Bird Finder

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

based on 65303 checklists in 1805 hotspots

This page shows the probability of a species appearing on a checklist during the month of September. 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 September 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 August September Change
1   Gray Catbird
54.7% 60.6% 5.9%
2   American Robin
57.2% 60.3% 3.1%
3   Mourning Dove
53.7% 53.2% 0.5%
4   Blue Jay
35.3% 51.8% 16.4%
5   Northern Cardinal
47.8% 50.4% 2.6%
6   European Starling
51.1% 48.4% 2.7%
7   House Sparrow
50.0% 45.9% 4.1%
8   Common Yellowthroat
15.1% 45.2% 30.0%
9   Northern Flicker
26.0% 43.2% 17.2%
10   American Redstart
22.0% 43.0% 21.0%
11   Canada Goose
40.8% 37.8% 3.0%
12   Rock Pigeon
35.4% 36.8% 1.4%
13   Mallard
40.8% 36.6% 4.2%
14   Double-crested Cormorant
41.3% 32.0% 9.3%
15   Downy Woodpecker
25.2% 31.8% 6.6%
16   Black-and-white Warbler
14.3% 31.7% 17.4%
17   Northern Mockingbird
36.0% 31.6% 4.4%
18   Herring Gull
39.5% 30.9% 8.6%
19   Red-bellied Woodpecker
19.3% 29.6% 10.3%
20   Song Sparrow
35.0% 28.7% 6.4%
21   American Goldfinch
37.6% 27.8% 9.9%
22   Northern Parula
1.8% 27.0% 25.2%
23   Carolina Wren
24.7% 26.9% 2.1%
24   Osprey
30.7% 25.5% 5.2%
25   Ring-billed Gull
31.8% 25.2% 6.6%
26   Red-eyed Vireo
9.6% 25.1% 15.5%
27   Great Blue Heron
30.6% 24.7% 5.9%
28   Common Grackle
28.2% 24.0% 4.2%
29   Magnolia Warbler
2.9% 22.8% 19.9%
30   Chimney Swift
23.8% 22.5% 1.4%
31   Great Egret
34.5% 20.0% 14.5%
32   Eastern Wood-Pewee
9.1% 19.5% 10.4%
33   Red-tailed Hawk
11.4% 18.7% 7.3%
34   Laughing Gull
32.0% 18.6% 13.4%
35   Great Black-backed Gull
27.0% 18.6% 8.4%
36   Eastern Phoebe
3.8% 17.9% 14.2%
37   House Wren
11.4% 17.3% 5.9%
38   American Crow
14.4% 17.0% 2.6%
39   Black-throated Blue Warbler
2.1% 16.8% 14.8%
40   Ruby-throated Hummingbird
9.0% 16.6% 7.6%
41   Cedar Waxwing
16.8% 16.4% 0.4%
42   Northern Waterthrush
15.4% 15.8% 0.3%
43   Palm Warbler
0.1% 15.1% 15.0%
44   House Finch
14.9% 14.9% 0.1%
45   Swainson's Thrush
0.3% 14.8% 14.5%
46   White-breasted Nuthatch
9.8% 13.5% 3.7%
47   Black-capped Chickadee
11.2% 12.7% 1.5%
48   Ovenbird
4.2% 12.6% 8.4%
49   Yellow Warbler
20.2% 12.3% 7.9%
50   Black-throated Green Warbler
1.0% 12.2% 11.2%
51   Snowy Egret
22.5% 12.1% 10.4%
52   Red-winged Blackbird
28.5% 12.1% 16.4%
53   Belted Kingfisher
8.4% 12.1% 3.7%
54   Veery
2.6% 11.6% 9.0%
55   Rose-breasted Grosbeak
1.3% 11.5% 10.3%
56   Mute Swan
14.5% 11.4% 3.0%
57   American Kestrel
3.6% 10.8% 7.2%
58   Blackpoll Warbler
0.1% 10.4% 10.3%
59   Chestnut-sided Warbler
5.0% 10.2% 5.2%
60   Wood Duck
9.3% 10.0% 0.7%
61   Tufted Titmouse
8.5% 10.0% 1.4%
62   Scarlet Tanager
1.7% 9.7% 8.1%
63   White-throated Sparrow
0.8% 9.6% 8.8%
64   Greater Yellowlegs
15.9% 8.8% 7.0%
65   Brown Thrasher
3.1% 8.7% 5.6%
66   Hairy Woodpecker
6.0% 8.5% 2.4%
67   Yellow-rumped Warbler
0.2% 8.5% 8.2%
68   Turkey Vulture
5.3% 8.4% 3.0%
69   Warbling Vireo
10.0% 8.2% 1.8%
70   Ruby-crowned Kinglet
0.0% 8.1% 8.0%
71   American Black Duck
10.1% 8.0% 2.0%
72   Black-crowned Night-Heron
