Top Birds at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge--West Pond in May
relative to other locations within 25 miles of 35.791540, -78.781117
based on 1026 checklists
This page shows the probability of a species appearing on a checklist at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge--West Pond 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 | Yellow Warbler | 7.8% | 83.4% | 75.6% | |||
| 2 | Tree Swallow | 15.2% | 83.2% | 68.0% | |||
| 3 | Laughing Gull | 0.2% | 81.0% | 80.8% | |||
| 4 | Red-winged Blackbird | 27.3% | 79.8% | 52.6% | |||
| 5 | Gray Catbird | 28.1% | 78.8% | 50.6% | |||
| 6 | Osprey | 16.3% | 77.3% | 60.9% | |||
| 7 | Great Egret | 2.5% | 71.1% | 68.5% | |||
| 8 | Double-crested Cormorant | 16.8% | 71.0% | 54.1% | |||
| 9 | Mallard | 28.2% | 70.8% | 42.6% | |||
| 10 | Canada Goose | 41.2% | 70.4% | 29.2% | |||
| 11 | Brant | 0% | 69.3% | 69.3% | |||
| 12 | American Robin | 38.0% | 68.5% | 30.5% | |||
| 13 | Northern Mockingbird | 29.9% | 67.8% | 37.9% | |||
| 14 | Song Sparrow | 15.7% | 66.7% | 50.9% | |||
| 15 | Glossy Ibis | 0.1% | 66.4% | 66.2% | |||
| 16 | American Herring Gull | 0.1% | 65.2% | 65.1% | |||
| 17 | Eastern Towhee | 36.5% | 63.5% | 27.0% | |||
| 18 | Mute Swan | 0.3% | 63.0% | 62.7% | |||
| 19 | Northern Cardinal | 79.5% | 61.3% | 18.2% | |||
| 20 | Common Yellowthroat | 40.3% | 60.7% | 20.4% | |||
| 21 | Ruddy Duck | 0.4% | 60.4% | 60.0% | |||
| 22 | House Wren | 8.5% | 59.3% | 50.7% | |||
| 23 | Great Black-backed Gull | 0% | 56.8% | 56.8% | |||
| 24 | Snowy Egret | 0.4% | 56.4% | 56.1% | |||
| 25 | Forster's Tern | 0.1% | 54.8% | 54.7% | |||
| 26 | Barn Swallow | 30.1% | 54.1% | 24.0% | |||
| 27 | American Oystercatcher | 0% | 51.7% | 51.7% | |||
| 28 | Gadwall | 0.0% | 48.7% | 48.7% | |||
| 29 | Boat-tailed Grackle | 0% | 48.2% | 48.2% | |||
| 30 | American Redstart | 22.1% | 44.2% | 22.1% | |||
| 31 | European Starling | 20.4% | 44.2% | 23.8% | |||
| 32 | Carolina Wren | 70.8% | 42.2% | 28.6% | |||
| 33 | Willet | 0.0% | 41.9% | 41.9% | |||
| 34 | Common Grackle | 33.9% | 40.4% | 6.5% | |||
| 35 | Mourning Dove | 47.8% | 39.5% | 8.4% | |||
| 36 | Brown Thrasher | 16.2% | 37.1% | 21.0% | |||
| 37 | Black-bellied Plover | 0.2% | 34.6% | 34.4% | |||
| 38 | Yellow-rumped Warbler | 9.9% | 34.3% | 24.4% | |||
| 39 | Semipalmated Sandpiper | 2.4% | 33.8% | 31.4% | |||
| 40 | American Black Duck | 0.0% | 31.6% | 31.6% | |||
