Top Birds at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge in December
relative to other locations within 25 miles of 40.781243, -73.966507
based on 350 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 | 51.5% | 88.0% | 36.5% | |||
| 2 | Mallard | 47.4% | 78.6% | 31.2% | |||
| 3 | Brant | 18.2% | 78.3% | 60.1% | |||
| 4 | Ruddy Duck | 15.0% | 74.9% | 59.8% | |||
| 5 | American Herring Gull | 41.3% | 67.7% | 26.4% | |||
| 6 | American Black Duck | 26.3% | 66.6% | 40.3% | |||
| 7 | Ring-billed Gull | 49.1% | 61.7% | 12.6% | |||
| 8 | Northern Mockingbird | 28.3% | 61.1% | 32.9% | |||
| 9 | Bufflehead | 27.6% | 60.3% | 32.7% | |||
| 10 | Hooded Merganser | 18.5% | 59.1% | 40.7% | |||
| 11 | Northern Shoveler | 14.3% | 58.0% | 43.7% | |||
| 12 | Northern Cardinal | 40.3% | 57.7% | 17.4% | |||
| 13 | Great Black-backed Gull | 28.4% | 57.1% | 28.8% | |||
| 14 | Gadwall | 14.9% | 56.0% | 41.1% | |||
| 15 | White-throated Sparrow | 49.1% | 55.1% | 6.0% | |||
| 16 | Yellow-rumped Warbler | 6.5% | 54.9% | 48.3% | |||
| 17 | Snow Goose | 1.8% | 54.9% | 53.0% | |||
| 18 | Mute Swan | 13.5% | 53.4% | 39.9% | |||
| 19 | Double-crested Cormorant | 17.3% | 52.6% | 35.2% | |||
| 20 | Song Sparrow | 37.0% | 52.3% | 15.3% | |||
| 21 | American Wigeon | 5.8% | 50.3% | 44.5% | |||
| 22 | Red-breasted Merganser | 14.4% | 48.3% | 33.8% | |||
| 23 | European Starling | 38.7% | 48.0% | 9.3% | |||
| 24 | Great Blue Heron | 19.9% | 45.7% | 25.8% | |||
| 25 | American Coot | 10.0% | 44.0% | 34.0% | |||
| 26 | Greater Scaup | 6.5% | 40.9% | 34.4% | |||
| 27 | Green-winged Teal | 5.0% | 37.4% | 32.4% | |||
| 28 | Carolina Wren | 19.1% | 35.1% | 16.1% | |||
| 29 | House Finch | 16.4% | 35.1% | 18.7% | |||
| 30 | American Robin | 30.2% | 32.9% | 2.7% | |||
| 31 | Northern Harrier | 4.7% | 32.3% | 27.6% | |||
| 32 | Northern Pintail | 3.0% | 30.3% | 27.3% | |||
| 33 | Downy Woodpecker | 30.8% | 27.4% | 3.4% | |||
| 34 | American Tree Sparrow | 6.1% | 25.1% | 19.0% | |||
| 35 | American Crow | 20.7% | 24.9% | 4.1% | |||
| 36 | Gray Catbird | 3.6% | 24.6% | 21.0% | |||
| 37 | Northern Flicker | 10.8% | 23.7% | 12.9% | |||
| 38 | House Sparrow | 38.9% | 23.4% | 15.5% | |||
| 39 | Mourning Dove | 36.8% | 23.1% | 13.6% | |||
| 40 | Lesser Scaup | 3.5% | 22.3% | 18.8% | |||
| 41 | Horned Grebe | 5.0% | 21.1% | 16.1% | |||
| 42 | Rock Pigeon | 31.2% | 18.9% | 12.3% | |||
| 43 | Dark-eyed Junco | 24.0% | 18.9% | 5.2% | |||
| 44 | American Goldfinch | 20.1% | 18.6% | 1.6% | |||
