Top Birds at Sandy Hook in February
relative to other locations within 25 miles of New York, NY, USA
based on 817 checklists
This page shows the probability of a species appearing on a checklist at Sandy Hook in February. 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 | 41.8% | 71.8% | 30.1% | |||
| 2 | Long-tailed Duck | 6.8% | 66.3% | 59.6% | |||
| 3 | Great Black-backed Gull | 29.7% | 66.2% | 36.5% | |||
| 4 | Bufflehead | 31.6% | 64.1% | 32.5% | |||
| 5 | Brant | 20.0% | 63.2% | 43.1% | |||
| 6 | Red-breasted Merganser | 19.4% | 61.1% | 41.7% | |||
| 7 | Ring-billed Gull | 51.3% | 60.0% | 8.6% | |||
| 8 | American Black Duck | 26.7% | 59.9% | 33.2% | |||
| 9 | Canada Goose | 55.6% | 59.4% | 3.8% | |||
| 10 | Song Sparrow | 34.1% | 56.3% | 22.2% | |||
| 11 | American Robin | 29.6% | 53.5% | 23.9% | |||
| 12 | Yellow-rumped Warbler | 4.2% | 49.8% | 45.6% | |||
| 13 | Northern Mockingbird | 23.4% | 49.7% | 26.3% | |||
| 14 | Black Scoter | 1.6% | 49.2% | 47.7% | |||
| 15 | European Starling | 38.3% | 45.4% | 7.1% | |||
| 16 | Common Goldeneye | 6.7% | 40.0% | 33.3% | |||
| 17 | Turkey Vulture | 5.8% | 39.8% | 34.0% | |||
| 18 | American Crow | 20.7% | 37.0% | 16.2% | |||
| 19 | Northern Cardinal | 40.1% | 36.8% | 3.3% | |||
| 20 | Common Loon | 8.6% | 36.7% | 28.1% | |||
| 21 | Surf Scoter | 1.6% | 35.3% | 33.7% | |||
| 22 | Mourning Dove | 32.0% | 35.1% | 3.1% | |||
| 23 | White-winged Scoter | 0.9% | 35.0% | 34.1% | |||
| 24 | Cedar Waxwing | 1.7% | 34.6% | 33.0% | |||
| 25 | Red-throated Loon | 7.2% | 33.3% | 26.1% | |||
| 26 | Greater Scaup | 9.4% | 31.8% | 22.4% | |||
| 27 | Horned Grebe | 7.9% | 31.1% | 23.2% | |||
| 28 | White-throated Sparrow | 40.5% | 30.0% | 10.5% | |||
| 29 | Carolina Wren | 15.2% | 29.3% | 14.0% | |||
| 30 | Sanderling | 2.2% | 29.1% | 26.9% | |||
| 31 | Mallard | 50.8% | 26.4% | 24.4% | |||
| 32 | House Finch | 13.5% | 26.4% | 13.0% | |||
| 33 | Snow Bunting | 0.9% | 25.2% | 24.3% | |||
| 34 | Red-winged Blackbird | 18.7% | 22.3% | 3.5% | |||
| 35 | Horned Lark | 2.0% | 22.3% | 20.3% | |||
| 36 | Dark-eyed Junco | 16.3% | 21.2% | 4.9% | |||
| 37 | Downy Woodpecker | 27.8% | 20.4% | 7.4% | |||
| 38 | Northern Gannet | 0.9% | 20.1% | 19.2% | |||
| 39 | American Tree Sparrow | 7.5% | 19.0% | 11.5% | |||
| 40 | Rock Pigeon | 28.5% | 18.7% | 9.8% | |||
| 41 | Northern Flicker | 6.2% | 16.4% | 10.3% | |||
| 42 | Hermit Thrush | 1.8% | 15.7% | 13.9% | |||
| 43 | Great Blue Heron | 11.3% | 15.5% | 4.2% | |||
| 44 | Great Cormorant | 4.7% | 14.8% | 10.1% | |||
| 45 | Red-tailed Hawk | 23.4% | 14.3% | 9.1% | |||
| 46 | Black-capped Chickadee | 23.6% | 14.1% | 9.5% | |||
| 47 | Black Vulture | 1.3% | 13.8% | 12.6% | |||
