Top Birds at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge in February
relative to other locations within 25 miles of New York, NY, USA
based on 416 checklists
This page shows the probability of a species appearing on a checklist at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge in February. 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 | 55.4% | 87.5% | 32.1% | |||
| 2 | Mallard | 50.1% | 76.0% | 25.8% | |||
| 3 | Snow Goose | 2.0% | 76.0% | 74.0% | |||
| 4 | Brant | 20.3% | 75.5% | 55.2% | |||
| 5 | American Black Duck | 26.9% | 74.8% | 47.9% | |||
| 6 | Herring Gull | 42.0% | 72.1% | 30.1% | |||
| 7 | Bufflehead | 31.9% | 67.3% | 35.4% | |||
| 8 | Ruddy Duck | 15.0% | 65.6% | 50.6% | |||
| 9 | Northern Mockingbird | 23.5% | 62.3% | 38.7% | |||
| 10 | Ring-billed Gull | 51.4% | 60.8% | 9.4% | |||
| 11 | Northern Shoveler | 16.1% | 60.1% | 44.0% | |||
| 12 | Great Black-backed Gull | 30.1% | 59.9% | 29.8% | |||
| 13 | Northern Cardinal | 39.9% | 59.1% | 19.3% | |||
| 14 | Mute Swan | 15.1% | 56.5% | 41.4% | |||
| 15 | Yellow-rumped Warbler | 4.5% | 53.8% | 49.3% | |||
| 16 | Red-breasted Merganser | 19.8% | 53.6% | 33.8% | |||
| 17 | Song Sparrow | 34.4% | 51.9% | 17.5% | |||
| 18 | White-throated Sparrow | 40.2% | 51.7% | 11.5% | |||
| 19 | Hooded Merganser | 19.2% | 44.5% | 25.3% | |||
| 20 | American Robin | 30.0% | 39.9% | 9.9% | |||
| 21 | Gadwall | 15.5% | 39.4% | 23.9% | |||
| 22 | Greater Scaup | 9.5% | 37.0% | 27.5% | |||
| 23 | European Starling | 38.5% | 34.9% | 3.6% | |||
| 24 | Red-winged Blackbird | 18.7% | 34.9% | 16.2% | |||
| 25 | House Finch | 13.5% | 34.4% | 20.9% | |||
| 26 | American Wigeon | 7.2% | 33.2% | 26.0% | |||
| 27 | Double-crested Cormorant | 11.3% | 32.9% | 21.6% | |||
| 28 | American Crow | 20.9% | 30.8% | 9.8% | |||
| 29 | Carolina Wren | 15.4% | 29.1% | 13.7% | |||
| 30 | Green-winged Teal | 4.7% | 27.4% | 22.7% | |||
| 31 | Northern Pintail | 3.5% | 27.2% | 23.7% | |||
| 32 | House Sparrow | 39.5% | 26.7% | 12.8% | |||
| 33 | American Coot | 10.5% | 23.3% | 12.8% | |||
| 34 | Northern Harrier | 4.7% | 23.1% | 18.4% | |||
| 35 | Downy Woodpecker | 27.8% | 22.4% | 5.4% | |||
| 36 | American Tree Sparrow | 7.6% | 21.4% | 13.8% | |||
| 37 | Common Goldeneye | 7.2% | 20.2% | 13.0% | |||
| 38 | Rock Pigeon | 28.4% | 20.0% | 8.4% | |||
| 39 | Horned Grebe | 8.2% | 17.5% | 9.3% | |||
| 40 | Mourning Dove | 32.2% | 17.3% | 14.9% | |||
| 41 | Black-capped Chickadee | 23.5% | 16.8% | 6.6% | |||
| 42 | Gray Catbird | 1.7% | 14.2% | 12.5% | |||
| 43 | American Goldfinch | 12.2% | 13.9% | 1.7% | |||
| 44 | Lesser Scaup | 4.7% | 13.9% | 9.2% | |||
| 45 | Northern Flicker | 6.3% | 13.2% | 7.0% | |||
| 46 | Great Blue Heron | 11.4% | 12.3% | 0.9% | |||
| 47 | Common Merganser | 8.8% | 11.8% | 3.0% | |||
| 48 | Fish Crow | 6.9% | 11.3% | 4.4% | |||
| 49 | Great Cormorant | 4.9% | 9.9% | 5.0% | |||
| 50 | Boat-tailed Grackle | 0.4% | 9.6% | 9.2% | |||
| 51 | Dark-eyed Junco | 16.5% | 9.4% | 7.1% | |||
| 52 | Red-tailed Hawk | 23.4% | 9.1% | 14.3% | |||
| 53 | Fox Sparrow | 7.3% | 8.7% | 1.3% | |||
| 54 | Canvasback | 3.5% | 8.7% | 5.1% | |||
| 55 | Common Grackle | 13.5% | 8.4% | 5.1% | |||
| 56 | Cedar Waxwing | 2.2% | 7.0% | 4.8% | |||
