Top Birds at Sandy Hook in December
relative to other locations within 25 miles of New York, NY, USA
based on 1001 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 | Herring Gull | 41.2% | 76.4% | 35.2% | |||
| 2 | Great Black-backed Gull | 28.5% | 76.3% | 47.9% | |||
| 3 | Brant | 17.8% | 73.4% | 55.7% | |||
| 4 | Bufflehead | 27.3% | 72.2% | 44.9% | |||
| 5 | Canada Goose | 51.2% | 69.5% | 18.3% | |||
| 6 | American Black Duck | 25.8% | 69.0% | 43.2% | |||
| 7 | Red-breasted Merganser | 13.8% | 66.6% | 52.8% | |||
| 8 | Ring-billed Gull | 49.4% | 65.1% | 15.8% | |||
| 9 | Northern Mockingbird | 27.7% | 61.4% | 33.7% | |||
| 10 | Long-tailed Duck | 5.2% | 59.9% | 54.7% | |||
| 11 | Song Sparrow | 36.6% | 58.3% | 21.7% | |||
| 12 | Red-throated Loon | 5.9% | 57.5% | 51.7% | |||
| 13 | Yellow-rumped Warbler | 5.9% | 55.5% | 49.7% | |||
| 14 | Common Loon | 8.1% | 54.1% | 46.0% | |||
| 15 | Northern Gannet | 2.2% | 50.3% | 48.2% | |||
| 16 | Black Scoter | 1.7% | 49.5% | 47.8% | |||
| 17 | House Finch | 15.8% | 46.1% | 30.2% | |||
| 18 | White-winged Scoter | 1.2% | 43.7% | 42.5% | |||
| 19 | Northern Cardinal | 40.0% | 42.7% | 2.7% | |||
| 20 | European Starling | 38.8% | 42.5% | 3.7% | |||
| 21 | Sanderling | 2.4% | 40.6% | 38.2% | |||
| 22 | White-throated Sparrow | 48.8% | 40.2% | 8.7% | |||
| 23 | Horned Grebe | 4.6% | 39.9% | 35.3% | |||
| 24 | Surf Scoter | 1.6% | 39.9% | 38.3% | |||
| 25 | Double-crested Cormorant | 17.5% | 37.8% | 20.2% | |||
| 26 | Great Blue Heron | 19.9% | 37.0% | 17.1% | |||
| 27 | American Robin | 29.4% | 36.5% | 7.0% | |||
| 28 | Snow Bunting | 1.4% | 35.4% | 34.0% | |||
| 29 | Turkey Vulture | 4.8% | 34.8% | 30.0% | |||
| 30 | Carolina Wren | 18.5% | 34.1% | 15.6% | |||
| 31 | Horned Lark | 2.1% | 32.8% | 30.7% | |||
| 32 | Mourning Dove | 36.2% | 31.4% | 4.9% | |||
| 33 | Mallard | 48.7% | 30.4% | 18.3% | |||
| 34 | American Crow | 20.4% | 30.4% | 9.9% | |||
| 35 | Downy Woodpecker | 30.7% | 30.1% | 0.6% | |||
| 36 | Dark-eyed Junco | 23.1% | 29.6% | 6.5% | |||
| 37 | Northern Flicker | 10.6% | 28.6% | 18.0% | |||
| 38 | Common Goldeneye | 3.4% | 28.3% | 24.9% | |||
| 39 | American Goldfinch | 20.4% | 23.3% | 2.9% | |||
| 40 | Black-capped Chickadee | 24.4% | 21.2% | 3.2% | |||
| 41 | Hermit Thrush | 5.2% | 21.1% | 15.9% | |||
| 42 | Bonaparte's Gull | 1.3% | 20.3% | 18.9% | |||
| 43 | American Tree Sparrow | 6.2% | 20.2% | 14.0% | |||
| 44 | Greater Scaup | 6.5% | 20.0% | 13.5% | |||
