Top Birds at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge--West Pond in May
relative to other locations within 25 miles of New York, NY, USA
based on 749 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 | Tree Swallow | 22.0% | 80.8% | 58.7% | |||
| 2 | Yellow Warbler | 42.4% | 79.3% | 36.9% | |||
| 3 | Laughing Gull | 16.5% | 78.5% | 62.0% | |||
| 4 | Red-winged Blackbird | 53.2% | 76.4% | 23.2% | |||
| 5 | Osprey | 16.0% | 76.1% | 60.1% | |||
| 6 | Gray Catbird | 65.9% | 75.0% | 9.2% | |||
| 7 | Canada Goose | 44.9% | 71.3% | 26.4% | |||
| 8 | Great Egret | 25.1% | 70.1% | 45.0% | |||
| 9 | Double-crested Cormorant | 33.8% | 68.5% | 34.7% | |||
| 10 | Mallard | 49.2% | 68.0% | 18.8% | |||
| 11 | Brant | 10.4% | 68.0% | 57.6% | |||
| 12 | Herring Gull | 23.2% | 65.4% | 42.3% | |||
| 13 | American Robin | 73.3% | 65.3% | 8.1% | |||
| 14 | Northern Mockingbird | 26.5% | 65.2% | 38.7% | |||
| 15 | Song Sparrow | 35.3% | 63.8% | 28.5% | |||
| 16 | Eastern Towhee | 19.6% | 63.3% | 43.7% | |||
| 17 | Glossy Ibis | 3.9% | 62.6% | 58.8% | |||
| 18 | Mute Swan | 11.2% | 61.0% | 49.8% | |||
| 19 | Northern Cardinal | 59.0% | 58.3% | 0.7% | |||
| 20 | Great Black-backed Gull | 13.0% | 58.2% | 45.2% | |||
| 21 | House Wren | 26.5% | 57.4% | 30.9% | |||
| 22 | Snowy Egret | 9.6% | 57.3% | 47.7% | |||
| 23 | Ruddy Duck | 3.0% | 55.8% | 52.8% | |||
| 24 | Common Yellowthroat | 47.5% | 54.7% | 7.3% | |||
| 25 | American Oystercatcher | 7.6% | 52.7% | 45.1% | |||
| 26 | Forster's Tern | 7.6% | 51.5% | 43.9% | |||
| 27 | Barn Swallow | 31.6% | 49.5% | 17.9% | |||
| 28 | Boat-tailed Grackle | 4.9% | 47.7% | 42.8% | |||
| 29 | European Starling | 58.5% | 44.5% | 14.1% | |||
| 30 | Gadwall | 6.7% | 44.5% | 37.7% | |||
| 31 | Willet | 5.6% | 44.1% | 38.5% | |||
| 32 | Brown Thrasher | 7.1% | 41.4% | 34.3% | |||
| 33 | American Redstart | 40.4% | 41.1% | 0.7% | |||
| 34 | Common Grackle | 55.0% | 41.0% | 14.0% | |||
| 35 | Carolina Wren | 19.7% | 40.2% | 20.5% | |||
| 36 | Mourning Dove | 53.5% | 39.4% | 14.1% | |||
| 37 | Black-bellied Plover | 3.3% | 34.7% | 31.5% | |||
| 38 | Semipalmated Sandpiper | 4.7% | 34.6% | 29.9% | |||
| 39 | Yellow-rumped Warbler | 33.8% | 33.9% | 0.1% | |||
| 40 | Ring-billed Gull | 14.2% | 31.8% | 17.6% | |||
| 41 | Yellow-crowned Night-Heron | 3.7% | 31.6% | 27.9% | |||
| 42 | House Sparrow | 57.1% | 30.2% | 27.0% | |||
| 43 | American Black Duck | 4.9% | 30.0% | 25.2% | |||
| 44 | Least Sandpiper | 7.0% | 29.0% | 22.0% | |||
| 45 | Fish Crow | 10.7% | 28.4% | 17.7% | |||
| 46 | Black-and-white Warbler | 39.6% | 26.6% | 13.0% | |||
| 47 | Northern Parula | 35.8% | 26.0% | 9.7% | |||
| 48 | Blackpoll Warbler | 21.9% | 25.6% | 3.8% | |||
| 49 | Willow Flycatcher | 5.3% | 25.5% | 20.2% | |||
| 50 | Brown-headed Cowbird | 20.8% | 25.2% | 4.5% | |||
| 51 | American Goldfinch | 28.7% | 24.6% | 4.1% | |||
| 52 | Common Tern | 5.7% | 24.2% | 18.5% | |||
