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Top Birds at Coney Island Pier in January
relative to other locations within 25 miles of New York, NY, USA

based on 230 checklists

This page shows the probability of a species appearing on a checklist at Coney Island Pier in January. 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   Ring-billed Gull 51.9% 87.4% 35.5%
2   Herring Gull 43.2% 86.1% 42.9%
3   Great Black-backed Gull 31.4% 84.3% 52.9%
4   Common Loon 10.4% 83.9% 73.5%
5   Long-tailed Duck 8.9% 75.2% 66.3%
6   Red-breasted Merganser 19.1% 70.0% 50.9%
7   Rock Pigeon 28.7% 68.3% 39.6%
8   Red-throated Loon 7.1% 54.8% 47.6%
9   Surf Scoter 2.6% 51.3% 48.7%
10   Black Scoter 2.8% 44.3% 41.6%
11   Bufflehead 31.9% 39.6% 7.7%
12   House Sparrow 35.7% 35.7% 0.0%
13   Brant 20.5% 34.3% 13.9%
14   European Starling 36.0% 29.1% 6.8%
15   Northern Gannet 2.1% 23.5% 21.4%
16   White-winged Scoter 1.8% 23.0% 21.2%
17   Double-crested Cormorant 13.8% 19.6% 5.7%
18   Common Eider 1.4% 18.7% 17.3%
19   Purple Sandpiper 1.8% 17.4% 15.5%
20   Sanderling 4.0% 16.1% 12.1%
21   Horned Grebe 7.2% 15.2% 8.0%
22   Fish Crow 5.0% 13.0% 8.1%
23   Razorbill 1.2% 13.0% 11.8%
24   Greater Scaup 9.9% 9.6% 0.3%
25   Red-necked Grebe 0.5% 7.0% 6.4%
26   Lesser Black-backed Gull 0.8% 6.5% 5.7%
27   Common Goldeneye 7.0% 5.7% 1.3%
28   Bonaparte's Gull 2.3% 5.7% 3.4%
29   Canada Goose 53.6% 5.2% 48.4%
30   Peregrine Falcon 5.2% 5.2% 0.0%
31   American Crow 18.2% 4.8% 13.5%
32   American Black Duck 27.9% 3.5% 24.5%
33   Great Cormorant 4.8% 2.6% 2.2%
34   Mourning Dove 29.4% 2.2% 27.3%
35   Song Sparrow 32.3% 1.3% 31.0%
36   Northern Mockingbird 23.7% 1.3% 22.4%
37   Gadwall 16.8% 1.3% 15.5%
38   Great Blue Heron 14.8% 1.3% 13.5%
39   American Kestrel 3.8% 1.3% 2.5%
40   Mallard 49.1% 0.9% 48.3%
41   Hooded Merganser 19.6% 0.9% 18.7%
42   Ruddy Duck 16.6% 0.9% 15.7%
43   Mute Swan 14.5% 0.9% 13.6%
44   Lesser Scaup 5.1% 0.9% 4.2%
45   Snow Goose 2.6% 0.9% 1.8%
46   Glaucous Gull 0.4% 0.9% 0.5%
47   Western Grebe 0.1% 0.9% 0.8%
48   Thick-billed Murre 0.1% 0.9% 0.8%
49   White-throated Sparrow 42.3% 0.4% 41.8%
50   Red-tailed Hawk 21.9% 0.4% 21.4%
51   Dark-eyed Junco 15.9% 0.4% 15.5%
52   House Finch 13.5% 0.4% 13.0%
53   American Coot 11.4% 0.4% 11.0%
54   Cooper's Hawk 8.4% 0.4% 8.0%
55   Belted Kingfisher 6.9% 0.4% 6.5%
56   American Wigeon 6.2% 0.4% 5.8%
57   Swamp Sparrow 4.7% 0.4% 4.3%
58   Northern Pintail 3.6% 0.4% 3.1%
59   Merlin 1.9% 0.4% 1.5%
60   Iceland Gull 1.0% 0.4% 0.6%
61   Tree Swallow 0.7% 0.4% 0.3%
62   Ruddy Turnstone 0.6% 0.4% 0.2%
63   American Woodcock 0.3% 0.4% 0.1%