14.5% 8.0% 6.6%
73   Semipalmated Sandpiper
24.2% 7.9% 16.2%
74   Baltimore Oriole
15.1% 7.8% 7.4%
75   Eastern Towhee
7.0% 7.8% 0.7%
76   Red-breasted Nuthatch
2.1% 7.6% 5.5%
77   Green Heron
11.9% 7.5% 4.3%
78   Killdeer
14.2% 7.5% 6.7%
79   Peregrine Falcon
7.6% 7.4% 0.2%
80   Cooper's Hawk
2.3% 7.4% 5.1%
81   Least Sandpiper
22.0% 7.2% 14.8%
82   Semipalmated Plover
21.1% 7.0% 14.1%
83   Tree Swallow
14.1% 7.0% 7.1%
84   Cape May Warbler
1.2% 6.9% 5.7%
85   Chipping Sparrow
5.2% 6.6% 1.4%
86   Lesser Yellowlegs
13.9% 6.4% 7.5%
87   Savannah Sparrow
0.7% 6.3% 5.6%
88   Tennessee Warbler
0.8% 6.0% 5.3%
89   Common Raven
2.8% 5.4% 2.6%
90   Pine Warbler
0.3% 5.4% 5.1%
91   Merlin
0.5% 5.4% 4.8%
92   Sharp-shinned Hawk
0.2% 5.3% 5.1%
93   Great Crested Flycatcher
7.0% 5.2% 1.8%
94   Wood Thrush
2.5% 5.2% 2.6%
95   American Oystercatcher
12.4% 5.0% 7.4%
96   Swamp Sparrow
1.1% 5.0% 3.8%
97   Spotted Sandpiper
17.0% 5.0% 12.0%
98   Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
6.8% 4.9% 1.9%
99   Bald Eagle
2.5% 4.8% 2.3%
100   Barn Swallow
39.9% 4.7% 35.1%
101   Nashville Warbler
0.4% 4.7% 4.3%
102   Gadwall
3.9% 4.6% 0.7%
103   Black-bellied Plover
7.4% 4.4% 3.0%
104   Indigo Bunting
3.4% 4.4% 1.1%
105   Bay-breasted Warbler
0.1% 4.4% 4.2%
106   Prairie Warbler
1.1% 4.3% 3.3%
107   Forster's Tern
13.2% 4.1% 9.1%
108   Canada Warbler
5.7% 4.1% 1.5%
109   Brown-headed Cowbird
5.9% 4.0% 1.9%
110   Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
9.1% 4.0% 5.1%
111   Lincoln's Sparrow
0.0% 4.0% 4.0%
112   Common Tern
16.4% 4.0% 12.5%
113   Wilson's Warbler
0.5% 3.9% 3.4%
114   Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
0.0% 3.8% 3.8%
115   Northern Shoveler
1.3% 3.8% 2.5%
116   Green-winged Teal
1.7% 3.7% 1.9%
117   Northern Harrier
0.9% 3.6% 2.7%
118   Marsh Wren
5.6% 3.5% 2.1%
119   White-eyed Vireo
2.2% 3.5% 1.3%
120   Least Flycatcher
2.0% 3.4% 1.4%
121   Blue-headed Vireo
0.1% 3.3% 3.3%
122   Broad-winged Hawk
0.5% 3.2% 2.7%
123   Bobolink
2.2% 3.2% 0.9%
124   Solitary Sandpiper
3.7% 3.1% 0.5%
125   Eastern Kingbird
16.7% 3.0% 13.7%
126   Short-billed Dowitcher
10.4% 3.0% 7.4%
127   Blackburnian Warbler
1.0% 3.0% 1.9%
128   Royal Tern
2.2% 2.9% 0.7%
129   Sanderling
5.3% 2.9% 2.4%
130   Fish Crow
9.0% 2.9% 6.1%
131   Common Nighthawk
1.3% 2.8% 1.6%
132   Black Vulture
1.4% 2.7% 1.3%
133   Yellow-billed Cuckoo
1.6% 2.6% 1.0%
134   Field Sparrow
1.8% 2.4% 0.6%
135   Monk Parakeet
1.6% 2.2% 0.6%
136   Little Blue Heron
4.2% 2.2% 2.1%
137   Golden-crowned Kinglet
0.0% 2.1% 2.1%
138   Blue-winged Teal
1.7% 2.1% 0.4%
139   Philadelphia Vireo
0.1% 2.0% 1.9%
140   Pileated Woodpecker
1.3% 2.0% 0.6%
141   Connecticut Warbler
0.0% 2.0% 2.0%
142   Pectoral Sandpiper
3.1% 2.0% 1.1%
143   Clapper Rail
4.2% 1.9% 2.3%
144   Pied-billed Grebe
1.0% 1.8% 0.9%
145   Winter Wren
0.0% 1.8% 1.7%
146   Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
0.8% 1.7% 0.9%
147   Black Skimmer
5.8% 1.6% 4.1%
148   Gray-cheeked Thrush
0.0% 1.5% 1.5%
149   Caspian Tern
1.9% 1.5% 0.3%
150   Wild Turkey
1.7% 1.5% 0.2%
151   Blue-winged Warbler
3.9% 1.5% 2.4%