| 48 | Northern Harrier | 4.8% | 11.5% | 6.7% | |||
| 49 | Savannah Sparrow | 1.1% | 11.1% | 10.0% | |||
| 50 | Common Grackle | 13.5% | 10.9% | 2.6% | |||
| 51 | Mute Swan | 15.5% | 9.9% | 5.6% | |||
| 52 | Cooper's Hawk | 7.4% | 9.8% | 2.4% | |||
| 53 | Bohemian Waxwing | 0.0% | 9.7% | 9.6% | |||
| 54 | Bald Eagle | 5.8% | 9.5% | 3.8% | |||
| 55 | Merlin | 1.9% | 9.5% | 7.6% | |||
| 56 | Double-crested Cormorant | 11.6% | 9.2% | 2.4% | |||
| 57 | American Goldfinch | 12.3% | 8.9% | 3.4% | |||
| 58 | Common Raven | 3.4% | 8.7% | 5.3% | |||
| 59 | Field Sparrow | 1.1% | 8.7% | 7.6% | |||
| 60 | Sharp-shinned Hawk | 2.1% | 8.6% | 6.5% | |||
| 61 | Razorbill | 0.8% | 7.6% | 6.8% | |||
| 62 | House Sparrow | 40.0% | 7.2% | 32.8% | |||
| 63 | Lesser Scaup | 4.8% | 6.9% | 2.1% | |||
| 64 | Swamp Sparrow | 3.3% | 6.7% | 3.4% | |||
| 65 | Bonaparte's Gull | 0.6% | 5.9% | 5.2% | |||
| 66 | Barrow's Goldeneye | 0.2% | 5.8% | 5.5% | |||
| 67 | Brown-headed Cowbird | 1.9% | 5.6% | 3.7% | |||
| 68 | Common Eider | 0.9% | 5.5% | 4.7% | |||
| 69 | Lapland Longspur | 0.5% | 5.5% | 5.0% | |||
| 70 | Hooded Merganser | 19.7% | 5.4% | 14.3% | |||
| 71 | Common Merganser | 8.8% | 5.3% | 3.6% | |||
| 72 | Lesser Black-backed Gull | 0.9% | 5.3% | 4.4% | |||
| 73 | Red-shouldered Hawk | 1.8% | 5.1% | 3.3% | |||
| 74 | White-crowned Sparrow | 0.7% | 5.1% | 4.5% | |||
| 75 | Peregrine Falcon | 5.0% | 5.0% | 0.0% | |||
| 76 | American Wigeon | 7.5% | 4.7% | 2.8% | |||
| 77 | Killdeer | 3.9% | 4.7% | 0.7% | |||
| 78 | Gray Catbird | 1.7% | 4.5% | 2.8% | |||
| 79 | Fox Sparrow | 7.4% | 4.2% | 3.2% | |||
| 80 | Black-bellied Plover | 0.6% | 4.2% | 3.6% | |||
| 81 | Vesper Sparrow | 0.0% | 4.2% | 4.2% | |||
| 82 | Iceland Gull | 1.1% | 3.9% | 2.8% | |||
| 83 | Tree Swallow | 0.6% | 3.9% | 3.3% | |||
| 84 | Blue Jay | 35.7% | 3.7% | 32.0% | |||
| 85 | Red-bellied Woodpecker | 25.0% | 3.5% | 21.5% | |||
| 86 | Red-necked Grebe | 1.1% | 3.4% | 2.3% | |||
| 87 | Fish Crow | 7.0% | 3.1% | 3.9% | |||
| 88 | Orange-crowned Warbler | 0.3% | 3.1% | 2.8% | |||
| 89 | Golden-crowned Kinglet | 1.9% | 2.9% | 1.0% | |||
| 90 | Ruby-crowned Kinglet | 1.4% | 2.8% | 1.4% | |||
| 91 | Belted Kingfisher | 5.5% | 2.6% | 2.9% | |||
| 92 | Townsend's Solitaire | 0.0% | 2.4% | 2.4% | |||
| 93 | Hairy Woodpecker | 7.7% | 2.3% | 5.4% | |||
| 94 | Gadwall | 16.0% | 2.2% | 13.8% | |||
| 95 | Ash-throated Flycatcher | 0.0% | 2.1% | 2.1% | |||
| 96 | Ruddy Duck | 15.7% | 2.0% | 13.8% | |||
| 97 | Snowy Owl | 1.1% | 2.0% | 0.8% | |||
| 98 | Ring-necked Duck | 5.7% | 1.8% | 3.9% | |||
| 99 | American Pipit | 0.3% | 1.8% | 1.5% | |||
| 100 | Northern Pintail | 3.7% | 1.7% | 2.0% | |||
| 101 | Rough-legged Hawk | 0.8% | 1.7% | 0.9% | |||