| 45 | Red-tailed Hawk | 24.7% | 18.0% | 6.7% | |||
| 46 | Cooper's Hawk | 10.7% | 16.6% | 5.9% | |||
| 47 | Northern Harrier | 4.7% | 16.5% | 11.8% | |||
| 48 | Rock Pigeon | 31.0% | 16.1% | 14.9% | |||
| 49 | Common Raven | 4.3% | 15.5% | 11.2% | |||
| 50 | Black-bellied Plover | 0.9% | 15.5% | 14.6% | |||
| 51 | Red-bellied Woodpecker | 28.9% | 15.0% | 13.9% | |||
| 52 | Great Cormorant | 3.6% | 14.5% | 10.9% | |||
| 53 | Swamp Sparrow | 7.5% | 14.0% | 6.5% | |||
| 54 | Gray Catbird | 3.8% | 13.6% | 9.8% | |||
| 55 | Field Sparrow | 1.7% | 12.9% | 11.2% | |||
| 56 | Cedar Waxwing | 3.5% | 11.9% | 8.4% | |||
| 57 | Common Eider | 1.0% | 11.9% | 10.9% | |||
| 58 | Bald Eagle | 4.7% | 11.7% | 7.0% | |||
| 59 | Savannah Sparrow | 1.9% | 11.5% | 9.5% | |||
| 60 | Sharp-shinned Hawk | 3.1% | 11.2% | 8.1% | |||
| 61 | Black Vulture | 1.1% | 11.2% | 10.1% | |||
| 62 | Mute Swan | 14.0% | 11.0% | 3.0% | |||
| 63 | Ruby-crowned Kinglet | 5.5% | 10.7% | 5.2% | |||
| 64 | Tree Swallow | 0.8% | 9.0% | 8.2% | |||
| 65 | Golden-crowned Kinglet | 4.2% | 8.6% | 4.4% | |||
| 66 | Red-winged Blackbird | 9.2% | 8.5% | 0.7% | |||
| 67 | Peregrine Falcon | 5.8% | 8.3% | 2.5% | |||
| 68 | Wood Stork | 0.2% | 8.3% | 8.1% | |||
| 69 | Fox Sparrow | 9.8% | 7.6% | 2.2% | |||
| 70 | Hooded Merganser | 19.0% | 7.5% | 11.5% | |||
| 71 | Common Merganser | 4.8% | 6.9% | 2.1% | |||
| 72 | Razorbill | 0.2% | 6.9% | 6.7% | |||
| 73 | House Sparrow | 39.1% | 6.8% | 32.3% | |||
| 74 | Belted Kingfisher | 9.6% | 6.8% | 2.8% | |||
| 75 | Winter Wren | 4.9% | 6.4% | 1.5% | |||
| 76 | Red-necked Grebe | 0.4% | 6.2% | 5.8% | |||
| 77 | Orange-crowned Warbler | 1.8% | 6.1% | 4.3% | |||
| 78 | Merlin | 2.3% | 5.9% | 3.6% | |||
| 79 | American Coot | 10.5% | 5.8% | 4.7% | |||
| 80 | Ruddy Duck | 15.8% | 5.6% | 10.2% | |||
| 81 | Lesser Black-backed Gull | 0.5% | 5.5% | 5.0% | |||
| 82 | Blue Jay | 40.5% | 5.3% | 35.2% | |||
| 83 | Pied-billed Grebe | 5.4% | 5.2% | 0.2% | |||
| 84 | Snow Goose | 2.1% | 5.1% | 3.0% | |||
| 85 | Laughing Gull | 0.5% | 5.1% | 4.6% | |||
| 86 | Yellow-bellied Sapsucker | 8.4% | 5.0% | 3.4% | |||
| 87 | White-crowned Sparrow | 0.6% | 5.0% | 4.4% | |||
| 88 | Lesser Scaup | 3.6% | 4.5% | 0.9% | |||
| 89 | Snowy Owl | 0.9% | 4.2% | 3.3% | |||
| 90 | Gadwall | 15.4% | 3.8% | 11.6% | |||
| 91 | Dunlin | 1.6% | 3.8% | 2.2% | |||
| 92 | Lapland Longspur | 0.3% | 3.7% | 3.4% | |||
| 93 | Red-breasted Nuthatch | 2.6% | 3.6% | 1.0% | |||
| 94 | Ash-throated Flycatcher | 0.5% | 3.6% | 3.1% | |||
