Top Birds at Great Kills Park in December
relative to other locations within 25 miles of New York, NY, USA
based on 323 checklists
This page shows the probability of a species appearing on a checklist at Great Kills Park in December. The difference in probability relative to other nearby locations is also shown, to highlight which birds are particularly likely to be found (or not found) at this specific location. The chart shows how many distinct species have historically been observed at this location for each month of the year.
| Rank | Info | Pics | Species | Entire Region | This Location | Difference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bufflehead | 27.9% | 74.0% | 46.1% | |||
| 2 | Herring Gull | 41.7% | 73.1% | 31.4% | |||
| 3 | Ring-billed Gull | 49.5% | 72.8% | 23.2% | |||
| 4 | Great Black-backed Gull | 29.2% | 68.1% | 38.9% | |||
| 5 | Canada Goose | 51.5% | 66.3% | 14.7% | |||
| 6 | Brant | 18.6% | 65.6% | 47.1% | |||
| 7 | Northern Mockingbird | 28.2% | 60.4% | 32.2% | |||
| 8 | Horned Grebe | 4.9% | 59.4% | 54.5% | |||
| 9 | Yellow-rumped Warbler | 6.5% | 58.2% | 51.7% | |||
| 10 | Song Sparrow | 36.9% | 56.7% | 19.7% | |||
| 11 | European Starling | 38.8% | 56.0% | 17.3% | |||
| 12 | American Black Duck | 26.5% | 52.6% | 26.1% | |||
| 13 | Double-crested Cormorant | 17.7% | 49.2% | 31.5% | |||
| 14 | Red-breasted Merganser | 14.7% | 46.1% | 31.4% | |||
| 15 | Horned Lark | 2.5% | 43.7% | 41.2% | |||
| 16 | Northern Cardinal | 40.0% | 41.2% | 1.1% | |||
| 17 | Red-throated Loon | 6.7% | 40.6% | 33.9% | |||
| 18 | White-throated Sparrow | 48.7% | 36.2% | 12.5% | |||
| 19 | Northern Gannet | 2.9% | 33.7% | 30.8% | |||
| 20 | Mallard | 48.4% | 33.1% | 15.3% | |||
| 21 | Gray Kingbird | 0.0% | 32.2% | 32.2% | |||
| 22 | House Sparrow | 38.5% | 31.0% | 7.6% | |||
| 23 | American Robin | 29.6% | 30.7% | 1.1% | |||
| 24 | Common Loon | 8.9% | 29.7% | 20.8% | |||
| 25 | Northern Flicker | 10.8% | 27.6% | 16.7% | |||
| 26 | Carolina Wren | 18.7% | 26.6% | 7.9% | |||
| 27 | King Eider | 0.4% | 24.5% | 24.0% | |||
| 28 | Greater Scaup | 6.7% | 22.9% | 16.3% | |||
| 29 | Great Blue Heron | 20.2% | 21.4% | 1.2% | |||
| 30 | Downy Woodpecker | 30.7% | 20.1% | 10.6% | |||
| 31 | Turkey Vulture | 5.3% | 19.8% | 14.6% | |||
| 32 | American Tree Sparrow | 6.4% | 19.5% | 13.1% | |||
| 33 | Long-tailed Duck | 6.2% | 17.6% | 11.4% | |||
| 34 | Common Goldeneye | 3.8% | 17.6% | 13.9% | |||
| 35 | Mourning Dove | 36.3% | 16.7% | 19.5% | |||
| 36 | American Crow | 20.6% | 16.4% | 4.2% | |||
| 37 | Rock Pigeon | 30.8% | 16.1% | 14.7% | |||
| 38 | Blue Jay | 40.0% | 15.2% | 24.8% | |||
| 39 | American Goldfinch | 20.5% | 15.2% | 5.3% | |||
| 40 | Tree Swallow | 0.9% | 12.4% | 11.5% | |||
| 41 | Sanderling | 3.1% | 12.1% | 9.0% | |||
| 42 | Dark-eyed Junco | 23.3% | 11.8% | 11.6% | |||
| 43 | Cooper's Hawk | 10.8% | 11.5% | 0.7% | |||
| 44 | Mute Swan | 14.0% | 10.5% | 3.5% | |||
| 45 | Field Sparrow | 1.8% | 9.9% | 8.1% | |||
| 46 | Red-tailed Hawk | 24.7% | 9.0% | 15.7% | |||
| 47 | Bald Eagle | 4.8% | 8.4% | 3.6% | |||
| 48 | Northern Harrier | 4.9% | 8.0% | 3.1% | |||
| 49 | Snow Bunting | 2.0% | 8.0% | 6.0% | |||
| 50 | Peregrine Falcon | 5.8% | 6.8% | 1.0% | |||
| 51 | Black-capped Chickadee | 24.4% | 6.5% | 17.9% | |||
| 52 | Red-winged Blackbird | 9.2% | 6.2% | 3.0% | |||
| 53 | Savannah Sparrow | 2.1% | 6.2% | 4.1% | |||
| 54 | Hooded Merganser | 18.9% | 5.9% | 13.0% | |||
| 55 | House Finch | 16.5% | 5.6% | 10.9% | |||
