Top Birds at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge in December
relative to other locations within 25 miles of New York, NY, USA
based on 323 checklists
This page shows the probability of a species appearing on a checklist at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge in December. 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 | 51.4% | 87.9% | 36.6% | |||
| 2 | Brant | 18.5% | 79.6% | 61.1% | |||
| 3 | Mallard | 48.1% | 78.6% | 30.5% | |||
| 4 | Ruddy Duck | 15.2% | 76.5% | 61.3% | |||
| 5 | Herring Gull | 41.7% | 68.4% | 26.7% | |||
| 6 | American Black Duck | 26.4% | 66.9% | 40.5% | |||
| 7 | Ring-billed Gull | 49.6% | 62.8% | 13.2% | |||
| 8 | Northern Mockingbird | 28.2% | 60.7% | 32.5% | |||
| 9 | Bufflehead | 28.0% | 60.7% | 32.7% | |||
| 10 | Hooded Merganser | 18.5% | 60.4% | 41.8% | |||
| 11 | Northern Shoveler | 14.5% | 58.5% | 44.0% | |||
| 12 | Northern Cardinal | 39.9% | 57.3% | 17.3% | |||
| 13 | Great Black-backed Gull | 29.2% | 57.0% | 27.7% | |||
| 14 | Mute Swan | 13.7% | 56.3% | 42.7% | |||
| 15 | Gadwall | 14.9% | 55.7% | 40.8% | |||
| 16 | Snow Goose | 1.9% | 55.7% | 53.9% | |||
| 17 | Yellow-rumped Warbler | 6.5% | 54.5% | 47.9% | |||
| 18 | White-throated Sparrow | 48.6% | 54.2% | 5.6% | |||
| 19 | Double-crested Cormorant | 17.7% | 54.2% | 36.5% | |||
| 20 | Song Sparrow | 37.0% | 51.7% | 14.7% | |||
| 21 | American Wigeon | 5.9% | 50.5% | 44.6% | |||
| 22 | European Starling | 38.8% | 49.8% | 11.0% | |||
| 23 | Red-breasted Merganser | 14.7% | 48.3% | 33.6% | |||
| 24 | Great Blue Heron | 20.0% | 45.8% | 25.8% | |||
| 25 | American Coot | 10.2% | 45.5% | 35.4% | |||
| 26 | Greater Scaup | 6.5% | 42.4% | 35.9% | |||
| 27 | Green-winged Teal | 4.9% | 37.8% | 32.8% | |||
| 28 | House Finch | 16.3% | 36.8% | 20.6% | |||
| 29 | Carolina Wren | 18.7% | 35.6% | 16.9% | |||
| 30 | American Robin | 29.5% | 32.2% | 2.7% | |||
| 31 | Northern Harrier | 4.8% | 30.3% | 25.6% | |||
| 32 | Northern Pintail | 3.1% | 30.0% | 26.9% | |||
| 33 | Downy Woodpecker | 30.7% | 27.2% | 3.5% | |||
| 34 | American Crow | 20.6% | 25.7% | 5.1% | |||
| 35 | Gray Catbird | 3.8% | 25.7% | 21.9% | |||
| 36 | American Tree Sparrow | 6.3% | 25.4% | 19.1% | |||
| 37 | Mourning Dove | 36.2% | 24.5% | 11.8% | |||
| 38 | House Sparrow | 38.6% | 23.5% | 15.0% | |||
| 39 | Northern Flicker | 10.9% | 23.5% | 12.7% | |||
| 40 | Lesser Scaup | 3.5% | 23.5% | 20.0% | |||
| 41 | Horned Grebe | 5.2% | 21.4% | 16.2% | |||
| 42 | Rock Pigeon | 30.8% | 19.5% | 11.3% | |||
| 43 | American Goldfinch | 20.4% | 19.2% | 1.2% | |||
