Top Birds at Central Park in January
relative to other locations within 25 miles of New York, NY, USA
based on 2751 checklists
This page shows the probability of a species appearing on a checklist at Central Park in January. 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 | House Sparrow | 33.9% | 78.7% | 44.9% | |||
| 2 | White-throated Sparrow | 40.6% | 78.5% | 37.9% | |||
| 3 | Mallard | 47.9% | 75.2% | 27.4% | |||
| 4 | Blue Jay | 32.2% | 75.2% | 43.1% | |||
| 5 | Canada Goose | 52.7% | 71.4% | 18.6% | |||
| 6 | Northern Cardinal | 35.5% | 65.2% | 29.7% | |||
| 7 | Northern Shoveler | 14.1% | 61.8% | 47.7% | |||
| 8 | Rock Pigeon | 27.5% | 59.7% | 32.2% | |||
| 9 | American Robin | 23.4% | 59.4% | 36.0% | |||
| 10 | European Starling | 35.0% | 57.5% | 22.4% | |||
| 11 | Red-bellied Woodpecker | 23.4% | 56.6% | 33.2% | |||
| 12 | Red-tailed Hawk | 20.4% | 55.3% | 35.0% | |||
| 13 | Ruddy Duck | 15.0% | 53.1% | 38.1% | |||
| 14 | Ring-billed Gull | 52.0% | 53.1% | 1.1% | |||
| 15 | Bufflehead | 31.1% | 49.9% | 18.7% | |||
| 16 | Hooded Merganser | 18.2% | 49.3% | 31.1% | |||
| 17 | Tufted Titmouse | 18.4% | 49.0% | 30.7% | |||
| 18 | Mourning Dove | 28.5% | 49.0% | 20.5% | |||
| 19 | Downy Woodpecker | 26.2% | 48.7% | 22.4% | |||
| 20 | American Coot | 9.8% | 47.8% | 37.9% | |||
| 21 | Herring Gull | 43.2% | 45.1% | 1.9% | |||
| 22 | Great Black-backed Gull | 31.1% | 44.1% | 13.0% | |||
| 23 | White-breasted Nuthatch | 17.2% | 42.6% | 25.4% | |||
| 24 | Common Grackle | 3.9% | 34.8% | 30.9% | |||
| 25 | Black-capped Chickadee | 21.5% | 34.3% | 12.9% | |||
| 26 | House Finch | 12.6% | 33.0% | 20.4% | |||
| 27 | American Goldfinch | 12.5% | 31.5% | 19.0% | |||
| 28 | Cooper's Hawk | 7.6% | 26.2% | 18.5% | |||
| 29 | Wood Duck | 3.3% | 25.7% | 22.3% | |||
| 30 | Yellow-bellied Sapsucker | 4.9% | 22.4% | 17.5% | |||
| 31 | American Crow | 18.1% | 21.6% | 3.6% | |||
| 32 | Dark-eyed Junco | 15.7% | 19.6% | 3.9% | |||
| 33 | American Black Duck | 28.2% | 18.6% | 9.6% | |||
| 34 | Fox Sparrow | 6.4% | 18.6% | 12.2% | |||
| 35 | Pied-billed Grebe | 4.1% | 14.6% | 10.5% | |||
| 36 | Peregrine Falcon | 4.8% | 13.2% | 8.3% | |||
| 37 | Song Sparrow | 33.0% | 12.6% | 20.4% | |||
| 38 | Gadwall | 16.9% | 12.3% | 4.6% | |||
| 39 | Brown Creeper | 3.4% | 11.6% | 8.3% | |||
| 40 | Northern Flicker | 6.7% | 11.4% | 4.7% | |||
| 41 | Northern Mockingbird | 24.2% | 9.8% | 14.4% | |||
| 42 | Great Blue Heron | 14.9% | 9.3% | 5.7% | |||
| 43 | Great Horned Owl | 1.6% | 9.2% | 7.6% | |||
| 44 | Hermit Thrush | 2.5% | 8.0% | 5.5% | |||
| 45 | Eastern Towhee | 1.6% | 7.5% | 5.9% | |||
| 46 | Carolina Wren | 15.4% | 7.3% | 8.2% | |||
| 47 | Double-crested Cormorant | 14.1% | 7.1% | 7.0% | |||
| 48 | Barred Owl | 0.5% | 6.6% | 6.1% | |||
| 49 | Green-winged Teal | 4.3% | 6.4% | 2.1% | |||
| 50 | Red-breasted Merganser | 19.9% | 6.1% | 13.7% | |||
| 51 | Common Loon | 10.8% | 5.9% | 4.9% | |||
| 52 | Red-headed Woodpecker | 0.7% | 5.5% | 4.8% | |||
| 53 | Ring-necked Duck | 4.5% | 5.4% | 0.9% | |||
| 54 | American Kestrel | 3.8% | 5.2% | 1.5% | |||
| 55 | Red-winged Blackbird | 7.3% | 5.2% | 2.1% | |||
| 56 | Red-breasted Nuthatch | 1.8% | 5.0% | 3.2% | |||
| 57 | Redhead | 2.3% | 4.0% | 1.7% | |||
| 58 | Snow Goose | 2.6% | 3.8% | 1.2% | |||
| 59 | Golden-crowned Kinglet | 2.5% | 3.7% | 1.2% | |||
| 60 | Rusty Blackbird | 1.7% | 3.7% | 2.0% | |||
| 61 | Northern Pintail | 3.6% | 3.6% | 0.0% | |||
| 62 | Northern Saw-whet Owl | 0.6% | 3.5% | 2.8% | |||
| 63 | Sharp-shinned Hawk | 2.3% | 3.4% | 1.1% | |||
| 64 | Common Merganser | 6.8% | 3.3% | 3.5% | |||