| 102 | Tufted Titmouse | 21.4% | 1.6% | 19.9% | |||
| 103 | American Woodcock | 1.1% | 1.6% | 0.5% | |||
| 104 | White-breasted Nuthatch | 18.9% | 1.5% | 17.4% | |||
| 105 | Pied-billed Grebe | 3.9% | 1.5% | 2.4% | |||
| 106 | American Oystercatcher | 0.2% | 1.3% | 1.2% | |||
| 107 | Winter Wren | 2.2% | 1.2% | 1.0% | |||
| 108 | Red-breasted Nuthatch | 1.8% | 1.2% | 0.6% | |||
| 109 | Eastern Bluebird | 0.7% | 1.2% | 0.5% | |||
| 110 | Glaucous Gull | 0.2% | 1.2% | 1.0% | |||
| 111 | King Eider | 0.2% | 1.2% | 1.0% | |||
| 112 | Thick-billed Murre | 0.2% | 1.2% | 1.0% | |||
| 113 | Green-winged Teal | 5.0% | 1.1% | 3.9% | |||
| 114 | Dunlin | 1.2% | 1.1% | 0.1% | |||
| 115 | Eastern Towhee | 1.6% | 1.0% | 0.6% | |||
| 116 | Common Redpoll | 0.4% | 1.0% | 0.5% | |||
| 117 | Northern Saw-whet Owl | 0.3% | 1.0% | 0.7% | |||
| 118 | Wood Duck | 5.5% | 0.9% | 4.6% | |||
| 119 | Yellow-bellied Sapsucker | 4.2% | 0.9% | 3.4% | |||
| 120 | Brown Creeper | 3.7% | 0.9% | 2.9% | |||
| 121 | American Kestrel | 3.5% | 0.9% | 2.6% | |||
| 122 | Snow Goose | 2.7% | 0.9% | 1.8% | |||
| 123 | Ruddy Turnstone | 0.4% | 0.9% | 0.5% | |||
| 124 | Purple Finch | 0.3% | 0.9% | 0.5% | |||
| 125 | Redhead | 2.3% | 0.7% | 1.5% | |||
| 126 | American Coot | 10.8% | 0.6% | 10.2% | |||
| 127 | Great Horned Owl | 2.0% | 0.6% | 1.4% | |||
| 128 | Pine Siskin | 0.7% | 0.6% | 0.1% | |||
| 129 | Brown Thrasher | 0.6% | 0.6% | 0.0% | |||
| 130 | Canvasback | 3.6% | 0.5% | 3.1% | |||
| 131 | Eurasian Wigeon | 0.5% | 0.5% | 0.0% | |||
| 132 | Boat-tailed Grackle | 0.4% | 0.5% | 0.0% | |||
| 133 | Common Gallinule | 0.1% | 0.5% | 0.4% | |||
| 134 | Grasshopper Sparrow | 0.0% | 0.5% | 0.5% | |||
| 135 | Red Crossbill | 0% | 0.5% | 0.5% | |||
| 136 | Northern Shoveler | 16.8% | 0.4% | 16.4% | |||
| 137 | Chipping Sparrow | 0.6% | 0.4% | 0.2% | |||
| 138 | Barred Owl | 0.6% | 0.4% | 0.2% | |||
| 139 | Rusty Blackbird | 1.7% | 0.2% | 1.5% | |||
| 140 | Great Egret | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.0% | |||
| 141 | White-winged Crossbill | 0.1% | 0.2% | 0.2% | |||
| 142 | Western Grebe | 0.0% | 0.2% | 0.2% | |||
| 143 | Purple Sandpiper | 1.0% | 0.1% | 0.9% | |||
| 144 | Wilson's Snipe | 0.4% | 0.1% | 0.3% | |||
| 145 | Short-eared Owl | 0.2% | 0.1% | 0.0% | |||
| 146 | American Bittern | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.0% | |||
| 147 | Clay-colored Sparrow | 0.0% | 0.1% | 0.1% | |||
| 148 | Semipalmated Plover | 0.0% | 0.1% | 0.1% | |||
| 149 | Carolina Chickadee | 0.0% | 0.1% | 0.1% | |||
| 150 | Little Gull | 0.0% | 0.1% | 0.1% | |||
| 151 | Laughing Gull | 0.0% | 0.1% | 0.1% | |||
| 152 | Blue-headed Vireo | 0% | 0.1% | 0.1% |