Top Birds at Governors Island (reopening Spring 2021) in May
relative to other locations within 25 miles of New York, NY, USA
based on 493 checklists
This page shows the probability of a species appearing on a checklist at Governors Island (reopening Spring 2021) 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 | Barn Swallow | 31.5% | 86.4% | 54.9% | |||
| 2 | European Starling | 58.3% | 85.0% | 26.7% | |||
| 3 | House Sparrow | 56.8% | 84.4% | 27.5% | |||
| 4 | Red-winged Blackbird | 53.2% | 82.4% | 29.2% | |||
| 5 | American Robin | 73.3% | 79.5% | 6.2% | |||
| 6 | Double-crested Cormorant | 33.8% | 79.1% | 45.3% | |||
| 7 | Herring Gull | 23.2% | 77.7% | 54.5% | |||
| 8 | Song Sparrow | 35.3% | 77.3% | 41.9% | |||
| 9 | Common Grackle | 54.8% | 74.6% | 19.8% | |||
| 10 | Northern Mockingbird | 26.5% | 72.4% | 45.9% | |||
| 11 | Tree Swallow | 22.2% | 72.4% | 50.2% | |||
| 12 | Mallard | 49.2% | 71.8% | 22.6% | |||
| 13 | Fish Crow | 10.6% | 67.7% | 57.1% | |||
| 14 | Great Black-backed Gull | 13.1% | 66.7% | 53.7% | |||
| 15 | Mourning Dove | 53.4% | 66.1% | 12.8% | |||
| 16 | American Black Duck | 4.8% | 63.9% | 59.1% | |||
| 17 | Laughing Gull | 16.7% | 63.1% | 46.4% | |||
| 18 | Killdeer | 9.1% | 59.8% | 50.8% | |||
| 19 | Canada Goose | 45.0% | 59.4% | 14.4% | |||
| 20 | Brant | 10.6% | 58.2% | 47.7% | |||
| 21 | Common Tern | 5.6% | 58.2% | 52.6% | |||
| 22 | Chimney Swift | 29.7% | 57.6% | 27.9% | |||
| 23 | Northern Cardinal | 59.0% | 56.6% | 2.4% | |||
| 24 | Rock Pigeon | 35.4% | 54.8% | 19.4% | |||
| 25 | Gray Catbird | 66.0% | 50.5% | 15.5% | |||
| 26 | Red-tailed Hawk | 19.6% | 48.7% | 29.0% | |||
| 27 | Northern Flicker | 29.0% | 46.7% | 17.6% | |||
| 28 | Gadwall | 6.8% | 44.8% | 38.0% | |||
| 29 | Yellow Warbler | 42.6% | 43.0% | 0.4% | |||
| 30 | Common Yellowthroat | 47.6% | 41.0% | 6.6% | |||
| 31 | White-throated Sparrow | 34.3% | 34.7% | 0.4% | |||
| 32 | American Goldfinch | 28.6% | 34.7% | 6.1% | |||
| 33 | Blue Jay | 49.3% | 34.3% | 15.0% | |||
| 34 | Ring-billed Gull | 14.2% | 33.9% | 19.6% | |||
| 35 | American Redstart | 40.4% | 30.6% | 9.8% | |||
| 36 | Northern Parula | 35.7% | 29.4% | 6.3% | |||
| 37 | Ovenbird | 32.7% | 26.4% | 6.4% | |||
| 38 | Black-and-white Warbler | 39.6% | 26.0% | 13.6% | |||
| 39 | Eastern Kingbird | 16.8% | 25.8% | 9.0% | |||
| 40 | Red-bellied Woodpecker | 38.2% | 25.4% | 12.9% | |||
| 41 | Spotted Sandpiper | 12.3% | 25.2% | 12.8% | |||
| 42 | Blackpoll Warbler | 21.9% | 23.7% | 1.9% | |||
| 43 | Yellow-rumped Warbler | 33.8% | 22.9% | 10.9% | |||
| 44 | Warbling Vireo | 32.2% | 22.5% | 9.7% | |||
| 45 | Baltimore Oriole | 44.8% | 21.5% | 23.3% | |||
| 46 | Chipping Sparrow | 18.3% | 21.5% | 3.2% | |||
| 47 | Brown-headed Cowbird | 20.8% | 21.3% | 0.5% | |||
| 48 | Swainson's Thrush | 17.8% | 19.7% | 1.9% | |||
| 49 | House Finch | 16.0% | 19.1% | 3.1% | |||
| 50 | Cedar Waxwing | 16.8% | 18.5% | 1.7% | |||
| 51 | Magnolia Warbler | 27.5% | 18.3% | 9.3% | |||
| 52 | Savannah Sparrow | 5.4% | 17.8% | 12.4% | |||
| 53 | Eastern Wood-Pewee | 11.1% | 17.6% | 6.6% | |||
| 54 | Veery | 20.1% | 17.2% | 2.8% | |||
| 55 | Black-throated Blue Warbler | 28.0% | 16.6% | 11.4% | |||
| 56 | American Crow | 17.7% | 16.0% | 1.6% | |||
| 57 | Wood Thrush | 23.2% | 13.8% | 9.4% | |||
| 58 | Eastern Towhee | 19.9% | 13.6% | 6.3% | |||
| 59 | Scarlet Tanager | 18.9% | 13.4% | 5.5% | |||
| 60 | House Wren | 26.8% | 12.6% | 14.2% | |||
| 61 | Red-eyed Vireo | 22.8% | 12.4% | 10.4% | |||
| 62 | Least Sandpiper | 7.1% | 11.6% | 4.5% | |||
| 63 | Hermit Thrush | 11.1% | 10.8% | 0.3% | |||
| 64 | Great Crested Flycatcher | 18.1% | 9.9% | 8.2% | |||
| 65 | Swamp Sparrow | 13.1% | 9.9% | 3.1% | |||
| 66 | Osprey | 16.5% | 9.7% | 6.7% | |||
| 67 | Northern Rough-winged Swallow | 12.0% | 9.7% | 2.3% | |||
| 68 | Bobolink | 1.2% | 9.3% | 8.2% | |||
| 69 | Rose-breasted Grosbeak | 16.5% | 8.9% | 7.6% | |||
| 70 | Indigo Bunting | 10.0% | 8.9% | 1.1% | |||
| 71 | Yellow-crowned Night-Heron | 3.9% | 8.9% | 5.0% | |||
| 72 | Ruby-crowned Kinglet | 13.2% | 8.1% | 5.1% | |||
| 73 | White-crowned Sparrow | 3.7% | 7.5% | 3.8% | |||
| 74 | Blue-headed Vireo | 14.3% | 6.7% | 7.6% | |||
| 75 | Chestnut-sided Warbler | 16.3% | 6.1% | 10.2% | |||
| 76 | Canada Warbler | 11.7% | 6.1% | 5.6% | |||
| 77 | Prairie Warbler | 8.5% | 6.1% | 2.4% | |||
| 78 | Carolina Wren | 19.9% | 5.9% | 14.0% | |||
| 79 | Black-crowned Night-Heron | 11.7% | 5.9% | 5.8% | |||
| 80 | Least Flycatcher | 5.9% | 5.9% | 0.0% | |||
| 81 | Peregrine Falcon | 2.7% | 5.5% | 2.8% | |||
| 82 | Black-throated Green Warbler | 20.2% | 5.3% | 15.0% | |||
| 83 | Bay-breasted Warbler | 8.0% | 5.1% | 2.9% | |||
| 84 | Palm Warbler | 5.3% | 4.9% | 0.4% | |||
| 85 | Lincoln's Sparrow | 2.9% | 4.9% | 2.0% | |||
| 86 | Common Raven | 2.5% | 4.7% | 2.2% | |||
| 87 | Great Egret | 25.5% | 4.5% | 21.0% | |||
| 88 | Northern Waterthrush | 23.3% | 4.3% | 19.0% | |||
| 89 | Seaside Sparrow | 0.8% | 3.9% | 3.1% | |||
| 90 | Orchard Oriole | 10.2% | 3.7% | 6.6% | |||
| 91 | Green Heron | 9.0% | 3.4% | 5.6% | |||
| 92 | Red-breasted Nuthatch | 2.8% | 3.4% | 0.7% | |||
| 93 | Blue-gray Gnatcatcher | 14.5% | 3.2% | 11.3% | |||
| 94 | Brown Thrasher | 7.4% | 3.2% | 4.1% | |||
| 95 | Cape May Warbler | 7.0% | 3.2% | 3.8% | |||
| 96 | Willow Flycatcher | 5.4% | 3.2% | 2.2% | |||
| 97 | American Kestrel | 2.2% | 3.2% | 1.0% | |||
| 98 | Wilson's Warbler | 8.9% | 3.0% | 5.8% | |||
| 99 | Eastern Phoebe | 4.9% | 3.0% | 1.9% | |||
| 100 | Downy Woodpecker | 28.2% | 2.8% | 25.4% | |||
| 101 | Red-throated Loon | 1.1% | 2.6% | 1.6% | |||
| 102 | Solitary Sandpiper | 5.8% | 2.2% | 3.6% | |||
| 103 | Ruby-throated Hummingbird | 6.3% | 2.0% | 4.3% | |||
| 104 | Blue Grosbeak | 0.8% | 2.0% | 1.3% | |||
| 105 | Blackburnian Warbler | 9.5% | 1.8% | 7.7% | |||
| 106 | Great Blue Heron | 9.6% | 1.6% | 8.0% | |||
| 107 | Semipalmated Sandpiper | 4.9% | 1.6% | 3.3% | |||
| 108 | Field Sparrow | 3.4% | 1.6% | 1.8% | |||
| 109 | Purple Sandpiper | 0.1% | 1.6% | 1.5% | |||
| 110 | Nashville Warbler | 9.0% | 1.4% | 7.5% | |||