| 45 | Black-capped Chickadee | 25.7% | 17.7% | 8.0% | |||
| 46 | Peregrine Falcon | 5.5% | 16.3% | 10.7% | |||
| 47 | Pied-billed Grebe | 5.0% | 16.0% | 11.0% | |||
| 48 | Great Egret | 1.4% | 15.1% | 13.7% | |||
| 49 | Swamp Sparrow | 8.0% | 14.6% | 6.5% | |||
| 50 | Cedar Waxwing | 3.4% | 11.7% | 8.3% | |||
| 51 | Red-tailed Hawk | 24.8% | 10.9% | 13.9% | |||
| 52 | Red-winged Blackbird | 9.2% | 10.6% | 1.3% | |||
| 53 | Cooper's Hawk | 11.3% | 10.3% | 1.0% | |||
| 54 | Fox Sparrow | 9.9% | 9.4% | 0.5% | |||
| 55 | Canvasback | 2.1% | 9.4% | 7.3% | |||
| 56 | Hermit Thrush | 5.7% | 8.9% | 3.1% | |||
| 57 | Greater Yellowlegs | 1.5% | 8.9% | 7.3% | |||
| 58 | Redhead | 1.2% | 8.9% | 7.7% | |||
| 59 | Common Goldeneye | 3.7% | 8.0% | 4.3% | |||
| 60 | Ruby-crowned Kinglet | 5.7% | 7.7% | 2.0% | |||
| 61 | Dunlin | 1.6% | 7.1% | 5.6% | |||
| 62 | Golden-crowned Kinglet | 4.6% | 6.9% | 2.2% | |||
| 63 | Black-crowned Night-Heron | 1.5% | 6.0% | 4.5% | |||
| 64 | Fish Crow | 5.5% | 5.7% | 0.2% | |||
| 65 | Common Merganser | 4.8% | 5.7% | 0.9% | |||
| 66 | Boat-tailed Grackle | 0.2% | 5.7% | 5.5% | |||
| 67 | Common Loon | 8.6% | 5.4% | 3.2% | |||
| 68 | Bald Eagle | 5.0% | 5.4% | 0.4% | |||
| 69 | Ring-necked Duck | 3.9% | 5.4% | 1.5% | |||
| 70 | Common Grackle | 5.4% | 5.1% | 0.2% | |||
| 71 | Merlin | 2.4% | 4.9% | 2.5% | |||
| 72 | Blue Jay | 40.4% | 4.3% | 36.1% | |||
| 73 | Belted Kingfisher | 9.4% | 4.3% | 5.2% | |||
| 74 | American Woodcock | 0.6% | 4.3% | 3.7% | |||
| 75 | Common Raven | 4.9% | 4.0% | 0.9% | |||
| 76 | Sharp-shinned Hawk | 3.2% | 4.0% | 0.8% | |||
| 77 | Red-throated Loon | 6.5% | 3.7% | 2.8% | |||
| 78 | Orange-crowned Warbler | 2.0% | 3.7% | 1.7% | |||
| 79 | American Pipit | 1.0% | 3.7% | 2.7% | |||
| 80 | Winter Wren | 4.8% | 3.4% | 1.4% | |||
| 81 | Tree Swallow | 0.8% | 3.1% | 2.3% | |||
| 82 | Red-bellied Woodpecker | 29.2% | 2.9% | 26.3% | |||
| 83 | Great Cormorant | 3.6% | 2.9% | 0.7% | |||
| 84 | Eastern Towhee | 2.4% | 2.9% | 0.4% | |||
| 85 | Chipping Sparrow | 1.4% | 2.9% | 1.5% | |||
| 86 | Hairy Woodpecker | 9.3% | 2.6% | 6.8% | |||
| 87 | Purple Finch | 1.4% | 2.6% | 1.1% | |||
| 88 | Eurasian Wigeon | 0.4% | 2.6% | 2.2% | |||
| 89 | Savannah Sparrow | 2.1% | 2.3% | 0.2% | |||
| 90 | Long-billed Dowitcher | 0.0% | 2.3% | 2.3% | |||
| 91 | Eared Grebe | 0.0% | 2.3% | 2.3% | |||
| 92 | Killdeer | 2.1% | 2.0% | 0.1% | |||
| 93 | Clapper Rail | 0.2% | 2.0% | 1.8% | |||
| 94 | American Kestrel | 6.0% | 1.7% | 4.3% | |||
