Top Birds at Sandy Hook in December
relative to other locations within 25 miles of 40.781243, -73.966507
based on 1094 checklists
This page shows the probability of a species appearing on a checklist at Sandy Hook in December. 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 Herring Gull | 40.7% | 76.5% | 35.8% | |||
| 2 | Great Black-backed Gull | 27.6% | 75.5% | 47.9% | |||
| 3 | Brant | 17.5% | 73.4% | 55.9% | |||
| 4 | Bufflehead | 27.0% | 72.1% | 45.1% | |||
| 5 | Canada Goose | 51.4% | 69.0% | 17.6% | |||
| 6 | American Black Duck | 25.7% | 68.5% | 42.7% | |||
| 7 | Red-breasted Merganser | 13.7% | 65.4% | 51.8% | |||
| 8 | Ring-billed Gull | 48.9% | 63.6% | 14.7% | |||
| 9 | Northern Mockingbird | 27.8% | 61.9% | 34.0% | |||
| 10 | Long-tailed Duck | 5.1% | 58.2% | 53.1% | |||
| 11 | Song Sparrow | 36.7% | 57.2% | 20.5% | |||
| 12 | Red-throated Loon | 5.5% | 56.5% | 50.9% | |||
| 13 | Yellow-rumped Warbler | 5.9% | 55.5% | 49.6% | |||
| 14 | Common Loon | 7.7% | 51.6% | 43.9% | |||
| 15 | Black Scoter | 2.0% | 50.7% | 48.7% | |||
| 16 | Northern Gannet | 2.0% | 48.9% | 46.9% | |||
| 17 | House Finch | 16.0% | 46.0% | 30.0% | |||
| 18 | White-winged Scoter | 1.3% | 45.0% | 43.7% | |||
| 19 | Sanderling | 2.5% | 42.8% | 40.3% | |||
| 20 | Northern Cardinal | 40.4% | 41.8% | 1.3% | |||
| 21 | European Starling | 38.7% | 41.1% | 2.4% | |||
| 22 | Surf Scoter | 1.8% | 40.5% | 38.7% | |||
| 23 | Horned Grebe | 4.5% | 39.5% | 35.0% | |||
| 24 | White-throated Sparrow | 49.3% | 39.2% | 10.1% | |||
| 25 | Double-crested Cormorant | 17.2% | 38.0% | 20.9% | |||
| 26 | American Robin | 30.1% | 37.4% | 7.3% | |||
| 27 | Great Blue Heron | 19.7% | 36.7% | 16.9% | |||
| 28 | Snow Bunting | 1.4% | 35.2% | 33.8% | |||
| 29 | Carolina Wren | 18.9% | 34.2% | 15.3% | |||
| 30 | Turkey Vulture | 4.8% | 34.0% | 29.2% | |||
| 31 | Horned Lark | 2.1% | 31.7% | 29.7% | |||
| 32 | Mourning Dove | 36.8% | 30.4% | 6.4% | |||
| 33 | Downy Woodpecker | 30.8% | 29.8% | 1.0% | |||
| 34 | American Crow | 20.6% | 29.8% | 9.2% | |||
| 35 | Mallard | 47.9% | 29.4% | 18.5% | |||
| 36 | Dark-eyed Junco | 23.9% | 28.2% | 4.2% | |||
| 37 | Northern Flicker | 10.5% | 27.7% | 17.2% | |||
| 38 | Common Goldeneye | 3.2% | 27.1% | 23.8% | |||
| 39 | American Goldfinch | 20.1% | 23.7% | 3.6% | |||
| 40 | Black-capped Chickadee | 25.7% | 21.1% | 4.6% | |||
| 41 | Hermit Thrush | 5.5% | 20.3% | 14.8% | |||
| 42 | Greater Scaup | 6.4% | 20.2% | 13.8% | |||
| 43 | American Tree Sparrow | 6.0% | 19.7% | 13.8% | |||
| 44 | Bonaparte's Gull | 1.2% | 19.7% | 18.5% | |||
