Top Birds at Montclair Hawk Watch in September
relative to other locations within 25 miles of New York, NY, USA
based on 354 checklists
This page shows the probability of a species appearing on a checklist at Montclair Hawk Watch in September. 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 | Red-tailed Hawk | 18.4% | 80.2% | 61.8% | |||
| 2 | Turkey Vulture | 8.0% | 79.9% | 71.9% | |||
| 3 | Blue Jay | 51.6% | 79.1% | 27.5% | |||
| 4 | Chimney Swift | 22.2% | 70.6% | 48.4% | |||
| 5 | Sharp-shinned Hawk | 5.0% | 65.3% | 60.3% | |||
| 6 | Osprey | 25.3% | 63.6% | 38.3% | |||
| 7 | Mourning Dove | 53.2% | 61.0% | 7.8% | |||
| 8 | American Robin | 60.3% | 60.5% | 0.1% | |||
| 9 | Cooper's Hawk | 7.1% | 58.5% | 51.4% | |||
| 10 | Broad-winged Hawk | 2.9% | 57.9% | 55.0% | |||
| 11 | American Goldfinch | 27.6% | 54.5% | 26.9% | |||
| 12 | Bald Eagle | 4.5% | 52.5% | 48.0% | |||
| 13 | Gray Catbird | 60.6% | 51.1% | 9.5% | |||
| 14 | American Kestrel | 10.6% | 50.8% | 40.2% | |||
| 15 | Northern Flicker | 43.1% | 50.6% | 7.4% | |||
| 16 | Black Vulture | 2.5% | 46.0% | 43.6% | |||
| 17 | Ruby-throated Hummingbird | 16.4% | 44.4% | 27.9% | |||
| 18 | Northern Cardinal | 50.4% | 43.8% | 6.6% | |||
| 19 | European Starling | 48.5% | 42.9% | 5.5% | |||
| 20 | House Finch | 14.7% | 42.7% | 27.9% | |||
| 21 | Rock Pigeon | 36.8% | 42.4% | 5.6% | |||
| 22 | Common Raven | 5.2% | 42.4% | 37.2% | |||
| 23 | Red-bellied Woodpecker | 29.5% | 41.5% | 12.0% | |||
| 24 | Cedar Waxwing | 16.3% | 39.8% | 23.5% | |||
| 25 | Black-capped Chickadee | 12.6% | 37.6% | 25.0% | |||
| 26 | Downy Woodpecker | 31.8% | 36.7% | 4.9% | |||
| 27 | Common Grackle | 23.9% | 35.3% | 11.4% | |||
| 28 | Merlin | 5.2% | 34.7% | 29.5% | |||
| 29 | Common Nighthawk | 2.7% | 30.2% | 27.6% | |||
| 30 | Tufted Titmouse | 9.9% | 27.7% | 17.8% | |||
| 31 | American Crow | 17.0% | 26.0% | 9.0% | |||
| 32 | Peregrine Falcon | 7.3% | 25.7% | 18.4% | |||
| 33 | Canada Goose | 37.9% | 22.9% | 15.0% | |||
| 34 | Hairy Woodpecker | 8.4% | 22.6% | 14.2% | |||
| 35 | American Redstart | 43.1% | 21.5% | 21.7% | |||
| 36 | Northern Mockingbird | 31.7% | 20.6% | 11.1% | |||
| 37 | White-breasted Nuthatch | 13.5% | 20.3% | 6.9% | |||
| 38 | Northern Harrier | 3.5% | 19.5% | 16.0% | |||
| 39 | Song Sparrow | 28.7% | 18.6% | 10.1% | |||
| 40 | Blue-gray Gnatcatcher | 4.8% | 18.4% | 13.6% | |||
| 41 | Tree Swallow | 7.0% | 17.5% | 10.5% | |||
| 42 | Red-breasted Nuthatch | 7.5% | 16.9% | 9.4% | |||
| 43 | House Sparrow | 46.1% | 16.4% | 29.7% | |||