| 95 | Sanderling | 3.3% | 1.7% | 1.6% | |||
| 96 | Horned Lark | 2.6% | 1.7% | 0.9% | |||
| 97 | Field Sparrow | 1.8% | 1.7% | 0.1% | |||
| 98 | Snowy Owl | 1.0% | 1.4% | 0.5% | |||
| 99 | American Bittern | 0.2% | 1.4% | 1.3% | |||
| 100 | Tufted Titmouse | 22.4% | 1.1% | 21.3% | |||
| 101 | Yellow-bellied Sapsucker | 8.6% | 1.1% | 7.4% | |||
| 102 | Wood Duck | 4.1% | 1.1% | 3.0% | |||
| 103 | Pine Siskin | 0.9% | 1.1% | 0.2% | |||
| 104 | Laughing Gull | 0.6% | 1.1% | 0.5% | |||
| 105 | Rough-legged Hawk | 0.2% | 1.1% | 0.9% | |||
| 106 | Little Blue Heron | 0.0% | 1.1% | 1.1% | |||
| 107 | Red-breasted Nuthatch | 2.6% | 0.9% | 1.8% | |||
| 108 | Black-bellied Plover | 1.2% | 0.9% | 0.4% | |||
| 109 | Marsh Wren | 0.3% | 0.9% | 0.5% | |||
| 110 | Short-eared Owl | 0.1% | 0.9% | 0.7% | |||
| 111 | Blue-winged Teal | 0.1% | 0.9% | 0.8% | |||
| 112 | White-breasted Nuthatch | 21.3% | 0.6% | 20.7% | |||
| 113 | Long-tailed Duck | 6.1% | 0.6% | 5.6% | |||
| 114 | Brown Creeper | 4.3% | 0.6% | 3.7% | |||
| 115 | Snow Bunting | 2.0% | 0.6% | 1.4% | |||
| 116 | Red-shouldered Hawk | 1.9% | 0.6% | 1.4% | |||
| 117 | Brown-headed Cowbird | 1.7% | 0.6% | 1.1% | |||
| 118 | Bonaparte's Gull | 1.6% | 0.6% | 1.0% | |||
| 119 | Common Yellowthroat | 0.6% | 0.6% | 0.0% | |||
| 120 | Eastern Phoebe | 0.5% | 0.6% | 0.1% | |||
| 121 | Brown Thrasher | 0.5% | 0.6% | 0.1% | |||
| 122 | Baltimore Oriole | 0.4% | 0.6% | 0.1% | |||
| 123 | House Wren | 0.1% | 0.6% | 0.4% | |||
| 124 | American White Pelican | 0.1% | 0.6% | 0.5% | |||
| 125 | Evening Grosbeak | 0.1% | 0.6% | 0.5% | |||
| 126 | American Avocet | 0.0% | 0.6% | 0.5% | |||
| 127 | Glossy Ibis | 0.0% | 0.6% | 0.6% | |||
| 128 | Turkey Vulture | 5.4% | 0.3% | 5.1% | |||
| 129 | Northern Gannet | 2.9% | 0.3% | 2.7% | |||
| 130 | Black Scoter | 2.9% | 0.3% | 2.7% | |||
| 131 | Surf Scoter | 2.6% | 0.3% | 2.3% | |||
| 132 | White-winged Scoter | 2.1% | 0.3% | 1.8% | |||
| 133 | Rusty Blackbird | 1.9% | 0.3% | 1.6% | |||
| 134 | White-crowned Sparrow | 0.7% | 0.3% | 0.4% | |||
| 135 | King Eider | 0.5% | 0.3% | 0.3% | |||
| 136 | Ash-throated Flycatcher | 0.5% | 0.3% | 0.2% | |||
| 137 | Red-necked Grebe | 0.5% | 0.3% | 0.2% | |||
| 138 | Lapland Longspur | 0.4% | 0.3% | 0.1% | |||
| 139 | Yellow-breasted Chat | 0.4% | 0.3% | 0.1% | |||
| 140 | Lesser Yellowlegs | 0.1% | 0.3% | 0.2% | |||
| 141 | American Goshawk | 0.1% | 0.3% | 0.2% | |||
| 142 | Snowy Egret | 0.1% | 0.3% | 0.2% | |||
| 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% |