Top Birds at Watchung Reservation in May
relative to other locations within 25 miles of New York, NY, USA
based on 263 checklists
This page shows the probability of a species appearing on a checklist at Watchung Reservation in May. 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 | American Robin | 73.3% | 80.6% | 7.3% | |||
| 2 | Gray Catbird | 65.9% | 78.3% | 12.4% | |||
| 3 | Wood Thrush | 23.0% | 77.9% | 55.0% | |||
| 4 | Blue Jay | 49.2% | 77.6% | 28.4% | |||
| 5 | Yellow Warbler | 42.6% | 76.4% | 33.9% | |||
| 6 | Baltimore Oriole | 44.6% | 73.8% | 29.2% | |||
| 7 | Northern Cardinal | 59.0% | 70.7% | 11.7% | |||
| 8 | Red-bellied Woodpecker | 38.1% | 66.2% | 28.1% | |||
| 9 | Northern Flicker | 29.0% | 63.1% | 34.1% | |||
| 10 | Common Yellowthroat | 47.5% | 62.4% | 14.9% | |||
| 11 | American Redstart | 40.4% | 60.1% | 19.7% | |||
| 12 | Red-eyed Vireo | 22.7% | 58.9% | 36.3% | |||
| 13 | Mourning Dove | 53.4% | 55.5% | 2.1% | |||
| 14 | Tufted Titmouse | 15.5% | 55.1% | 39.7% | |||
| 15 | House Wren | 26.7% | 53.2% | 26.6% | |||
| 16 | Rose-breasted Grosbeak | 16.4% | 52.5% | 36.1% | |||
| 17 | Common Grackle | 54.9% | 51.7% | 3.2% | |||
| 18 | Song Sparrow | 35.5% | 51.3% | 15.8% | |||
| 19 | Ovenbird | 32.7% | 51.3% | 18.7% | |||
| 20 | Blue-gray Gnatcatcher | 14.4% | 50.2% | 35.8% | |||
| 21 | Red-winged Blackbird | 53.3% | 49.8% | 3.5% | |||
| 22 | Brown-headed Cowbird | 20.7% | 47.5% | 26.8% | |||
| 23 | American Goldfinch | 28.6% | 46.8% | 18.2% | |||
| 24 | Great Crested Flycatcher | 18.0% | 45.6% | 27.6% | |||
| 25 | Warbling Vireo | 32.1% | 44.1% | 12.0% | |||
| 26 | Northern Parula | 35.7% | 43.7% | 8.0% | |||
| 27 | Scarlet Tanager | 18.8% | 42.6% | 23.7% | |||
| 28 | Downy Woodpecker | 28.1% | 42.2% | 14.1% | |||
| 29 | Eastern Towhee | 19.8% | 42.2% | 22.4% | |||
| 30 | Veery | 20.0% | 39.5% | 19.5% | |||
| 31 | Blue-winged Warbler | 6.6% | 39.2% | 32.6% | |||
| 32 | Black-and-white Warbler | 39.5% | 37.3% | 2.3% | |||
| 33 | Black-throated Blue Warbler | 28.0% | 35.7% | 7.8% | |||
| 34 | Turkey Vulture | 9.7% | 35.4% | 25.7% | |||
| 35 | Hairy Woodpecker | 8.3% | 35.4% | 27.1% | |||
| 36 | Eastern Phoebe | 4.8% | 34.6% | 29.8% | |||
| 37 | Carolina Wren | 19.8% | 34.2% | 14.4% | |||
| 38 | Eastern Wood-Pewee | 11.1% | 33.8% | 22.8% | |||
| 39 | Black-throated Green Warbler | 20.2% | 32.7% | 12.5% | |||
| 40 | Yellow-rumped Warbler | 33.8% | 31.2% | 2.6% | |||
| 41 | Eastern Kingbird | 16.8% | 30.4% | 13.6% | |||
| 42 | Orchard Oriole | 10.2% | 30.4% | 20.3% | |||
| 43 | Pileated Woodpecker | 2.4% | 29.7% | 27.2% | |||
