Bird Finder

Top Birds in May
within 25 miles of 40.781243, -73.966507

based on 147490 checklists in 1992 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% 73.2% 1.6%
2   Gray Catbird
10.9% 65.6% 54.7%
3   Northern Cardinal
60.5% 58.9% 1.6%
4   European Starling
56.8% 58.3% 1.5%
5   House Sparrow
54.2% 57.5% 3.2%
6   Common Grackle
48.3% 54.5% 6.2%
7   Mourning Dove
52.1% 53.8% 1.7%
8   Red-winged Blackbird
53.4% 52.9% 0.6%
9   Blue Jay
52.1% 48.2% 4.0%
10   Mallard
53.0% 47.7% 5.3%
11   Common Yellowthroat
4.2% 46.9% 42.7%
12   Canada Goose
52.0% 44.5% 7.4%
13   Baltimore Oriole
4.1% 43.9% 39.9%
14   Yellow Warbler
7.9% 41.7% 33.8%
15   American Redstart
1.6% 39.3% 37.7%
16   Red-bellied Woodpecker
39.5% 37.8% 1.7%
17   Black-and-white Warbler
12.8% 37.7% 24.9%
18   Rock Pigeon
35.3% 36.0% 0.7%
19   Song Sparrow
48.5% 35.5% 13.0%
20   Northern Parula
5.9% 35.3% 29.4%
21   Double-crested Cormorant
36.7% 33.8% 2.9%
22   White-throated Sparrow
58.1% 33.6% 24.5%
23   Warbling Vireo
4.4% 32.7% 28.3%
24   Yellow-rumped Warbler
30.9% 31.6% 0.7%
25   Ovenbird
4.4% 31.6% 27.2%
26   Barn Swallow
13.4% 30.9% 17.5%
27   Chimney Swift
5.9% 30.9% 24.9%
28   Northern Flicker
45.2% 28.6% 16.6%
29   American Goldfinch
27.3% 27.5% 0.2%
30   Northern Mockingbird
28.4% 27.4% 1.1%
31   Downy Woodpecker
37.0% 27.0% 10.0%
32   Magnolia Warbler
0.4% 26.4% 26.0%
33   Black-throated Blue Warbler
2.1% 26.2% 24.1%
34   House Wren
7.9% 25.5% 17.6%
35   Great Egret
21.1% 24.3% 3.2%
36   Blackpoll Warbler
0.2% 23.6% 23.4%
37   Red-eyed Vireo
0.5% 23.6% 23.1%
38   American Herring Gull
25.2% 22.9% 2.3%
39   Wood Thrush
2.6% 22.8% 20.1%
40   Northern Waterthrush
5.5% 22.3% 16.8%
41   Tree Swallow
20.6% 21.6% 1.0%
42   Carolina Wren
22.9% 20.6% 2.2%
43   Brown-headed Cowbird
21.9% 20.0% 1.8%
44   Black-throated Green Warbler
2.6% 19.2% 16.6%
45   Red-tailed Hawk
23.8% 18.9% 4.9%
46   Eastern Towhee
22.3% 18.5% 3.9%
47   Veery
1.6% 18.3% 16.7%
48   Great Crested Flycatcher
1.3% 18.2% 16.9%
49   Scarlet Tanager
0.9% 18.2% 17.3%
50   Laughing Gull
12.4% 18.1% 5.7%
51   American Crow
19.0% 17.5% 1.5%
52   Swainson's Thrush
0.2% 17.3% 17.1%
53   Chipping Sparrow
25.2% 17.2% 8.0%
54   Cedar Waxwing
3.4% 17.1% 13.7%
55   Osprey
20.0% 16.9% 3.1%
56   House Finch
16.3% 16.6% 0.3%
57   Eastern Kingbird
1.4% 16.4% 15.0%
58   Rose-breasted Grosbeak
1.9% 15.9% 13.9%
59   Chestnut-sided Warbler
0.4% 15.0% 14.6%
60   Tufted Titmouse
24.2% 14.9% 9.3%
61   Ring-billed Gull
22.5% 14.1% 8.4%
62   Great Black-backed Gull
14.3% 12.7% 1.6%
63   Blue-headed Vireo
9.4% 12.5% 3.1%
64   Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
15.7% 12.4% 3.3%
65   Swamp Sparrow
18.6% 12.3% 6.3%
66   Spotted Sandpiper
1.6% 12.2% 10.5%
67   Northern Rough-winged Swallow
10.3% 11.4% 1.2%
68   Ruby-crowned Kinglet
30.0% 11.4% 18.6%
69   Fish Crow
15.5% 11.1% 4.4%
70   Eastern Wood-Pewee
0.0% 11.0% 10.9%
71   Mute Swan
14.1% 10.8% 3.3%
72   Black-crowned Night-Heron
6.9% 10.8% 3.9%
73   Canada Warbler
0.1% 10.8% 10.7%
74   Brant
13.1% 10.6% 2.5%
75   Black-capped Chickadee
20.0% 10.5% 9.5%
76   Hermit Thrush
27.2% 10.2% 17.0%
77   Orchard Oriole
1.7% 9.7% 8.0%