| 56 | Gadwall | 15.3% | 5.3% | 10.0% | |||
| 57 | Black Scoter | 2.6% | 5.3% | 2.6% | |||
| 58 | Fox Sparrow | 9.8% | 4.6% | 5.1% | |||
| 59 | Red-shouldered Hawk | 1.9% | 4.6% | 2.8% | |||
| 60 | Snowy Owl | 1.0% | 4.6% | 3.7% | |||
| 61 | Red-bellied Woodpecker | 28.8% | 4.3% | 24.5% | |||
| 62 | Hermit Thrush | 5.5% | 4.3% | 1.2% | |||
| 63 | Killdeer | 1.8% | 4.3% | 2.5% | |||
| 64 | Gray Catbird | 4.0% | 4.0% | 0.1% | |||
| 65 | Swamp Sparrow | 7.6% | 3.4% | 4.2% | |||
| 66 | Lapland Longspur | 0.4% | 3.4% | 3.0% | |||
| 67 | Belted Kingfisher | 9.6% | 3.1% | 6.5% | |||
| 68 | Great Cormorant | 3.8% | 3.1% | 0.7% | |||
| 69 | Ruddy Duck | 15.7% | 2.8% | 12.9% | |||
| 70 | Black Vulture | 1.3% | 2.8% | 1.5% | |||
| 71 | Sharp-shinned Hawk | 3.3% | 2.5% | 0.8% | |||
| 72 | Ring-necked Pheasant | 0.6% | 2.5% | 1.8% | |||
| 73 | Cedar Waxwing | 3.7% | 2.2% | 1.5% | |||
| 74 | Brown-headed Cowbird | 1.8% | 2.2% | 0.4% | |||
| 75 | Purple Sandpiper | 1.7% | 2.2% | 0.5% | |||
| 76 | White-crowned Sparrow | 0.7% | 2.2% | 1.5% | |||
| 77 | Ruby-crowned Kinglet | 5.6% | 1.9% | 3.8% | |||
| 78 | Winter Wren | 5.0% | 1.9% | 3.1% | |||
| 79 | Common Merganser | 4.9% | 1.9% | 3.0% | |||
| 80 | White-winged Scoter | 2.0% | 1.9% | 0.2% | |||
| 81 | Orange-crowned Warbler | 1.9% | 1.9% | 0.1% | |||
| 82 | American Pipit | 1.0% | 1.9% | 0.9% | |||
| 83 | American Golden-Plover | 0% | 1.9% | 1.9% | |||
| 84 | Tufted Titmouse | 21.4% | 1.5% | 19.9% | |||
| 85 | Pied-billed Grebe | 5.4% | 1.5% | 3.9% | |||
| 86 | Lesser Black-backed Gull | 0.6% | 1.5% | 0.9% | |||
| 87 | Laughing Gull | 0.6% | 1.5% | 1.0% | |||
| 88 | Red-necked Grebe | 0.5% | 1.5% | 1.1% | |||
| 89 | Brown Creeper | 4.2% | 1.2% | 2.9% | |||
| 90 | Lesser Scaup | 3.6% | 1.2% | 2.4% | |||
| 91 | Merlin | 2.3% | 1.2% | 1.1% | |||
| 92 | Bonaparte's Gull | 1.7% | 1.2% | 0.5% | |||
| 93 | Chipping Sparrow | 1.4% | 1.2% | 0.2% | |||
| 94 | Ruddy Turnstone | 0.5% | 1.2% | 0.7% | |||
| 95 | White-breasted Nuthatch | 20.1% | 0.9% | 19.1% | |||
| 96 | Hairy Woodpecker | 9.3% | 0.9% | 8.3% | |||
| 97 | Common Grackle | 5.5% | 0.9% | 4.6% | |||
| 98 | Eastern Towhee | 2.6% | 0.9% | 1.6% | |||
| 99 | Surf Scoter | 2.3% | 0.9% | 1.4% | |||
| 100 | Common Eider | 1.2% | 0.9% | 0.3% | |||
| 101 | American Woodcock | 0.6% | 0.9% | 0.3% | |||
| 102 | Pine Warbler | 0.3% | 0.9% | 0.6% | |||
| 103 | American Coot | 10.4% | 0.6% | 9.8% | |||
| 104 | Yellow-bellied Sapsucker | 8.4% | 0.6% | 7.7% | |||
| 105 | Great Horned Owl | 2.4% | 0.6% | 1.8% | |||
| 106 | Black-bellied Plover | 1.2% | 0.6% | 0.5% | |||
| 107 | Pine Siskin | 1.0% | 0.6% | 0.4% | |||
| 108 | Iceland Gull | 0.6% | 0.6% | 0.0% | |||
| 109 | Brown Thrasher | 0.5% | 0.6% | 0.1% | |||
| 110 | Northern Shoveler | 14.9% | 0.3% | 14.6% | |||
| 111 | Fish Crow | 5.2% | 0.3% | 4.9% | |||
| 112 | Green-winged Teal | 5.2% | 0.3% | 4.9% | |||
| 113 | Common Raven | 4.5% | 0.3% | 4.2% | |||
| 114 | Golden-crowned Kinglet | 4.3% | 0.3% | 4.0% | |||
| 115 | Ring-necked Duck | 4.0% | 0.3% | 3.7% | |||
| 116 | Wood Duck | 3.8% | 0.3% | 3.5% | |||
| 117 | Red-breasted Nuthatch | 2.6% | 0.3% | 2.3% | |||
| 118 | Snow Goose | 2.2% | 0.3% | 1.9% | |||
| 119 | Dunlin | 1.6% | 0.3% | 1.3% | |||
| 120 | Great Egret | 1.6% | 0.3% | 1.3% | |||
| 121 | Purple Finch | 1.3% | 0.3% | 1.0% | |||
| 122 | Eastern Bluebird | 1.0% | 0.3% | 0.7% | |||
| 123 | Palm Warbler | 0.8% | 0.3% | 0.5% | |||
| 124 | American Bittern | 0.2% | 0.3% | 0.1% |