| 95 | Great Egret | 1.5% | 3.3% | 1.8% | |||
| 96 | Glaucous Gull | 0.2% | 3.3% | 3.1% | |||
| 97 | Ring-necked Duck | 4.0% | 3.1% | 0.9% | |||
| 98 | Red-shouldered Hawk | 1.8% | 3.1% | 1.2% | |||
| 99 | Pine Siskin | 1.0% | 3.1% | 2.1% | |||
| 100 | King Eider | 0.5% | 3.1% | 2.6% | |||
| 101 | American Pipit | 1.0% | 3.0% | 2.0% | |||
| 102 | Green-winged Teal | 5.2% | 2.8% | 2.4% | |||
| 103 | Purple Finch | 1.3% | 2.8% | 1.5% | |||
| 104 | American Wigeon | 6.3% | 2.6% | 3.7% | |||
| 105 | Fish Crow | 5.2% | 2.5% | 2.7% | |||
| 106 | Brown-headed Cowbird | 1.8% | 2.5% | 0.7% | |||
| 107 | American Kestrel | 6.0% | 2.2% | 3.8% | |||
| 108 | Chipping Sparrow | 1.4% | 2.2% | 0.8% | |||
| 109 | Iceland Gull | 0.5% | 2.1% | 1.6% | |||
| 110 | Tufted Titmouse | 21.7% | 1.9% | 19.8% | |||
| 111 | White-breasted Nuthatch | 20.3% | 1.8% | 18.5% | |||
| 112 | Common Grackle | 5.6% | 1.8% | 3.8% | |||
| 113 | Red Crossbill | 0.1% | 1.7% | 1.6% | |||
| 114 | Hairy Woodpecker | 9.4% | 1.6% | 7.8% | |||
| 115 | Killdeer | 1.9% | 1.6% | 0.3% | |||
| 116 | Townsend's Warbler | 0.1% | 1.6% | 1.5% | |||
| 117 | Clapper Rail | 0.2% | 1.5% | 1.3% | |||
| 118 | Pacific Loon | 0% | 1.5% | 1.5% | |||
| 119 | Brown Creeper | 4.2% | 1.4% | 2.8% | |||
| 120 | Eastern Towhee | 2.6% | 1.4% | 1.2% | |||
| 121 | Purple Sandpiper | 1.7% | 1.4% | 0.3% | |||
| 122 | Townsend's Solitaire | 0.0% | 1.4% | 1.4% | |||
| 123 | Northern Pintail | 3.3% | 1.3% | 2.0% | |||
| 124 | Cave Swallow | 0.0% | 1.3% | 1.3% | |||
| 125 | Great Horned Owl | 2.4% | 1.2% | 1.2% | |||
| 126 | Redhead | 1.2% | 1.2% | 0.0% | |||
| 127 | Northern Saw-whet Owl | 1.2% | 1.2% | 0.0% | |||
| 128 | Palm Warbler | 0.7% | 1.2% | 0.5% | |||
| 129 | Baltimore Oriole | 0.4% | 1.0% | 0.6% | |||
| 130 | Eastern Phoebe | 0.5% | 0.9% | 0.4% | |||
| 131 | Lark Sparrow | 0.1% | 0.9% | 0.8% | |||
| 132 | American Goshawk | 0.1% | 0.9% | 0.8% | |||
| 133 | Hudsonian Godwit | 0.0% | 0.9% | 0.9% | |||
| 134 | Canvasback | 2.2% | 0.8% | 1.4% | |||
| 135 | Eastern Bluebird | 1.0% | 0.8% | 0.2% | |||
| 136 | Brown Thrasher | 0.5% | 0.8% | 0.3% | |||
| 137 | Western Kingbird | 0.0% | 0.8% | 0.8% | |||
| 138 | Northern Shoveler | 15.1% | 0.7% | 14.4% | |||
| 139 | Wood Duck | 3.8% | 0.7% | 3.1% | |||
| 140 | Carolina Chickadee | 0.0% | 0.7% | 0.7% | |||
| 141 | American Woodcock | 0.6% | 0.6% | 0.0% | |||
| 142 | Tundra Swan | 0.0% | 0.6% | 0.6% | |||
| 143 | Harlequin Duck | 0.6% | 0.5% | 0.1% | |||
