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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.

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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%