| 53 | Semipalmated Plover | 4.4% | 23.2% | 18.8% | |||
| 54 | American Crow | 17.6% | 21.1% | 3.5% | |||
| 55 | Greater Yellowlegs | 5.8% | 20.7% | 14.9% | |||
| 56 | Magnolia Warbler | 27.6% | 20.4% | 7.1% | |||
| 57 | Spotted Sandpiper | 12.3% | 18.8% | 6.5% | |||
| 58 | Ruby-throated Hummingbird | 6.2% | 18.2% | 11.9% | |||
| 59 | White-throated Sparrow | 34.4% | 17.9% | 16.5% | |||
| 60 | House Finch | 16.0% | 17.9% | 1.9% | |||
| 61 | Black-crowned Night-Heron | 11.6% | 17.6% | 6.0% | |||
| 62 | Dunlin | 2.1% | 17.6% | 15.5% | |||
| 63 | Ruddy Turnstone | 2.1% | 17.6% | 15.5% | |||
| 64 | Eastern Kingbird | 16.8% | 16.6% | 0.3% | |||
| 65 | Scarlet Tanager | 18.9% | 15.0% | 4.0% | |||
| 66 | Rock Pigeon | 35.6% | 14.7% | 20.9% | |||
| 67 | Chimney Swift | 29.9% | 14.6% | 15.4% | |||
| 68 | Black-throated Blue Warbler | 28.1% | 14.3% | 13.8% | |||
| 69 | Black-throated Green Warbler | 20.2% | 14.3% | 5.9% | |||
| 70 | Red-breasted Merganser | 1.6% | 14.3% | 12.7% | |||
| 71 | Cedar Waxwing | 16.8% | 13.8% | 3.1% | |||
| 72 | Clapper Rail | 3.3% | 13.5% | 10.2% | |||
| 73 | Baltimore Oriole | 44.9% | 13.2% | 31.7% | |||
| 74 | Great Blue Heron | 9.6% | 13.0% | 3.4% | |||
| 75 | Red-eyed Vireo | 22.8% | 12.7% | 10.1% | |||
| 76 | Little Blue Heron | 1.2% | 12.0% | 10.9% | |||
| 77 | Killdeer | 9.3% | 11.2% | 1.9% | |||
| 78 | Red Knot | 0.6% | 10.9% | 10.3% | |||
| 79 | Chestnut-sided Warbler | 16.3% | 10.7% | 5.6% | |||
| 80 | White-eyed Vireo | 4.3% | 10.7% | 6.4% | |||
| 81 | Northern Flicker | 29.2% | 10.5% | 18.7% | |||
| 82 | Rose-breasted Grosbeak | 16.5% | 10.1% | 6.4% | |||
| 83 | Lesser Yellowlegs | 2.7% | 10.0% | 7.3% | |||
| 84 | Great Crested Flycatcher | 18.2% | 9.6% | 8.5% | |||
| 85 | Bay-breasted Warbler | 8.0% | 9.5% | 1.5% | |||
| 86 | Least Tern | 3.9% | 9.3% | 5.4% | |||
| 87 | Blackburnian Warbler | 9.4% | 8.9% | 0.5% | |||
| 88 | Blue Jay | 49.5% | 8.5% | 41.0% | |||
| 89 | Downy Woodpecker | 28.3% | 8.4% | 19.8% | |||
| 90 | Short-billed Dowitcher | 1.8% | 8.3% | 6.5% | |||
| 91 | Purple Martin | 1.4% | 8.1% | 6.8% | |||
| 92 | Chipping Sparrow | 18.4% | 8.0% | 10.4% | |||
| 93 | Blue-gray Gnatcatcher | 14.5% | 7.9% | 6.6% | |||
| 94 | American Coot | 0.8% | 7.7% | 6.9% | |||
| 95 | Savannah Sparrow | 5.5% | 7.6% | 2.1% | |||
| 96 | Northern Shoveler | 0.9% | 7.6% | 6.7% | |||
| 97 | Blue-headed Vireo | 14.3% | 7.5% | 6.8% | |||
| 98 | Marsh Wren | 4.6% | 7.5% | 2.9% | |||
| 99 | Eastern Wood-Pewee | 11.1% | 7.2% | 3.9% | |||
| 100 | Bufflehead | 1.1% | 6.9% | 5.8% | |||
| 101 | Greater Scaup | 0.4% | 6.9% | 6.6% | |||
| 102 | Warbling Vireo | 32.3% | 6.8% | 25.5% | |||
| 103 | Prairie Warbler | 8.5% | 6.5% | 2.0% | |||
| 104 | Red-bellied Woodpecker | 38.4% | 6.4% | 32.0% | |||
| 105 | Peregrine Falcon | 2.7% | 6.4% | 3.8% | |||
| 106 | Swamp Sparrow | 13.1% | 6.0% | 7.1% | |||
| 107 | Northern Rough-winged Swallow | 12.1% | 6.0% | 6.1% | |||