| 44 | Double-crested Cormorant | 32.1% | 16.4% | 15.7% | |||
| 45 | Carolina Wren | 26.9% | 15.5% | 11.4% | |||
| 46 | Red-eyed Vireo | 25.2% | 15.0% | 10.2% | |||
| 47 | Chipping Sparrow | 6.6% | 14.1% | 7.5% | |||
| 48 | Herring Gull | 31.0% | 11.9% | 19.1% | |||
| 49 | Eastern Wood-Pewee | 19.6% | 11.0% | 8.6% | |||
| 50 | Barn Swallow | 4.7% | 11.0% | 6.3% | |||
| 51 | Scarlet Tanager | 9.7% | 10.7% | 1.0% | |||
| 52 | Rose-breasted Grosbeak | 11.5% | 10.2% | 1.4% | |||
| 53 | Ring-billed Gull | 25.3% | 9.0% | 16.2% | |||
| 54 | House Wren | 17.3% | 9.0% | 8.3% | |||
| 55 | Cape May Warbler | 6.9% | 8.8% | 1.8% | |||
| 56 | Black-throated Green Warbler | 12.3% | 8.2% | 4.1% | |||
| 57 | Common Yellowthroat | 45.4% | 7.6% | 37.8% | |||
| 58 | Great Blue Heron | 24.8% | 7.6% | 17.2% | |||
| 59 | Red-shouldered Hawk | 1.1% | 7.6% | 6.5% | |||
| 60 | Northern Parula | 27.1% | 6.8% | 20.3% | |||
| 61 | Red-winged Blackbird | 12.2% | 6.5% | 5.7% | |||
| 62 | Black-and-white Warbler | 31.8% | 5.6% | 26.2% | |||
| 63 | Baltimore Oriole | 7.8% | 5.6% | 2.1% | |||
| 64 | Black-throated Blue Warbler | 16.9% | 5.4% | 11.5% | |||
| 65 | Eastern Phoebe | 18.0% | 5.1% | 12.9% | |||
| 66 | Yellow-rumped Warbler | 8.5% | 4.8% | 3.7% | |||
| 67 | Pileated Woodpecker | 2.0% | 4.8% | 2.8% | |||
| 68 | Belted Kingfisher | 12.1% | 4.5% | 7.6% | |||
| 69 | Indigo Bunting | 4.4% | 4.5% | 0.1% | |||
| 70 | Purple Finch | 1.4% | 4.5% | 3.2% | |||
| 71 | Bobolink | 3.1% | 4.2% | 1.1% | |||
| 72 | Magnolia Warbler | 22.9% | 4.0% | 18.9% | |||
| 73 | White-throated Sparrow | 9.6% | 4.0% | 5.6% | |||
| 74 | Golden-crowned Kinglet | 2.1% | 4.0% | 1.8% | |||
| 75 | Ruby-crowned Kinglet | 8.1% | 3.4% | 4.7% | |||
| 76 | Common Loon | 0.5% | 3.4% | 2.9% | |||
| 77 | Palm Warbler | 15.2% | 3.1% | 12.1% | |||
| 78 | Ovenbird | 12.7% | 3.1% | 9.6% | |||
| 79 | Yellow Warbler | 12.3% | 2.8% | 9.5% | |||
| 80 | Great Crested Flycatcher | 5.2% | 2.8% | 2.4% | |||
| 81 | Great Black-backed Gull | 18.7% | 2.5% | 16.2% | |||
| 82 | Blackpoll Warbler | 10.4% | 2.5% | 7.9% | |||
| 83 | Least Flycatcher | 3.4% | 2.5% | 0.9% | |||
| 84 | Red-headed Woodpecker | 0.6% | 2.5% | 1.9% | |||
| 85 | Chestnut-sided Warbler | 10.2% | 2.3% | 8.0% | |||
| 86 | Fish Crow | 2.9% | 2.3% | 0.6% | |||
| 87 | Yellow-billed Cuckoo | 2.6% | 2.3% | 0.4% | |||
| 88 | Great Egret | 20.1% | 2.0% | 18.2% | |||
| 89 | Tennessee Warbler | 6.0% | 2.0% | 4.1% | |||
| 90 | Wood Thrush | 5.2% | 1.7% | 3.5% | |||
| 91 | Cliff Swallow | 0.1% | 1.7% | 1.6% | |||
| 92 | Eastern Towhee | 7.8% | 1.4% | 6.4% | |||
