Bittern
0.4% 0.5% 0.1%
195   Greater Scaup
1.4% 0.4% 1.0%
196   Common Merganser
2.6% 0.4% 2.2%
197   Tricolored Heron
0.3% 0.4% 0.1%
198   Winter Wren
3.7% 0.4% 3.3%
199   Yellow-breasted Chat
0.0% 0.4% 0.4%
200   Pine Siskin
0.8% 0.4% 0.4%
201   Barred Owl
0.7% 0.4% 0.3%
202   White-rumped Sandpiper
0.0% 0.4% 0.4%
203   Bicknell's Thrush
0% 0.4% 0.4%
204   European Goldfinch
0.7% 0.4% 0.3%
205   American Bittern
0.5% 0.3% 0.2%
206   Virginia Rail
0.3% 0.3% 0.0%
207   Yellow-throated Warbler
1.7% 0.3% 1.4%
208   Evening Grosbeak
0.4% 0.3% 0.1%
209   Northern Gannet
2.3% 0.3% 2.0%
210   Black Scoter
0.5% 0.3% 0.3%
211   American Wigeon
1.3% 0.2% 1.1%
212   Wilson's Phalarope
0.0% 0.2% 0.2%
213   Long-tailed Duck
1.0% 0.2% 0.8%
214   Wilson's Snipe
2.0% 0.2% 1.7%
215   Gull-billed Tern
0.0% 0.2% 0.2%
216   Hooded Merganser
2.8% 0.2% 2.6%
217   Caspian Tern
0.1% 0.2% 0.1%
218   Orange-crowned Warbler
0.4% 0.2% 0.2%
219   Eastern Screech-Owl
0.5% 0.2% 0.3%
220   Lesser Black-backed Gull
0.3% 0.2% 0.1%
221   Horned Grebe
2.8% 0.2% 2.6%
222   Surf Scoter
0.5% 0.2% 0.3%
223   Kirtland's Warbler
0% 0.2% 0.2%
224   Eastern Whip-poor-will
0.1% 0.2% 0.1%
225   Brown Creeper
9.3% 0.2% 9.1%
226   Snow Goose
0.6% 0.2% 0.4%
227   Pied-billed Grebe
2.8% 0.2% 2.6%
228   Swainson's Warbler
0.1% 0.2% 0.0%
229   Common Gallinule
0.1% 0.2% 0.0%
230   Golden-winged Warbler
0.0% 0.1% 0.1%
231   Purple Sandpiper
0.2% 0.1% 0.1%
232   Ring-necked Duck
3.0% 0.1% 2.9%
233   Northern Pintail
0.7% 0.1% 0.5%
234   Black-necked Stilt
0.1% 0.1% 0.0%
235   Lesser Scaup
1.1% 0.1% 1.0%
236   Mississippi Kite
0.0% 0.1% 0.1%
237   Sora
0.1% 0.1% 0.0%
238   Philadelphia Vireo
0.0% 0.1% 0.1%
239   Roseate Tern
0% 0.1% 0.1%
240   Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
0% 0.1% 0.1%
241   White-winged Scoter
0.3% 0.1% 0.2%
242   Red-necked Phalarope
0.0% 0.1% 0.1%
243   Pectoral Sandpiper
0.2% 0.1% 0.0%
244   Grasshopper Sparrow
0.1% 0.1% 0.0%
245   Brewster's Warbler (hybrid)
0.0% 0.1% 0.1%
246   Common Eider
0.1% 0.1% 0.0%
247   Black Tern
0% 0.1% 0.1%
248   King Eider
0.1% 0.1% 0.0%
249   Clay-colored Sparrow
0.0% 0.1% 0.1%
250   Anhinga
0.3% 0.1% 0.2%
251   Whimbrel
0.0% 0.1% 0.0%
252   Cattle Egret
0.1% 0.1% 0.1%
253   Curlew Sandpiper
0% 0.1% 0.1%
254   Golden-crowned Kinglet
11.8% 0.1% 11.7%
255   Nelson's Sparrow
0.0% 0.1% 0.1%
256   Great Cormorant
0.6% 0.1% 0.6%
257   Ruff
0.0% 0.1% 0.1%
258   Sage Thrasher
0% 0.1% 0.1%
259   Eurasian Eagle-Owl
0.3% 0.1% 0.2%
260   White-faced Ibis
0.0% 0.1% 0.0%
261   Arctic Tern
0% 0.1% 0.1%
262   Glaucous Gull
0.1% 0.1% 0.1%
263   Iceland Gull
0.2% 0.1% 0.1%
264   Muscovy Duck
0.1% 0.1% 0.1%
265   American Pipit
0.1% 0.1% 0.1%
266   Fox Sparrow
3.2% 0.1% 3.2%
267   Red-necked Grebe
0.5% 0.0% 0.4%
268   Franklin's Gull
0% 0.0% 0.0%
269   Lawrence's Warbler (hybrid)
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
270   Dickcissel
0% 0.0% 0.0%
271   Little Gull
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
272   Eastern Meadowlark
0.5% 0.0% 0.4%
273   Townsend's Warbler
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
274   American White Pelican
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
275   Western Grebe
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
276   Royal Tern
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
277   Golden-crowned Sparrow
0% 0.0% 0.0%
278   Stilt Sandpiper
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
279   Barn Owl
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
280   Fulvous Whistling-Duck
0% 0.0% 0.0%
281   American Golden-Plover
0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
282   Common Goldeneye
0.2% 0.0% 0.2%
283   Carolina Chickadee
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
284   Sedge Wren
