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Top Birds at Sandy Hook in July
relative to other locations within 25 miles of New York, NY, USA

based on 357 checklists

This page shows the probability of a species appearing on a checklist at Sandy Hook in July. 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   Osprey 27.8% 79.3% 51.4%
2   American Oystercatcher 16.1% 77.0% 60.9%
3   Laughing Gull 34.0% 76.5% 42.5%
4   Common Tern 22.5% 74.2% 51.7%
5   Red-winged Blackbird 51.6% 73.9% 22.4%
6   Barn Swallow 49.5% 73.9% 24.4%
7   Northern Mockingbird 41.5% 72.0% 30.5%
8   Great Black-backed Gull 27.9% 72.0% 44.1%
9   Herring Gull 41.6% 71.4% 29.8%
10   Double-crested Cormorant 44.8% 69.7% 24.9%
11   Mourning Dove 50.9% 69.2% 18.3%
12   Great Egret 41.2% 67.2% 26.1%
13   Gray Catbird 53.4% 66.7% 13.3%
14   Eastern Towhee 9.9% 66.7% 56.7%
15   Least Tern 14.3% 66.4% 52.1%
16   American Robin 65.6% 64.4% 1.1%
17   Song Sparrow 49.1% 64.1% 15.1%
18   Common Yellowthroat 17.6% 61.1% 43.5%
19   European Starling 54.6% 56.3% 1.7%
20   Tree Swallow 23.9% 55.7% 31.8%
21   Snowy Egret 24.9% 55.2% 30.3%
22   Great Blue Heron 27.8% 54.1% 26.2%
23   Cedar Waxwing 23.1% 53.2% 30.1%
24   American Goldfinch 31.7% 50.7% 19.0%
25   Piping Plover 2.6% 50.7% 48.1%
26   Common Grackle 36.0% 49.3% 13.3%
27   House Wren 17.3% 49.3% 32.0%
28   House Finch 16.4% 45.9% 29.6%
29   Northern Cardinal 46.4% 45.4% 1.0%
30   Ring-billed Gull 27.0% 45.4% 18.4%
31   Chimney Swift 21.6% 42.3% 20.7%
32   Killdeer 19.8% 42.0% 22.3%
33   Field Sparrow 1.5% 41.5% 40.0%
34   Carolina Wren 19.7% 40.9% 21.2%
35   Yellow Warbler 25.2% 40.6% 15.4%
36   American Redstart 2.7% 38.9% 36.2%
37   Canada Goose 40.1% 37.8% 2.2%
38   White-eyed Vireo 1.5% 36.4% 34.9%
39   Marsh Wren 13.1% 36.1% 23.0%
40   Brown Thrasher 4.4% 35.6% 31.2%
41   Least Sandpiper 17.6% 33.1% 15.5%
42   Semipalmated Sandpiper 13.7% 32.5% 18.8%
43   Rock Pigeon 34.2% 32.2% 2.0%
44   Willow Flycatcher 11.8% 31.1% 19.3%
45   Sanderling 2.3% 31.1% 28.8%
46   Turkey Vulture 4.8% 30.8% 26.0%
47   Semipalmated Plover 7.7% 30.5% 22.8%
48   Bank Swallow 6.1% 27.2% 21.0%
49   Fish Crow 14.0% 26.9% 12.9%
50   Willet 7.2% 26.9% 19.7%
51   Black-crowned Night-Heron 21.9% 26.3% 4.5%
52   Royal Tern 1.0% 26.3% 25.3%
53   American Crow 14.5% 25.8% 11.3%
54   Spotted Sandpiper 14.4% 25.5% 11.1%
55   Mallard 39.9% 25.2% 14.7%
56   Forster's Tern 17.7% 24.9% 7.3%
57   Black Skimmer 10.5% 24.9% 14.5%
