Top Birds at Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh in May
relative to other locations within 25 miles of New York, NY, USA
based on 255 checklists
This page shows the probability of a species appearing on a checklist at Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh 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 | Willet | 5.6% | 80.4% | 74.7% | |||
| 2 | Laughing Gull | 16.7% | 74.1% | 57.4% | |||
| 3 | American Oystercatcher | 7.8% | 72.9% | 65.2% | |||
| 4 | Herring Gull | 23.3% | 68.6% | 45.3% | |||
| 5 | Brant | 10.6% | 66.7% | 56.0% | |||
| 6 | Red-winged Blackbird | 53.3% | 61.6% | 8.3% | |||
| 7 | Semipalmated Sandpiper | 4.8% | 60.4% | 55.6% | |||
| 8 | European Starling | 58.4% | 57.3% | 1.2% | |||
| 9 | Barn Swallow | 31.7% | 56.5% | 24.8% | |||
| 10 | Song Sparrow | 35.5% | 53.3% | 17.8% | |||
| 11 | Double-crested Cormorant | 34.0% | 52.9% | 19.0% | |||
| 12 | Forster's Tern | 7.8% | 52.9% | 45.1% | |||
| 13 | Great Egret | 25.3% | 51.0% | 25.6% | |||
| 14 | Semipalmated Plover | 4.4% | 50.6% | 46.1% | |||
| 15 | Ruddy Turnstone | 2.1% | 50.6% | 48.5% | |||
| 16 | Great Black-backed Gull | 13.2% | 50.2% | 37.0% | |||
| 17 | Snowy Egret | 9.8% | 49.4% | 39.6% | |||
| 18 | Yellow Warbler | 42.6% | 48.6% | 6.0% | |||
| 19 | Black-bellied Plover | 3.4% | 48.2% | 44.9% | |||
| 20 | Northern Mockingbird | 26.7% | 46.7% | 20.0% | |||
| 21 | Least Sandpiper | 7.0% | 45.9% | 38.9% | |||
| 22 | Osprey | 16.4% | 44.7% | 28.3% | |||
| 23 | Killdeer | 9.2% | 43.5% | 34.3% | |||
| 24 | Yellow-crowned Night-Heron | 3.8% | 42.7% | 38.9% | |||
| 25 | Boat-tailed Grackle | 5.1% | 40.8% | 35.7% | |||
| 26 | House Sparrow | 57.0% | 39.6% | 17.4% | |||
| 27 | Canada Goose | 45.1% | 38.4% | 6.7% | |||
| 28 | Dunlin | 2.1% | 37.3% | 35.1% | |||
| 29 | Mallard | 49.3% | 33.7% | 15.6% | |||
| 30 | Black-crowned Night-Heron | 11.6% | 31.0% | 19.4% | |||
| 31 | Glossy Ibis | 4.2% | 30.6% | 26.4% | |||
| 32 | Red Knot | 0.6% | 30.2% | 29.6% | |||
| 33 | Tree Swallow | 22.4% | 29.4% | 7.0% | |||
| 34 | Gray Catbird | 66.0% | 29.0% | 37.0% | |||
| 35 | American Robin | 73.4% | 28.6% | 44.8% | |||
| 36 | Short-billed Dowitcher | 1.8% | 26.3% | 24.5% | |||
| 37 | Common Yellowthroat | 47.6% | 24.7% | 22.9% | |||
| 38 | Clapper Rail | 3.3% | 24.7% | 21.4% | |||
| 39 | Common Tern | 5.8% | 23.9% | 18.2% | |||
| 40 | Spotted Sandpiper | 12.4% | 23.1% | 10.8% | |||
| 41 | Ring-billed Gull | 14.3% | 21.2% | 6.9% | |||
| 42 | Rock Pigeon | 35.5% | 20.8% | 14.7% | |||
| 43 | Northern Cardinal | 59.1% | 20.0% | 39.1% | |||
| 44 | Greater Yellowlegs | 5.9% | 18.8% | 13.0% | |||
| 45 | Fish Crow | 10.8% | 18.0% | 7.2% | |||
| 46 | Least Tern | 3.9% | 14.5% | 10.6% | |||
| 47 | House Finch | 16.0% | 12.9% | 3.1% | |||
| 48 | Common Grackle | 55.0% | 12.5% | 42.5% | |||
| 49 | Mourning Dove | 53.5% | 11.4% | 42.1% | |||
| 50 | American Crow | 17.7% | 11.4% | 6.3% | |||
| 51 | Savannah Sparrow | 5.5% | 11.0% | 5.5% | |||
| 52 | American Black Duck | 5.0% | 10.6% | 5.6% | |||
| 53 | Willow Flycatcher | 5.4% | 10.2% | 4.8% | |||
| 54 | Brown-headed Cowbird | 20.8% | 9.0% | 11.8% | |||
| 55 | Seaside Sparrow | 0.8% | 8.2% | 7.5% | |||
| 56 | Gadwall | 7.0% | 7.8% | 0.9% | |||
| 57 | Marsh Wren | 4.6% | 6.7% | 2.0% | |||
| 58 | Mute Swan | 11.5% | 6.3% | 5.3% | |||
| 59 | Lesser Yellowlegs | 2.7% | 5.5% | 2.8% | |||
| 60 | Peregrine Falcon | 2.7% | 5.1% | 2.4% | |||
| 61 | Common Loon | 2.4% | 5.1% | 2.7% | |||
| 62 | House Wren | 26.8% | 4.7% | 22.1% | |||