| 57 | Peregrine Falcon | 5.0% | 6.5% | 1.5% | |||
| 58 | Snowy Owl | 1.1% | 6.5% | 5.4% | |||
| 59 | Red-throated Loon | 7.6% | 6.2% | 1.4% | |||
| 60 | Barrow's Goldeneye | 0.3% | 5.8% | 5.5% | |||
| 61 | Pied-billed Grebe | 3.8% | 4.8% | 1.0% | |||
| 62 | Hermit Thrush | 2.0% | 4.8% | 2.8% | |||
| 63 | Cooper's Hawk | 7.5% | 4.6% | 2.9% | |||
| 64 | Swamp Sparrow | 3.3% | 4.6% | 1.2% | |||
| 65 | Common Loon | 9.2% | 4.1% | 5.1% | |||
| 66 | Sharp-shinned Hawk | 2.2% | 3.6% | 1.4% | |||
| 67 | Eurasian Wigeon | 0.5% | 3.6% | 3.1% | |||
| 68 | Bald Eagle | 5.9% | 3.4% | 2.5% | |||
| 69 | Ring-necked Duck | 5.7% | 3.4% | 2.3% | |||
| 70 | Merlin | 2.1% | 3.4% | 1.3% | |||
| 71 | Great Horned Owl | 1.9% | 3.1% | 1.2% | |||
| 72 | Ruby-crowned Kinglet | 1.4% | 3.1% | 1.7% | |||
| 73 | American Woodcock | 1.0% | 3.1% | 2.1% | |||
| 74 | Eastern Towhee | 1.6% | 2.9% | 1.3% | |||
| 75 | Blue Jay | 35.4% | 2.6% | 32.8% | |||
| 76 | Golden-crowned Kinglet | 1.9% | 2.2% | 0.2% | |||
| 77 | Wood Duck | 5.4% | 1.9% | 3.5% | |||
| 78 | Tundra Swan | 0.1% | 1.9% | 1.8% | |||
| 79 | Red-bellied Woodpecker | 24.9% | 1.7% | 23.2% | |||
| 80 | Redhead | 2.2% | 1.7% | 0.6% | |||
| 81 | Winter Wren | 2.2% | 1.7% | 0.5% | |||
| 82 | Black-crowned Night-Heron | 1.0% | 1.7% | 0.7% | |||
| 83 | Long-tailed Duck | 7.9% | 1.4% | 6.4% | |||
| 84 | Great Egret | 0.2% | 1.4% | 1.2% | |||
| 85 | Tufted Titmouse | 21.3% | 1.2% | 20.1% | |||
| 86 | Field Sparrow | 1.2% | 1.2% | 0.0% | |||
| 87 | Rough-legged Hawk | 0.8% | 1.2% | 0.4% | |||
| 88 | Common Raven | 3.5% | 1.0% | 2.6% | |||
| 89 | American Kestrel | 3.5% | 1.0% | 2.5% | |||
| 90 | Snow Bunting | 1.3% | 1.0% | 0.3% | |||
| 91 | Dunlin | 1.2% | 1.0% | 0.2% | |||
| 92 | Lesser Black-backed Gull | 0.9% | 1.0% | 0.0% | |||
| 93 | Hairy Woodpecker | 7.7% | 0.7% | 7.0% | |||
| 94 | Yellow-bellied Sapsucker | 4.2% | 0.7% | 3.5% | |||
| 95 | Red-shouldered Hawk | 1.9% | 0.7% | 1.1% | |||
| 96 | Iceland Gull | 1.2% | 0.7% | 0.4% | |||
| 97 | Ring-necked Pheasant | 0.9% | 0.7% | 0.2% | |||
| 98 | Greater Yellowlegs | 0.7% | 0.7% | 0.0% | |||
| 99 | American Pipit | 0.3% | 0.7% | 0.4% | |||
| 100 | Turkey Vulture | 6.5% | 0.5% | 6.0% | |||
| 101 | Belted Kingfisher | 5.5% | 0.5% | 5.0% | |||
| 102 | Killdeer | 4.0% | 0.5% | 3.5% | |||
| 103 | Sanderling | 2.7% | 0.5% | 2.2% | |||
| 104 | White-winged Scoter | 1.5% | 0.5% | 1.0% | |||
| 105 | Savannah Sparrow | 1.3% | 0.5% | 0.8% | |||
| 106 | Tree Swallow | 0.7% | 0.5% | 0.2% | |||
| 107 | Black-bellied Plover | 0.6% | 0.5% | 0.2% | |||
| 108 | Brown Thrasher | 0.6% | 0.5% | 0.1% | |||
| 109 | Orange-crowned Warbler | 0.3% | 0.5% | 0.1% | |||
| 110 | White-breasted Nuthatch | 18.7% | 0.2% | 18.5% | |||
| 111 | Bonaparte's Gull | 0.7% | 0.2% | 0.5% | |||
| 112 | Pine Siskin | 0.7% | 0.2% | 0.5% | |||
| 113 | Chipping Sparrow | 0.6% | 0.2% | 0.4% | |||
| 114 | Common Redpoll | 0.5% | 0.2% | 0.2% | |||
| 115 | King Eider | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.0% | |||
| 116 | American Oystercatcher | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.0% | |||
| 117 | Eared Grebe | 0.1% | 0.2% | 0.1% | |||
| 118 | Virginia Rail | 0.1% | 0.2% | 0.1% | |||
| 119 | Ross's Goose | 0.1% | 0.2% | 0.2% | |||
| 120 | Osprey | 0.0% | 0.2% | 0.2% |