| 41 | Least Sandpiper | 4.9% | 31.4% | 26.4% | |||
| 42 | Blackpoll Warbler | 7.6% | 30.4% | 22.8% | |||
| 43 | Ring-billed Gull | 1.3% | 30.1% | 28.8% | |||
| 44 | Willow Flycatcher | 0.2% | 28.8% | 28.7% | |||
| 45 | Black-and-white Warbler | 15.1% | 27.8% | 12.6% | |||
| 46 | House Sparrow | 3.3% | 27.8% | 24.5% | |||
| 47 | Northern Parula | 35.3% | 27.5% | 7.8% | |||
| 48 | Semipalmated Plover | 2.0% | 25.0% | 23.0% | |||
| 49 | Yellow-crowned Night-Heron | 1.5% | 24.5% | 22.9% | |||
| 50 | Fish Crow | 34.0% | 23.6% | 10.4% | |||
| 51 | American Goldfinch | 45.0% | 22.9% | 22.1% | |||
| 52 | Brown-headed Cowbird | 37.1% | 22.9% | 14.2% | |||
| 53 | Magnolia Warbler | 3.3% | 21.7% | 18.4% | |||
| 54 | Common Tern | 0.2% | 21.7% | 21.5% | |||
| 55 | Chimney Swift | 27.5% | 21.2% | 6.3% | |||
| 56 | Ruby-throated Hummingbird | 18.1% | 21.0% | 2.8% | |||
| 57 | Greater Yellowlegs | 1.0% | 19.7% | 18.7% | |||
| 58 | Spotted Sandpiper | 15.6% | 19.3% | 3.7% | |||
| 59 | White-throated Sparrow | 7.9% | 18.3% | 10.4% | |||
| 60 | Killdeer | 19.5% | 18.2% | 1.3% | |||
| 61 | Black-crowned Night-Heron | 0.0% | 17.8% | 17.8% | |||
| 62 | American Crow | 56.2% | 17.6% | 38.5% | |||
| 63 | Dunlin | 0.5% | 17.6% | 17.2% | |||
| 64 | Great Blue Heron | 45.2% | 16.8% | 28.4% | |||
| 65 | Ruddy Turnstone | 0.1% | 16.5% | 16.4% | |||
| 66 | House Finch | 29.3% | 16.4% | 13.0% | |||
| 67 | Black-throated Green Warbler | 0.5% | 16.1% | 15.6% | |||
| 68 | Red-breasted Merganser | 0.2% | 16.1% | 15.9% | |||
| 69 | Cedar Waxwing | 14.0% | 15.8% | 1.8% | |||
| 70 | Eastern Kingbird | 27.0% | 14.8% | 12.2% | |||
| 71 | Clapper Rail | 0% | 14.7% | 14.7% | |||
| 72 | Northern Flicker | 8.5% | 14.5% | 6.0% | |||
| 73 | Red-eyed Vireo | 51.9% | 14.3% | 37.6% | |||
| 74 | Baltimore Oriole | 1.2% | 13.7% | 12.6% | |||
| 75 | Bay-breasted Warbler | 0.4% | 13.1% | 12.7% | |||
| 76 | Rock Pigeon | 5.6% | 13.0% | 7.4% | |||
| 77 | Scarlet Tanager | 11.6% | 12.9% | 1.3% | |||
| 78 | Black-throated Blue Warbler | 12.1% | 12.8% | 0.7% | |||
| 79 | Great Crested Flycatcher | 49.0% | 12.5% | 36.5% | |||
| 80 | Chestnut-sided Warbler | 1.2% | 12.2% | 11.0% | |||
| 81 | Purple Martin | 10.5% | 12.1% | 1.6% | |||
| 82 | White-eyed Vireo | 34.8% | 11.7% | 23.1% | |||
| 83 | Short-billed Dowitcher | 0.1% | 10.8% | 10.7% | |||
| 84 | Rose-breasted Grosbeak | 2.1% | 9.7% | 7.6% | |||