152   Ruddy Duck
2.4% 1.4% 0.9%
153   Dark-eyed Junco
0% 1.4% 1.4%
154   Purple Finch
0.0% 1.4% 1.3%
155   White-rumped Sandpiper
4.0% 1.4% 2.7%
156   Ruddy Turnstone
5.5% 1.3% 4.1%
157   Brown Creeper
0.0% 1.3% 1.3%
158   Boat-tailed Grackle
4.3% 1.3% 3.0%
159   Red-shouldered Hawk
0.6% 1.1% 0.5%
160   Stilt Sandpiper
3.7% 1.1% 2.6%
161   Saltmarsh Sparrow
2.1% 1.1% 1.0%
162   American Coot
0.6% 1.1% 0.4%
163   Olive-sided Flycatcher
0.7% 1.0% 0.3%
164   Sora
0.4% 1.0% 0.6%
165   Willet
3.6% 1.0% 2.7%
166   American Wigeon
0.2% 1.0% 0.8%
167   Glossy Ibis
6.5% 1.0% 5.6%
168   Hooded Warbler
0.5% 0.9% 0.4%
169   Dickcissel
0.2% 0.9% 0.7%
170   Western Sandpiper
1.8% 0.9% 0.9%
171   Yellow-throated Vireo
0.4% 0.8% 0.5%
172   American Golden-Plover
0.1% 0.8% 0.7%
173   Clay-colored Sparrow
0.0% 0.8% 0.7%
174   Northern Pintail
0.3% 0.8% 0.5%
175   Piping Plover
1.9% 0.7% 1.2%
176   Yellow-breasted Chat
0.2% 0.7% 0.5%
177   Eastern Bluebird
0.6% 0.7% 0.1%
178   Dunlin
0.2% 0.7% 0.4%
179   Lesser Black-backed Gull
0.5% 0.7% 0.2%
180   Baird's Sandpiper
0.7% 0.6% 0.1%
181   Red-headed Woodpecker
0.2% 0.6% 0.4%
182   Mourning Warbler
0.4% 0.6% 0.1%
183   Lark Sparrow
0.3% 0.6% 0.3%
184   Black-billed Cuckoo
0.5% 0.6% 0.1%
185   Common Loon
0.5% 0.5% 0.1%
186   Whimbrel
0.5% 0.5% 0.0%
187   Brant
0.8% 0.5% 0.3%
188   Buff-breasted Sandpiper
0.2% 0.5% 0.3%
189   Great Horned Owl
0.5% 0.5% 0.0%
190   Hermit Thrush
0.0% 0.5% 0.4%
191   Hudsonian Godwit
0.8% 0.5% 0.3%
192   Willow Flycatcher
4.7% 0.5% 4.2%
193   Blue Grosbeak
0.3% 0.5% 0.2%
194   Black Tern
0.8% 0.5% 0.3%
195   Ring-necked Pheasant
0.4% 0.5% 0.1%
196   Worm-eating Warbler
1.3% 0.4% 0.9%
197   Red Knot
1.0% 0.4% 0.6%
198   White-crowned Sparrow
0% 0.4% 0.4%
199   American Pipit
0.0% 0.4% 0.4%
200   Long-billed Dowitcher
0.7% 0.4% 0.3%
201   American White Pelican
0.9% 0.4% 0.5%
202   Seaside Sparrow
1.1% 0.3% 0.7%
203   American Avocet
1.2% 0.3% 0.9%
204   Wilson's Phalarope
1.5% 0.3% 1.2%
205   Bank Swallow
3.1% 0.3% 2.7%
206   Virginia Rail
0.1% 0.3% 0.2%
207   Northern Rough-winged Swallow
2.1% 0.3% 1.8%
208   Great Cormorant
0.0% 0.3% 0.3%
209   Least Bittern
1.0% 0.3% 0.7%
210   Marbled Godwit
0.7% 0.3% 0.5%
211   Wilson's Snipe
0.1% 0.3% 0.2%
212   American Bittern
0.0% 0.2% 0.2%
213   Tricolored Heron
0.7% 0.2% 0.5%
214   Red-breasted Merganser
0.3% 0.2% 0.1%
215   Nelson's Sparrow
0.0% 0.2% 0.2%
216   Wood Sandpiper
0% 0.2% 0.2%
217   Roseate Spoonbill
0% 0.2% 0.2%
218   Eastern Screech-Owl
0.2% 0.2% 0.0%
219   Yellow-headed Blackbird
0.0% 0.2% 0.2%
220   Eastern Whip-poor-will
0.0% 0.2% 0.2%
221   Western Kingbird
0.0% 0.2% 0.2%
222   Common Gallinule
0.3% 0.2% 0.1%
223   Golden-winged Warbler
0.3% 0.2% 0.1%
224   Bonaparte's Gull
0.4% 0.2% 0.2%
225   Least Tern
5.1% 0.2% 4.9%
226   Black Scoter
0.4% 0.2% 0.2%
227   American Woodcock
0.1% 0.2% 0.0%
228   Budgerigar
0.1% 0.2% 0.1%
229   Red Phalarope
0% 0.1% 0.1%
230   Hooded Merganser
0.3% 0.1% 0.2%
231   Red-necked Phalarope
0.5% 0.1% 0.4%
232   Cliff Swallow
0.8% 0.1% 0.6%
233   Elegant Tern
0.0% 0.1% 0.1%
234   Greater Scaup
0.3% 0.1% 0.2%
