Top Birds at Governors Island (reopening Spring 2021) in September
relative to other locations within 25 miles of New York, NY, USA
based on 516 checklists
This page shows the probability of a species appearing on a checklist at Governors Island (reopening Spring 2021) in September. 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 | Mourning Dove | 53.0% | 85.1% | 32.1% | |||
| 2 | House Sparrow | 45.6% | 81.2% | 35.6% | |||
| 3 | American Robin | 60.2% | 79.1% | 18.9% | |||
| 4 | European Starling | 48.2% | 77.5% | 29.3% | |||
| 5 | Herring Gull | 30.5% | 76.9% | 46.4% | |||
| 6 | Double-crested Cormorant | 31.7% | 73.6% | 42.0% | |||
| 7 | Northern Flicker | 43.0% | 68.0% | 25.0% | |||
| 8 | Great Black-backed Gull | 18.2% | 67.6% | 49.4% | |||
| 9 | Rock Pigeon | 36.6% | 61.4% | 24.8% | |||
| 10 | American Kestrel | 10.4% | 59.9% | 49.4% | |||
| 11 | Northern Mockingbird | 31.4% | 59.5% | 28.1% | |||
| 12 | Northern Cardinal | 50.3% | 58.5% | 8.2% | |||
| 13 | American Redstart | 42.9% | 57.2% | 14.3% | |||
| 14 | Common Yellowthroat | 45.1% | 55.4% | 10.3% | |||
| 15 | Gray Catbird | 60.6% | 53.5% | 7.1% | |||
| 16 | Song Sparrow | 28.5% | 50.0% | 21.5% | |||
| 17 | American Goldfinch | 27.6% | 49.2% | 21.6% | |||
| 18 | Ring-billed Gull | 25.0% | 48.4% | 23.4% | |||
| 19 | Red-tailed Hawk | 18.5% | 47.3% | 28.8% | |||
| 20 | American Black Duck | 7.7% | 47.3% | 39.6% | |||
| 21 | Palm Warbler | 14.9% | 41.3% | 26.4% | |||
| 22 | Killdeer | 7.2% | 38.4% | 31.2% | |||
| 23 | Black-and-white Warbler | 31.7% | 37.8% | 6.1% | |||
| 24 | Eastern Phoebe | 17.8% | 36.0% | 18.3% | |||
| 25 | Laughing Gull | 18.5% | 35.7% | 17.1% | |||
| 26 | Blue Jay | 51.9% | 35.3% | 16.6% | |||
| 27 | Mallard | 36.7% | 33.1% | 3.5% | |||
| 28 | Northern Parula | 26.9% | 30.8% | 3.9% | |||
| 29 | Swainson's Thrush | 14.7% | 27.9% | 13.2% | |||
| 30 | Canada Goose | 37.9% | 27.7% | 10.2% | |||
| 31 | Brown-headed Cowbird | 3.9% | 26.9% | 23.1% | |||
| 32 | Carolina Wren | 26.9% | 26.0% | 0.9% | |||
| 33 | Magnolia Warbler | 22.8% | 25.4% | 2.6% | |||
| 34 | House Wren | 17.2% | 24.6% | 7.4% | |||
| 35 | Eastern Wood-Pewee | 19.5% | 24.2% | 4.7% | |||
| 36 | Red-eyed Vireo | 25.1% | 24.0% | 1.1% | |||
| 37 | Blackpoll Warbler | 10.3% | 22.3% | 12.0% | |||
| 38 | Least Sandpiper | 7.1% | 21.5% | 14.4% | |||
| 39 | Black-throated Blue Warbler | 16.8% | 20.5% | 3.7% | |||
| 40 | Common Tern | 3.8% | 20.0% | 16.1% | |||
| 41 | Savannah Sparrow | 6.2% | 18.4% | 12.2% | |||
| 42 | Yellow Warbler | 12.2% | 17.6% | 5.4% | |||
| 43 | White-throated Sparrow | 9.5% | 17.2% | 7.7% | |||
| 44 | Downy Woodpecker | 32.0% | 15.5% | 16.5% | |||
| 45 | Veery | 11.5% | 15.3% | 3.8% | |||
| 46 | Ovenbird | 12.6% | 15.1% | 2.5% | |||
| 47 | Ruby-crowned Kinglet | 8.0% | 14.9% | 6.9% | |||
| 48 | Semipalmated Sandpiper | 7.9% | 14.9% | 7.0% | |||
| 49 | American Crow | 17.0% | 14.3% | 2.7% | |||
| 50 | Cedar Waxwing | 16.4% | 14.3% | 2.1% | |||
