Top Birds at Governors Island (reopening Spring 2021) in August
relative to other locations within 25 miles of New York, NY, USA
based on 350 checklists
This page shows the probability of a species appearing on a checklist at Governors Island (reopening Spring 2021) 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 | Herring Gull | 39.1% | 86.0% | 46.9% | |||
| 2 | House Sparrow | 49.7% | 85.1% | 35.4% | |||
| 3 | Mourning Dove | 53.5% | 82.9% | 29.4% | |||
| 4 | Double-crested Cormorant | 41.1% | 78.0% | 36.9% | |||
| 5 | European Starling | 50.9% | 77.4% | 26.5% | |||
| 6 | Common Tern | 16.0% | 73.4% | 57.5% | |||
| 7 | Great Black-backed Gull | 26.7% | 70.3% | 43.6% | |||
| 8 | American Robin | 57.1% | 69.7% | 12.6% | |||
| 9 | Rock Pigeon | 35.2% | 67.7% | 32.6% | |||
| 10 | Barn Swallow | 39.7% | 66.9% | 27.2% | |||
| 11 | Northern Mockingbird | 35.8% | 59.4% | 23.6% | |||
| 12 | Northern Cardinal | 47.7% | 58.3% | 10.6% | |||
| 13 | American Goldfinch | 37.5% | 52.0% | 14.5% | |||
| 14 | Song Sparrow | 34.9% | 52.0% | 17.1% | |||
| 15 | Killdeer | 13.9% | 49.1% | 35.2% | |||
| 16 | Ring-billed Gull | 31.7% | 47.1% | 15.5% | |||
| 17 | Laughing Gull | 31.9% | 46.0% | 14.1% | |||
| 18 | American Black Duck | 9.8% | 45.4% | 35.7% | |||
| 19 | Fish Crow | 8.7% | 45.4% | 36.7% | |||
| 20 | Brown-headed Cowbird | 5.6% | 45.4% | 39.8% | |||
| 21 | Chimney Swift | 23.7% | 38.6% | 14.9% | |||
| 22 | American Kestrel | 3.3% | 36.6% | 33.2% | |||
| 23 | Least Sandpiper | 21.9% | 36.0% | 14.1% | |||
| 24 | Northern Flicker | 25.9% | 34.6% | 8.7% | |||
| 25 | Red-winged Blackbird | 28.4% | 34.3% | 5.8% | |||
| 26 | Canada Goose | 40.9% | 34.0% | 6.9% | |||
| 27 | Gray Catbird | 54.8% | 33.1% | 21.7% | |||
| 28 | Red-tailed Hawk | 11.3% | 32.9% | 21.6% | |||
| 29 | Common Grackle | 28.2% | 31.1% | 2.9% | |||
| 30 | Mallard | 40.9% | 27.4% | 13.5% | |||
| 31 | Yellow-crowned Night-Heron | 9.0% | 24.9% | 15.9% | |||
| 32 | Eastern Kingbird | 16.7% | 22.6% | 5.9% | |||
| 33 | American Redstart | 22.0% | 22.0% | 0.0% | |||
| 34 | Spotted Sandpiper | 17.0% | 22.0% | 5.0% | |||
| 35 | Blue Jay | 35.5% | 20.3% | 15.2% | |||
| 36 | Black-crowned Night-Heron | 14.5% | 19.7% | 5.2% | |||
| 37 | Carolina Wren | 24.8% | 17.1% | 7.6% | |||
| 38 | Yellow Warbler | 20.2% | 14.9% | 5.4% | |||
| 39 | American Crow | 14.4% | 14.6% | 0.2% | |||
| 40 | Semipalmated Sandpiper | 24.2% | 14.3% | 10.0% | |||
| 41 | Black-and-white Warbler | 14.3% | 10.6% | 3.7% | |||
| 42 | Cedar Waxwing | 16.9% | 10.3% | 6.6% | |||
| 43 | Warbling Vireo | 10.0% | 8.0% | 2.0% | |||
| 44 | House Wren | 11.4% | 7.7% | 3.7% | |||
| 45 | Common Yellowthroat | 15.2% | 7.4% | 7.8% | |||
| 46 | Baltimore Oriole | 15.2% | 6.3% | 8.9% | |||
| 47 | House Finch | 15.0% | 6.3% | 8.7% | |||
| 48 | Tree Swallow | 14.2% | 6.3% | 7.9% | |||
| 49 | Downy Woodpecker | 25.4% | 6.0% | 19.4% | |||
| 50 | Lesser Yellowlegs | 14.0% | 4.6% | 9.4% | |||
| 51 | Eastern Phoebe | 3.8% | 4.6% | 0.8% | |||
| 52 | Least Flycatcher | 2.0% | 4.0% | 2.0% | |||
| 53 | Eastern Wood-Pewee | 9.1% | 3.7% | 5.4% | |||
| 54 | Ovenbird | 4.2% | 3.4% | 0.8% | |||
| 55 | Solitary Sandpiper | 3.7% | 3.1% | 0.5% | |||
| 56 | Osprey | 30.9% | 2.9% | 28.1% | |||
| 57 | Great Crested Flycatcher | 7.1% | 2.9% | 4.2% | |||
| 58 | Gadwall | 3.9% | 2.9% | 1.1% | |||
| 59 | Northern Waterthrush | 15.5% | 2.3% | 13.2% | |||
