Top Birds at Nickerson Beach in May
relative to other locations within 25 miles of New York, NY, USA
based on 421 checklists
This page shows the probability of a species appearing on a checklist at Nickerson Beach in May. 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 | Common Tern | 5.5% | 91.2% | 85.7% | |||
| 2 | American Oystercatcher | 7.6% | 90.5% | 82.9% | |||
| 3 | Black Skimmer | 1.4% | 80.5% | 79.1% | |||
| 4 | Piping Plover | 1.2% | 68.4% | 67.2% | |||
| 5 | Sanderling | 1.4% | 66.0% | 64.6% | |||
| 6 | Laughing Gull | 16.7% | 65.6% | 48.9% | |||
| 7 | Great Black-backed Gull | 13.1% | 65.3% | 52.2% | |||
| 8 | Herring Gull | 23.3% | 64.1% | 40.8% | |||
| 9 | Least Tern | 3.7% | 54.2% | 50.4% | |||
| 10 | Barn Swallow | 31.6% | 52.3% | 20.6% | |||
| 11 | Osprey | 16.3% | 51.1% | 34.8% | |||
| 12 | Willet | 5.6% | 50.8% | 45.2% | |||
| 13 | Mallard | 49.3% | 46.8% | 2.5% | |||
| 14 | Song Sparrow | 35.5% | 45.6% | 10.1% | |||
| 15 | European Starling | 58.5% | 45.1% | 13.3% | |||
| 16 | Double-crested Cormorant | 34.0% | 43.5% | 9.5% | |||
| 17 | Red-winged Blackbird | 53.4% | 40.1% | 13.2% | |||
| 18 | Northern Mockingbird | 26.7% | 37.1% | 10.4% | |||
| 19 | House Sparrow | 57.1% | 31.1% | 25.9% | |||
| 20 | Semipalmated Sandpiper | 4.8% | 29.0% | 24.2% | |||
| 21 | Ring-billed Gull | 14.3% | 28.7% | 14.5% | |||
| 22 | Killdeer | 9.2% | 26.4% | 17.1% | |||
| 23 | American Robin | 73.5% | 26.1% | 47.3% | |||
| 24 | Canada Goose | 45.2% | 25.4% | 19.8% | |||
| 25 | Common Grackle | 55.0% | 23.5% | 31.5% | |||
| 26 | Gull-billed Tern | 0.1% | 23.0% | 22.9% | |||
| 27 | Brant | 10.7% | 22.3% | 11.6% | |||
| 28 | Tree Swallow | 22.4% | 21.9% | 0.6% | |||
| 29 | Roseate Tern | 0.0% | 20.4% | 20.4% | |||
| 30 | Ruddy Turnstone | 2.1% | 17.1% | 15.0% | |||
| 31 | Boat-tailed Grackle | 5.1% | 16.2% | 11.0% | |||
| 32 | House Finch | 16.0% | 15.9% | 0.1% | |||
| 33 | Semipalmated Plover | 4.5% | 15.4% | 10.9% | |||
| 34 | Forster's Tern | 7.9% | 14.7% | 6.8% | |||
| 35 | Least Sandpiper | 7.1% | 14.5% | 7.4% | |||
| 36 | Black-bellied Plover | 3.4% | 14.3% | 10.8% | |||
| 37 | Dunlin | 2.2% | 12.8% | 10.7% | |||
| 38 | Glossy Ibis | 4.2% | 12.4% | 8.1% | |||
| 39 | Mourning Dove | 53.6% | 11.9% | 41.7% | |||
| 40 | Common Loon | 2.4% | 10.7% | 8.3% | |||
| 41 | Common Eider | 0.1% | 10.7% | 10.6% | |||
| 42 | Rock Pigeon | 35.5% | 10.0% | 25.6% | |||
| 43 | Yellow Warbler | 42.8% | 9.7% | 33.0% | |||
| 44 | Common Yellowthroat | 47.7% | 9.3% | 38.4% | |||
| 45 | Northern Gannet | 0.2% | 9.3% | 9.0% | |||
| 46 | American Crow | 17.7% | 8.8% | 8.9% | |||
| 47 | Fish Crow | 10.9% | 7.4% | 3.5% | |||
| 48 | Northern Cardinal | 59.2% | 7.1% | 52.1% | |||
| 49 | Eastern Towhee | 19.9% | 6.9% | 13.0% | |||
| 50 | Black Scoter | 0.2% | 6.2% | 5.9% | |||
| 51 | Brown-headed Cowbird | 20.8% | 5.7% | 15.1% | |||
| 52 | Gray Catbird | 66.2% | 5.5% | 60.7% | |||
| 53 | White-rumped Sandpiper | 0.4% | 5.0% | 4.6% | |||
| 54 | Black Tern | 0.1% | 5.0% | 4.9% | |||
| 55 | Lesser Black-backed Gull | 0.2% | 4.8% | 4.6% | |||
| 56 | Great Egret | 25.5% | 4.5% | 21.0% | |||
| 57 | Greater Yellowlegs | 5.9% | 3.8% | 2.1% | |||
| 58 | Surf Scoter | 0.2% | 3.8% | 3.6% | |||
| 59 | Arctic Tern | 0.0% | 3.3% | 3.3% | |||
| 60 | Short-billed Dowitcher | 1.8% | 3.1% | 1.3% | |||