| 51 | Black-crowned Night-Heron | 7.9% | 13.6% | 5.6% | |||
| 52 | Pine Warbler | 5.3% | 13.2% | 7.8% | |||
| 53 | Yellow-rumped Warbler | 8.4% | 11.8% | 3.4% | |||
| 54 | Chestnut-sided Warbler | 10.2% | 10.7% | 0.5% | |||
| 55 | Spotted Sandpiper | 4.9% | 10.7% | 5.7% | |||
| 56 | Black-throated Green Warbler | 12.3% | 10.1% | 2.2% | |||
| 57 | Ruby-throated Hummingbird | 16.6% | 9.5% | 7.2% | |||
| 58 | Osprey | 25.6% | 9.1% | 16.5% | |||
| 59 | Lesser Yellowlegs | 6.4% | 8.7% | 2.3% | |||
| 60 | Bobolink | 3.1% | 8.5% | 5.4% | |||
| 61 | Common Grackle | 24.1% | 8.3% | 15.8% | |||
| 62 | Cape May Warbler | 6.9% | 8.1% | 1.2% | |||
| 63 | Baltimore Oriole | 7.8% | 7.9% | 0.2% | |||
| 64 | Yellow-crowned Night-Heron | 4.0% | 7.8% | 3.8% | |||
| 65 | Red-bellied Woodpecker | 29.7% | 7.6% | 22.2% | |||
| 66 | Red-breasted Nuthatch | 7.6% | 7.6% | 0.0% | |||
| 67 | Scarlet Tanager | 9.8% | 7.4% | 2.4% | |||
| 68 | Northern Waterthrush | 15.8% | 7.2% | 8.7% | |||
| 69 | Least Flycatcher | 3.4% | 7.2% | 3.8% | |||
| 70 | Tennessee Warbler | 6.0% | 6.8% | 0.8% | |||
| 71 | Bay-breasted Warbler | 4.4% | 6.8% | 2.4% | |||
| 72 | Winter Wren | 1.7% | 6.8% | 5.1% | |||
| 73 | Golden-crowned Kinglet | 2.1% | 6.6% | 4.5% | |||
| 74 | Brown Thrasher | 8.7% | 6.4% | 2.3% | |||
| 75 | Peregrine Falcon | 7.4% | 5.8% | 1.6% | |||
| 76 | Lincoln's Sparrow | 4.0% | 5.8% | 1.9% | |||
| 77 | House Finch | 14.9% | 5.4% | 9.5% | |||
| 78 | Common Raven | 5.4% | 5.4% | 0.0% | |||
| 79 | Chimney Swift | 22.6% | 5.2% | 17.4% | |||
| 80 | Rose-breasted Grosbeak | 11.6% | 4.8% | 6.7% | |||
| 81 | Nashville Warbler | 4.7% | 4.8% | 0.2% | |||
| 82 | Belted Kingfisher | 12.1% | 4.7% | 7.5% | |||
| 83 | Prairie Warbler | 4.3% | 4.5% | 0.1% | |||
| 84 | Cooper's Hawk | 7.4% | 4.3% | 3.1% | |||
| 85 | Chipping Sparrow | 6.6% | 4.3% | 2.4% | |||
| 86 | Merlin | 5.4% | 4.3% | 1.1% | |||
| 87 | Great Crested Flycatcher | 5.2% | 4.1% | 1.1% | |||
| 88 | Blue-headed Vireo | 3.3% | 4.1% | 0.8% | |||
| 89 | Eastern Towhee | 7.8% | 3.9% | 3.9% | |||
| 90 | Eastern Kingbird | 3.0% | 3.9% | 0.9% | |||
| 91 | Wood Thrush | 5.2% | 3.7% | 1.5% | |||
| 92 | Solitary Sandpiper | 3.1% | 3.7% | 0.6% | |||
| 93 | Yellow-billed Cuckoo | 2.6% | 3.7% | 1.1% | |||
| 94 | Dark-eyed Junco | 1.4% | 3.7% | 2.3% | |||
| 95 | Great Blue Heron | 24.9% | 3.5% | 21.4% | |||
| 96 | Fish Crow | 2.9% | 3.5% | 0.6% | |||
| 97 | Blackburnian Warbler | 3.0% | 3.1% | 0.1% | |||
| 98 | Blue Grosbeak | 0.4% | 3.1% | 2.7% | |||
| 99 | Swamp Sparrow | 5.0% | 2.9% | 2.1% | |||
| 100 | Barn Swallow | 4.8% | 2.9% | 1.9% | |||
| 101 | Indigo Bunting | 4.5% | 2.9% | 1.5% | |||
| 102 | Brown Creeper | 1.3% | 2.9% | 1.6% | |||
| 103 | Red-winged Blackbird | 12.2% | 2.5% | 9.7% | |||
| 104 | Sharp-shinned Hawk | 5.3% | 2.5% | 2.8% | |||
| 105 | Forster's Tern | 4.1% | 2.5% | 1.6% | |||
| 106 | Yellow-bellied Sapsucker | 3.8% | 2.5% | 1.3% | |||