78   White-breasted Nuthatch
17.0% 9.5% 7.4%
79   Snowy Egret
6.5% 9.5% 2.9%
80   Great Blue Heron
11.0% 9.4% 1.6%
81   Indigo Bunting
0.9% 9.4% 8.5%
82   Turkey Vulture
12.0% 9.3% 2.7%
83   Wood Duck
14.4% 9.2% 5.2%
84   Killdeer
8.9% 9.1% 0.3%
85   Blackburnian Warbler
0.4% 8.7% 8.3%
86   Bay-breasted Warbler
0.0% 8.5% 8.5%
87   Green Heron
3.8% 8.4% 4.6%
88   Nashville Warbler
1.5% 8.4% 6.9%
89   Wilson's Warbler
0.0% 8.2% 8.2%
90   Hairy Woodpecker
9.5% 8.1% 1.4%
91   Forster's Tern
3.7% 7.8% 4.2%
92   Prairie Warbler
2.7% 7.6% 4.9%
93   American Oystercatcher
6.3% 7.6% 1.2%
94   Cape May Warbler
0.3% 7.1% 6.7%
95   Least Sandpiper
0.6% 7.0% 6.4%
96   Gadwall
8.3% 6.7% 1.7%
97   Brown Thrasher
6.0% 6.5% 0.6%
98   Ruby-throated Hummingbird
0.5% 5.9% 5.4%
99   Common Tern
0.2% 5.8% 5.6%
100   Blue-winged Warbler
1.9% 5.8% 3.9%
101   Solitary Sandpiper
1.0% 5.7% 4.6%
102   Willet
1.3% 5.5% 4.2%
103   Greater Yellowlegs
6.0% 5.4% 0.6%
104   Willow Flycatcher
0.0% 5.3% 5.3%
105   Least Flycatcher
0.2% 5.3% 5.1%
106   American Black Duck
10.0% 5.1% 4.8%
107   Savannah Sparrow
7.8% 5.1% 2.7%
108   Boat-tailed Grackle
3.9% 5.1% 1.2%
109   Semipalmated Sandpiper
0.0% 4.7% 4.6%
110   Palm Warbler
26.9% 4.5% 22.4%
111   Marsh Wren
0.9% 4.5% 3.6%
112   Semipalmated Plover
0.1% 4.4% 4.3%
113   Eastern Phoebe
19.2% 4.3% 14.9%
114   Yellow-throated Vireo
0.8% 4.3% 3.5%
115   Glossy Ibis
2.0% 4.0% 2.0%
116   White-eyed Vireo
1.5% 3.9% 2.4%
117   Belted Kingfisher
10.1% 3.7% 6.4%
118   Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
1.2% 3.7% 2.6%
119   Least Tern
0.0% 3.7% 3.7%
120   Tennessee Warbler
0.1% 3.6% 3.5%
121   Hooded Warbler
1.4% 3.5% 2.1%
122   Worm-eating Warbler
0.9% 3.5% 2.5%
123   Black-bellied Plover
0.5% 3.3% 2.8%
124   Clapper Rail
0.9% 3.3% 2.3%
125   Yellow-billed Cuckoo
0.1% 3.2% 3.1%
126   White-crowned Sparrow
0.9% 3.1% 2.3%
127   Ruddy Duck
10.3% 3.1% 7.2%
128   Field Sparrow
8.6% 3.1% 5.5%
129   Common Raven
4.1% 3.0% 1.0%
130   Gray-cheeked Thrush
0% 2.9% 2.9%
131   Bald Eagle
4.2% 2.7% 1.5%
132   Lincoln's Sparrow
0.1% 2.6% 2.5%
133   Peregrine Falcon
2.7% 2.5% 0.2%
134   Lesser Yellowlegs
1.4% 2.5% 1.1%
135   Pileated Woodpecker
2.4% 2.5% 0.1%
136   Bank Swallow
0.5% 2.4% 1.9%
137   Common Loon
5.0% 2.4% 2.7%
138   Monk Parakeet
2.8% 2.2% 0.5%
139   American Kestrel
5.4% 2.2% 3.2%
140   Red-breasted Nuthatch
2.4% 2.2% 0.2%
141   Dunlin
0.6% 2.2% 1.5%
142   Ruddy Turnstone
0.1% 2.2% 2.1%
143   Black Vulture
2.4% 2.1% 0.3%
144   Wild Turkey
2.2% 2.1% 0.2%
145   Cooper's Hawk
3.6% 1.9% 1.8%
146   Short-billed Dowitcher
0.1% 1.8% 1.7%
147   Mourning Warbler
0% 1.8% 1.8%
148   Red-breasted Merganser
7.0% 1.7% 5.3%
149   Black Skimmer
0.0% 1.6% 1.6%
150   Sanderling
0.6% 1.6% 0.9%
151   Louisiana Waterthrush
7.3% 1.6% 5.7%
152   Purple Martin
0.6% 1.6% 1.0%
153   Pine Warbler
14.9% 1.5% 13.4%
154   Summer Tanager
0.3% 1.5% 1.2%
155   Black-billed Cuckoo
0.0% 1.4% 1.4%
156   Common Nighthawk
0.0% 1.3% 1.3%
157   Piping Plover
0.7% 1.3% 0.6%
158   Olive-sided Flycatcher
0.0% 1.3% 1.3%
159   Eastern Bluebird
1.3% 1.3% 0.0%
160   Purple Finch
1.8% 1.1% 0.7%
161   Little Blue Heron
0.7% 1.1% 0.3%