| 44 | Dark-eyed Junco | 23.3% | 18.6% | 4.7% | |||
| 45 | Black-capped Chickadee | 24.3% | 18.3% | 6.1% | |||
| 46 | Peregrine Falcon | 5.7% | 16.7% | 11.0% | |||
| 47 | Pied-billed Grebe | 5.3% | 16.4% | 11.1% | |||
| 48 | Swamp Sparrow | 7.6% | 14.6% | 7.0% | |||
| 49 | Great Egret | 1.5% | 14.6% | 13.1% | |||
| 50 | Cedar Waxwing | 3.6% | 12.1% | 8.5% | |||
| 51 | Red-winged Blackbird | 9.2% | 11.1% | 2.0% | |||
| 52 | Red-tailed Hawk | 24.7% | 10.8% | 13.8% | |||
| 53 | Cooper's Hawk | 10.8% | 10.8% | 0.1% | |||
| 54 | Fox Sparrow | 9.8% | 9.6% | 0.2% | |||
| 55 | Canvasback | 2.1% | 9.6% | 7.5% | |||
| 56 | Hermit Thrush | 5.5% | 9.0% | 3.5% | |||
| 57 | Redhead | 1.2% | 9.0% | 7.8% | |||
| 58 | Greater Yellowlegs | 1.6% | 8.7% | 7.1% | |||
| 59 | Common Goldeneye | 3.8% | 8.4% | 4.5% | |||
| 60 | Ruby-crowned Kinglet | 5.6% | 7.4% | 1.8% | |||
| 61 | Dunlin | 1.6% | 7.4% | 5.9% | |||
| 62 | Golden-crowned Kinglet | 4.3% | 6.5% | 2.2% | |||
| 63 | Black-crowned Night-Heron | 1.5% | 6.5% | 5.0% | |||
| 64 | Fish Crow | 5.2% | 5.9% | 0.7% | |||
| 65 | Common Merganser | 4.9% | 5.9% | 1.0% | |||
| 66 | Boat-tailed Grackle | 0.2% | 5.9% | 5.7% | |||
| 67 | Common Grackle | 5.5% | 5.6% | 0.1% | |||
| 68 | Common Loon | 9.1% | 5.3% | 3.8% | |||
| 69 | Bald Eagle | 4.8% | 5.0% | 0.1% | |||
| 70 | Ring-necked Duck | 3.9% | 5.0% | 1.0% | |||
| 71 | Merlin | 2.3% | 5.0% | 2.6% | |||
| 72 | American Woodcock | 0.6% | 4.6% | 4.0% | |||
| 73 | Blue Jay | 40.1% | 4.3% | 35.7% | |||
| 74 | Belted Kingfisher | 9.6% | 4.3% | 5.3% | |||
| 75 | Red-throated Loon | 6.9% | 3.7% | 3.2% | |||
| 76 | Winter Wren | 5.0% | 3.7% | 1.2% | |||
| 77 | Sharp-shinned Hawk | 3.2% | 3.7% | 0.5% | |||
| 78 | Common Raven | 4.5% | 3.4% | 1.1% | |||
| 79 | Orange-crowned Warbler | 1.9% | 3.4% | 1.5% | |||
| 80 | Eastern Towhee | 2.6% | 3.1% | 0.5% | |||
| 81 | Tree Swallow | 1.0% | 3.1% | 2.1% | |||
| 82 | Red-bellied Woodpecker | 28.8% | 2.8% | 26.0% | |||
| 83 | Hairy Woodpecker | 9.3% | 2.8% | 6.5% | |||
| 84 | Great Cormorant | 3.8% | 2.8% | 1.0% | |||
| 85 | American Pipit | 1.0% | 2.8% | 1.8% | |||
| 86 | Eurasian Wigeon | 0.4% | 2.5% | 2.1% | |||
| 87 | Long-billed Dowitcher | 0.0% | 2.5% | 2.5% | |||
| 88 | Eared Grebe | 0.0% | 2.5% | 2.5% | |||
| 89 | Savannah Sparrow | 2.1% | 2.2% | 0.0% | |||
| 90 | Chipping Sparrow | 1.4% | 2.2% | 0.7% | |||
| 91 | Clapper Rail | 0.2% | 2.2% | 2.0% | |||
| 92 | Sanderling | 3.2% | 1.9% | 1.3% | |||
| 93 | Horned Lark | 2.7% | 1.9% | 0.9% | |||
| 94 | Field Sparrow | 1.9% | 1.9% | 0.0% | |||
| 95 | Killdeer | 1.8% | 1.9% | 0.0% | |||