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
285   Vesper Sparrow
0.4% 0.0% 0.4%
286   American Avocet
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
287   Wilson's Plover
0% 0.0% 0.0%
288   Cinnamon Teal
0% 0.0% 0.0%
289   King Rail
0% 0.0% 0.0%
290   Eurasian Wigeon
0.1% 0.0% 0.1%
291   Lark Sparrow
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
292   Budgerigar
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
293   Northern Bobwhite
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
294   Swallow-tailed Kite
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
295   Sooty Shearwater
0% 0.0% 0.0%
296   Marbled Godwit
0% 0.0% 0.0%
297   Sandhill Crane
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
298   Sabine's Gull
0% 0.0% 0.0%
299   Wilson's Storm-Petrel
0% 0.0% 0.0%
300   Eurasian Collared-Dove
0% 0.0% 0.0%
301   Canvasback
0.2% 0.0% 0.2%
302   White-winged Dove
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
303   White Ibis
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
304   American Tree Sparrow
0.7% 0.0% 0.7%
305   Western Sandpiper
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
306   Painted Bunting
0.1% 0.0% 0.1%
307   Brown Booby
0% 0.0% 0.0%
308   Western Tanager
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
309   Loggerhead Shrike
0% 0.0% 0.0%
310   Parasitic Jaeger
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
311   Burrowing Owl
0% 0.0% 0.0%
312   Black-headed Gull
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
313   Horned Lark
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
314   Upland Sandpiper
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
315   Brown Pelican
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
316   Harlequin Duck
0.1% 0.0% 0.1%
317   Pomarine Jaeger
0% 0.0% 0.0%
318   Greater White-fronted Goose
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
319   Yellow-headed Blackbird
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
320   Bar-tailed Godwit
0% 0.0% 0.0%
321   Red Phalarope
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
322   Indian Peafowl
0% 0.0% 0.0%
323   Southern Caracara
0% 0.0% 0.0%
324   Eared Grebe
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
325   Pacific Loon
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
326   MacGillivray's Warbler
0% 0.0% 0.0%
327   Ross's Goose
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
328   Chukar
0% 0.0% 0.0%
329   Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
330   Hermit Warbler
0% 0.0% 0.0%
331   Red Junglefowl
0% 0.0% 0.0%
332   African Collared-Dove
0% 0.0% 0.0%
333   Black-legged Kittiwake
0% 0.0% 0.0%
334   White-winged Crossbill
0.1% 0.0% 0.1%
335   Swainson's Hawk
0% 0.0% 0.0%
336   Ruffed Grouse
0% 0.0% 0.0%
337   European Greenfinch
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
338   Graylag Goose
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
339   Magnificent Frigatebird
0% 0.0% 0.0%
340   Red Crossbill
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
341   Northern Saw-whet Owl
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
342   Gray Kingbird
0% 0.0% 0.0%
343   Helmeted Guineafowl
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
344   Rosy-faced Lovebird
0% 0.0% 0.0%
345   Snowy Owl
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
346   Manx Shearwater
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
347   Connecticut Warbler
0% 0.0% 0.0%
348   Mandarin Duck
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
349   Cockatiel
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
350   Northern Red Bishop
0% 0.0% 0.0%
351   Gray Parrot
0% 0.0% 0.0%
352   American Goshawk
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.