Top Birds at Prospect Park in August
relative to other locations within 25 miles of New York, NY, USA
based on 1968 checklists
This page shows the probability of a species appearing on a checklist at Prospect Park in August. 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 | American Robin | 56.1% | 83.3% | 27.3% | |||
| 2 | Gray Catbird | 53.6% | 78.3% | 24.6% | |||
| 3 | Northern Cardinal | 46.4% | 78.1% | 31.7% | |||
| 4 | House Sparrow | 48.9% | 72.8% | 23.9% | |||
| 5 | Mourning Dove | 52.9% | 70.9% | 18.0% | |||
| 6 | Blue Jay | 34.1% | 63.2% | 29.1% | |||
| 7 | American Redstart | 20.2% | 61.4% | 41.2% | |||
| 8 | Chimney Swift | 22.2% | 61.0% | 38.8% | |||
| 9 | European Starling | 50.7% | 60.2% | 9.5% | |||
| 10 | Mallard | 40.1% | 56.7% | 16.6% | |||
| 11 | Black-and-white Warbler | 12.4% | 54.9% | 42.5% | |||
| 12 | Rock Pigeon | 34.6% | 53.8% | 19.2% | |||
| 13 | American Goldfinch | 36.9% | 53.4% | 16.4% | |||
| 14 | Canada Goose | 40.3% | 52.1% | 11.8% | |||
| 15 | Common Grackle | 27.2% | 51.4% | 24.2% | |||
| 16 | Mute Swan | 12.8% | 50.5% | 37.6% | |||
| 17 | Downy Woodpecker | 24.1% | 50.0% | 25.9% | |||
| 18 | Wood Duck | 7.5% | 48.9% | 41.3% | |||
| 19 | Barn Swallow | 39.7% | 44.3% | 4.6% | |||
| 20 | Northern Waterthrush | 14.2% | 42.9% | 28.7% | |||
| 21 | Baltimore Oriole | 14.0% | 41.2% | 27.2% | |||
| 22 | Northern Flicker | 25.3% | 41.0% | 15.7% | |||
| 23 | Red-bellied Woodpecker | 18.3% | 40.9% | 22.6% | |||
| 24 | Yellow Warbler | 19.3% | 40.2% | 20.9% | |||
| 25 | Eastern Kingbird | 15.8% | 38.6% | 22.9% | |||
| 26 | Red-eyed Vireo | 8.4% | 36.9% | 28.5% | |||
| 27 | Warbling Vireo | 8.8% | 36.7% | 27.9% | |||
| 28 | Great Blue Heron | 30.4% | 35.9% | 5.5% | |||
| 29 | Cedar Waxwing | 16.0% | 35.8% | 19.8% | |||
| 30 | Carolina Wren | 24.3% | 34.9% | 10.6% | |||
| 31 | Green Heron | 10.9% | 33.8% | 22.9% | |||
| 32 | Song Sparrow | 35.3% | 29.1% | 6.2% | |||
| 33 | Red-winged Blackbird | 28.5% | 28.5% | 0.0% | |||
| 34 | House Wren | 10.6% | 27.8% | 17.2% | |||
| 35 | Red-tailed Hawk | 10.8% | 26.0% | 15.2% | |||
| 36 | Double-crested Cormorant | 42.0% | 25.7% | 16.3% | |||
| 37 | Common Yellowthroat | 14.7% | 24.9% | 10.2% | |||
| 38 | Canada Warbler | 4.9% | 22.4% | 17.5% | |||
| 39 | Chestnut-sided Warbler | 4.3% | 20.9% | 16.6% | |||
| 40 | Eastern Wood-Pewee | 8.6% | 19.9% | 11.3% | |||
| 41 | Northern Mockingbird | 36.8% | 19.5% | 17.3% | |||
| 42 | Ruby-throated Hummingbird | 8.5% | 19.3% | 10.8% | |||
| 43 | Blue-winged Warbler | 3.2% | 19.2% | 15.9% | |||
| 44 | Great Crested Flycatcher | 6.5% | 18.3% | 11.8% | |||
| 45 | Blue-gray Gnatcatcher | 6.3% | 18.3% | 12.1% | |||
| 46 | Spotted Sandpiper | 16.9% | 18.0% | 1.1% | |||
| 47 | Ovenbird | 3.6% | 17.8% | 14.2% | |||
| 48 | Black-capped Chickadee | 11.0% | 15.5% | 4.5% | |||
| 49 | Laughing Gull | 32.8% | 15.3% | 17.5% | |||
| 50 | Magnolia Warbler | 2.4% | 14.1% | 11.7% | |||
| 51 | Black-crowned Night-Heron | 14.6% | 13.4% | 1.2% | |||
| 52 | White-breasted Nuthatch | 9.6% | 12.4% | 2.8% | |||
| 53 | Hairy Woodpecker | 5.8% | 11.8% | 6.0% | |||
