Top Birds at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge--West Pond in October
relative to other locations within 25 miles of New York, NY, USA
based on 301 checklists
This page shows the probability of a species appearing on a checklist at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge--West Pond in October. 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-rumped Warbler | 50.3% | 77.1% | 26.8% | |||
| 2 | Great Egret | 13.9% | 76.7% | 62.8% | |||
| 3 | Canada Goose | 40.7% | 75.1% | 34.4% | |||
| 4 | Double-crested Cormorant | 31.8% | 73.8% | 42.0% | |||
| 5 | Mallard | 38.5% | 71.8% | 33.3% | |||
| 6 | Brant | 9.3% | 64.8% | 55.5% | |||
| 7 | Mute Swan | 10.6% | 63.5% | 52.9% | |||
| 8 | Song Sparrow | 55.2% | 60.5% | 5.3% | |||
| 9 | Northern Mockingbird | 36.2% | 59.5% | 23.3% | |||
| 10 | Herring Gull | 32.6% | 57.1% | 24.6% | |||
| 11 | Ruddy Duck | 8.0% | 51.8% | 43.8% | |||
| 12 | Gray Catbird | 38.4% | 47.8% | 9.4% | |||
| 13 | American Black Duck | 13.2% | 44.9% | 31.6% | |||
| 14 | Snowy Egret | 5.3% | 43.9% | 38.6% | |||
| 15 | Eastern Phoebe | 36.4% | 42.9% | 6.5% | |||
| 16 | Ring-billed Gull | 30.4% | 42.9% | 12.5% | |||
| 17 | White-throated Sparrow | 57.8% | 41.5% | 16.2% | |||
| 18 | European Starling | 46.6% | 41.2% | 5.4% | |||
| 19 | Northern Shoveler | 8.6% | 40.5% | 31.9% | |||
| 20 | Great Black-backed Gull | 18.8% | 39.9% | 21.0% | |||
| 21 | Ruby-crowned Kinglet | 45.6% | 39.5% | 6.1% | |||
| 22 | Gadwall | 7.9% | 37.9% | 30.0% | |||
| 23 | Great Blue Heron | 21.8% | 37.2% | 15.4% | |||
| 24 | Laughing Gull | 13.6% | 36.5% | 22.9% | |||
| 25 | American Robin | 57.7% | 34.9% | 22.8% | |||
| 26 | Northern Flicker | 38.6% | 33.9% | 4.7% | |||
| 27 | Northern Cardinal | 44.5% | 31.2% | 13.3% | |||
| 28 | American Wigeon | 2.9% | 30.9% | 28.0% | |||
| 29 | Golden-crowned Kinglet | 28.9% | 30.6% | 1.7% | |||
| 30 | Greater Yellowlegs | 7.1% | 27.9% | 20.8% | |||
| 31 | American Coot | 4.1% | 27.9% | 23.8% | |||
| 32 | Carolina Wren | 22.2% | 27.6% | 5.4% | |||
| 33 | Merlin | 7.4% | 25.9% | 18.6% | |||
| 34 | Red-winged Blackbird | 15.7% | 25.6% | 9.8% | |||
| 35 | Peregrine Falcon | 7.8% | 24.6% | 16.8% | |||
| 36 | Pied-billed Grebe | 3.9% | 22.6% | 18.7% | |||
| 37 | Mourning Dove | 45.9% | 21.6% | 24.3% | |||
| 38 | Swamp Sparrow | 32.8% | 20.9% | 11.9% | |||
| 39 | Dark-eyed Junco | 26.0% | 19.9% | 6.1% | |||
| 40 | Palm Warbler | 31.0% | 19.3% | 11.8% | |||
| 41 | Northern Harrier | 5.8% | 18.3% | 12.5% | |||