| 107 | Yellow-bellied Flycatcher | 1.7% | 2.5% | 0.8% | |||
| 108 | Warbling Vireo | 8.2% | 2.3% | 5.9% | |||
| 109 | Dickcissel | 0.9% | 2.3% | 1.4% | |||
| 110 | Canada Warbler | 4.1% | 2.1% | 2.0% | |||
| 111 | Dunlin | 0.7% | 1.9% | 1.3% | |||
| 112 | Blue-gray Gnatcatcher | 4.9% | 1.7% | 3.1% | |||
| 113 | Sanderling | 2.9% | 1.6% | 1.4% | |||
| 114 | Field Sparrow | 2.4% | 1.6% | 0.9% | |||
| 115 | White-crowned Sparrow | 0.4% | 1.6% | 1.2% | |||
| 116 | White-breasted Nuthatch | 13.6% | 1.4% | 12.2% | |||
| 117 | Bald Eagle | 4.8% | 1.4% | 3.4% | |||
| 118 | Wilson's Warbler | 3.9% | 1.4% | 2.6% | |||
| 119 | Broad-winged Hawk | 3.2% | 1.4% | 1.9% | |||
| 120 | Semipalmated Plover | 7.1% | 1.2% | 5.9% | |||
| 121 | Northern Harrier | 3.6% | 1.2% | 2.4% | |||
| 122 | Hooded Warbler | 0.9% | 1.2% | 0.2% | |||
| 123 | Greater Yellowlegs | 8.9% | 1.0% | 7.9% | |||
| 124 | Tree Swallow | 7.1% | 1.0% | 6.1% | |||
| 125 | Gadwall | 4.6% | 1.0% | 3.6% | |||
| 126 | Common Nighthawk | 2.8% | 1.0% | 1.9% | |||
| 127 | Hermit Thrush | 0.5% | 1.0% | 0.5% | |||
| 128 | Western Kingbird | 0.2% | 1.0% | 0.8% | |||
| 129 | Budgerigar | 0.1% | 1.0% | 0.8% | |||
| 130 | Connecticut Warbler | 2.0% | 0.8% | 1.2% | |||
| 131 | Gray-cheeked Thrush | 1.5% | 0.8% | 0.8% | |||
| 132 | Green Heron | 7.6% | 0.6% | 7.0% | |||
| 133 | Olive-sided Flycatcher | 1.1% | 0.6% | 0.5% | |||
| 134 | Lark Sparrow | 0.6% | 0.6% | 0.0% | |||
| 135 | Black-billed Cuckoo | 0.6% | 0.6% | 0.0% | |||
| 136 | Great Egret | 20.2% | 0.4% | 19.8% | |||
| 137 | Black-capped Chickadee | 12.8% | 0.4% | 12.4% | |||
| 138 | Philadelphia Vireo | 2.0% | 0.4% | 1.7% | |||
| 139 | Pectoral Sandpiper | 2.0% | 0.4% | 1.6% | |||
| 140 | Blue-winged Warbler | 1.5% | 0.4% | 1.1% | |||
| 141 | Purple Finch | 1.4% | 0.4% | 1.0% | |||
| 142 | Red-headed Woodpecker | 0.6% | 0.4% | 0.2% | |||
| 143 | Worm-eating Warbler | 0.4% | 0.4% | 0.1% | |||
| 144 | American Bittern | 0.2% | 0.4% | 0.1% | |||
| 145 | Hairy Woodpecker | 8.5% | 0.2% | 8.3% | |||
| 146 | Turkey Vulture | 8.4% | 0.2% | 8.3% | |||
| 147 | Black-bellied Plover | 4.5% | 0.2% | 4.3% | |||
| 148 | Monk Parakeet | 2.3% | 0.2% | 2.1% | |||
| 149 | Blue-winged Teal | 2.1% | 0.2% | 1.9% | |||
| 150 | Red-shouldered Hawk | 1.1% | 0.2% | 0.9% | |||
| 151 | Willet | 1.0% | 0.2% | 0.8% | |||
| 152 | Yellow-throated Vireo | 0.8% | 0.2% | 0.6% | |||
| 153 | Clay-colored Sparrow | 0.8% | 0.2% | 0.6% | |||
| 154 | Yellow-breasted Chat | 0.7% | 0.2% | 0.5% | |||
| 155 | Mourning Warbler | 0.6% | 0.2% | 0.4% | |||
| 156 | Common Loon | 0.6% | 0.2% | 0.4% | |||
| 157 | American Pipit | 0.4% | 0.2% | 0.2% | |||
| 158 | Orange-crowned Warbler | 0.1% | 0.2% | 0.1% | |||
| 159 | Brown Booby | 0.1% | 0.2% | 0.1% | |||
| 160 | Alder Flycatcher | 0.1% | 0.2% | 0.1% | |||
| 161 | Acadian Flycatcher | 0.1% | 0.2% | 0.1% | |||
| 162 | Eastern Meadowlark | 0.0% | 0.2% | 0.2% | |||
| 163 | Swainson's Hawk | 0.0% | 0.2% | 0.2% |