| 85 | Downy Woodpecker | 40.3% | 9.5% | 30.8% | |||
| 86 | Lesser Yellowlegs | 1.4% | 9.5% | 8.1% | |||
| 87 | Greater Scaup | 0.0% | 9.5% | 9.4% | |||
| 88 | Red Knot | 0% | 9.5% | 9.5% | |||
| 89 | Blue Jay | 41.8% | 8.9% | 33.0% | |||
| 90 | Little Blue Heron | 0.1% | 8.9% | 8.8% | |||
| 91 | Blackburnian Warbler | 0.3% | 8.7% | 8.3% | |||
| 92 | Least Tern | 0.1% | 8.7% | 8.6% | |||
| 93 | Eastern Wood-Pewee | 20.8% | 8.4% | 12.4% | |||
| 94 | Bufflehead | 0% | 8.1% | 8.1% | |||
| 95 | Blue-headed Vireo | 1.2% | 7.6% | 6.4% | |||
| 96 | Northern Shoveler | 0.1% | 7.3% | 7.2% | |||
| 97 | Blue-gray Gnatcatcher | 57.5% | 7.1% | 50.4% | |||
| 98 | Chipping Sparrow | 38.3% | 6.6% | 31.7% | |||
| 99 | Prairie Warbler | 6.7% | 6.6% | 0.0% | |||
| 100 | Warbling Vireo | 1.4% | 6.6% | 5.2% | |||
| 101 | Savannah Sparrow | 1.1% | 6.3% | 5.2% | |||
| 102 | Ovenbird | 17.6% | 6.2% | 11.4% | |||
| 103 | Marsh Wren | 0.0% | 6.1% | 6.1% | |||
| 104 | American Coot | 0.1% | 5.9% | 5.8% | |||
| 105 | Peregrine Falcon | 0.0% | 5.8% | 5.8% | |||
| 106 | Northern Rough-winged Swallow | 30.0% | 5.7% | 24.4% | |||
| 107 | Swamp Sparrow | 2.0% | 5.7% | 3.7% | |||
| 108 | Red-bellied Woodpecker | 54.3% | 5.6% | 48.8% | |||
| 109 | Bank Swallow | 1.2% | 5.3% | 4.1% | |||
| 110 | Sanderling | 0.0% | 5.2% | 5.1% | |||
| 111 | Yellow-billed Cuckoo | 11.6% | 5.1% | 6.5% | |||
| 112 | Ruby-crowned Kinglet | 1.3% | 5.1% | 3.8% | |||
| 113 | Green-winged Teal | 0.0% | 5.1% | 5.1% | |||
| 114 | Cape May Warbler | 0.8% | 4.8% | 4.0% | |||
| 115 | White-rumped Sandpiper | 0.7% | 4.6% | 3.9% | |||
| 116 | Tricolored Heron | 0.1% | 4.5% | 4.4% | |||
| 117 | Black-capped Chickadee | 0% | 4.4% | 4.4% | |||
| 118 | Northern Waterthrush | 6.7% | 4.3% | 2.5% | |||
| 119 | Swainson's Thrush | 7.0% | 3.8% | 3.2% | |||
| 120 | White-crowned Sparrow | 0.1% | 3.6% | 3.5% | |||
| 121 | Veery | 2.8% | 3.5% | 0.7% | |||
| 122 | Red-headed Woodpecker | 10.4% | 3.1% | 7.2% | |||
| 123 | Canada Warbler | 0.4% | 3.0% | 2.6% | |||
| 124 | Red-breasted Nuthatch | 0.1% | 3.0% | 2.9% | |||
| 125 | Snow Goose | 0% | 3.0% | 3.0% | |||
| 126 | Solitary Sandpiper | 7.7% | 2.8% | 4.9% | |||
| 127 | Field Sparrow | 3.0% | 2.8% | 0.2% | |||
| 128 | Wilson's Warbler | 0.5% | 2.7% | 2.2% | |||
| 129 | Common Loon | 0.3% | 2.7% | 2.4% | |||
| 130 | Blue-winged Teal | 0.3% | 2.7% | 2.4% | |||
| 131 | Nashville Warbler | 0.0% | 2.7% | 2.7% | |||
| 132 | Red-necked Phalarope | 0.9% | 2.6% | 1.7% | |||
| 133 | Hermit Thrush | 0.3% | 2.6% | 2.3% | |||
| 134 | Palm Warbler | 0.7% | 2.5% | 1.8% | |||
| 135 | Northern Harrier | 0.3% | 2.3% | 2.0% | |||
| 136 | Lesser Scaup | 0.1% | 2.3% | 2.3% | |||
| 137 | Common Eider | 0% | 2.3% | 2.3% | |||
| 138 | Turkey Vulture | 38.4% | 2.2% | 36.1% | |||
| 139 | Orchard Oriole | 15.5% | 2.1% | 13.3% | |||
| 140 | Wood Duck | 12.5% | 2.1% | 10.4% | |||
| 141 | Black-billed Cuckoo | 0.2% | 2.1% | 2.0% | |||
| 142 | Black Skimmer | 0% | 2.0% | 2.0% | |||
| 143 | Wood Thrush | 13.0% | 1.9% | 11.1% | |||
| 144 | Red-tailed Hawk | 12.1% | 1.9% | 10.2% | |||
| 145 | Eastern Phoebe | 34.2% | 1.9% | 32.3% | |||
| 146 | American Wigeon | 0.0% | 1.9% | 1.8% | |||
| 147 | White-faced Ibis | 0% | 1.9% | 1.9% | |||
| 148 | Blue-winged Warbler | 0.2% | 1.7% | 1.4% | |||
| 149 | Least Flycatcher | 0.0% | 1.7% | 1.6% | |||
| 150 | Fulvous Whistling-Duck | 0% | 1.7% | 1.7% | |||
| 151 | Indigo Bunting | 45.6% | 1.6% | 44.1% | |||
| 152 | Cliff Swallow | 5.0% | 1.6% | 3.5% | |||
| 153 | Green Heron | 9.8% | 1.5% | 8.4% | |||
| 154 | Merlin | 0.1% | 1.5% | 1.3% | |||
| 155 | Tufted Titmouse | 65.2% | 1.4% | 63.8% | |||
| 156 | Yellow-throated Vireo | 7.0% | 1.4% | 5.6% | |||
| 157 | Gull-billed Tern | 0% | 1.4% | 1.4% | |||
| 158 | Bald Eagle | 10.5% | 1.3% | 9.2% | |||
| 159 | Common Nighthawk | 0.2% | 1.3% | 1.1% | |||
| 160 | Belted Kingfisher | 12.1% | 1.2% | 10.9% | |||
| 161 | Lincoln's Sparrow | 0.0% | 1.2% | 1.1% | |||
| 162 | Wilson's Phalarope | 0% | 1.1% | 1.1% | |||
| 163 | White-breasted Nuthatch | 23.1% | 0.9% | 22.3% | |||
| 164 | American Kestrel | 0.6% | 0.9% | 0.3% | |||
| 165 | Tennessee Warbler | 0.1% | 0.8% | 0.7% | |||
| 166 | Seaside Sparrow | 0% | 0.8% | 0.8% | |||
| 167 | Yellow-breasted Chat | 11.1% | 0.7% | 10.4% | |||
| 168 | Hairy Woodpecker | 8.8% | 0.7% | 8.1% | |||
| 169 | Bobolink | 2.8% | 0.7% | 2.1% | |||
| 170 | Pied-billed Grebe | 0.1% | 0.7% | 0.6% | |||
| 171 | Northern Pintail | 0.0% | 0.7% | 0.7% | |||
| 172 | Cooper's Hawk | 2.7% | 0.6% | 2.2% | |||
| 173 | Hooded Merganser | 1.7% | 0.6% | 1.1% | |||
| 174 | Worm-eating Warbler | 1.0% | 0.6% | 0.4% | |||
| 175 | American Woodcock | 0.1% | 0.6% | 0.5% | |||
| 176 | Eurasian Wigeon | 0% | 0.6% | 0.6% | |||
| 177 | Pectoral Sandpiper | 0.2% | 0.5% | 0.3% | |||
| 178 | Black-necked Stilt | 0.1% | 0.5% | 0.4% | |||
| 179 | Mourning Warbler | 0.0% | 0.5% | 0.5% | |||
| 180 | Yellow-bellied Flycatcher | 0.0% | 0.5% | 0.5% | |||
| 181 | Sage Thrasher | 0% | 0.5% | 0.5% | |||
| 182 | Pine Warbler | 41.6% | 0.4% | 41.3% | |||
| 183 | Summer Tanager | 37.8% | 0.4% | 37.4% | |||
| 184 | Hooded Warbler | 10.5% | 0.4% | 10.1% | |||
| 185 | Bonaparte's Gull | 0.1% | 0.4% | 0.3% | |||
| 186 | Purple Finch | 0.0% | 0.4% | 0.4% | |||
| 187 | Long-tailed Duck | 0% | 0.4% | 0.4% | |||
| 188 | Sharp-shinned Hawk | 0.3% | 0.3% | 0.0% | |||
| 189 | Ring-necked Duck | 0.1% | 0.3% | 0.2% | |||
| 190 | Horned Grebe | 0.1% | 0.3% | 0.2% | |||
| 191 | Common Gallinule | 0.0% | 0.3% | 0.2% | |||
| 192 | Piping Plover | 0.0% | 0.3% | 0.3% | |||
| 193 | White-winged Scoter | 0% | 0.3% | 0.3% | |||
| 194 | Blue Grosbeak | 23.8% | 0.2% | 23.6% | |||
| 195 | Prothonotary Warbler | 15.9% | 0.2% | 15.7% | |||
| 196 | Eastern Meadowlark | 8.2% | 0.2% | 8.0% | |||
| 197 | Least Bittern | 0.3% | 0.2% | 0.1% | |||
| 198 | Common Raven | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.0% | |||
| 199 | Olive-sided Flycatcher | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.0% | |||
| 200 | Sora | 0.1% | 0.2% | 0.1% | |||
| 201 | Philadelphia Vireo | 0.0% | 0.2% | 0.2% | |||
| 202 | Red-throated Loon | 0% | 0.2% | 0.2% | |||
| 203 | Saltmarsh Sparrow | 0% | 0.2% | 0.2% | |||
| 204 | King Eider | 0% | 0.2% | 0.2% | |||
| 205 | Acadian Flycatcher | 25.7% | 0.1% | 25.6% | |||
| 206 | Kentucky Warbler | 2.9% | 0.1% | 2.8% | |||
| 207 | Grasshopper Sparrow | 2.7% | 0.1% | 2.6% | |||
| 208 | Caspian Tern | 0.7% | 0.1% | 0.6% | |||
| 209 | Gray-cheeked Thrush | 0.5% | 0.1% | 0.4% | |||
| 210 | Black Tern | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.0% | |||
| 211 | Dark-eyed Junco | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.0% | |||
| 212 | Whimbrel | 0.0% | 0.1% | 0.0% | |||
| 213 | Cerulean Warbler | 0.0% | 0.1% | 0.1% | |||
| 214 | Virginia Rail | 0.0% | 0.1% | 0.1% | |||
| 215 | Vesper Sparrow | 0% | 0.1% | 0.1% | |||
| 216 | Evening Grosbeak | 0% | 0.1% | 0.1% | |||
| 217 | Red-necked Grebe | 0% | 0.1% | 0.1% | |||
| 218 | Black Scoter | 0% | 0.1% | 0.1% | |||
| 219 | Monk Parakeet | 0% | 0.1% | 0.1% | |||
| 220 | Sandhill Crane | 0% | 0.1% | 0.1% | |||
| 221 | Great Cormorant | 0% | 0.1% | 0.1% | |||
| 222 | Bar-tailed Godwit | 0% | 0.1% | 0.1% |