| 44 | Canada Goose | 45.1% | 29.3% | 15.9% | |||
| 45 | Chipping Sparrow | 18.3% | 29.3% | 11.0% | |||
| 46 | Indigo Bunting | 10.0% | 29.3% | 19.3% | |||
| 47 | Blackpoll Warbler | 21.9% | 28.5% | 6.6% | |||
| 48 | White-throated Sparrow | 34.3% | 28.1% | 6.2% | |||
| 49 | Cedar Waxwing | 16.8% | 27.8% | 11.0% | |||
| 50 | European Starling | 58.5% | 27.4% | 31.1% | |||
| 51 | Magnolia Warbler | 27.5% | 27.4% | 0.1% | |||
| 52 | Black-capped Chickadee | 12.1% | 27.0% | 14.9% | |||
| 53 | Swainson's Thrush | 17.7% | 26.6% | 8.9% | |||
| 54 | White-breasted Nuthatch | 10.7% | 24.7% | 14.0% | |||
| 55 | Barn Swallow | 31.7% | 22.8% | 8.9% | |||
| 56 | Red-tailed Hawk | 19.8% | 22.8% | 3.1% | |||
| 57 | Great Blue Heron | 9.5% | 22.8% | 13.3% | |||
| 58 | Chimney Swift | 29.8% | 22.4% | 7.4% | |||
| 59 | House Sparrow | 57.0% | 21.7% | 35.4% | |||
| 60 | Mallard | 49.4% | 21.3% | 28.1% | |||
| 61 | Northern Rough-winged Swallow | 12.0% | 20.5% | 8.5% | |||
| 62 | Canada Warbler | 11.7% | 20.5% | 8.9% | |||
| 63 | Yellow-throated Vireo | 4.6% | 20.5% | 15.9% | |||
| 64 | Wood Duck | 9.3% | 20.2% | 10.9% | |||
| 65 | Chestnut-sided Warbler | 16.3% | 19.4% | 3.1% | |||
| 66 | Northern Waterthrush | 23.2% | 18.6% | 4.6% | |||
| 67 | Tree Swallow | 22.4% | 17.1% | 5.3% | |||
| 68 | House Finch | 16.0% | 16.0% | 0.1% | |||
| 69 | American Crow | 17.7% | 15.6% | 2.1% | |||
| 70 | Blue-headed Vireo | 14.3% | 14.4% | 0.2% | |||
| 71 | Spotted Sandpiper | 12.4% | 13.3% | 0.9% | |||
| 72 | Ruby-throated Hummingbird | 6.3% | 12.5% | 6.3% | |||
| 73 | Tennessee Warbler | 3.4% | 11.0% | 7.7% | |||
| 74 | Green Heron | 9.0% | 10.6% | 1.6% | |||
| 75 | Ruby-crowned Kinglet | 13.2% | 9.9% | 3.3% | |||
| 76 | Nashville Warbler | 8.9% | 9.5% | 0.6% | |||
| 77 | Brown Thrasher | 7.3% | 9.1% | 1.8% | |||
| 78 | Least Flycatcher | 5.9% | 9.1% | 3.2% | |||
| 79 | White-eyed Vireo | 4.3% | 9.1% | 4.8% | |||
| 80 | Cooper's Hawk | 2.0% | 9.1% | 7.2% | |||
| 81 | Louisiana Waterthrush | 1.8% | 9.1% | 7.3% | |||
| 82 | Wilson's Warbler | 8.8% | 8.7% | 0.1% | |||
| 83 | Hooded Warbler | 4.0% | 8.4% | 4.4% | |||
| 84 | Blackburnian Warbler | 9.4% | 8.0% | 1.5% | |||
| 85 | Solitary Sandpiper | 5.8% | 8.0% | 2.2% | |||
| 86 | Osprey | 16.4% | 6.5% | 10.0% | |||
| 87 | Cape May Warbler | 7.0% | 6.5% | 0.5% | |||
| 88 | Rock Pigeon | 35.5% | 6.1% | 29.4% | |||
| 89 | Yellow-billed Cuckoo | 3.5% | 6.1% | 2.6% | |||
| 90 | Black Vulture | 2.2% | 6.1% | 3.9% | |||
| 91 | Field Sparrow | 3.4% | 5.7% | 2.3% | |||
| 92 | Red-shouldered Hawk | 0.6% | 5.7% | 5.1% | |||
| 93 | Prairie Warbler | 8.5% | 5.3% | 3.2% | |||
| 94 | Worm-eating Warbler | 3.9% | 5.3% | 1.4% | |||
| 95 | Swamp Sparrow | 13.1% | 4.9% | 8.1% | |||
| 96 | Common Raven | 2.5% | 4.9% | 2.4% | |||
| 97 | Wild Turkey | 2.2% | 4.9% | 2.7% | |||
| 98 | Northern Mockingbird | 26.8% | 4.6% | 22.2% | |||
| 99 | Bay-breasted Warbler | 8.0% | 4.6% | 3.4% | |||
| 100 | Belted Kingfisher | 4.2% | 4.6% | 0.4% | |||
| 101 | Willow Flycatcher | 5.4% | 4.2% | 1.3% | |||
| 102 | Hermit Thrush | 11.1% | 3.8% | 7.3% | |||
| 103 | Fish Crow | 10.9% | 3.8% | 7.1% | |||
| 104 | Gray-cheeked Thrush | 3.2% | 3.8% | 0.6% | |||
| 105 | Broad-winged Hawk | 1.1% | 3.8% | 2.7% | |||
| 106 | Double-crested Cormorant | 34.1% | 3.0% | 31.1% | |||
| 107 | Palm Warbler | 5.3% | 3.0% | 2.3% | |||
| 108 | Mourning Warbler | 1.9% | 3.0% | 1.2% | |||
| 109 | Common Loon | 2.4% | 2.7% | 0.2% | |||
| 110 | Black-billed Cuckoo | 1.6% | 2.7% | 1.1% | |||
| 111 | Olive-sided Flycatcher | 1.3% | 2.7% | 1.4% | |||
| 112 | Prothonotary Warbler | 1.1% | 2.7% | 1.6% | |||
| 113 | Great Egret | 25.5% | 2.3% | 23.2% | |||
| 114 | Pine Warbler | 1.7% | 2.3% | 0.6% | |||
| 115 | Kentucky Warbler | 0.8% | 2.3% | 1.5% | |||
| 116 | Killdeer | 9.3% | 1.9% | 7.4% | |||
| 117 | Bald Eagle | 2.5% | 1.9% | 0.6% | |||
| 118 | Least Sandpiper | 7.1% | 1.5% | 5.6% | |||
| 119 | Savannah Sparrow | 5.5% | 1.5% | 4.0% | |||
| 120 | Ring-necked Duck | 0.1% | 1.5% | 1.4% | |||
| 121 | Alder Flycatcher | 0.6% | 1.1% | 0.6% | |||
| 122 | Acadian Flycatcher | 0.6% | 1.1% | 0.6% | |||
| 123 | Pine Siskin | 0.4% | 1.1% | 0.7% | |||
| 124 | White-crowned Sparrow | 3.7% | 0.8% | 2.9% | |||
| 125 | Red-breasted Nuthatch | 2.8% | 0.8% | 2.0% | |||
| 126 | Common Nighthawk | 1.4% | 0.8% | 0.6% | |||
| 127 | Purple Martin | 1.4% | 0.8% | 0.6% | |||
| 128 | Eastern Bluebird | 1.2% | 0.8% | 0.4% | |||
| 129 | Blue Grosbeak | 0.8% | 0.8% | 0.0% | |||
| 130 | Black-crowned Night-Heron | 11.7% | 0.4% | 11.3% | |||
| 131 | Greater Yellowlegs | 5.9% | 0.4% | 5.5% | |||
| 132 | Lesser Yellowlegs | 2.7% | 0.4% | 2.4% | |||
| 133 | Bank Swallow | 2.5% | 0.4% | 2.1% | |||
| 134 | American Kestrel | 2.2% | 0.4% | 1.8% | |||
| 135 | Merlin | 0.9% | 0.4% | 0.5% | |||
| 136 | Red-headed Woodpecker | 0.8% | 0.4% | 0.4% | |||
| 137 | Yellow-bellied Flycatcher | 0.7% | 0.4% | 0.3% | |||
| 138 | Dark-eyed Junco | 0.5% | 0.4% | 0.1% | |||
| 139 | Rusty Blackbird | 0.5% | 0.4% | 0.1% | |||
| 140 | Winter Wren | 0.4% | 0.4% | 0.0% | |||
| 141 | Yellow-breasted Chat | 0.4% | 0.4% | 0.0% | |||
| 142 | Pied-billed Grebe | 0.2% | 0.4% | 0.2% | |||
| 143 | Golden-winged Warbler | 0.1% | 0.4% | 0.2% |