| 96 | Purple Finch | 1.3% | 1.9% | 0.6% | |||
| 97 | Snowy Owl | 1.0% | 1.5% | 0.6% | |||
| 98 | Yellow-bellied Sapsucker | 8.4% | 1.2% | 7.1% | |||
| 99 | Wood Duck | 3.8% | 1.2% | 2.6% | |||
| 100 | Pine Siskin | 1.0% | 1.2% | 0.2% | |||
| 101 | Rough-legged Hawk | 0.3% | 1.2% | 1.0% | |||
| 102 | American Bittern | 0.2% | 1.2% | 1.1% | |||
| 103 | Tufted Titmouse | 21.4% | 0.9% | 20.5% | |||
| 104 | American Kestrel | 6.0% | 0.9% | 5.0% | |||
| 105 | Red-breasted Nuthatch | 2.6% | 0.9% | 1.7% | |||
| 106 | Black-bellied Plover | 1.2% | 0.9% | 0.2% | |||
| 107 | Laughing Gull | 0.6% | 0.9% | 0.3% | |||
| 108 | Marsh Wren | 0.4% | 0.9% | 0.6% | |||
| 109 | Blue-winged Teal | 0.1% | 0.9% | 0.9% | |||
| 110 | Little Blue Heron | 0.0% | 0.9% | 0.9% | |||
| 111 | White-breasted Nuthatch | 20.1% | 0.6% | 19.5% | |||
| 112 | Long-tailed Duck | 6.3% | 0.6% | 5.7% | |||
| 113 | Brown Creeper | 4.2% | 0.6% | 3.5% | |||
| 114 | Snow Bunting | 2.1% | 0.6% | 1.4% | |||
| 115 | Red-shouldered Hawk | 1.9% | 0.6% | 1.3% | |||
| 116 | Brown-headed Cowbird | 1.8% | 0.6% | 1.2% | |||
| 117 | Bonaparte's Gull | 1.7% | 0.6% | 1.1% | |||
| 118 | Common Yellowthroat | 0.6% | 0.6% | 0.0% | |||
| 119 | Brown Thrasher | 0.5% | 0.6% | 0.1% | |||
| 120 | Eastern Phoebe | 0.5% | 0.6% | 0.1% | |||
| 121 | Baltimore Oriole | 0.4% | 0.6% | 0.2% | |||
| 122 | House Wren | 0.1% | 0.6% | 0.5% | |||
| 123 | Evening Grosbeak | 0.1% | 0.6% | 0.5% | |||
| 124 | American Avocet | 0.0% | 0.6% | 0.6% | |||
| 125 | Glossy Ibis | 0.0% | 0.6% | 0.6% | |||
| 126 | Turkey Vulture | 5.4% | 0.3% | 5.1% | |||
| 127 | Northern Gannet | 3.2% | 0.3% | 2.8% | |||
| 128 | Black Scoter | 2.7% | 0.3% | 2.3% | |||
| 129 | Surf Scoter | 2.3% | 0.3% | 2.0% | |||
| 130 | White-winged Scoter | 2.1% | 0.3% | 1.7% | |||
| 131 | Rusty Blackbird | 1.9% | 0.3% | 1.6% | |||
| 132 | White-crowned Sparrow | 0.7% | 0.3% | 0.4% | |||
| 133 | Ash-throated Flycatcher | 0.6% | 0.3% | 0.3% | |||
| 134 | King Eider | 0.6% | 0.3% | 0.3% | |||
| 135 | Red-necked Grebe | 0.5% | 0.3% | 0.2% | |||
| 136 | Lapland Longspur | 0.4% | 0.3% | 0.1% | |||
| 137 | Yellow-breasted Chat | 0.4% | 0.3% | 0.1% | |||
| 138 | Short-eared Owl | 0.1% | 0.3% | 0.2% | |||
| 139 | Lesser Yellowlegs | 0.1% | 0.3% | 0.2% | |||
| 140 | American White Pelican | 0.1% | 0.3% | 0.2% | |||
| 141 | American Goshawk | 0.1% | 0.3% | 0.2% | |||
| 142 | Snowy Egret | 0.1% | 0.3% | 0.3% | |||
| 143 | Tundra Swan | 0.0% | 0.3% | 0.3% | |||
| 144 | Seaside Sparrow | 0.0% | 0.3% | 0.3% | |||
| 145 | Least Sandpiper | 0.0% | 0.3% | 0.3% |