58   House Sparrow 56.2% 24.4% 31.8%
59   Short-billed Dowitcher 8.2% 23.2% 15.1%
60   Boat-tailed Grackle 7.5% 22.4% 14.9%
61   Yellow-billed Cuckoo 1.5% 22.1% 20.6%
62   Chipping Sparrow 6.8% 21.6% 14.7%
63   Ruddy Turnstone 1.1% 19.9% 18.7%
64   Green Heron 9.2% 19.3% 10.2%
65   Great Crested Flycatcher 5.4% 18.8% 13.4%
66   Eastern Kingbird 15.4% 16.8% 1.4%
67   Purple Martin 4.6% 16.8% 12.2%
68   Greater Yellowlegs 11.8% 16.2% 4.5%
69   Brown-headed Cowbird 10.0% 16.2% 6.3%
70   Ruby-throated Hummingbird 3.6% 16.0% 12.3%
71   Downy Woodpecker 22.5% 14.6% 7.9%
72   Black-bellied Plover 0.8% 13.4% 12.7%
73   American Black Duck 8.7% 12.9% 4.2%
74   Mute Swan 14.1% 12.6% 1.5%
75   Black-capped Chickadee 8.9% 12.3% 3.4%
76   Black Vulture 0.9% 12.3% 11.4%
77   Lesser Yellowlegs 9.4% 10.9% 1.5%
78   Least Bittern 1.5% 10.6% 9.2%
79   Northern Rough-winged Swallow 6.9% 10.4% 3.5%
80   Wood Duck 7.6% 10.1% 2.4%
81   Clapper Rail 5.7% 9.8% 4.1%
82   Northern Flicker 21.4% 9.2% 12.2%
83   Blue Jay 28.3% 9.0% 19.3%
84   Red-eyed Vireo 6.5% 8.4% 1.9%
85   Brown Pelican 0.4% 8.4% 8.0%
86   Eastern Phoebe 2.1% 6.4% 4.3%
87   Red-breasted Merganser 0.4% 6.4% 6.0%
88   Wilson's Storm-Petrel 0.1% 6.2% 6.0%
89   Black-and-white Warbler 0.3% 5.3% 5.0%
90   Whimbrel 0.4% 5.0% 4.7%
91   Common Raven 1.5% 4.8% 3.2%
92   Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 11.8% 4.5% 7.4%
93   Common Loon 0.7% 4.5% 3.8%
94   Lesser Black-backed Gull 0.5% 4.5% 4.0%
95   Belted Kingfisher 3.2% 4.2% 1.0%
96   Caspian Tern 0.6% 4.2% 3.6%
97   Glossy Ibis 10.2% 3.9% 6.3%
98   Gadwall 5.5% 3.9% 1.6%
99   Northern Waterthrush 1.4% 3.9% 2.6%
100   Brant 1.1% 3.9% 2.9%
101   Dunlin 0.1% 3.9% 3.8%
102   Peregrine Falcon 5.6% 3.4% 2.2%
103   Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 2.1% 3.4% 1.3%
104   Red Knot 0.2% 3.4% 3.1%
105   Red-tailed Hawk 9.4% 3.1% 6.3%
106   Solitary Sandpiper 1.3% 3.1% 1.7%
107   Bonaparte's Gull 0.7% 3.1% 2.4%
108   Baltimore Oriole 8.2% 2.8% 5.4%
109   Cliff Swallow 1.3% 2.8% 1.5%
110   Orchard Oriole 3.5% 2.5% 1.0%
111   Gull-billed Tern 2.3% 2.5% 0.2%
112   American Woodcock 0.2% 2.2% 2.0%
113   White Ibis 0.0% 2.2% 2.2%
114   Red-bellied Woodpecker 14.8% 2.0% 12.8%
115   Bobolink 0.5% 2.0% 1.5%
116   Black Scoter 0.3% 2.0% 1.6%
117   Indigo Bunting 6.5% 1.7% 4.9%
118   Swamp Sparrow 2.5% 1.7% 0.8%
119   Seaside Sparrow 1.2% 1.7% 0.5%
120   Worm-eating Warbler 0.2% 1.7% 1.5%
121   Roseate Tern 0.1% 1.7% 1.6%
