Top Birds at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge in January
relative to other locations within 25 miles of New York, NY, USA
based on 423 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 | 53.3% | 79.9% | 26.6% | |||
| 2 | Brant | 20.2% | 72.8% | 52.6% | |||
| 3 | Mallard | 48.8% | 68.3% | 19.5% | |||
| 4 | American Black Duck | 27.6% | 67.4% | 39.8% | |||
| 5 | Herring Gull | 43.2% | 64.3% | 21.1% | |||
| 6 | Bufflehead | 31.7% | 60.3% | 28.6% | |||
| 7 | Snow Goose | 2.3% | 60.3% | 58.0% | |||
| 8 | Ring-billed Gull | 52.0% | 57.4% | 5.4% | |||
| 9 | Northern Cardinal | 36.6% | 57.2% | 20.6% | |||
| 10 | Ruddy Duck | 16.3% | 57.2% | 40.9% | |||
| 11 | Northern Mockingbird | 23.4% | 56.3% | 32.8% | |||
| 12 | Great Black-backed Gull | 31.5% | 55.1% | 23.6% | |||
| 13 | White-throated Sparrow | 42.1% | 53.2% | 11.1% | |||
| 14 | Mute Swan | 14.2% | 52.7% | 38.5% | |||
| 15 | Song Sparrow | 32.1% | 51.5% | 19.4% | |||
| 16 | Northern Shoveler | 15.8% | 49.6% | 33.9% | |||
| 17 | Yellow-rumped Warbler | 4.6% | 48.9% | 44.3% | |||
| 18 | Gadwall | 16.5% | 46.1% | 29.6% | |||
| 19 | American Wigeon | 6.0% | 45.9% | 39.9% | |||
| 20 | Hooded Merganser | 19.3% | 44.9% | 25.6% | |||
| 21 | American Coot | 11.2% | 39.5% | 28.3% | |||
| 22 | European Starling | 35.9% | 38.5% | 2.6% | |||
| 23 | Red-breasted Merganser | 19.2% | 37.1% | 17.9% | |||
| 24 | Greater Scaup | 9.7% | 36.6% | 26.9% | |||
| 25 | American Robin | 24.8% | 34.3% | 9.5% | |||
| 26 | Carolina Wren | 15.0% | 28.8% | 13.8% | |||
| 27 | Double-crested Cormorant | 13.8% | 28.4% | 14.6% | |||
| 28 | Northern Pintail | 3.4% | 28.4% | 25.0% | |||
| 29 | House Finch | 13.4% | 26.2% | 12.9% | |||
| 30 | American Crow | 18.2% | 25.1% | 6.9% | |||
| 31 | American Tree Sparrow | 6.5% | 24.1% | 17.7% | |||
| 32 | Northern Harrier | 4.1% | 24.1% | 20.0% | |||
| 33 | Downy Woodpecker | 27.2% | 23.4% | 3.8% | |||
| 34 | Mourning Dove | 29.4% | 22.5% | 6.9% | |||
| 35 | House Sparrow | 35.8% | 22.0% | 13.8% | |||
| 36 | Green-winged Teal | 4.3% | 22.0% | 17.7% | |||
| 37 | Great Blue Heron | 14.7% | 20.6% | 5.9% | |||
| 38 | Black-capped Chickadee | 22.0% | 18.0% | 4.0% | |||
| 39 | Gray Catbird | 2.5% | 16.8% | 14.3% | |||
| 40 | Rock Pigeon | 28.9% | 15.8% | 13.1% | |||
| 41 | Horned Grebe | 7.2% | 15.1% | 7.9% | |||
| 42 | American Goldfinch | 13.2% | 14.2% | 1.0% | |||
| 43 | Lesser Scaup | 5.0% | 13.7% | 8.7% | |||
| 44 | Northern Flicker | 6.9% | 11.3% | 4.5% | |||
| 45 | Canvasback | 3.1% | 9.9% | 6.8% | |||
| 46 | Common Goldeneye | 7.0% | 9.5% | 2.5% | |||
| 47 | Peregrine Falcon | 5.2% | 8.7% | 3.6% | |||
| 48 | Red-tailed Hawk | 21.9% | 8.5% | 13.4% | |||
| 49 | Cedar Waxwing | 1.7% | 7.6% | 5.9% | |||
| 50 | Dark-eyed Junco | 15.9% | 7.1% | 8.8% | |||
| 51 | Swamp Sparrow | 4.7% | 6.6% | 1.9% | |||
| 52 | Fox Sparrow | 6.9% | 5.9% | 1.0% | |||
| 53 | Boat-tailed Grackle | 0.2% | 5.9% | 5.7% | |||
| 54 | Cooper's Hawk | 8.4% | 5.7% | 2.7% | |||
| 55 | Hermit Thrush | 2.7% | 5.7% | 2.9% | |||
| 56 | Red-winged Blackbird | 7.2% | 5.4% | 1.8% | |||
| 57 | Pied-billed Grebe | 4.5% | 5.4% | 0.9% | |||
| 58 | Redhead | 2.4% | 5.2% | 2.9% | |||
| 59 | Great Cormorant | 4.8% | 5.0% | 0.1% | |||
| 60 | Ruby-crowned Kinglet | 2.8% | 5.0% | 2.2% | |||
| 61 | Snowy Owl | 1.1% | 5.0% | 3.8% | |||
| 62 | Greater Yellowlegs | 0.8% | 5.0% | 4.1% | |||
| 63 | Common Grackle | 5.1% | 4.7% | 0.4% | |||