| 108 | Tricolored Heron | 0.4% | 6.0% | 5.6% | |||
| 109 | Ruby-crowned Kinglet | 13.2% | 5.9% | 7.4% | |||
| 110 | Ovenbird | 32.9% | 5.6% | 27.3% | |||
| 111 | Sanderling | 1.6% | 5.6% | 4.0% | |||
| 112 | Yellow-billed Cuckoo | 3.5% | 5.2% | 1.7% | |||
| 113 | Northern Waterthrush | 23.3% | 4.4% | 18.9% | |||
| 114 | White-crowned Sparrow | 3.7% | 4.4% | 0.7% | |||
| 115 | Black-capped Chickadee | 12.1% | 4.3% | 7.9% | |||
| 116 | Cape May Warbler | 7.0% | 4.1% | 2.9% | |||
| 117 | Green-winged Teal | 0.6% | 4.1% | 3.6% | |||
| 118 | Veery | 20.2% | 4.0% | 16.2% | |||
| 119 | Swainson's Thrush | 17.9% | 4.0% | 13.9% | |||
| 120 | Red-breasted Nuthatch | 2.8% | 4.0% | 1.2% | |||
| 121 | Canada Warbler | 11.7% | 3.3% | 8.4% | |||
| 122 | Palm Warbler | 5.3% | 3.3% | 2.0% | |||
| 123 | Hermit Thrush | 11.1% | 3.2% | 7.9% | |||
| 124 | Field Sparrow | 3.4% | 3.2% | 0.2% | |||
| 125 | Bank Swallow | 2.5% | 3.1% | 0.6% | |||
| 126 | Blue-winged Teal | 0.5% | 3.1% | 2.6% | |||
| 127 | Solitary Sandpiper | 5.8% | 2.8% | 3.0% | |||
| 128 | Black-billed Cuckoo | 1.6% | 2.8% | 1.2% | |||
| 129 | Common Loon | 2.4% | 2.5% | 0.1% | |||
| 130 | White-faced Ibis | 0.0% | 2.5% | 2.5% | |||
| 131 | Orchard Oriole | 10.3% | 2.4% | 7.9% | |||
| 132 | Turkey Vulture | 9.8% | 2.4% | 7.4% | |||
| 133 | Nashville Warbler | 9.0% | 2.4% | 6.6% | |||
| 134 | Black Skimmer | 1.7% | 2.4% | 0.7% | |||
| 135 | Wilson's Warbler | 8.9% | 2.3% | 6.6% | |||
| 136 | White-rumped Sandpiper | 0.4% | 2.3% | 1.9% | |||
| 137 | American Wigeon | 0.2% | 2.3% | 2.0% | |||
| 138 | Lesser Scaup | 0.1% | 2.3% | 2.2% | |||
| 139 | Wood Thrush | 23.3% | 2.1% | 21.1% | |||
| 140 | Wood Duck | 9.4% | 2.1% | 7.2% | |||
| 141 | Eastern Phoebe | 4.9% | 2.1% | 2.8% | |||
| 142 | Snow Goose | 0.1% | 2.1% | 2.0% | |||
| 143 | Red-necked Phalarope | 0.1% | 2.1% | 2.0% | |||
| 144 | Fulvous Whistling-Duck | 0.0% | 2.1% | 2.1% | |||
| 145 | Red-tailed Hawk | 19.9% | 2.0% | 17.9% | |||
| 146 | Northern Harrier | 0.6% | 2.0% | 1.4% | |||
| 147 | Blue-winged Warbler | 6.7% | 1.7% | 4.9% | |||
| 148 | Yellow-throated Vireo | 4.6% | 1.7% | 2.9% | |||
| 149 | Merlin | 0.9% | 1.7% | 0.8% | |||
| 150 | Green Heron | 9.1% | 1.5% | 7.6% | |||
| 151 | Least Flycatcher | 6.0% | 1.5% | 4.5% | |||
| 152 | Belted Kingfisher | 4.2% | 1.5% | 2.7% | |||
| 153 | Wilson's Phalarope | 0.2% | 1.5% | 1.2% | |||
| 154 | Indigo Bunting | 10.1% | 1.3% | 8.7% | |||
| 155 | Common Nighthawk | 1.4% | 1.3% | 0.1% | |||
| 156 | Tufted Titmouse | 15.7% | 1.2% | 14.5% | |||
| 157 | Lincoln's Sparrow | 2.9% | 1.1% | 1.9% | |||
| 158 | American Kestrel | 2.2% | 1.1% | 1.1% | |||
| 159 | Cliff Swallow | 0.8% | 1.1% | 0.3% | |||
| 160 | White-breasted Nuthatch | 10.8% | 0.9% | 9.8% | |||
| 161 | Hairy Woodpecker | 8.4% | 0.9% | 7.4% | |||
| 162 | Bobolink | 1.2% | 0.9% | 0.3% | |||
| 163 | Gull-billed Tern | 0.2% | 0.9% | 0.7% | |||
| 164 | Cooper's Hawk | 2.0% | 0.8% | 1.2% | |||