235   Purple Martin
3.2% 0.1% 3.1%
236   Common Merganser
0.2% 0.1% 0.0%
237   Orange-crowned Warbler
0% 0.1% 0.1%
238   Eurasian Wigeon
0% 0.1% 0.1%
239   Townsend's Warbler
0% 0.1% 0.1%
240   Eared Grebe
0.0% 0.1% 0.0%
241   Grasshopper Sparrow
0.1% 0.1% 0.0%
242   Brown Booby
0.0% 0.1% 0.1%
243   Rusty Blackbird
0.0% 0.1% 0.1%
244   Snow Goose
0.1% 0.1% 0.0%
245   Lesser Scaup
0.2% 0.1% 0.1%
246   Northern Wheatear
0% 0.1% 0.1%
247   Surf Scoter
0.1% 0.1% 0.0%
248   Muscovy Duck
0.1% 0.1% 0.0%
249   Barred Owl
0.1% 0.1% 0.0%
250   Summer Tanager
0.0% 0.1% 0.0%
251   Alder Flycatcher
0.1% 0.1% 0.0%
252   Louisiana Waterthrush
1.1% 0.1% 1.0%
253   Black-headed Gull
0.2% 0.1% 0.2%
254   Common Eider
0.1% 0.1% 0.0%
255   Acadian Flycatcher
0.1% 0.1% 0.0%
256   Say's Phoebe
0% 0.1% 0.1%
257   Lark Bunting
0% 0.1% 0.1%
258   Gull-billed Tern
1.2% 0.1% 1.1%
259   Northern Gannet
0.0% 0.1% 0.0%
260   Red-necked Grebe
0.1% 0.1% 0.0%
261   Parasitic Jaeger
0% 0.1% 0.1%
262   Orchard Oriole
1.0% 0.0% 0.9%
263   Upland Sandpiper
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
264   Eastern Meadowlark
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
265   Ring-necked Duck
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
266   Pine Siskin
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
267   Eurasian Eagle-Owl
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
268   Horned Lark
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
269   Sedge Wren
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
270   Prothonotary Warbler
0.5% 0.0% 0.4%
271   European Goldfinch
0.1% 0.0% 0.1%
272   Black-throated Gray Warbler
0% 0.0% 0.0%
273   White-winged Scoter
0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
274   Vesper Sparrow
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
275   Tropical Kingbird
0% 0.0% 0.0%
276   Carolina Chickadee
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
277   Sandwich Tern
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
278   Northern Red Bishop
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
279   White Ibis
0.4% 0.0% 0.3%
280   Brown Pelican
0.1% 0.0% 0.1%
281   Cerulean Warbler
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
282   Red Crossbill
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
283   Brewster's Warbler (hybrid)
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
284   Long-tailed Duck
0.1% 0.0% 0.1%
285   Northern Bobwhite
0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
286   Barn Owl
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
287   Cattle Egret
0.1% 0.0% 0.1%
288   Roseate Tern
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
289   Yellow-throated Warbler
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
290   Chuck-will's-widow
0% 0.0% 0.0%
291   Kentucky Warbler
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
292   Lawrence's Warbler (hybrid)
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
293   Swan Goose
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
294   King Rail
0.1% 0.0% 0.1%
295   Fork-tailed Flycatcher
0% 0.0% 0.0%
296   Black-legged Kittiwake
0% 0.0% 0.0%
297   Ash-throated Flycatcher
0% 0.0% 0.0%
298   Wilson's Storm-Petrel
0.1% 0.0% 0.1%
299   Lined Seedeater
0% 0.0% 0.0%
300   Bufflehead
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
301   Mississippi Kite
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
302   Cackling Goose
0% 0.0% 0.0%
303   Gray Kingbird
0% 0.0% 0.0%
304   Black Swan
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
305   Sandhill Crane
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
306   Short-eared Owl
0% 0.0% 0.0%
307   Anhinga
0.1% 0.0% 0.1%
308   Redhead
0% 0.0% 0.0%
309   Iceland Gull
0% 0.0% 0.0%
310   Red-throated Loon
0% 0.0% 0.0%
311   Horned Grebe
0% 0.0% 0.0%
312   Swainson's Hawk
0% 0.0% 0.0%
313   Franklin's Gull
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
314   Wood Stork
0.3% 0.0% 0.3%
315   Great Shearwater
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
316   Cockatiel
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
317   Leach's Storm-Petrel
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
318   Purple Sandpiper
0% 0.0% 0.0%
319   White-faced Ibis
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
320   White-winged Dove
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
321   Black-necked Stilt
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
322   Graylag Goose
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
323   Painted Bunting
0% 0.0% 0.0%
324   Western Tanager
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
325   Eastern Yellow Wagtail
0% 0.0% 0.0%
326   Cory's Shearwater
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
327   Bell's Vireo
0% 0.0% 0.0%
328   Whooper Swan
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
329   Eastern Paradise-Whydah
0% 0.0% 0.0%
330   Sooty Tern
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
331   Bicknell's Thrush
0% 0.0% 0.0%
332   American Goshawk
0% 0.0% 0.0%
333   Evening Grosbeak
0% 0.0% 0.0%
334   Northern Fulmar
0% 0.0% 0.0%
335   Common Ringed Plover
0% 0.0% 0.0%
336   Golden Eagle
0% 0.0% 0.0%
337   Ruff
0.1% 0.0% 0.1%
338   Scaly-breasted Munia
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
339   Black-headed Grosbeak
0% 0.0% 0.0%
340   Eurasian Collared-Dove
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
341   Rough-legged Hawk
0% 0.0% 0.0%
342   Northern Saw-whet Owl
0% 0.0% 0.0%
343   Helmeted Guineafowl
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
344   Cave Swallow
0% 0.0% 0.0%
345   Swallow-tailed Kite
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
346   Chukar
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
347   Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
348   Manx Shearwater
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
349   King Eider
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
350   Little Gull
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
351   Yellow-collared Lovebird
0% 0.0% 0.0%
352   African Collared-Dove
0% 0.0% 0.0%
353   White-faced Storm-Petrel
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.