| 144 | Marsh Wren | 0.4% | 0.5% | 0.1% | |||
| 145 | Common Redpoll | 0.3% | 0.5% | 0.2% | |||
| 146 | Barrow's Goldeneye | 0.1% | 0.5% | 0.4% | |||
| 147 | Dovekie | 0.0% | 0.5% | 0.5% | |||
| 148 | Rusty Blackbird | 1.9% | 0.4% | 1.5% | |||
| 149 | Common Yellowthroat | 0.6% | 0.4% | 0.2% | |||
| 150 | Yellow-breasted Chat | 0.4% | 0.4% | 0.0% | |||
| 151 | Black-legged Kittiwake | 0.1% | 0.4% | 0.3% | |||
| 152 | Blue-headed Vireo | 0.1% | 0.4% | 0.3% | |||
| 153 | Little Gull | 0.0% | 0.4% | 0.4% | |||
| 154 | Royal Tern | 0.0% | 0.4% | 0.4% | |||
| 155 | Black-crowned Night-Heron | 1.6% | 0.3% | 1.3% | |||
| 156 | Western Tanager | 0.7% | 0.3% | 0.4% | |||
| 157 | Rough-legged Hawk | 0.3% | 0.3% | 0.0% | |||
| 158 | American Bittern | 0.2% | 0.3% | 0.1% | |||
| 159 | Common Gallinule | 0.2% | 0.3% | 0.1% | |||
| 160 | American White Pelican | 0.1% | 0.3% | 0.2% | |||
| 161 | Snowy Egret | 0.0% | 0.3% | 0.3% | |||
| 162 | Indigo Bunting | 0.0% | 0.3% | 0.3% | |||
| 163 | Great Crested Flycatcher | 0% | 0.3% | 0.3% | |||
| 164 | Sedge Wren | 0% | 0.3% | 0.3% | |||
| 165 | Parasitic Jaeger | 0% | 0.3% | 0.3% | |||
| 166 | Barred Owl | 1.4% | 0.2% | 1.2% | |||
| 167 | Nashville Warbler | 0.3% | 0.2% | 0.1% | |||
| 168 | Boat-tailed Grackle | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.0% | |||
| 169 | American Oystercatcher | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.0% | |||
| 170 | Short-eared Owl | 0.1% | 0.2% | 0.1% | |||
| 171 | Black Guillemot | 0.0% | 0.2% | 0.2% | |||
| 172 | Eared Grebe | 0.0% | 0.2% | 0.2% | |||
| 173 | Blue-gray Gnatcatcher | 0.0% | 0.2% | 0.2% | |||
| 174 | Seaside Sparrow | 0.0% | 0.2% | 0.2% | |||
| 175 | Piping Plover | 0.0% | 0.2% | 0.2% | |||
| 176 | Forster's Tern | 0.0% | 0.2% | 0.2% | |||
| 177 | Broad-winged Hawk | 0.0% | 0.2% | 0.2% | |||
| 178 | Pine Warbler | 0.3% | 0.1% | 0.2% | |||
| 179 | Lincoln's Sparrow | 0.2% | 0.1% | 0.1% | |||
| 180 | Wilson's Snipe | 0.2% | 0.1% | 0.1% | |||
| 181 | Eastern Meadowlark | 0.2% | 0.1% | 0.1% | |||
| 182 | Clay-colored Sparrow | 0.2% | 0.1% | 0.1% | |||
| 183 | Red Knot | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.0% | |||
| 184 | Northern Parula | 0.0% | 0.1% | 0.1% | |||
| 185 | Brown Pelican | 0.0% | 0.1% | 0.1% | |||
| 186 | White-eyed Vireo | 0.0% | 0.1% | 0.1% | |||
| 187 | Green Heron | 0.0% | 0.1% | 0.1% | |||
| 188 | Eastern Kingbird | 0% | 0.1% | 0.1% | |||
| 189 | Common Tern | 0% | 0.1% | 0.1% | |||
| 190 | Thick-billed Murre | 0% | 0.1% | 0.1% |