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Top Birds at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge in November
relative to other locations within 25 miles of New York, NY, USA

based on 592 checklists

This page shows the probability of a species appearing on a checklist at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge in November. 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   Canada Goose 44.7% 82.1% 37.4%
2   Ruddy Duck 15.9% 81.2% 65.3%
3   Brant 17.7% 80.9% 63.2%
4   Mallard 46.2% 79.4% 33.2%
5   Double-crested Cormorant 27.5% 76.0% 48.5%
6   Northern Shoveler 14.7% 72.1% 57.4%
7   Yellow-rumped Warbler 19.1% 69.8% 50.7%
8   American Wigeon 5.5% 69.8% 64.3%
9   Gadwall 13.2% 68.1% 54.8%
10   Bufflehead 21.3% 67.7% 46.5%
11   Herring Gull 38.7% 66.9% 28.2%
12   American Black Duck 22.1% 66.7% 44.6%
13   Mute Swan 12.8% 63.2% 50.3%
14   Northern Mockingbird 30.3% 62.0% 31.7%
15   Ring-billed Gull 42.6% 61.3% 18.7%
16   Great Black-backed Gull 25.6% 60.8% 35.2%
17   Song Sparrow 44.9% 59.3% 14.4%
18   American Coot 10.6% 58.4% 47.8%
19   White-throated Sparrow 56.1% 58.1% 2.0%
20   European Starling 40.1% 57.9% 17.8%
21   Great Blue Heron 21.3% 56.4% 35.1%
22   Green-winged Teal 7.2% 55.9% 48.7%
23   Hooded Merganser 13.7% 54.1% 40.3%
24   Great Egret 5.0% 51.7% 46.7%
25   American Robin 43.7% 51.5% 7.8%
26   Northern Cardinal 40.0% 47.0% 7.0%
27   Dark-eyed Junco 37.1% 45.3% 8.2%
28   Greater Scaup 2.3% 45.3% 43.0%
29   Snow Goose 0.7% 35.5% 34.8%
30   Greater Yellowlegs 5.0% 35.1% 30.1%
31   Northern Harrier 5.8% 34.8% 29.0%
32   Northern Pintail 3.0% 32.9% 30.0%
33   Carolina Wren 19.2% 32.8% 13.5%
34   American Goldfinch 28.7% 32.1% 3.4%
35   Red-breasted Merganser 6.3% 31.8% 25.5%
36   Pied-billed Grebe 6.7% 31.2% 24.6%
37   American Crow 22.0% 31.1% 9.1%
38   Northern Flicker 17.5% 28.9% 11.4%
39   Mourning Dove 38.7% 27.9% 10.8%
40   Lesser Scaup 1.9% 27.9% 26.0%
41   Ruby-crowned Kinglet 17.2% 27.5% 10.3%
42   Golden-crowned Kinglet 14.3% 27.5% 13.2%
43   House Sparrow 40.4% 26.4% 14.0%
44   Horned Grebe 3.1% 24.7% 21.5%
45   Downy Woodpecker 29.8% 24.5% 5.4%
46   House Finch 18.3% 24.5% 6.2%
47   Cedar Waxwing 10.2% 22.8% 12.7%
48   Rock Pigeon 31.4% 22.1% 9.3%
49   Gray Catbird 6.6% 21.6% 15.0%
50   Peregrine Falcon 6.8% 21.5% 14.6%
51   Black-capped Chickadee 27.1% 20.8% 6.3%
52   Laughing Gull 7.4% 20.4% 13.0%
53   Dunlin 2.7% 19.6% 16.9%
54   Swamp Sparrow 15.5% 18.1% 2.6%
55   Black-crowned Night-Heron 2.1% 17.2% 15.2%
56   Snowy Egret 0.6% 15.2% 14.6%
57   Red-winged Blackbird 17.3% 14.9% 2.5%
58   Hermit Thrush 19.3% 13.0% 6.3%
59   Cooper's Hawk 12.7% 12.7% 0.0%
60   Red-tailed Hawk 26.6% 12.2% 14.4%
61   Sharp-shinned Hawk 6.2% 11.8% 5.6%
62   Eastern Phoebe 5.4% 11.3% 5.9%
63   Eurasian Wigeon 0.4% 10.1% 9.7%
64   Redhead 0.5% 10.0% 9.5%
65   Boat-tailed Grackle 0.2% 10.0% 9.7%
66   Purple Finch 6.4% 9.8% 3.4%
67   Common Grackle 13.7% 9.5% 4.2%
68   Fish Crow 4.2% 9.5% 5.2%
69   Merlin 4.2% 9.1% 4.9%
70   Eared Grebe 0.1% 8.6% 8.5%
71   Wood Duck 7.4% 8.3% 0.9%
72   Ring-necked Duck 3.2% 8.3% 5.1%
73   Belted Kingfisher 10.8% 7.1% 3.7%
74   Blue Jay 45.9% 6.6% 39.3%
75   Chipping Sparrow 7.6% 6.4% 1.2%
76   American Tree Sparrow 3.0% 6.2% 3.3%
77   Pine Siskin 4.7% 5.6% 0.9%
78   Black-bellied Plover 2.4% 5.4% 3.0%
79   Field Sparrow 4.4% 5.1% 0.7%