| 111 | Tennessee Warbler | 3.4% | 1.4% | 2.0% | |||
| 112 | Summer Tanager | 1.7% | 1.4% | 0.3% | |||
| 113 | Blue-winged Teal | 0.5% | 1.4% | 0.9% | |||
| 114 | Glossy Ibis | 4.3% | 1.2% | 3.0% | |||
| 115 | Yellow-billed Cuckoo | 3.5% | 1.2% | 2.3% | |||
| 116 | Common Loon | 2.5% | 1.2% | 1.2% | |||
| 117 | Black-capped Chickadee | 12.1% | 1.0% | 11.1% | |||
| 118 | Turkey Vulture | 9.8% | 1.0% | 8.8% | |||
| 119 | Gray-cheeked Thrush | 3.2% | 1.0% | 2.2% | |||
| 120 | Bald Eagle | 2.5% | 1.0% | 1.5% | |||
| 121 | Tufted Titmouse | 15.6% | 0.8% | 14.8% | |||
| 122 | White-breasted Nuthatch | 10.7% | 0.8% | 9.9% | |||
| 123 | Greater Yellowlegs | 5.9% | 0.8% | 5.1% | |||
| 124 | Yellow-throated Vireo | 4.6% | 0.8% | 3.8% | |||
| 125 | Red-breasted Merganser | 1.7% | 0.8% | 0.9% | |||
| 126 | American Coot | 0.9% | 0.8% | 0.1% | |||
| 127 | Yellow-bellied Flycatcher | 0.7% | 0.8% | 0.1% | |||
| 128 | Dark-eyed Junco | 0.5% | 0.8% | 0.3% | |||
| 129 | Wood Duck | 9.3% | 0.6% | 8.7% | |||
| 130 | Boat-tailed Grackle | 5.2% | 0.6% | 4.6% | |||
| 131 | Lesser Yellowlegs | 2.8% | 0.6% | 2.1% | |||
| 132 | Mourning Warbler | 1.9% | 0.6% | 1.3% | |||
| 133 | Short-billed Dowitcher | 1.8% | 0.6% | 1.2% | |||
| 134 | Olive-sided Flycatcher | 1.3% | 0.6% | 0.7% | |||
| 135 | Mute Swan | 11.6% | 0.4% | 11.2% | |||
| 136 | Snowy Egret | 10.0% | 0.4% | 9.6% | |||
| 137 | Forster's Tern | 7.9% | 0.4% | 7.5% | |||
| 138 | Blue-winged Warbler | 6.7% | 0.4% | 6.3% | |||
| 139 | White-eyed Vireo | 4.3% | 0.4% | 3.9% | |||
| 140 | Ruddy Turnstone | 2.2% | 0.4% | 1.8% | |||
| 141 | Common Nighthawk | 1.4% | 0.4% | 1.0% | |||
| 142 | Merlin | 0.9% | 0.4% | 0.5% | |||
| 143 | Northern Harrier | 0.6% | 0.4% | 0.2% | |||
| 144 | Bonaparte's Gull | 0.6% | 0.4% | 0.2% | |||
| 145 | Alder Flycatcher | 0.6% | 0.4% | 0.2% | |||
| 146 | Eastern Whip-poor-will | 0.2% | 0.4% | 0.2% | |||
| 147 | American Oystercatcher | 8.0% | 0.2% | 7.8% | |||
| 148 | Marsh Wren | 4.6% | 0.2% | 4.4% | |||
| 149 | Hooded Warbler | 4.0% | 0.2% | 3.8% | |||
| 150 | Black-bellied Plover | 3.5% | 0.2% | 3.3% | |||
| 151 | Ruddy Duck | 3.3% | 0.2% | 3.1% | |||
| 152 | Bank Swallow | 2.5% | 0.2% | 2.3% | |||
| 153 | Black Vulture | 2.2% | 0.2% | 2.0% | |||
| 154 | Cooper's Hawk | 2.0% | 0.2% | 1.8% | |||
| 155 | Louisiana Waterthrush | 1.8% | 0.2% | 1.6% | |||
| 156 | Pine Warbler | 1.7% | 0.2% | 1.5% | |||
| 157 | Black-billed Cuckoo | 1.6% | 0.2% | 1.4% | |||
| 158 | Purple Martin | 1.4% | 0.2% | 1.2% | |||
| 159 | Purple Finch | 1.3% | 0.2% | 1.1% | |||
| 160 | Yellow-bellied Sapsucker | 1.0% | 0.2% | 0.8% | |||
| 161 | Red-headed Woodpecker | 0.8% | 0.2% | 0.6% | |||
| 162 | Red-shouldered Hawk | 0.6% | 0.2% | 0.4% | |||
| 163 | Pine Siskin | 0.4% | 0.2% | 0.2% | |||
| 164 | Evening Grosbeak | 0.3% | 0.2% | 0.1% | |||
| 165 | Cattle Egret | 0.1% | 0.2% | 0.1% | |||
| 166 | Golden-crowned Kinglet | 0.1% | 0.2% | 0.1% | |||
| 167 | Glaucous Gull | 0.1% | 0.2% | 0.1% | |||
| 168 | Eastern Meadowlark | 0.0% | 0.2% | 0.2% | |||
| 169 | Gray Parrot | 0% | 0.2% | 0.2% |