| 63 | Carolina Wren | 19.9% | 4.7% | 15.2% | |||
| 64 | Red-breasted Merganser | 1.7% | 4.3% | 2.6% | |||
| 65 | Sanderling | 1.6% | 3.9% | 2.3% | |||
| 66 | Little Blue Heron | 1.2% | 3.9% | 2.7% | |||
| 67 | Chimney Swift | 29.9% | 3.5% | 26.3% | |||
| 68 | Eastern Towhee | 19.9% | 3.5% | 16.4% | |||
| 69 | Great Blue Heron | 9.6% | 3.5% | 6.1% | |||
| 70 | Green Heron | 9.0% | 3.5% | 5.5% | |||
| 71 | White-throated Sparrow | 34.4% | 3.1% | 31.2% | |||
| 72 | American Goldfinch | 28.7% | 3.1% | 25.6% | |||
| 73 | Swamp Sparrow | 13.1% | 2.7% | 10.3% | |||
| 74 | Burrowing Owl | 0% | 2.7% | 2.7% | |||
| 75 | Warbling Vireo | 32.2% | 2.4% | 29.9% | |||
| 76 | White-rumped Sandpiper | 0.4% | 2.4% | 2.0% | |||
| 77 | Blackpoll Warbler | 21.9% | 2.0% | 20.0% | |||
| 78 | Eastern Kingbird | 16.9% | 2.0% | 14.9% | |||
| 79 | Belted Kingfisher | 4.2% | 2.0% | 2.2% | |||
| 80 | Black Skimmer | 1.7% | 2.0% | 0.3% | |||
| 81 | Saltmarsh Sparrow | 0.7% | 2.0% | 1.2% | |||
| 82 | American Golden-Plover | 0.0% | 2.0% | 1.9% | |||
| 83 | Northern Parula | 35.8% | 1.6% | 34.2% | |||
| 84 | Yellow-rumped Warbler | 33.9% | 1.6% | 32.3% | |||
| 85 | Northern Flicker | 29.2% | 1.6% | 27.6% | |||
| 86 | Downy Woodpecker | 28.2% | 1.6% | 26.6% | |||
| 87 | Ruby-crowned Kinglet | 13.2% | 1.6% | 11.7% | |||
| 88 | White-crowned Sparrow | 3.7% | 1.6% | 2.1% | |||
| 89 | Bank Swallow | 2.5% | 1.6% | 0.9% | |||
| 90 | Blue Jay | 49.4% | 1.2% | 48.2% | |||
| 91 | Baltimore Oriole | 44.8% | 1.2% | 43.6% | |||
| 92 | Black-and-white Warbler | 39.6% | 1.2% | 38.4% | |||
| 93 | Brown Thrasher | 7.4% | 1.2% | 6.2% | |||
| 94 | Bonaparte's Gull | 0.6% | 1.2% | 0.6% | |||
| 95 | Gull-billed Tern | 0.2% | 1.2% | 1.0% | |||
| 96 | Pectoral Sandpiper | 0.1% | 1.2% | 1.1% | |||
| 97 | American Redstart | 40.5% | 0.8% | 39.7% | |||
| 98 | Cedar Waxwing | 16.8% | 0.8% | 16.0% | |||
| 99 | Ruby-throated Hummingbird | 6.3% | 0.8% | 5.5% | |||
| 100 | Least Flycatcher | 5.9% | 0.8% | 5.2% | |||
| 101 | Solitary Sandpiper | 5.8% | 0.8% | 5.0% | |||
| 102 | Bobolink | 1.2% | 0.8% | 0.4% | |||
| 103 | Red-throated Loon | 1.1% | 0.8% | 0.3% | |||
| 104 | Northern Harrier | 0.6% | 0.8% | 0.2% | |||
| 105 | American Woodcock | 0.5% | 0.8% | 0.3% | |||
| 106 | Whimbrel | 0.1% | 0.8% | 0.7% | |||
| 107 | Red-bellied Woodpecker | 38.3% | 0.4% | 37.9% | |||
| 108 | Ovenbird | 32.8% | 0.4% | 32.4% | |||
| 109 | Red-eyed Vireo | 22.8% | 0.4% | 22.4% | |||
| 110 | Chipping Sparrow | 18.3% | 0.4% | 17.9% | |||
| 111 | Blue-headed Vireo | 14.3% | 0.4% | 13.9% | |||
| 112 | Nashville Warbler | 8.9% | 0.4% | 8.5% | |||
| 113 | Prairie Warbler | 8.5% | 0.4% | 8.1% | |||
| 114 | Palm Warbler | 5.3% | 0.4% | 4.9% | |||
| 115 | Yellow-throated Vireo | 4.6% | 0.4% | 4.2% | |||
| 116 | White-eyed Vireo | 4.3% | 0.4% | 3.9% | |||
| 117 | Field Sparrow | 3.4% | 0.4% | 3.0% | |||
| 118 | Lincoln's Sparrow | 2.9% | 0.4% | 2.5% | |||
| 119 | American Kestrel | 2.2% | 0.4% | 1.8% | |||
| 120 | Purple Martin | 1.4% | 0.4% | 1.0% | |||
| 121 | Merlin | 0.9% | 0.4% | 0.5% | |||
| 122 | Blue-winged Teal | 0.5% | 0.4% | 0.1% | |||
| 123 | Tricolored Heron | 0.4% | 0.4% | 0.0% | |||
| 124 | Virginia Rail | 0.3% | 0.4% | 0.1% | |||
| 125 | Wilson's Snipe | 0.2% | 0.4% | 0.2% | |||
| 126 | Black Tern | 0.1% | 0.4% | 0.3% | |||
| 127 | Cattle Egret | 0.1% | 0.4% | 0.3% | |||
| 128 | Nelson's Sparrow | 0.1% | 0.4% | 0.3% | |||
| 129 | Eastern Meadowlark | 0.0% | 0.4% | 0.4% | |||
| 130 | Cockatiel | 0% | 0.4% | 0.4% |