| 65 | Hairy Woodpecker | 8.0% | 3.2% | 4.9% | |||
| 66 | Gray Catbird | 2.6% | 3.1% | 0.5% | |||
| 67 | Ruby-crowned Kinglet | 2.8% | 2.9% | 0.2% | |||
| 68 | Chipping Sparrow | 0.6% | 2.8% | 2.2% | |||
| 69 | Greater White-fronted Goose | 0.8% | 2.8% | 1.9% | |||
| 70 | Lesser Scaup | 5.2% | 2.4% | 2.8% | |||
| 71 | Common Goldeneye | 7.2% | 2.4% | 4.8% | |||
| 72 | Horned Grebe | 7.5% | 2.3% | 5.2% | |||
| 73 | Brown Thrasher | 0.3% | 2.1% | 1.8% | |||
| 74 | Long-tailed Duck | 9.4% | 2.1% | 7.4% | |||
| 75 | Baltimore Oriole | 0.2% | 2.1% | 1.9% | |||
| 76 | Mute Swan | 15.0% | 1.9% | 13.0% | |||
| 77 | Brown-headed Cowbird | 1.2% | 1.9% | 0.7% | |||
| 78 | Iceland Gull | 1.0% | 1.9% | 0.8% | |||
| 79 | Swamp Sparrow | 4.8% | 1.8% | 3.0% | |||
| 80 | Cedar Waxwing | 1.7% | 1.8% | 0.1% | |||
| 81 | Bald Eagle | 5.4% | 1.7% | 3.6% | |||
| 82 | Common Raven | 4.0% | 1.5% | 2.5% | |||
| 83 | American Tree Sparrow | 6.8% | 1.5% | 5.3% | |||
| 84 | Muscovy Duck | 0.2% | 1.5% | 1.3% | |||
| 85 | Winter Wren | 3.3% | 1.3% | 1.9% | |||
| 86 | Common Redpoll | 0.5% | 1.2% | 0.6% | |||
| 87 | Varied Thrush | 0.2% | 1.2% | 1.0% | |||
| 88 | Snowy Owl | 1.2% | 1.1% | 0.0% | |||
| 89 | Canvasback | 3.2% | 1.1% | 2.1% | |||
| 90 | Red-shouldered Hawk | 1.5% | 1.0% | 0.5% | |||
| 91 | Orange-crowned Warbler | 1.0% | 0.9% | 0.0% | |||
| 92 | Mandarin Duck | 0.0% | 0.9% | 0.9% | |||
| 93 | Pine Siskin | 0.6% | 0.8% | 0.2% | |||
| 94 | Boreal Owl | 0.0% | 0.8% | 0.8% | |||
| 95 | Merlin | 2.0% | 0.6% | 1.4% | |||
| 96 | Purple Finch | 0.4% | 0.5% | 0.1% | |||
| 97 | Boat-tailed Grackle | 0.2% | 0.5% | 0.3% | |||
| 98 | Turkey Vulture | 5.0% | 0.5% | 4.4% | |||
| 99 | Eastern Screech-Owl | 0.6% | 0.5% | 0.1% | |||
| 100 | American Woodcock | 0.3% | 0.5% | 0.2% | |||
| 101 | Glaucous Gull | 0.4% | 0.4% | 0.1% | |||
| 102 | Lesser Black-backed Gull | 0.8% | 0.4% | 0.4% | |||
| 103 | Field Sparrow | 1.2% | 0.3% | 0.9% | |||
| 104 | Fish Crow | 5.2% | 0.3% | 4.9% | |||
| 105 | White-crowned Sparrow | 0.7% | 0.3% | 0.4% | |||
| 106 | Slaty-backed Gull | 0.0% | 0.3% | 0.3% | |||
| 107 | Belted Kingfisher | 7.2% | 0.3% | 6.9% | |||
| 108 | Black-crowned Night-Heron | 1.5% | 0.3% | 1.3% | |||
| 109 | Red-throated Loon | 7.6% | 0.2% | 7.4% | |||
| 110 | Great Cormorant | 5.0% | 0.2% | 4.8% | |||
| 111 | Eastern Phoebe | 0.3% | 0.2% | 0.1% | |||
| 112 | Brant | 21.4% | 0.2% | 21.2% | |||
| 113 | Yellow-rumped Warbler | 5.1% | 0.2% | 4.9% | |||
| 114 | Black Vulture | 1.4% | 0.2% | 1.2% | |||
| 115 | American Wigeon | 6.5% | 0.1% | 6.3% | |||
| 116 | Black-headed Gull | 0.5% | 0.1% | 0.4% | |||
| 117 | Eurasian Eagle-Owl | 0.0% | 0.1% | 0.1% | |||
| 118 | Rufous Hummingbird | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.0% | |||
| 119 | White-winged Crossbill | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.0% | |||
| 120 | Greater Scaup | 10.3% | 0.1% | 10.2% | |||
| 121 | Eastern Bluebird | 0.7% | 0.1% | 0.6% | |||
| 122 | Pine Warbler | 0.4% | 0.1% | 0.3% | |||
| 123 | European Goldfinch | 0.3% | 0.1% | 0.2% | |||
| 124 | Ovenbird | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | |||
| 125 | Lincoln's Sparrow | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.0% | |||
| 126 | Black-and-white Warbler | 0.0% | 0.1% | 0.1% | |||
| 127 | Northern Harrier | 4.4% | 0.0% | 4.3% | |||
| 128 | Bonaparte's Gull | 2.4% | 0.0% | 2.3% | |||
| 129 | Wild Turkey | 1.3% | 0.0% | 1.3% | |||
| 130 | American Pipit | 0.7% | 0.0% | 0.7% | |||
| 131 | Wilson's Warbler | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | |||
| 132 | Graylag Goose | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |