Top Birds at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge in January
relative to other locations within 25 miles of 40.781243, -73.966507
based on 448 checklists
This page shows the probability of a species appearing on a checklist at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge 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.
| Rank | Info | Pics | Species | Entire Region | This Location | Difference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Canada Goose | 53.4% | 80.1% | 26.7% | |||
| 2 | Brant | 19.8% | 71.9% | 52.0% | |||
| 3 | Mallard | 48.1% | 67.6% | 19.5% | |||
| 4 | American Black Duck | 27.6% | 66.7% | 39.2% | |||
| 5 | American Herring Gull | 43.0% | 64.7% | 21.7% | |||
| 6 | Snow Goose | 2.6% | 60.9% | 58.4% | |||
| 7 | Bufflehead | 31.4% | 59.4% | 28.0% | |||
| 8 | Northern Cardinal | 36.9% | 57.6% | 20.7% | |||
| 9 | Ruddy Duck | 16.4% | 57.6% | 41.2% | |||
| 10 | Ring-billed Gull | 51.7% | 57.4% | 5.6% | |||
| 11 | Northern Mockingbird | 23.5% | 57.1% | 33.6% | |||
| 12 | Great Black-backed Gull | 30.7% | 55.4% | 24.7% | |||
| 13 | White-throated Sparrow | 42.6% | 53.8% | 11.2% | |||
| 14 | Song Sparrow | 32.2% | 51.8% | 19.6% | |||
| 15 | Mute Swan | 14.0% | 50.7% | 36.7% | |||
| 16 | Yellow-rumped Warbler | 4.7% | 50.0% | 45.3% | |||
| 17 | Northern Shoveler | 15.6% | 48.4% | 32.8% | |||
| 18 | Gadwall | 16.7% | 46.7% | 30.0% | |||
| 19 | American Wigeon | 5.8% | 46.0% | 40.2% | |||
| 20 | Hooded Merganser | 19.5% | 43.3% | 23.8% | |||
| 21 | American Coot | 11.2% | 38.6% | 27.4% | |||
| 22 | European Starling | 35.7% | 38.2% | 2.5% | |||
| 23 | Red-breasted Merganser | 19.0% | 36.8% | 17.9% | |||
| 24 | Greater Scaup | 9.7% | 36.2% | 26.5% | |||
| 25 | American Robin | 25.4% | 33.7% | 8.3% | |||
| 26 | Northern Pintail | 3.3% | 29.0% | 25.7% | |||
| 27 | Carolina Wren | 15.2% | 28.6% | 13.4% | |||
| 28 | Double-crested Cormorant | 13.8% | 28.1% | 14.3% | |||
| 29 | House Finch | 13.3% | 25.4% | 12.2% | |||
| 30 | Northern Harrier | 4.1% | 24.8% | 20.7% | |||
| 31 | American Crow | 18.5% | 24.6% | 6.0% | |||
| 32 | American Tree Sparrow | 6.2% | 24.6% | 18.3% | |||
| 33 | Downy Woodpecker | 27.2% | 24.1% | 3.1% | |||
| 34 | House Sparrow | 36.1% | 21.7% | 14.4% | |||
| 35 | Mourning Dove | 29.7% | 21.7% | 8.1% | |||
| 36 | Green-winged Teal | 4.3% | 21.0% | 16.7% | |||
| 37 | Great Blue Heron | 14.6% | 19.6% | 5.0% | |||
| 38 | Black-capped Chickadee | 22.8% | 17.4% | 5.4% | |||
| 39 | Gray Catbird | 2.4% | 16.5% | 14.1% | |||
| 40 | Rock Pigeon | 29.2% | 15.8% | 13.4% | |||
| 41 | Horned Grebe | 6.9% | 15.2% | 8.3% | |||
| 42 | American Goldfinch | 12.9% | 14.5% | 1.6% | |||
| 43 | Northern Flicker | 6.8% | 12.7% | 5.9% | |||
| 44 | Lesser Scaup | 5.1% | 12.7% | 7.6% | |||
| 45 | Common Goldeneye | 6.7% | 9.8% | 3.1% | |||
| 46 | Canvasback | 3.0% | 9.6% | 6.6% | |||
| 47 | Peregrine Falcon | 5.2% | 8.9% | 3.8% | |||
| 48 | Red-tailed Hawk | 22.1% | 8.7% | 13.4% | |||
| 49 | Dark-eyed Junco | 16.2% | 7.4% | 8.8% | |||
| 50 | Cedar Waxwing | 1.5% | 7.1% | 5.6% | |||
| 51 | Swamp Sparrow | 4.9% | 6.9% | 2.0% | |||
| 52 | Fox Sparrow | 7.2% | 6.2% | 0.9% | |||
| 53 | Hermit Thrush | 2.7% | 5.8% | 3.1% | |||
| 54 | Cooper's Hawk | 8.8% | 5.6% | 3.2% | |||
| 55 | Boat-tailed Grackle | 0.2% | 5.6% | 5.4% | |||
| 56 | Red-winged Blackbird | 7.3% | 5.4% | 1.9% | |||
| 57 | Common Grackle | 5.1% | 5.4% | 0.3% | |||
| 58 | Pied-billed Grebe | 4.2% | 5.4% | 1.1% | |||
| 59 | Ruby-crowned Kinglet | 2.8% | 5.1% | 2.3% | |||
| 60 | Great Cormorant | 4.6% | 4.9% | 0.3% | |||