| 60 | Peregrine Falcon | 7.6% | 2.3% | 5.4% | |||
| 61 | Magnolia Warbler | 2.9% | 2.3% | 0.6% | |||
| 62 | Northern Parula | 1.8% | 2.3% | 0.5% | |||
| 63 | Red-eyed Vireo | 9.7% | 2.0% | 7.7% | |||
| 64 | Blue-gray Gnatcatcher | 6.8% | 2.0% | 4.8% | |||
| 65 | Chipping Sparrow | 5.2% | 2.0% | 3.2% | |||
| 66 | Chestnut-sided Warbler | 5.1% | 2.0% | 3.1% | |||
| 67 | Veery | 2.6% | 2.0% | 0.6% | |||
| 68 | Black-throated Blue Warbler | 2.1% | 2.0% | 0.1% | |||
| 69 | Ruby-throated Hummingbird | 9.0% | 1.7% | 7.3% | |||
| 70 | Blue-winged Warbler | 3.9% | 1.7% | 2.2% | |||
| 71 | Common Raven | 2.8% | 1.7% | 1.1% | |||
| 72 | Yellow-bellied Flycatcher | 0.8% | 1.7% | 0.9% | |||
| 73 | Canada Warbler | 5.7% | 1.4% | 4.3% | |||
| 74 | Great Egret | 34.8% | 1.1% | 33.6% | |||
| 75 | Great Blue Heron | 30.9% | 1.1% | 29.7% | |||
| 76 | Red-breasted Nuthatch | 2.1% | 1.1% | 1.0% | |||
| 77 | Northern Rough-winged Swallow | 2.1% | 1.1% | 0.9% | |||
| 78 | Blackburnian Warbler | 1.0% | 1.1% | 0.1% | |||
| 79 | Red-bellied Woodpecker | 19.5% | 0.9% | 18.6% | |||
| 80 | Bobolink | 2.2% | 0.9% | 1.4% | |||
| 81 | Blue-winged Teal | 1.7% | 0.9% | 0.9% | |||
| 82 | Tennessee Warbler | 0.8% | 0.9% | 0.1% | |||
| 83 | Pine Warbler | 0.3% | 0.9% | 0.5% | |||
| 84 | Swainson's Thrush | 0.3% | 0.9% | 0.6% | |||
| 85 | Budgerigar | 0.1% | 0.9% | 0.8% | |||
| 86 | Semipalmated Plover | 21.3% | 0.6% | 20.7% | |||
| 87 | Forster's Tern | 13.3% | 0.6% | 12.7% | |||
| 88 | Tufted Titmouse | 8.6% | 0.6% | 8.0% | |||
| 89 | Turkey Vulture | 5.4% | 0.6% | 4.8% | |||
| 90 | Purple Martin | 3.2% | 0.6% | 2.6% | |||
| 91 | Wood Thrush | 2.5% | 0.6% | 2.0% | |||
| 92 | Scarlet Tanager | 1.7% | 0.6% | 1.1% | |||
| 93 | Monk Parakeet | 1.6% | 0.6% | 1.1% | |||
| 94 | Northern Shoveler | 1.4% | 0.6% | 0.8% | |||
| 95 | Prairie Warbler | 1.1% | 0.6% | 0.5% | |||
| 96 | White-throated Sparrow | 0.8% | 0.6% | 0.2% | |||
| 97 | Black-billed Cuckoo | 0.5% | 0.6% | 0.1% | |||
| 98 | Dickcissel | 0.2% | 0.6% | 0.3% | |||
| 99 | Snowy Egret | 22.7% | 0.3% | 22.4% | |||
| 100 | Mute Swan | 14.6% | 0.3% | 14.3% | |||
| 101 | American Oystercatcher | 12.5% | 0.3% | 12.2% | |||
| 102 | Black-capped Chickadee | 11.3% | 0.3% | 11.0% | |||
| 103 | White-breasted Nuthatch | 9.8% | 0.3% | 9.5% | |||
| 104 | Belted Kingfisher | 8.4% | 0.3% | 8.2% | |||
| 105 | Sanderling | 5.4% | 0.3% | 5.1% | |||
| 106 | Willow Flycatcher | 4.7% | 0.3% | 4.4% | |||
| 107 | Boat-tailed Grackle | 4.3% | 0.3% | 4.0% | |||
| 108 | Indigo Bunting | 3.4% | 0.3% | 3.1% | |||
| 109 | Brown Thrasher | 3.2% | 0.3% | 2.9% | |||
| 110 | Cooper's Hawk | 2.3% | 0.3% | 2.0% | |||
| 111 | Green-winged Teal | 1.8% | 0.3% | 1.5% | |||
| 112 | Rose-breasted Grosbeak | 1.3% | 0.3% | 1.0% | |||
| 113 | Louisiana Waterthrush | 1.1% | 0.3% | 0.8% | |||
| 114 | Black-throated Green Warbler | 1.1% | 0.3% | 0.8% | |||
| 115 | Orchard Oriole | 1.0% | 0.3% | 0.7% | |||
| 116 | Black Tern | 0.8% | 0.3% | 0.5% | |||
| 117 | Hooded Warbler | 0.5% | 0.3% | 0.3% | |||
| 118 | Merlin | 0.5% | 0.3% | 0.3% | |||
| 119 | Mourning Warbler | 0.4% | 0.3% | 0.2% | |||
| 120 | Bay-breasted Warbler | 0.1% | 0.3% | 0.1% | |||
| 121 | European Goldfinch | 0.1% | 0.3% | 0.2% | |||
| 122 | Blackpoll Warbler | 0.1% | 0.3% | 0.2% | |||
| 123 | Connecticut Warbler | 0.0% | 0.3% | 0.3% |