80   Bald Eagle 5.1% 4.7% 0.3%
81   Tree Swallow 1.9% 4.6% 2.7%
82   Fox Sparrow 9.3% 4.4% 4.9%
83   Brown Creeper 5.7% 4.4% 1.3%
84   Long-billed Dowitcher 0.2% 4.4% 4.2%
85   Savannah Sparrow 6.0% 4.2% 1.7%
86   Common Loon 6.8% 3.9% 3.0%
87   Eastern Towhee 4.1% 3.9% 0.2%
88   Blue-winged Teal 0.2% 3.9% 3.7%
89   American Oystercatcher 0.9% 3.7% 2.8%
90   American White Pelican 0.1% 3.2% 3.1%
91   Tundra Swan 0.0% 3.2% 3.2%
92   Winter Wren 7.1% 3.0% 4.0%
93   Common Raven 5.4% 3.0% 2.3%
94   Canvasback 0.5% 2.9% 2.4%
95   Red-bellied Woodpecker 31.8% 2.7% 29.0%
96   Sanderling 2.6% 2.7% 0.1%
97   American Pipit 2.9% 2.5% 0.3%
98   Osprey 1.4% 2.5% 1.1%
99   White-crowned Sparrow 2.5% 2.4% 0.1%
100   American Avocet 0.0% 2.2% 2.2%
101   Painted Bunting 0.2% 2.0% 1.9%
102   Eastern Bluebird 4.2% 1.9% 2.4%
103   Palm Warbler 4.2% 1.9% 2.3%
104   Common Yellowthroat 2.1% 1.9% 0.2%
105   Common Merganser 1.8% 1.9% 0.0%
106   Red-breasted Nuthatch 3.7% 1.7% 2.0%
107   Killdeer 3.0% 1.7% 1.3%
108   Common Goldeneye 0.6% 1.7% 1.1%
109   American Bittern 0.4% 1.7% 1.3%
110   Tufted Titmouse 22.4% 1.5% 20.9%
111   American Kestrel 8.0% 1.5% 6.4%
112   Blue-headed Vireo 1.1% 1.5% 0.4%
113   White-breasted Nuthatch 19.4% 1.4% 18.0%
114   Turkey Vulture 9.0% 1.4% 7.7%
115   Red-throated Loon 4.9% 1.4% 3.5%
116   Brown-headed Cowbird 3.8% 1.4% 2.5%
117   Snow Bunting 1.9% 1.4% 0.6%
118   Lesser Yellowlegs 0.4% 1.4% 1.0%
119   Great Cormorant 2.4% 1.2% 1.2%
120   American Woodcock 1.5% 1.2% 0.4%
121   Red-shouldered Hawk 3.4% 1.0% 2.4%
122   Orange-crowned Warbler 1.7% 1.0% 0.7%
123   Tricolored Heron 0.0% 1.0% 1.0%
124   Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 8.7% 0.8% 7.9%
125   Rusty Blackbird 2.9% 0.8% 2.1%
126   White-winged Scoter 1.9% 0.8% 1.1%
127   Semipalmated Sandpiper 0.1% 0.8% 0.8%
128   Ross's Goose 0.0% 0.8% 0.8%
129   Brown Thrasher 0.7% 0.7% 0.0%
130   Red-necked Grebe 0.3% 0.7% 0.4%
131   Hudsonian Godwit 0.1% 0.7% 0.6%
132   Little Blue Heron 0.0% 0.7% 0.6%
133   Glossy Ibis 0.0% 0.7% 0.7%
134   Long-tailed Duck 1.9% 0.5% 1.4%
135   Lesser Black-backed Gull 0.8% 0.5% 0.3%
136   Evening Grosbeak 0.3% 0.5% 0.2%
137   Nelson's Sparrow 0.3% 0.5% 0.2%
138   Hairy Woodpecker 8.3% 0.3% 7.9%
139   Black Scoter 2.6% 0.3% 2.2%
140   Bonaparte's Gull 1.2% 0.3% 0.8%
141   Ash-throated Flycatcher 0.7% 0.3% 0.4%
142   Lincoln's Sparrow 0.7% 0.3% 0.3%
143   Pine Warbler 0.6% 0.3% 0.2%
144   Clapper Rail 0.3% 0.3% 0.0%
145   Red Knot 0.2% 0.3% 0.1%
146   Semipalmated Plover 0.2% 0.3% 0.2%
147   Pectoral Sandpiper 0.1% 0.3% 0.3%
148   White-rumped Sandpiper 0.1% 0.3% 0.3%
149   Sora 0.1% 0.3% 0.3%
150   Prairie Warbler 0.0% 0.3% 0.3%
151   Monk Parakeet 2.3% 0.2% 2.1%
152   Horned Lark 2.0% 0.2% 1.8%
153   Great Horned Owl 1.5% 0.2% 1.3%
154   Royal Tern 1.3% 0.2% 1.1%
155   Red-headed Woodpecker 1.0% 0.2% 0.9%
156   Marsh Wren 0.6% 0.2% 0.4%
157   Ruddy Turnstone 0.6% 0.2% 0.4%
158   Vesper Sparrow 0.6% 0.2% 0.4%
159   Baltimore Oriole 0.5% 0.2% 0.3%
160   House Wren 0.3% 0.2% 0.1%
161   Wilson's Warbler 0.3% 0.2% 0.1%
162   Cave Swallow 0.3% 0.2% 0.1%
163   King Eider 0.2% 0.2% 0.1%
164   Black-headed Gull 0.1% 0.2% 0.1%
165   American Golden-Plover 0.1% 0.2% 0.1%
166   Yellow-billed Cuckoo 0.1% 0.2% 0.1%
167   Least Sandpiper 0.0% 0.2% 0.1%
168   Short-billed Dowitcher 0.0% 0.2% 0.2%
169   Willet 0.0% 0.2% 0.2%