162   Bufflehead
11.3% 1.1% 10.2%
163   Bobolink
0.0% 1.0% 1.0%
164   Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
12.1% 0.9% 11.1%
165   Broad-winged Hawk
1.2% 0.9% 0.3%
166   Red-throated Loon
3.8% 0.9% 2.9%
167   Northern Shoveler
7.6% 0.9% 6.7%
168   Prothonotary Warbler
1.6% 0.9% 0.7%
169   Great Horned Owl
2.2% 0.9% 1.3%
170   Red-headed Woodpecker
0.6% 0.8% 0.2%
171   Cliff Swallow
0.2% 0.8% 0.6%
172   Merlin
1.9% 0.8% 1.1%
173   Ring-necked Pheasant
1.0% 0.8% 0.2%
174   Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
0% 0.8% 0.8%
175   Seaside Sparrow
0.1% 0.7% 0.6%
176   Blue Grosbeak
0.4% 0.7% 0.3%
177   American Coot
6.5% 0.7% 5.8%
178   Saltmarsh Sparrow
0.1% 0.7% 0.6%
179   Sharp-shinned Hawk
2.1% 0.7% 1.5%
180   Kentucky Warbler
0.4% 0.6% 0.2%
181   Red Knot
0.0% 0.6% 0.6%
182   Bonaparte's Gull
0.9% 0.6% 0.3%
183   Green-winged Teal
5.5% 0.6% 4.9%
184   Red-shouldered Hawk
1.1% 0.6% 0.6%
185   Northern Harrier
1.7% 0.6% 1.1%
186   Cerulean Warbler
0.1% 0.6% 0.5%
187   Alder Flycatcher
0% 0.5% 0.5%
188   Acadian Flycatcher
0.0% 0.5% 0.5%
189   Chuck-will's-widow
0.2% 0.5% 0.3%
190   Bicknell's Thrush
0% 0.5% 0.5%
191   American Woodcock
0.9% 0.4% 0.5%
192   Dark-eyed Junco
20.3% 0.4% 19.9%
193   Rusty Blackbird
4.3% 0.4% 3.8%
194   Greater Scaup
1.3% 0.4% 0.9%
195   Blue-winged Teal
1.9% 0.4% 1.5%
196   Least Bittern
0.4% 0.4% 0.0%
197   White-rumped Sandpiper
0.0% 0.4% 0.4%
198   Yellow-breasted Chat
0.1% 0.4% 0.4%
199   Eastern Screech-Owl
0.6% 0.4% 0.2%
200   Common Merganser
2.4% 0.4% 2.0%
201   Tricolored Heron
0.2% 0.4% 0.1%
202   Winter Wren
3.9% 0.4% 3.5%
203   Barred Owl
0.6% 0.3% 0.2%
204   Pine Siskin
0.6% 0.3% 0.3%
205   Virginia Rail
0.5% 0.3% 0.2%
206   European Goldfinch
0.6% 0.3% 0.3%
207   Black Scoter
0.5% 0.3% 0.3%
208   Yellow-throated Warbler
1.4% 0.3% 1.2%
209   American Bittern
0.6% 0.3% 0.3%
210   Northern Gannet
2.0% 0.2% 1.8%
211   Gull-billed Tern
0.0% 0.2% 0.2%
212   Evening Grosbeak
0.3% 0.2% 0.0%
213   Caspian Tern
0.1% 0.2% 0.1%
214   Lesser Black-backed Gull
0.3% 0.2% 0.1%
215   Hooded Merganser
2.8% 0.2% 2.6%
216   American Wigeon
1.2% 0.2% 1.0%
217   Wilson's Snipe
1.7% 0.2% 1.5%
218   Surf Scoter
0.5% 0.2% 0.3%
219   Fork-tailed Flycatcher
0% 0.2% 0.2%
220   Long-tailed Duck
0.9% 0.2% 0.7%
221   Wilson's Phalarope
0.0% 0.2% 0.2%
222   Orange-crowned Warbler
0.4% 0.2% 0.2%
223   Purple Sandpiper
0.2% 0.2% 0.0%
224   Pied-billed Grebe
2.8% 0.2% 2.6%
225   Horned Grebe
2.4% 0.2% 2.3%
226   Eastern Whip-poor-will
0.2% 0.2% 0.0%
227   Northern Pintail
0.6% 0.2% 0.5%
228   Brown Creeper
9.8% 0.2% 9.6%
229   Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
0% 0.1% 0.1%
230   Black-necked Stilt
0.1% 0.1% 0.1%
231   Kirtland's Warbler
0% 0.1% 0.1%
232   Snow Goose
0.5% 0.1% 0.3%
233   Common Gallinule
0.1% 0.1% 0.0%
234   Lesser Scaup
1.1% 0.1% 0.9%
235   Roseate Tern
0% 0.1% 0.1%
236   Grasshopper Sparrow
0.1% 0.1% 0.0%
237   Golden-winged Warbler
0.0% 0.1% 0.1%
238   Swainson's Warbler
0.4% 0.1% 0.3%
239   Mississippi Kite
0.0% 0.1% 0.1%
240   Red-necked Phalarope
0.0% 0.1% 0.1%
241   Common Eider
0.1% 0.1% 0.1%
242   Clay-colored Sparrow