| 42 | Green-winged Teal | 5.9% | 16.6% | 10.7% | |||
| 43 | Eastern Towhee | 21.0% | 15.9% | 5.0% | |||
| 44 | American Crow | 23.4% | 15.6% | 7.8% | |||
| 45 | Savannah Sparrow | 19.4% | 15.6% | 3.8% | |||
| 46 | Belted Kingfisher | 13.0% | 14.3% | 1.3% | |||
| 47 | Common Yellowthroat | 26.3% | 14.0% | 12.4% | |||
| 48 | Sharp-shinned Hawk | 9.9% | 13.0% | 3.0% | |||
| 49 | Tree Swallow | 5.7% | 13.0% | 7.3% | |||
| 50 | Black-crowned Night-Heron | 4.2% | 13.0% | 8.7% | |||
| 51 | American Goldfinch | 23.9% | 12.6% | 11.2% | |||
| 52 | Bufflehead | 1.5% | 12.3% | 10.8% | |||
| 53 | House Sparrow | 47.0% | 12.0% | 35.0% | |||
| 54 | Cooper's Hawk | 14.6% | 12.0% | 2.6% | |||
| 55 | Field Sparrow | 11.5% | 12.0% | 0.5% | |||
| 56 | Greater Scaup | 0.5% | 11.6% | 11.1% | |||
| 57 | House Finch | 18.0% | 10.6% | 7.4% | |||
| 58 | Rock Pigeon | 35.6% | 10.3% | 25.3% | |||
| 59 | Northern Pintail | 1.6% | 10.3% | 8.7% | |||
| 60 | Downy Woodpecker | 29.7% | 10.0% | 19.7% | |||
| 61 | Northern Parula | 11.0% | 9.3% | 1.7% | |||
| 62 | Blue Jay | 56.4% | 9.0% | 47.5% | |||
| 63 | White-crowned Sparrow | 11.2% | 9.0% | 2.3% | |||
| 64 | Cedar Waxwing | 10.1% | 9.0% | 1.1% | |||
| 65 | Hermit Thrush | 23.6% | 8.6% | 15.0% | |||
| 66 | Black-capped Chickadee | 18.4% | 8.6% | 9.7% | |||
| 67 | Red-breasted Nuthatch | 7.9% | 8.3% | 0.4% | |||
| 68 | Snow Goose | 0.6% | 8.3% | 7.7% | |||
| 69 | Chipping Sparrow | 20.8% | 7.6% | 13.2% | |||
| 70 | Pine Warbler | 6.6% | 7.6% | 1.1% | |||
| 71 | American Kestrel | 12.9% | 7.3% | 5.6% | |||
| 72 | Osprey | 12.5% | 7.0% | 5.5% | |||
| 73 | House Wren | 9.2% | 7.0% | 2.2% | |||
| 74 | Lesser Scaup | 0.4% | 7.0% | 6.6% | |||
| 75 | Blue-headed Vireo | 11.2% | 6.3% | 4.9% | |||
| 76 | Lesser Yellowlegs | 2.5% | 6.0% | 3.5% | |||
| 77 | Brown Creeper | 10.7% | 5.6% | 5.0% | |||
| 78 | Hooded Merganser | 1.1% | 5.6% | 4.5% | |||
| 79 | Black-throated Blue Warbler | 12.1% | 5.3% | 6.7% | |||
| 80 | American Oystercatcher | 2.0% | 5.3% | 3.3% | |||
| 81 | Black-bellied Plover | 4.0% | 5.0% | 0.9% | |||
| 82 | Boat-tailed Grackle | 0.7% | 5.0% | 4.3% | |||
| 83 | Red-bellied Woodpecker | 35.1% | 4.7% | 30.5% | |||
| 84 | Common Grackle | 21.2% | 4.7% | 16.6% | |||
| 85 | Blackpoll Warbler | 10.2% | 4.7% | 5.6% | |||
| 86 | Black-throated Green Warbler | 5.6% | 4.7% | 1.0% | |||
| 87 | Bald Eagle | 5.4% | 4.3% | 1.0% | |||
| 88 | Red-tailed Hawk | 22.6% | 4.0% | 18.6% | |||
| 89 | Magnolia Warbler | 7.6% | 4.0% | 3.7% | |||
| 90 | Pine Siskin | 4.5% | 4.0% | 0.6% | |||
| 91 | Forster's Tern | 2.4% | 4.0% | 1.5% | |||
| 92 | Blue-winged Teal | 0.9% | 4.0% | 3.0% | |||
| 93 | Little Blue Heron | 0.5% | 4.0% | 3.5% | |||
| 94 | Black-and-white Warbler | 9.5% | 3.7% | 5.8% | |||
| 95 | Dunlin | 2.5% | 3.7% | 1.1% | |||
| 96 | Red-breasted Merganser | 0.6% | 3.7% | 3.1% | |||
| 97 | Yellow-bellied Sapsucker | 22.8% | 3.0% | 19.8% | |||
| 98 | American Redstart | 7.9% | 3.0% | 4.9% | |||
| 99 | Glossy Ibis | 0.1% | 3.0% | 2.9% | |||
| 100 | White-breasted Nuthatch | 20.3% | 2.7% | 17.6% | |||
| 101 | Killdeer | 6.1% | 2.7% | 3.5% | |||
| 102 | Red-eyed Vireo | 5.7% | 2.7% | 3.0% | |||
| 103 | Brown Thrasher | 5.4% | 2.7% | 2.8% | |||
| 104 | Cape May Warbler | 2.7% | 2.7% | 0.0% | |||
| 105 | Yellow-crowned Night-Heron | 1.5% | 2.7% | 1.2% | |||
| 106 | Tufted Titmouse | 19.1% | 2.3% | 16.7% | |||
| 107 | Purple Finch | 7.0% | 2.3% | 4.6% | |||
| 108 | Fish Crow | 2.6% | 2.3% | 0.3% | |||
| 109 | Winter Wren | 10.0% | 2.0% | 8.0% | |||
| 110 | Lincoln's Sparrow | 6.8% | 2.0% | 4.8% | |||
| 111 | Yellow Warbler | 1.2% | 2.0% | 0.8% | |||
| 112 | Clapper Rail | 1.0% | 2.0% | 1.0% | |||
| 113 | Wood Duck | 9.9% | 1.7% | 8.2% | |||
| 114 | Turkey Vulture | 9.6% | 1.7% | 8.0% | |||
| 115 | Eastern Wood-Pewee | 4.4% | 1.7% | 2.7% | |||
| 116 | Great Cormorant | 1.2% | 1.7% | 0.5% | |||
| 117 | Pectoral Sandpiper | 1.0% | 1.7% | 0.7% | |||
| 118 | Chestnut-sided Warbler | 0.8% | 1.7% | 0.9% | |||
| 119 | White-rumped Sandpiper | 0.4% | 1.7% | 1.2% | |||
| 120 | Ross's Goose | 0.0% | 1.7% | 1.6% | |||
| 121 | Chimney Swift | 8.5% | 1.3% | 7.2% | |||
| 122 | Swainson's Thrush | 7.5% | 1.3% | 6.2% | |||
| 123 | Common Raven | 5.8% | 1.3% | 4.5% | |||
| 124 | Nashville Warbler | 3.6% | 1.3% | 2.2% | |||
| 125 | Vesper Sparrow | 2.4% | 1.3% | 1.0% | |||
| 126 | Saltmarsh Sparrow | 1.5% | 1.3% | 0.2% | |||
| 127 | Common Tern | 0.5% | 1.3% | 0.8% | |||
| 128 | Bonaparte's Gull | 0.4% | 1.3% | 0.9% | |||
| 129 | Black-headed Gull | 0.0% | 1.3% | 1.3% | |||
| 130 | Indigo Bunting | 4.8% | 1.0% | 3.8% | |||
| 131 | Nelson's Sparrow | 2.1% | 1.0% | 1.1% | |||
| 132 | Semipalmated Plover | 1.4% | 1.0% | 0.4% | |||
| 133 | Lesser Black-backed Gull | 0.7% | 1.0% | 0.3% | |||
| 134 | Ring-necked Duck | 0.6% | 1.0% | 0.4% | |||
| 135 | American Bittern | 0.3% | 1.0% | 0.7% | |||
| 136 | American Avocet | 0.3% | 1.0% | 0.7% | |||
| 137 | Eurasian Wigeon | 0.2% | 1.0% | 0.8% | |||