| 61 | Wilson's Phalarope | 0.2% | 3.1% | 2.9% | |||
| 62 | Black-crowned Night-Heron | 11.7% | 2.6% | 9.1% | |||
| 63 | Willow Flycatcher | 5.4% | 2.6% | 2.8% | |||
| 64 | Brown Thrasher | 7.4% | 2.4% | 5.0% | |||
| 65 | Bonaparte's Gull | 0.6% | 2.4% | 1.8% | |||
| 66 | Green Heron | 9.0% | 2.1% | 6.9% | |||
| 67 | Savannah Sparrow | 5.5% | 2.1% | 3.4% | |||
| 68 | Lesser Yellowlegs | 2.7% | 2.1% | 0.6% | |||
| 69 | Purple Sandpiper | 0.1% | 1.9% | 1.8% | |||
| 70 | Great Blue Heron | 9.6% | 1.7% | 7.9% | |||
| 71 | Peregrine Falcon | 2.7% | 1.7% | 1.0% | |||
| 72 | Blue Jay | 49.4% | 1.4% | 48.0% | |||
| 73 | Red Knot | 0.7% | 1.4% | 0.8% | |||
| 74 | Blackpoll Warbler | 22.0% | 1.2% | 20.8% | |||
| 75 | Red-throated Loon | 1.1% | 1.2% | 0.1% | |||
| 76 | Snowy Egret | 10.0% | 1.0% | 9.0% | |||
| 77 | Solitary Sandpiper | 5.8% | 1.0% | 4.9% | |||
| 78 | Hooded Merganser | 0.2% | 1.0% | 0.7% | |||
| 79 | King Eider | 0.1% | 1.0% | 0.9% | |||
| 80 | Sooty Shearwater | 0.0% | 1.0% | 0.9% | |||
| 81 | Wilson's Storm-Petrel | 0.0% | 1.0% | 0.9% | |||
| 82 | Chimney Swift | 29.9% | 0.7% | 29.2% | |||
| 83 | Eastern Kingbird | 16.9% | 0.7% | 16.2% | |||
| 84 | Cedar Waxwing | 16.8% | 0.7% | 16.1% | |||
| 85 | Spotted Sandpiper | 12.4% | 0.7% | 11.7% | |||
| 86 | Yellow-crowned Night-Heron | 3.9% | 0.7% | 3.2% | |||
| 87 | Monk Parakeet | 2.0% | 0.7% | 1.3% | |||
| 88 | White-throated Sparrow | 34.4% | 0.5% | 33.9% | |||
| 89 | Carolina Wren | 19.9% | 0.5% | 19.4% | |||
| 90 | Orchard Oriole | 10.2% | 0.5% | 9.8% | |||
| 91 | American Black Duck | 5.1% | 0.5% | 4.6% | |||
| 92 | Bank Swallow | 2.5% | 0.5% | 2.0% | |||
| 93 | Parasitic Jaeger | 0.0% | 0.5% | 0.5% | |||
| 94 | Pomarine Jaeger | 0.0% | 0.5% | 0.5% | |||
| 95 | Pacific Loon | 0% | 0.5% | 0.5% | |||
| 96 | Baltimore Oriole | 44.8% | 0.2% | 44.6% | |||
| 97 | Black-and-white Warbler | 39.7% | 0.2% | 39.4% | |||
| 98 | Northern Flicker | 29.2% | 0.2% | 29.0% | |||
| 99 | American Goldfinch | 28.8% | 0.2% | 28.5% | |||
| 100 | Magnolia Warbler | 27.6% | 0.2% | 27.4% | |||
| 101 | Northern Waterthrush | 23.3% | 0.2% | 23.1% | |||
| 102 | Red-eyed Vireo | 22.8% | 0.2% | 22.6% | |||
| 103 | Ruby-crowned Kinglet | 13.2% | 0.2% | 13.0% | |||
| 104 | Mute Swan | 11.6% | 0.2% | 11.3% | |||
| 105 | Turkey Vulture | 9.8% | 0.2% | 9.6% | |||
| 106 | Wood Duck | 9.3% | 0.2% | 9.1% | |||
| 107 | Prairie Warbler | 8.5% | 0.2% | 8.3% | |||
| 108 | Gadwall | 7.0% | 0.2% | 6.8% | |||
| 109 | White-crowned Sparrow | 3.7% | 0.2% | 3.5% | |||
| 110 | Red-breasted Merganser | 1.7% | 0.2% | 1.4% | |||
| 111 | Common Nighthawk | 1.4% | 0.2% | 1.2% | |||
| 112 | Purple Finch | 1.3% | 0.2% | 1.1% | |||
| 113 | Northern Shoveler | 1.0% | 0.2% | 0.7% | |||
| 114 | Seaside Sparrow | 0.8% | 0.2% | 0.5% | |||
| 115 | Northern Harrier | 0.6% | 0.2% | 0.4% | |||
| 116 | Long-tailed Duck | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.0% | |||
| 117 | Caspian Tern | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.0% | |||
| 118 | Cattle Egret | 0.1% | 0.2% | 0.2% | |||
| 119 | Iceland Gull | 0.1% | 0.2% | 0.2% | |||
| 120 | Little Gull | 0.0% | 0.2% | 0.2% | |||
| 121 | Eastern Meadowlark | 0.0% | 0.2% | 0.2% | |||
| 122 | Royal Tern | 0.0% | 0.2% | 0.2% | |||
| 123 | American Golden-Plover | 0.0% | 0.2% | 0.2% | |||
| 124 | Horned Lark | 0.0% | 0.2% | 0.2% |