| 54 | Herring Gull | 40.8% | 11.0% | 29.8% | |||
| 55 | Black-throated Blue Warbler | 1.7% | 10.0% | 8.3% | |||
| 56 | Tufted Titmouse | 8.5% | 9.7% | 1.2% | |||
| 57 | Osprey | 31.6% | 9.6% | 22.0% | |||
| 58 | American Coot | 0.2% | 9.3% | 9.1% | |||
| 59 | Veery | 2.3% | 9.2% | 6.9% | |||
| 60 | American Crow | 14.7% | 9.0% | 5.7% | |||
| 61 | American Black Duck | 10.1% | 8.0% | 2.2% | |||
| 62 | Belted Kingfisher | 8.4% | 8.0% | 0.4% | |||
| 63 | Worm-eating Warbler | 1.0% | 7.8% | 6.8% | |||
| 64 | Northern Parula | 1.6% | 7.1% | 5.6% | |||
| 65 | Scarlet Tanager | 1.4% | 6.8% | 5.4% | |||
| 66 | Common Nighthawk | 1.0% | 6.6% | 5.6% | |||
| 67 | Red-breasted Nuthatch | 1.9% | 6.4% | 4.5% | |||
| 68 | Great Egret | 35.8% | 5.9% | 29.9% | |||
| 69 | Brown-headed Cowbird | 6.0% | 5.5% | 0.4% | |||
| 70 | Tree Swallow | 14.5% | 5.5% | 9.0% | |||
| 71 | House Finch | 15.4% | 5.3% | 10.1% | |||
| 72 | Eastern Phoebe | 3.7% | 4.9% | 1.2% | |||
| 73 | Black-throated Green Warbler | 0.9% | 4.8% | 3.9% | |||
| 74 | Ring-billed Gull | 33.0% | 4.7% | 28.3% | |||
| 75 | Least Flycatcher | 1.9% | 4.7% | 2.8% | |||
| 76 | Cooper's Hawk | 2.2% | 4.3% | 2.1% | |||
| 77 | Prairie Warbler | 0.9% | 4.3% | 3.4% | |||
| 78 | Blackburnian Warbler | 0.9% | 4.2% | 3.3% | |||
| 79 | Louisiana Waterthrush | 0.9% | 4.0% | 3.1% | |||
| 80 | Cape May Warbler | 1.1% | 4.0% | 2.9% | |||
| 81 | Olive-sided Flycatcher | 0.6% | 3.8% | 3.2% | |||
| 82 | Tennessee Warbler | 0.6% | 3.5% | 2.9% | |||
| 83 | Orchard Oriole | 0.9% | 3.4% | 2.6% | |||
| 84 | Rose-breasted Grosbeak | 1.2% | 3.1% | 1.9% | |||
| 85 | White-eyed Vireo | 2.1% | 3.0% | 0.9% | |||
| 86 | Chipping Sparrow | 5.3% | 2.6% | 2.7% | |||
| 87 | American Kestrel | 3.6% | 2.6% | 1.1% | |||
| 88 | Yellow-bellied Flycatcher | 0.8% | 2.6% | 1.8% | |||
| 89 | Ruddy Duck | 2.4% | 2.4% | 0.1% | |||
| 90 | Wood Thrush | 2.5% | 2.2% | 0.3% | |||
| 91 | Wilson's Warbler | 0.5% | 2.2% | 1.7% | |||
| 92 | Least Sandpiper | 22.9% | 2.1% | 20.8% | |||
| 93 | Peregrine Falcon | 7.9% | 2.1% | 5.8% | |||
| 94 | Forster's Tern | 13.7% | 1.8% | 11.9% | |||
| 95 | Indigo Bunting | 3.5% | 1.8% | 1.7% | |||
| 96 | Yellow-billed Cuckoo | 1.6% | 1.8% | 0.2% | |||
| 97 | Golden-winged Warbler | 0.2% | 1.8% | 1.6% | |||
| 98 | Nashville Warbler | 0.3% | 1.7% | 1.4% | |||
| 99 | Solitary Sandpiper | 3.8% | 1.6% | 2.2% | |||
| 100 | Turkey Vulture | 5.5% | 1.5% | 4.0% | |||
| 101 | Willow Flycatcher | 4.8% | 1.5% | 3.4% | |||
| 102 | Yellow-rumped Warbler | 0.2% | 1.4% | 1.2% | |||
| 103 | Common Raven | 2.8% | 1.4% | 1.5% | |||
| 104 | Mourning Warbler | 0.4% | 1.4% | 1.0% | |||
| 105 | European Goldfinch | 0.1% | 1.2% | 1.2% | |||
| 106 | Northern Rough-winged Swallow | 2.1% | 1.1% | 1.1% | |||
| 107 | Black-billed Cuckoo | 0.4% | 1.1% | 0.6% | |||
| 108 | Brown Thrasher | 3.2% | 1.0% | 2.2% | |||
| 109 | Swainson's Thrush | 0.3% | 1.0% | 0.7% | |||
| 110 | Acadian Flycatcher | 0.0% | 1.0% | 1.0% | |||
| 111 | Pine Warbler | 0.3% | 1.0% | 0.7% | |||
| 112 | Northern Shoveler | 1.4% | 0.9% | 0.5% | |||