0.0% 0.1% 0.1%
243   White-winged Scoter
0.3% 0.1% 0.2%
244   Ring-necked Duck
2.9% 0.1% 2.8%
245   Sora
0.1% 0.1% 0.0%
246   Philadelphia Vireo
0.0% 0.1% 0.1%
247   Pectoral Sandpiper
0.1% 0.1% 0.0%
248   Black Tern
0% 0.1% 0.1%
249   King Eider
0.1% 0.1% 0.0%
250   Whimbrel
0.0% 0.1% 0.1%
251   American White Pelican
0.0% 0.1% 0.1%
252   Brewster's Warbler (hybrid)
0.0% 0.1% 0.1%
253   Nelson's Sparrow
0.0% 0.1% 0.1%
254   Anhinga
0.2% 0.1% 0.1%
255   Royal Tern
0.0% 0.1% 0.1%
256   Golden-crowned Kinglet
11.9% 0.1% 11.9%
257   Great Cormorant
0.6% 0.1% 0.5%
258   Western Cattle-Egret
0.1% 0.1% 0.1%
259   Curlew Sandpiper
0% 0.1% 0.1%
260   Ruff
0.0% 0.1% 0.0%
261   Sage Thrasher
0% 0.1% 0.1%
262   Arctic Tern
0% 0.1% 0.1%
263   American Pipit
0.1% 0.0% 0.1%
264   Muscovy Duck
0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
265   Yellow-headed Blackbird
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
266   Eurasian Eagle-Owl
0.2% 0.0% 0.2%
267   Iceland Gull
0.2% 0.0% 0.1%
268   Eastern Meadowlark
0.4% 0.0% 0.3%
269   White-faced Ibis
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
270   Glaucous Gull
0.1% 0.0% 0.1%
271   Red-necked Grebe
0.4% 0.0% 0.4%
272   Dickcissel
0% 0.0% 0.0%
273   Little Gull
0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
274   Franklin's Gull
0% 0.0% 0.0%
275   Lawrence's Warbler (hybrid)
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
276   Fox Sparrow
3.1% 0.0% 3.1%
277   American Golden-Plover
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
278   Townsend's Warbler
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
279   American Barn Owl
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
280   Western Grebe
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
281   Carolina Chickadee
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
282   Golden-crowned Sparrow
0% 0.0% 0.0%
283   Stilt Sandpiper
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
284   Fulvous Whistling-Duck
0% 0.0% 0.0%
285   Harlequin Duck
0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
286   Sandhill Crane
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
287   Red Junglefowl
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
288   Common Goldeneye
0.2% 0.0% 0.2%
289   White-winged Dove
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
290   American Avocet
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
291   Budgerigar
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
292   Vesper Sparrow
0.5% 0.0% 0.5%
293   Sedge Wren
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
294   Wilson's Plover
0% 0.0% 0.0%
295   Eurasian Wigeon
0.1% 0.0% 0.1%
296   Swallow-tailed Kite
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
297   Cinnamon Teal
0% 0.0% 0.0%
298   King Rail
0% 0.0% 0.0%
299   Lark Sparrow
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
300   White Ibis
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
301   Sooty Shearwater
0% 0.0% 0.0%
302   Northern Bobwhite
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
303   Marbled Godwit
0% 0.0% 0.0%
304   Sabine's Gull
0% 0.0% 0.0%
305   Western Tanager