| 61 | Redhead | 2.3% | 4.9% | 2.6% | |||
| 62 | Snowy Owl | 1.1% | 4.7% | 3.6% | |||
| 63 | Greater Yellowlegs | 0.9% | 4.7% | 3.8% | |||
| 64 | Blue Jay | 34.2% | 4.0% | 30.2% | |||
| 65 | Common Loon | 10.2% | 4.0% | 6.2% | |||
| 66 | Common Merganser | 6.9% | 4.0% | 2.9% | |||
| 67 | Golden-crowned Kinglet | 2.7% | 4.0% | 1.3% | |||
| 68 | Sharp-shinned Hawk | 2.2% | 4.0% | 1.8% | |||
| 69 | Tundra Swan | 0.1% | 4.0% | 3.9% | |||
| 70 | Dunlin | 1.7% | 3.8% | 2.1% | |||
| 71 | Fish Crow | 5.2% | 3.6% | 1.6% | |||
| 72 | Bald Eagle | 5.4% | 3.3% | 2.0% | |||
| 73 | Merlin | 1.9% | 3.3% | 1.4% | |||
| 74 | Hairy Woodpecker | 7.8% | 2.9% | 4.9% | |||
| 75 | American Woodcock | 0.3% | 2.9% | 2.6% | |||
| 76 | Winter Wren | 3.2% | 2.7% | 0.5% | |||
| 77 | Black-crowned Night-Heron | 1.4% | 2.7% | 1.3% | |||
| 78 | Eurasian Wigeon | 0.3% | 2.7% | 2.4% | |||
| 79 | Red-bellied Woodpecker | 25.0% | 2.2% | 22.8% | |||
| 80 | Tufted Titmouse | 20.4% | 2.2% | 18.2% | |||
| 81 | Red-throated Loon | 6.9% | 2.2% | 4.6% | |||
| 82 | Eastern Towhee | 1.7% | 2.2% | 0.5% | |||
| 83 | Savannah Sparrow | 1.2% | 2.2% | 1.0% | |||
| 84 | Barrow's Goldeneye | 0.2% | 2.2% | 2.1% | |||
| 85 | Great Egret | 0.4% | 2.0% | 1.6% | |||
| 86 | Ring-necked Duck | 4.8% | 1.8% | 3.0% | |||
| 87 | Common Raven | 4.3% | 1.8% | 2.5% | |||
| 88 | American Kestrel | 3.9% | 1.8% | 2.1% | |||
| 89 | Field Sparrow | 1.2% | 1.8% | 0.6% | |||
| 90 | Sanderling | 4.2% | 1.6% | 2.6% | |||
| 91 | Great Horned Owl | 1.9% | 1.3% | 0.5% | |||
| 92 | White-breasted Nuthatch | 19.1% | 1.1% | 18.0% | |||
| 93 | Yellow-bellied Sapsucker | 5.8% | 1.1% | 4.7% | |||
| 94 | Red-shouldered Hawk | 1.5% | 1.1% | 0.4% | |||
| 95 | Long-tailed Duck | 9.0% | 0.9% | 8.1% | |||
| 96 | Black-bellied Plover | 1.0% | 0.9% | 0.1% | |||
| 97 | Orange-crowned Warbler | 1.0% | 0.9% | 0.1% | |||
| 98 | Lesser Black-backed Gull | 0.9% | 0.9% | 0.0% | |||
| 99 | Glaucous Gull | 0.4% | 0.9% | 0.5% | |||
| 100 | Eared Grebe | 0.1% | 0.9% | 0.8% | |||
| 101 | Red-breasted Nuthatch | 1.9% | 0.7% | 1.3% | |||
| 102 | Killdeer | 1.9% | 0.7% | 1.2% | |||
| 103 | Snow Bunting | 1.6% | 0.7% | 0.9% | |||
| 104 | Common Eider | 1.5% | 0.7% | 0.9% | |||
| 105 | Chipping Sparrow | 0.7% | 0.7% | 0.1% | |||
| 106 | American White Pelican | 0.0% | 0.7% | 0.6% | |||
| 107 | Belted Kingfisher | 6.7% | 0.4% | 6.3% | |||
| 108 | Brown Creeper | 3.7% | 0.4% | 3.2% | |||
| 109 | White-winged Scoter | 2.1% | 0.4% | 1.6% | |||
| 110 | Monk Parakeet | 1.8% | 0.4% | 1.3% | |||
| 111 | Brown-headed Cowbird | 1.2% | 0.4% | 0.8% | |||
| 112 | Pine Siskin | 0.6% | 0.4% | 0.2% | |||
| 113 | Marsh Wren | 0.2% | 0.4% | 0.3% | |||
| 114 | Wood Duck | 4.6% | 0.2% | 4.4% | |||
| 115 | Black Scoter | 3.2% | 0.2% | 3.0% | |||
| 116 | Northern Gannet | 2.0% | 0.2% | 1.8% | |||
| 117 | Purple Sandpiper | 1.9% | 0.2% | 1.7% | |||
| 118 | Rusty Blackbird | 1.8% | 0.2% | 1.6% | |||
| 119 | Tree Swallow | 0.7% | 0.2% | 0.5% | |||
| 120 | American Pipit | 0.6% | 0.2% | 0.4% | |||
| 121 | Common Redpoll | 0.5% | 0.2% | 0.3% | |||
| 122 | Purple Finch | 0.4% | 0.2% | 0.2% | |||
| 123 | Palm Warbler | 0.3% | 0.2% | 0.1% | |||
| 124 | Rough-legged Hawk | 0.3% | 0.2% | 0.1% | |||
| 125 | Yellow-breasted Chat | 0.3% | 0.2% | 0.0% | |||
| 126 | Muscovy Duck | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.0% | |||
| 127 | Short-eared Owl | 0.1% | 0.2% | 0.1% | |||
| 128 | Blue-winged Teal | 0.1% | 0.2% | 0.1% | |||
| 129 | Clapper Rail | 0.1% | 0.2% | 0.1% | |||
| 130 | Little Blue Heron | 0% | 0.2% | 0.2% |