| 113 | Hooded Warbler | 0.5% | 0.9% | 0.4% | |||
| 114 | Pied-billed Grebe | 1.0% | 0.9% | 0.1% | |||
| 115 | Blue-winged Teal | 1.7% | 0.8% | 0.9% | |||
| 116 | Yellow-breasted Chat | 0.2% | 0.8% | 0.6% | |||
| 117 | Bank Swallow | 3.2% | 0.8% | 2.4% | |||
| 118 | Eastern Towhee | 7.3% | 0.7% | 6.7% | |||
| 119 | Philadelphia Vireo | 0.1% | 0.7% | 0.6% | |||
| 120 | Merlin | 0.5% | 0.6% | 0.1% | |||
| 121 | Fish Crow | 9.4% | 0.6% | 8.8% | |||
| 122 | Yellow-throated Vireo | 0.4% | 0.6% | 0.2% | |||
| 123 | Bay-breasted Warbler | 0.1% | 0.6% | 0.4% | |||
| 124 | Blackpoll Warbler | 0.1% | 0.6% | 0.5% | |||
| 125 | Lesser Yellowlegs | 14.5% | 0.5% | 14.0% | |||
| 126 | Bobolink | 2.3% | 0.5% | 1.8% | |||
| 127 | Monk Parakeet | 1.7% | 0.5% | 1.2% | |||
| 128 | Bald Eagle | 2.6% | 0.5% | 2.1% | |||
| 129 | Black Tern | 0.8% | 0.5% | 0.4% | |||
| 130 | Black Vulture | 1.5% | 0.4% | 1.1% | |||
| 131 | Broad-winged Hawk | 0.5% | 0.4% | 0.1% | |||
| 132 | Brewster's Warbler (hybrid) | 0.0% | 0.4% | 0.4% | |||
| 133 | Yellow-throated Warbler | 0.0% | 0.3% | 0.3% | |||
| 134 | Semipalmated Sandpiper | 25.2% | 0.3% | 25.0% | |||
| 135 | Little Blue Heron | 4.4% | 0.3% | 4.2% | |||
| 136 | Gadwall | 4.1% | 0.3% | 3.8% | |||
| 137 | Green-winged Teal | 1.8% | 0.3% | 1.6% | |||
| 138 | Alder Flycatcher | 0.1% | 0.3% | 0.2% | |||
| 139 | Great Black-backed Gull | 28.2% | 0.2% | 28.0% | |||
| 140 | Purple Martin | 3.3% | 0.2% | 3.1% | |||
| 141 | Field Sparrow | 1.8% | 0.2% | 1.6% | |||
| 142 | White-throated Sparrow | 0.8% | 0.2% | 0.6% | |||
| 143 | Summer Tanager | 0.0% | 0.2% | 0.2% | |||
| 144 | Killdeer | 14.8% | 0.2% | 14.6% | |||
| 145 | Caspian Tern | 1.9% | 0.2% | 1.8% | |||
| 146 | Cliff Swallow | 0.8% | 0.2% | 0.6% | |||
| 147 | Prothonotary Warbler | 0.5% | 0.2% | 0.3% | |||
| 148 | Sharp-shinned Hawk | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.0% | |||
| 149 | Budgerigar | 0.1% | 0.2% | 0.1% | |||
| 150 | Blue-headed Vireo | 0.1% | 0.2% | 0.1% | |||
| 151 | Cerulean Warbler | 0.0% | 0.2% | 0.1% | |||
| 152 | Northern Red Bishop | 0.0% | 0.2% | 0.1% | |||
| 153 | Snowy Egret | 23.5% | 0.1% | 23.4% | |||
| 154 | Common Tern | 17.2% | 0.1% | 17.1% | |||
| 155 | Yellow-crowned Night-Heron | 9.5% | 0.1% | 9.4% | |||
| 156 | Swamp Sparrow | 1.2% | 0.1% | 1.1% | |||
| 157 | Kentucky Warbler | 0.0% | 0.1% | 0.1% | |||
| 158 | Connecticut Warbler | 0.0% | 0.1% | 0.1% | |||
| 159 | Gray-cheeked Thrush | 0.0% | 0.1% | 0.1% | |||
| 160 | Greater Yellowlegs | 16.6% | 0.1% | 16.5% | |||
| 161 | Black-bellied Plover | 7.7% | 0.1% | 7.7% | |||
| 162 | Least Tern | 5.3% | 0.1% | 5.3% | |||
| 163 | Savannah Sparrow | 0.7% | 0.1% | 0.7% | |||
| 164 | Great Horned Owl | 0.5% | 0.1% | 0.4% | |||
| 165 | Hooded Merganser | 0.3% | 0.1% | 0.3% | |||
| 166 | Blue Grosbeak | 0.3% | 0.1% | 0.2% | |||
| 167 | American Woodcock | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | |||
| 168 | Muscovy Duck | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | |||
| 169 | Lawrence's Warbler (hybrid) | 0.0% | 0.1% | 0.0% | |||
| 170 | Ruby-crowned Kinglet | 0.0% | 0.1% | 0.0% |