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
306   Black-headed Gull
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
307   Wilson's Storm-Petrel
0% 0.0% 0.0%
308   Eurasian Collared-Dove
0% 0.0% 0.0%
309   Chukar
0% 0.0% 0.0%
310   Canvasback
0.2% 0.0% 0.2%
311   American Tree Sparrow
0.6% 0.0% 0.6%
312   Horned Lark
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
313   Western Sandpiper
0% 0.0% 0.0%
314   Painted Bunting
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
315   Brown Booby
0% 0.0% 0.0%
316   Parasitic Jaeger
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
317   Loggerhead Shrike
0% 0.0% 0.0%
318   Burrowing Owl
0% 0.0% 0.0%
319   Upland Sandpiper
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
320   Brown Pelican
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
321   Sandwich Tern
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
322   Pomarine Jaeger
0% 0.0% 0.0%
323   Greater White-fronted Goose
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
324   Hudsonian Godwit
0% 0.0% 0.0%
325   Pacific Loon
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
326   Bar-tailed Godwit
0% 0.0% 0.0%
327   Red Phalarope
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
328   Indian Peafowl
0% 0.0% 0.0%
329   Southern Caracara
0% 0.0% 0.0%
330   Eared Grebe
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
331   MacGillivray's Warbler
0% 0.0% 0.0%
332   Graylag Goose
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
333   Northern Saw-whet Owl
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
334   Ross's Goose
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
335   Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
336   Hermit Warbler
0% 0.0% 0.0%
337   African Collared-Dove
0% 0.0% 0.0%
338   Redhead
0.2% 0.0% 0.2%
339   Black-legged Kittiwake
0% 0.0% 0.0%
340   White-winged Crossbill
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
341   Western Meadowlark
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
342   Swainson's Hawk
0% 0.0% 0.0%
343   European Greenfinch
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
344   Magnificent Frigatebird
0% 0.0% 0.0%
345   Tundra Swan
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
346   Red Crossbill
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
347   Gray Kingbird
0% 0.0% 0.0%
348   Helmeted Guineafowl
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
349   Rosy-faced Lovebird
0% 0.0% 0.0%
350   Snowy Owl
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
351   Manx Shearwater
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
352   Connecticut Warbler
0% 0.0% 0.0%
353   Mandarin Duck
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
354   Cockatiel
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
355   Northern Red Bishop
0% 0.0% 0.0%
356   Gray Parrot
0% 0.0% 0.0%
357   Neotropic Cormorant
0% 0.0% 0.0%
358   American Goshawk
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%

Created by Michael Fogleman.

Data from the eBird Basic Dataset. Version: EBD_relSep-2025. Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York. Sep 2025.