122   Warbling Vireo 13.7% 1.4% 12.3%
123   Wood Thrush 6.2% 1.4% 4.8%
124   Cooper's Hawk 0.8% 1.4% 0.6%
125   American Avocet 0.5% 1.4% 0.9%
126   Great Horned Owl 0.3% 1.4% 1.1%
127   Ovenbird 0.2% 1.4% 1.2%
128   Surf Scoter 0.2% 1.4% 1.2%
129   Little Blue Heron 4.0% 1.1% 2.9%
130   Ruddy Duck 3.2% 1.1% 2.1%
131   Bald Eagle 1.9% 1.1% 0.7%
132   Pectoral Sandpiper 1.8% 1.1% 0.7%
133   Eastern Bluebird 0.7% 1.1% 0.5%
134   White-throated Sparrow 0.6% 1.1% 0.6%
135   Virginia Rail 0.3% 1.1% 0.9%
136   Black-billed Cuckoo 0.2% 1.1% 0.9%
137   Common Eider 0.2% 1.1% 0.9%
138   Black Tern 0.1% 1.1% 1.0%
139   Least Flycatcher 0.0% 1.1% 1.1%
140   Prairie Warbler 0.0% 1.1% 1.1%
141   American Golden-Plover 0.0% 1.1% 1.1%
142   Marbled Godwit 0.0% 1.1% 1.1%
143   Chuck-will's-widow 0% 1.1% 1.1%
144   White-breasted Nuthatch 7.4% 0.8% 6.6%
145   Eastern Wood-Pewee 4.8% 0.8% 4.0%
146   Louisiana Waterthrush 0.7% 0.8% 0.1%
147   Western Sandpiper 0.7% 0.8% 0.2%
148   Merlin 0.1% 0.8% 0.8%
149   Tufted Titmouse 7.7% 0.6% 7.2%
150   American Kestrel 2.2% 0.6% 1.6%
151   Scarlet Tanager 1.5% 0.6% 0.9%
152   Acadian Flycatcher 0.3% 0.6% 0.2%
153   Hooded Merganser 0.3% 0.6% 0.3%
154   Red-breasted Nuthatch 0.2% 0.6% 0.4%
155   White-winged Scoter 0.1% 0.6% 0.5%
156   Northern Parula 0.1% 0.6% 0.5%
157   Baird's Sandpiper 0.0% 0.6% 0.5%
158   Eastern Whip-poor-will 0.0% 0.6% 0.6%
159   Saltmarsh Sparrow 3.0% 0.3% 2.7%
160   Savannah Sparrow 0.9% 0.3% 0.6%
161   Hudsonian Godwit 0.8% 0.3% 0.5%
162   Rose-breasted Grosbeak 0.7% 0.3% 0.5%
163   White-rumped Sandpiper 0.7% 0.3% 0.4%
164   Veery 0.6% 0.3% 0.4%
165   Tricolored Heron 0.6% 0.3% 0.4%
166   Green-winged Teal 0.6% 0.3% 0.3%
167   Yellow-throated Vireo 0.5% 0.3% 0.2%
168   Long-billed Dowitcher 0.5% 0.3% 0.2%
169   Common Gallinule 0.4% 0.3% 0.1%
170   Pine Warbler 0.3% 0.3% 0.0%
171   Blue-winged Warbler 0.2% 0.3% 0.0%
172   Grasshopper Sparrow 0.1% 0.3% 0.2%
173   Sandwich Tern 0.1% 0.3% 0.2%
174   Broad-winged Hawk 0.1% 0.3% 0.2%
175   Northern Gannet 0.0% 0.3% 0.2%
176   Eastern Meadowlark 0.0% 0.3% 0.3%
177   Yellow-breasted Chat 0.0% 0.3% 0.3%
178   Red-throated Loon 0.0% 0.3% 0.3%
179   Carolina Chickadee 0.0% 0.3% 0.3%
180   Blackpoll Warbler 0.0% 0.3% 0.3%
181   Canada Warbler 0.0% 0.3% 0.3%
182   Tennessee Warbler 0.0% 0.3% 0.3%
183   Black-throated Green Warbler 0.0% 0.3% 0.3%
184   Ruby-crowned Kinglet 0% 0.3% 0.3%
185   Little Gull 0% 0.3% 0.3%