| 64 | Tundra Swan | 0.0% | 4.5% | 4.5% | |||
| 65 | Common Loon | 10.7% | 4.0% | 6.7% | |||
| 66 | Common Merganser | 6.7% | 4.0% | 2.7% | |||
| 67 | Dunlin | 1.7% | 4.0% | 2.3% | |||
| 68 | Blue Jay | 34.1% | 3.8% | 30.3% | |||
| 69 | Golden-crowned Kinglet | 2.6% | 3.8% | 1.2% | |||
| 70 | Sharp-shinned Hawk | 2.3% | 3.8% | 1.5% | |||
| 71 | Fish Crow | 5.0% | 3.5% | 1.5% | |||
| 72 | Merlin | 1.9% | 3.5% | 1.6% | |||
| 73 | Hairy Woodpecker | 7.9% | 2.8% | 5.0% | |||
| 74 | Winter Wren | 3.2% | 2.8% | 0.4% | |||
| 75 | Black-crowned Night-Heron | 1.5% | 2.8% | 1.4% | |||
| 76 | Eurasian Wigeon | 0.4% | 2.8% | 2.5% | |||
| 77 | American Woodcock | 0.3% | 2.8% | 2.5% | |||
| 78 | Red-throated Loon | 7.3% | 2.4% | 5.0% | |||
| 79 | Barrow's Goldeneye | 0.2% | 2.4% | 2.2% | |||
| 80 | Red-bellied Woodpecker | 24.9% | 2.1% | 22.7% | |||
| 81 | Tufted Titmouse | 19.7% | 2.1% | 17.6% | |||
| 82 | Bald Eagle | 5.2% | 2.1% | 3.1% | |||
| 83 | Ring-necked Duck | 4.6% | 1.9% | 2.7% | |||
| 84 | Eastern Towhee | 1.8% | 1.9% | 0.1% | |||
| 85 | Field Sparrow | 1.2% | 1.9% | 0.7% | |||
| 86 | Great Egret | 0.4% | 1.9% | 1.4% | |||
| 87 | Common Raven | 3.9% | 1.7% | 2.2% | |||
| 88 | American Kestrel | 3.8% | 1.7% | 2.2% | |||
| 89 | Savannah Sparrow | 1.2% | 1.7% | 0.4% | |||
| 90 | Sanderling | 4.1% | 1.4% | 2.7% | |||
| 91 | Great Horned Owl | 1.9% | 1.4% | 0.5% | |||
| 92 | Yellow-bellied Sapsucker | 5.6% | 1.2% | 4.4% | |||
| 93 | Red-shouldered Hawk | 1.5% | 1.2% | 0.3% | |||
| 94 | White-breasted Nuthatch | 18.4% | 0.9% | 17.4% | |||
| 95 | Long-tailed Duck | 9.2% | 0.9% | 8.2% | |||
| 96 | Black-bellied Plover | 1.0% | 0.9% | 0.1% | |||
| 97 | Orange-crowned Warbler | 1.0% | 0.9% | 0.0% | |||
| 98 | Glaucous Gull | 0.4% | 0.9% | 0.6% | |||
| 99 | Eared Grebe | 0.1% | 0.9% | 0.8% | |||
| 100 | Red-breasted Nuthatch | 1.9% | 0.7% | 1.2% | |||
| 101 | Killdeer | 1.7% | 0.7% | 1.0% | |||
| 102 | Snow Bunting | 1.6% | 0.7% | 0.9% | |||
| 103 | Common Eider | 1.5% | 0.7% | 0.7% | |||
| 104 | Lesser Black-backed Gull | 0.8% | 0.7% | 0.1% | |||
| 105 | American White Pelican | 0.0% | 0.7% | 0.7% | |||
| 106 | Belted Kingfisher | 7.0% | 0.5% | 6.5% | |||
| 107 | Brown Creeper | 3.7% | 0.5% | 3.3% | |||
| 108 | Monk Parakeet | 1.7% | 0.5% | 1.2% | |||
| 109 | Brown-headed Cowbird | 1.2% | 0.5% | 0.7% | |||
| 110 | Marsh Wren | 0.2% | 0.5% | 0.3% | |||
| 111 | Black Scoter | 2.9% | 0.2% | 2.7% | |||
| 112 | Northern Gannet | 2.2% | 0.2% | 1.9% | |||
| 113 | White-winged Scoter | 1.9% | 0.2% | 1.7% | |||
| 114 | Purple Sandpiper | 1.9% | 0.2% | 1.7% | |||
| 115 | Rusty Blackbird | 1.8% | 0.2% | 1.5% | |||
| 116 | Tree Swallow | 0.7% | 0.2% | 0.5% | |||
| 117 | American Pipit | 0.7% | 0.2% | 0.5% | |||
| 118 | Chipping Sparrow | 0.7% | 0.2% | 0.4% | |||
| 119 | Pine Siskin | 0.7% | 0.2% | 0.4% | |||
| 120 | Common Redpoll | 0.5% | 0.2% | 0.3% | |||
| 121 | Palm Warbler | 0.3% | 0.2% | 0.1% | |||
| 122 | Rough-legged Hawk | 0.3% | 0.2% | 0.1% | |||
| 123 | Muscovy Duck | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.0% | |||
| 124 | Yellow-breasted Chat | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.0% | |||
| 125 | Short-eared Owl | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.1% | |||
| 126 | Blue-winged Teal | 0.1% | 0.2% | 0.1% | |||
| 127 | Clapper Rail | 0.1% | 0.2% | 0.1% | |||
| 128 | Little Blue Heron | 0% | 0.2% | 0.2% |