| 138 | Barn Swallow | 0.2% | 1.0% | 0.8% | |||
| 139 | Willet | 0.1% | 1.0% | 0.9% | |||
| 140 | Ovenbird | 5.4% | 0.7% | 4.8% | |||
| 141 | Northern Waterthrush | 2.5% | 0.7% | 1.8% | |||
| 142 | American Pipit | 2.4% | 0.7% | 1.8% | |||
| 143 | Wood Thrush | 1.8% | 0.7% | 1.2% | |||
| 144 | Gray-cheeked Thrush | 1.2% | 0.7% | 0.5% | |||
| 145 | Clay-colored Sparrow | 0.9% | 0.7% | 0.2% | |||
| 146 | Red-throated Loon | 0.7% | 0.7% | 0.0% | |||
| 147 | Least Sandpiper | 0.7% | 0.7% | 0.0% | |||
| 148 | Prairie Warbler | 0.5% | 0.7% | 0.1% | |||
| 149 | Horned Grebe | 0.3% | 0.7% | 0.4% | |||
| 150 | Stilt Sandpiper | 0.3% | 0.7% | 0.4% | |||
| 151 | Connecticut Warbler | 0.3% | 0.7% | 0.4% | |||
| 152 | Least Flycatcher | 0.3% | 0.7% | 0.4% | |||
| 153 | Hudsonian Godwit | 0.3% | 0.7% | 0.4% | |||
| 154 | American White Pelican | 0.2% | 0.7% | 0.5% | |||
| 155 | Tricolored Heron | 0.1% | 0.7% | 0.6% | |||
| 156 | Brown-headed Cowbird | 5.8% | 0.3% | 5.5% | |||
| 157 | Scarlet Tanager | 3.5% | 0.3% | 3.2% | |||
| 158 | Royal Tern | 3.4% | 0.3% | 3.1% | |||
| 159 | Monk Parakeet | 2.3% | 0.3% | 2.0% | |||
| 160 | Common Loon | 2.3% | 0.3% | 2.0% | |||
| 161 | Red-shouldered Hawk | 1.9% | 0.3% | 1.6% | |||
| 162 | Rose-breasted Grosbeak | 1.9% | 0.3% | 1.6% | |||
| 163 | Eastern Bluebird | 1.9% | 0.3% | 1.6% | |||
| 164 | Eastern Meadowlark | 1.8% | 0.3% | 1.5% | |||
| 165 | Sanderling | 1.7% | 0.3% | 1.4% | |||
| 166 | Semipalmated Sandpiper | 1.2% | 0.3% | 0.9% | |||
| 167 | Green Heron | 1.1% | 0.3% | 0.8% | |||
| 168 | Dickcissel | 0.9% | 0.3% | 0.6% | |||
| 169 | Common Nighthawk | 0.9% | 0.3% | 0.6% | |||
| 170 | Spotted Sandpiper | 0.9% | 0.3% | 0.5% | |||
| 171 | Wilson's Snipe | 0.8% | 0.3% | 0.5% | |||
| 172 | Bobolink | 0.6% | 0.3% | 0.3% | |||
| 173 | Short-billed Dowitcher | 0.6% | 0.3% | 0.2% | |||
| 174 | Grasshopper Sparrow | 0.5% | 0.3% | 0.1% | |||
| 175 | Caspian Tern | 0.4% | 0.3% | 0.1% | |||
| 176 | Veery | 0.4% | 0.3% | 0.0% | |||
| 177 | Long-billed Dowitcher | 0.3% | 0.3% | 0.0% | |||
| 178 | White-eyed Vireo | 0.3% | 0.3% | 0.0% | |||
| 179 | Western Kingbird | 0.3% | 0.3% | 0.1% | |||
| 180 | Common Gallinule | 0.2% | 0.3% | 0.2% | |||
| 181 | Redhead | 0.1% | 0.3% | 0.2% | |||
| 182 | Western Sandpiper | 0.1% | 0.3% | 0.2% | |||
| 183 | Canada Warbler | 0.1% | 0.3% | 0.3% | |||
| 184 | Tundra Swan | 0.0% | 0.3% | 0.3% | |||
| 185 | Canvasback | 0.0% | 0.3% | 0.3% | |||
| 186 | Common Goldeneye | 0% | 0.3% | 0.3% |