| 165 | Pied-billed Grebe | 0.2% | 0.8% | 0.7% | |||
| 166 | Eurasian Wigeon | 0.0% | 0.8% | 0.8% | |||
| 167 | Worm-eating Warbler | 4.0% | 0.7% | 3.3% | |||
| 168 | Mourning Warbler | 1.9% | 0.7% | 1.2% | |||
| 169 | Purple Finch | 1.3% | 0.7% | 0.7% | |||
| 170 | Seaside Sparrow | 0.8% | 0.7% | 0.1% | |||
| 171 | Yellow-bellied Flycatcher | 0.7% | 0.7% | 0.0% | |||
| 172 | Black-necked Stilt | 0.1% | 0.7% | 0.5% | |||
| 173 | Hooded Warbler | 4.0% | 0.5% | 3.5% | |||
| 174 | Summer Tanager | 1.7% | 0.5% | 1.1% | |||
| 175 | Pine Warbler | 1.7% | 0.5% | 1.1% | |||
| 176 | Long-tailed Duck | 0.2% | 0.5% | 0.3% | |||
| 177 | Sage Thrasher | 0.1% | 0.5% | 0.5% | |||
| 178 | Tennessee Warbler | 3.4% | 0.4% | 3.0% | |||
| 179 | Sharp-shinned Hawk | 0.8% | 0.4% | 0.4% | |||
| 180 | Bonaparte's Gull | 0.6% | 0.4% | 0.2% | |||
| 181 | American Woodcock | 0.5% | 0.4% | 0.1% | |||
| 182 | Horned Grebe | 0.2% | 0.4% | 0.2% | |||
| 183 | Common Gallinule | 0.2% | 0.4% | 0.3% | |||
| 184 | Ring-necked Duck | 0.1% | 0.4% | 0.3% | |||
| 185 | Pectoral Sandpiper | 0.1% | 0.4% | 0.3% | |||
| 186 | Common Raven | 2.5% | 0.3% | 2.3% | |||
| 187 | Bald Eagle | 2.5% | 0.3% | 2.3% | |||
| 188 | Piping Plover | 1.4% | 0.3% | 1.2% | |||
| 189 | Olive-sided Flycatcher | 1.3% | 0.3% | 1.0% | |||
| 190 | Red-throated Loon | 1.1% | 0.3% | 0.8% | |||
| 191 | Prothonotary Warbler | 1.1% | 0.3% | 0.8% | |||
| 192 | Red-headed Woodpecker | 0.8% | 0.3% | 0.5% | |||
| 193 | Blue Grosbeak | 0.8% | 0.3% | 0.5% | |||
| 194 | Saltmarsh Sparrow | 0.8% | 0.3% | 0.5% | |||
| 195 | Least Bittern | 0.5% | 0.3% | 0.2% | |||
| 196 | Sora | 0.1% | 0.3% | 0.1% | |||
| 197 | Philadelphia Vireo | 0.1% | 0.3% | 0.1% | |||
| 198 | King Eider | 0.1% | 0.3% | 0.2% | |||
| 199 | Gray-cheeked Thrush | 3.2% | 0.1% | 3.1% | |||
| 200 | Monk Parakeet | 2.1% | 0.1% | 1.9% | |||
| 201 | Cerulean Warbler | 0.7% | 0.1% | 0.5% | |||
| 202 | Acadian Flycatcher | 0.6% | 0.1% | 0.4% | |||
| 203 | Dark-eyed Junco | 0.5% | 0.1% | 0.4% | |||
| 204 | Yellow-breasted Chat | 0.4% | 0.1% | 0.3% | |||
| 205 | Virginia Rail | 0.3% | 0.1% | 0.2% | |||
| 206 | Evening Grosbeak | 0.3% | 0.1% | 0.2% | |||
| 207 | Hooded Merganser | 0.2% | 0.1% | 0.1% | |||
| 208 | Northern Pintail | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.0% | |||
| 209 | Grasshopper Sparrow | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.0% | |||
| 210 | Black Tern | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.0% | |||
| 211 | Whimbrel | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.0% | |||
| 212 | Great Cormorant | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | |||
| 213 | Red-necked Grebe | 0.0% | 0.1% | 0.1% | |||
| 214 | Eastern Meadowlark | 0.0% | 0.1% | 0.1% | |||
| 215 | Vesper Sparrow | 0.0% | 0.1% | 0.1% | |||
| 216 | Sandhill Crane | 0.0% | 0.1% | 0.1% | |||
| 217 | Bar-tailed Godwit | 0.0% | 0.1% | 0.1% |