| 93 | Green Heron | 7.6% | 1.4% | 6.2% | |||
| 94 | Prairie Warbler | 4.4% | 1.4% | 3.0% | |||
| 95 | Dark-eyed Junco | 1.4% | 1.4% | 0.0% | |||
| 96 | Northern Waterthrush | 15.9% | 1.1% | 14.7% | |||
| 97 | Veery | 11.6% | 1.1% | 10.5% | |||
| 98 | Greater Yellowlegs | 8.9% | 1.1% | 7.8% | |||
| 99 | Least Sandpiper | 7.3% | 1.1% | 6.1% | |||
| 100 | Pine Warbler | 5.4% | 1.1% | 4.3% | |||
| 101 | Blue-headed Vireo | 3.3% | 1.1% | 2.2% | |||
| 102 | Blackburnian Warbler | 3.0% | 1.1% | 1.8% | |||
| 103 | Willow Flycatcher | 0.5% | 1.1% | 0.7% | |||
| 104 | Northern Rough-winged Swallow | 0.3% | 1.1% | 0.8% | |||
| 105 | Mallard | 36.8% | 0.8% | 36.0% | |||
| 106 | Brown Thrasher | 8.7% | 0.8% | 7.9% | |||
| 107 | Killdeer | 7.5% | 0.8% | 6.6% | |||
| 108 | Brown-headed Cowbird | 4.1% | 0.8% | 3.2% | |||
| 109 | Yellow-bellied Sapsucker | 3.8% | 0.8% | 3.0% | |||
| 110 | Philadelphia Vireo | 2.0% | 0.8% | 1.2% | |||
| 111 | Swainson's Thrush | 14.9% | 0.6% | 14.3% | |||
| 112 | Nashville Warbler | 4.7% | 0.6% | 4.1% | |||
| 113 | Canada Warbler | 4.1% | 0.6% | 3.6% | |||
| 114 | Lincoln's Sparrow | 4.0% | 0.6% | 3.4% | |||
| 115 | Solitary Sandpiper | 3.1% | 0.6% | 2.6% | |||
| 116 | Eastern Kingbird | 3.0% | 0.6% | 2.5% | |||
| 117 | Field Sparrow | 2.4% | 0.6% | 1.8% | |||
| 118 | Yellow-bellied Flycatcher | 1.7% | 0.6% | 1.2% | |||
| 119 | Olive-sided Flycatcher | 1.1% | 0.6% | 0.5% | |||
| 120 | Dickcissel | 0.9% | 0.6% | 0.3% | |||
| 121 | Northern Pintail | 0.8% | 0.6% | 0.2% | |||
| 122 | Pine Siskin | 0.0% | 0.6% | 0.5% | |||
| 123 | Warbling Vireo | 8.2% | 0.3% | 8.0% | |||
| 124 | Semipalmated Sandpiper | 8.0% | 0.3% | 7.7% | |||
| 125 | Semipalmated Plover | 7.1% | 0.3% | 6.8% | |||
| 126 | Lesser Yellowlegs | 6.5% | 0.3% | 6.2% | |||
| 127 | Savannah Sparrow | 6.4% | 0.3% | 6.1% | |||
| 128 | Northern Shoveler | 3.8% | 0.3% | 3.5% | |||
| 129 | White-eyed Vireo | 3.5% | 0.3% | 3.2% | |||
| 130 | Pectoral Sandpiper | 2.0% | 0.3% | 1.7% | |||
| 131 | Winter Wren | 1.8% | 0.3% | 1.5% | |||
| 132 | Blue-winged Warbler | 1.5% | 0.3% | 1.2% | |||
| 133 | Brown Creeper | 1.3% | 0.3% | 1.0% | |||
| 134 | Black-billed Cuckoo | 0.6% | 0.3% | 0.3% | |||
| 135 | Blue Grosbeak | 0.5% | 0.3% | 0.2% | |||
| 136 | Worm-eating Warbler | 0.4% | 0.3% | 0.2% | |||
| 137 | Bank Swallow | 0.3% | 0.3% | 0.0% | |||
| 138 | Eastern Screech-Owl | 0.2% | 0.3% | 0.1% | |||
| 139 | Horned Lark | 0.0% | 0.3% | 0.2% | |||
| 140 | Mississippi Kite | 0.0% | 0.3% | 0.3% | |||
| 141 | Cackling Goose | 0.0% | 0.3% | 0.3% |