| 45 | Black-bellied Plover | 0.9% | 17.9% | 17.0% | |||
| 46 | Common Raven | 4.7% | 17.2% | 12.5% | |||
| 47 | Red-tailed Hawk | 24.9% | 16.5% | 8.4% | |||
| 48 | Northern Harrier | 4.6% | 16.5% | 11.9% | |||
| 49 | Cooper's Hawk | 11.2% | 16.3% | 5.1% | |||
| 50 | Rock Pigeon | 31.4% | 14.8% | 16.6% | |||
| 51 | Red-bellied Woodpecker | 29.3% | 14.2% | 15.1% | |||
| 52 | Great Cormorant | 3.3% | 14.2% | 10.8% | |||
| 53 | Swamp Sparrow | 8.0% | 13.9% | 5.9% | |||
| 54 | Common Eider | 1.1% | 13.7% | 12.7% | |||
| 55 | Gray Catbird | 3.6% | 12.7% | 9.1% | |||
| 56 | Cedar Waxwing | 3.3% | 12.4% | 9.2% | |||
| 57 | Field Sparrow | 1.6% | 12.4% | 10.8% | |||
| 58 | Bald Eagle | 4.9% | 12.3% | 7.4% | |||
| 59 | Black Vulture | 1.1% | 11.0% | 9.8% | |||
| 60 | Savannah Sparrow | 1.9% | 10.9% | 8.9% | |||
| 61 | Sharp-shinned Hawk | 3.0% | 10.8% | 7.8% | |||
| 62 | Mute Swan | 13.8% | 10.1% | 3.7% | |||
| 63 | Ruby-crowned Kinglet | 5.6% | 10.1% | 4.5% | |||
| 64 | Golden-crowned Kinglet | 4.6% | 9.0% | 4.4% | |||
| 65 | Red-winged Blackbird | 9.3% | 8.7% | 0.6% | |||
| 66 | Peregrine Falcon | 5.6% | 8.2% | 2.7% | |||
| 67 | Tree Swallow | 0.7% | 8.0% | 7.2% | |||
| 68 | Wood Stork | 0.2% | 7.8% | 7.6% | |||
| 69 | Hooded Merganser | 18.9% | 7.7% | 11.3% | |||
| 70 | Fox Sparrow | 10.0% | 7.2% | 2.7% | |||
| 71 | Common Merganser | 4.8% | 6.9% | 2.1% | |||
| 72 | House Sparrow | 39.5% | 6.7% | 32.8% | |||
| 73 | Belted Kingfisher | 9.5% | 6.3% | 3.2% | |||
| 74 | Orange-crowned Warbler | 1.9% | 6.3% | 4.4% | |||
| 75 | Razorbill | 0.2% | 6.3% | 6.1% | |||
| 76 | Winter Wren | 4.8% | 6.0% | 1.3% | |||
| 77 | Merlin | 2.3% | 5.9% | 3.6% | |||
| 78 | Red-necked Grebe | 0.4% | 5.8% | 5.4% | |||
| 79 | American Coot | 10.3% | 5.4% | 4.9% | |||
| 80 | Dunlin | 1.6% | 5.4% | 3.8% | |||
| 81 | Lesser Black-backed Gull | 0.6% | 5.4% | 4.8% | |||
| 82 | Ruddy Duck | 15.6% | 5.2% | 10.4% | |||
| 83 | Snow Goose | 2.1% | 4.9% | 2.8% | |||
| 84 | Blue Jay | 40.9% | 4.8% | 36.0% | |||
| 85 | Yellow-bellied Sapsucker | 8.6% | 4.8% | 3.8% | |||
| 86 | Lesser Scaup | 3.6% | 4.8% | 1.3% | |||
| 87 | Pied-billed Grebe | 5.0% | 4.8% | 0.3% | |||
| 88 | White-crowned Sparrow | 0.6% | 4.6% | 4.0% | |||
| 89 | Laughing Gull | 0.5% | 4.6% | 4.0% | |||
| 90 | Gadwall | 15.4% | 4.4% | 11.0% | |||
| 91 | Snowy Owl | 0.9% | 4.0% | 3.1% | |||
| 92 | Lapland Longspur | 0.3% | 3.7% | 3.5% | |||
| 93 | Green-winged Teal | 5.2% | 3.3% | 2.0% | |||
| 94 | Red-breasted Nuthatch | 2.6% | 3.3% | 0.7% | |||
| 95 | Ash-throated Flycatcher | 0.5% | 3.3% | 2.8% | |||
| 96 | Great Egret | 1.5% | 3.1% | 1.6% | |||
| 97 | Glaucous Gull | 0.3% | 3.0% | 2.7% | |||
| 98 | Ring-necked Duck | 3.9% | 2.9% | 1.0% | |||
| 99 | Red-shouldered Hawk | 1.9% | 2.9% | 1.0% | |||
| 100 | American Pipit | 1.0% | 2.9% | 1.9% | |||
| 101 | Purple Finch | 1.4% | 2.8% | 1.4% | |||
| 102 | Pine Siskin | 0.9% | 2.8% | 1.9% | |||
| 103 | King Eider | 0.5% | 2.7% | 2.2% | |||
| 104 | American Wigeon | 6.1% | 2.5% | 3.6% | |||
| 105 | Western Tanager | 0.6% | 2.5% | 1.8% | |||
| 106 | Brown-headed Cowbird | 1.7% | 2.3% | 0.6% | |||
| 107 | Fish Crow | 5.6% | 2.2% | 3.4% | |||
| 108 | American Kestrel | 6.1% | 2.0% | 4.0% | |||
| 109 | Purple Sandpiper | 1.7% | 2.0% | 0.3% | |||
| 110 | Chipping Sparrow | 1.4% | 2.0% | 0.6% | |||
| 111 | Iceland Gull | 0.5% | 1.9% | 1.4% | |||
| 112 | Clapper Rail | 0.2% | 1.9% | 1.7% | |||
| 113 | Tufted Titmouse | 22.7% | 1.8% | 20.8% | |||
| 114 | Common Grackle | 5.4% | 1.6% | 3.8% | |||
| 115 | Brown Creeper | 4.3% | 1.6% | 2.7% | |||
| 116 | Red Crossbill | 0.1% | 1.6% | 1.5% | |||
| 117 | White-breasted Nuthatch | 21.5% | 1.5% | 20.1% | |||
| 118 | Northern Pintail | 3.2% | 1.5% | 1.8% | |||
| 119 | Northern Saw-whet Owl | 1.0% | 1.5% | 0.4% | |||
| 120 | Townsend's Warbler | 0.1% | 1.5% | 1.3% | |||
| 121 | Hairy Woodpecker | 9.4% | 1.4% | 8.1% | |||
| 122 | Killdeer | 2.1% | 1.4% | 0.7% | |||
| 123 | Pacific Loon | 0% | 1.4% | 1.4% | |||
| 124 | Eastern Towhee | 2.5% | 1.3% | 1.2% | |||
| 125 | Townsend's Solitaire | 0.0% | 1.3% | 1.3% | |||
| 126 | Redhead | 1.2% | 1.2% | 0.0% | |||
| 127 | Cave Swallow | 0.0% | 1.2% | 1.2% | |||
| 128 | Great Horned Owl | 2.3% | 1.1% | 1.2% | |||
| 129 | Palm Warbler | 0.8% | 1.1% | 0.3% | |||
| 130 | Carolina Chickadee | 0.0% | 1.0% | 1.0% | |||
| 131 | Baltimore Oriole | 0.4% | 0.9% | 0.5% | |||
| 132 | Eastern Phoebe | 0.5% | 0.8% | 0.3% | |||
| 133 | Lark Sparrow | 0.1% | 0.8% | 0.8% | |||
| 134 | American Goshawk | 0.0% | 0.8% | 0.8% | |||
| 135 | Hudsonian Godwit | 0.0% | 0.8% | 0.8% | |||
| 136 | Canvasback | 2.2% | 0.7% | 1.4% | |||
| 137 | Brown Thrasher | 0.5% | 0.7% | 0.3% | |||
| 138 | Western Kingbird | 0.0% | 0.7% | 0.7% | |||
| 139 | Northern Shoveler | 14.8% | 0.6% | 14.2% | |||
| 140 | Wood Duck | 4.2% | 0.6% | 3.5% | |||
| 141 | Eastern Bluebird | 1.0% | 0.6% | 0.3% | |||
| 142 | Tundra Swan | 0.0% | 0.6% | 0.6% | |||
| 143 | American Woodcock | 0.6% | 0.5% | 0.0% | |||
| 144 | Harlequin Duck | 0.6% | 0.5% | 0.1% | |||
| 145 | Marsh Wren | 0.3% | 0.5% | 0.1% | |||
| 146 | Common Redpoll | 0.2% | 0.5% | 0.2% | |||
| 147 | Barrow's Goldeneye | 0.1% | 0.5% | 0.4% | |||
| 148 | Dovekie | 0.0% | 0.5% | 0.4% | |||
| 149 | Rusty Blackbird | 1.9% | 0.4% | 1.6% | |||
| 150 | Common Yellowthroat | 0.6% | 0.4% | 0.3% | |||
| 151 | Yellow-breasted Chat | 0.4% | 0.4% | 0.0% | |||
| 152 | Black-legged Kittiwake | 0.1% | 0.4% | 0.3% | |||
| 153 | Blue-headed Vireo | 0.1% | 0.4% | 0.3% | |||
| 154 | Little Gull | 0.0% | 0.4% | 0.4% | |||
| 155 | Royal Tern | 0.0% | 0.4% | 0.4% | |||
| 156 | Black-crowned Night-Heron | 1.5% | 0.3% | 1.3% | |||
| 157 | American Oystercatcher | 0.3% | 0.3% | 0.0% | |||
| 158 | Rough-legged Hawk | 0.2% | 0.3% | 0.0% | |||
| 159 | American Bittern | 0.2% | 0.3% | 0.1% | |||
| 160 | Common Gallinule | 0.1% | 0.3% | 0.1% | |||
| 161 | American White Pelican | 0.1% | 0.3% | 0.2% | |||
| 162 | Prairie Warbler | 0.1% | 0.3% | 0.2% | |||
| 163 | Snowy Egret | 0.0% | 0.3% | 0.2% | |||
| 164 | Indigo Bunting | 0.0% | 0.3% | 0.3% | |||
| 165 | Great Crested Flycatcher | 0% | 0.3% | 0.3% | |||
| 166 | Sedge Wren | 0% | 0.3% | 0.3% | |||
| 167 | Parasitic Jaeger | 0% | 0.3% | 0.3% | |||
| 168 | Barred Owl | 1.3% | 0.2% | 1.1% | |||
| 169 | Nashville Warbler | 0.3% | 0.2% | 0.1% | |||
| 170 | Boat-tailed Grackle | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.1% | |||
| 171 | Short-eared Owl | 0.1% | 0.2% | 0.1% | |||
| 172 | Black Guillemot | 0.0% | 0.2% | 0.1% | |||
| 173 | Eared Grebe | 0.0% | 0.2% | 0.2% | |||
| 174 | Blue-gray Gnatcatcher | 0.0% | 0.2% | 0.2% | |||
| 175 | Seaside Sparrow | 0.0% | 0.2% | 0.2% | |||
| 176 | Piping Plover | 0.0% | 0.2% | 0.2% | |||
| 177 | Forster's Tern | 0.0% | 0.2% | 0.2% | |||
| 178 | Broad-winged Hawk | 0.0% | 0.2% | 0.2% | |||
| 179 | Pine Warbler | 0.4% | 0.1% | 0.3% | |||
| 180 | Eurasian Wigeon | 0.4% | 0.1% | 0.3% | |||
| 181 | Wilson's Snipe | 0.2% | 0.1% | 0.2% | |||
| 182 | Lincoln's Sparrow | 0.2% | 0.1% | 0.1% | |||
| 183 | Eastern Meadowlark | 0.2% | 0.1% | 0.1% | |||
| 184 | Clay-colored Sparrow | 0.2% | 0.1% | 0.1% | |||
| 185 | House Wren | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.0% | |||
| 186 | Red Knot | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.0% | |||
| 187 | Northern Parula | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.0% | |||
| 188 | Brown Pelican | 0.0% | 0.1% | 0.1% | |||
| 189 | White-eyed Vireo | 0.0% | 0.1% | 0.1% | |||
| 190 | Green Heron | 0.0% | 0.1% | 0.1% | |||
| 191 | Eastern Kingbird | 0% | 0.1% | 0.1% | |||
| 192 | Common Tern | 0% | 0.1% | 0.1% | |||
| 193 | Thick-billed Murre | 0% | 0.1% | 0.1% |