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Top Birds at Jamaica Bay, Yellow Bar Hassock in August
relative to other locations within 25 miles of 40.781243, -73.966507

based on 66 checklists

This page shows the probability of a species appearing on a checklist at Jamaica Bay, Yellow Bar Hassock in August. 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.

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Rank Info Pics Species Entire Region This Location Difference
1   Laughing Gull 32.2% 92.4% 60.2%
2   Osprey 30.6% 90.9% 60.3%
3   Great Egret 32.7% 87.9% 55.2%
4   Semipalmated Plover 20.2% 87.9% 67.7%
5   American Herring Gull 37.7% 83.3% 45.6%
6   Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 8.7% 83.3% 74.6%
7   Double-crested Cormorant 40.1% 81.8% 41.7%
8   Snowy Egret 21.0% 81.8% 60.8%
9   Willet 3.2% 80.3% 77.1%
10   Greater Yellowlegs 14.6% 78.8% 64.2%
11   Short-billed Dowitcher 9.5% 78.8% 69.3%
12   Common Tern 16.1% 75.8% 59.7%
13   Least Sandpiper 21.0% 74.2% 53.3%
14   American Oystercatcher 11.3% 74.2% 62.9%
15   Forster's Tern 13.1% 72.7% 59.6%
16   Semipalmated Sandpiper 22.7% 71.2% 48.5%
17   Boat-tailed Grackle 4.0% 69.7% 65.7%
18   Spotted Sandpiper 15.5% 68.2% 52.7%
19   Black-bellied Plover 6.4% 63.6% 57.2%
20   Ruddy Turnstone 5.1% 62.1% 57.1%
21   Great Blue Heron 30.2% 60.6% 30.4%
22   Barn Swallow 37.7% 57.6% 19.9%
23   Great Black-backed Gull 25.2% 57.6% 32.4%
24   Whimbrel 0.5% 51.5% 51.0%
25   Clapper Rail 3.9% 50.0% 46.1%
26   Little Blue Heron 3.7% 45.5% 41.7%
27   Tree Swallow 13.4% 34.8% 21.5%
28   Brant 0.7% 34.8% 34.1%
29   Canada Goose 39.9% 30.3% 9.6%
30   Ring-billed Gull 30.8% 27.3% 3.5%
31   Red-winged Blackbird 26.7% 27.3% 0.6%
32   Least Tern 4.9% 24.2% 19.3%
33   Black Skimmer 5.7% 22.7% 17.0%
34   Lesser Yellowlegs 12.7% 19.7% 7.0%
35   Glossy Ibis 6.0% 19.7% 13.7%
36   Gull-billed Tern 1.2% 19.7% 18.5%
37   Black-crowned Night-Heron 13.2% 18.2% 5.0%
38   American Black Duck 9.4% 16.7% 7.2%
39   Royal Tern 2.5% 16.7% 14.2%
40   Marbled Godwit 0.7% 12.1% 11.4%
41   Red-breasted Merganser 0.2% 12.1% 11.9%
42   Peregrine Falcon 7.0% 9.1% 2.1%
43   Mallard 39.4% 7.6% 31.8%
44   Ruby-throated Hummingbird 8.9% 6.1% 2.8%
45   White-rumped Sandpiper 3.7% 6.1% 2.3%
46   Caspian Tern 2.3% 6.1% 3.8%
47   Killdeer 13.5% 4.5% 8.9%
48   Tricolored Heron 0.5% 4.5% 4.0%
49   Green Heron 10.9% 3.0% 7.9%
50   Purple Martin 3.1% 3.0% 0.1%
51   Pectoral Sandpiper 2.7% 3.0% 0.3%
52   Saltmarsh Sparrow 1.7% 3.0% 1.3%
53   Northern Harrier 0.7% 3.0% 2.3%
54   American Golden-Plover 0.1% 3.0% 2.9%
55   Chimney Swift 23.8% 1.5% 22.3%
56   Sanderling 5.2% 1.5% 3.7%
57   Solitary Sandpiper 4.0% 1.5% 2.5%
58   Bank Swallow 2.9% 1.5% 1.4%
59   Bald Eagle 2.8% 1.5% 1.3%
60   Northern Rough-winged Swallow 1.8% 1.5% 0.2%
61   Green-winged Teal 1.5% 1.5% 0.0%
62   Black Tern 0.8% 1.5% 0.7%
63   Long-billed Dowitcher 0.7% 1.5% 0.8%
64   Common Loon 0.5% 1.5% 1.1%