Top Birds at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge in April
relative to other locations within 25 miles of New York, NY, USA
based on 814 checklists
This page shows the probability of a species appearing on a checklist at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge in April. 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 | Red-winged Blackbird | 54.5% | 80.5% | 26.0% | |||
| 2 | Osprey | 18.7% | 80.1% | 61.4% | |||
| 3 | Brant | 13.3% | 79.2% | 66.0% | |||
| 4 | Tree Swallow | 21.7% | 75.7% | 54.0% | |||
| 5 | Canada Goose | 52.7% | 75.1% | 22.3% | |||
| 6 | Ruddy Duck | 10.2% | 74.9% | 64.7% | |||
| 7 | American Robin | 74.8% | 74.0% | 0.8% | |||
| 8 | Double-crested Cormorant | 36.5% | 71.5% | 35.0% | |||
| 9 | Mute Swan | 14.9% | 71.4% | 56.4% | |||
| 10 | Great Egret | 22.3% | 68.7% | 46.4% | |||
| 11 | Herring Gull | 26.0% | 68.2% | 42.1% | |||
| 12 | Mallard | 54.6% | 67.9% | 13.4% | |||
| 13 | Northern Mockingbird | 28.0% | 67.3% | 39.4% | |||
| 14 | Northern Cardinal | 60.6% | 66.1% | 5.5% | |||
| 15 | Song Sparrow | 48.7% | 65.4% | 16.7% | |||
| 16 | Laughing Gull | 10.6% | 63.8% | 53.1% | |||
| 17 | Great Black-backed Gull | 15.2% | 60.7% | 45.5% | |||
| 18 | Yellow-rumped Warbler | 31.0% | 59.1% | 28.1% | |||
| 19 | Northern Shoveler | 8.3% | 57.6% | 49.3% | |||
| 20 | White-throated Sparrow | 57.1% | 53.7% | 3.4% | |||
| 21 | Snowy Egret | 6.8% | 52.9% | 46.2% | |||
| 22 | European Starling | 56.7% | 51.6% | 5.1% | |||
| 23 | Bufflehead | 11.6% | 51.2% | 39.6% | |||
| 24 | American Black Duck | 9.8% | 49.6% | 39.8% | |||
| 25 | American Oystercatcher | 6.7% | 49.5% | 42.9% | |||
| 26 | Carolina Wren | 22.1% | 49.4% | 27.3% | |||
| 27 | Ring-billed Gull | 23.1% | 47.4% | 24.3% | |||
| 28 | Fish Crow | 15.3% | 46.8% | 31.5% | |||
| 29 | Boat-tailed Grackle | 3.7% | 46.4% | 42.7% | |||
| 30 | Glossy Ibis | 1.9% | 45.6% | 43.6% | |||
| 31 | Mourning Dove | 51.6% | 43.4% | 8.3% | |||
| 32 | Eastern Towhee | 21.7% | 42.8% | 21.0% | |||
| 33 | Red-breasted Merganser | 6.7% | 41.3% | 34.6% | |||
| 34 | Gadwall | 8.2% | 41.0% | 32.8% | |||
| 35 | Brown-headed Cowbird | 22.8% | 40.0% | 17.2% | |||
| 36 | House Sparrow | 53.4% | 35.5% | 17.8% | |||
| 37 | American Crow | 19.2% | 34.2% | 14.9% | |||
| 38 | Green-winged Teal | 4.9% | 33.2% | 28.3% | |||
| 39 | Forster's Tern | 3.4% | 31.4% | 28.0% | |||
| 40 | Common Grackle | 49.0% | 31.1% | 17.9% | |||
| 41 | Northern Flicker | 45.3% | 30.6% | 14.7% | |||
| 42 | Barn Swallow | 14.2% | 29.4% | 15.1% | |||
| 43 | Greater Scaup | 1.2% | 28.6% | 27.4% | |||
| 44 | Downy Woodpecker | 38.1% | 27.6% | 10.4% | |||
| 45 | American Goldfinch | 28.5% | 24.7% | 3.8% | |||
| 46 | Brown Thrasher | 6.0% | 24.2% | 18.2% | |||
| 47 | Gray Catbird | 9.0% | 24.0% | 15.0% | |||
| 48 | American Coot | 7.0% | 22.7% | 15.7% | |||
| 49 | Rock Pigeon | 34.3% | 22.2% | 12.0% | |||
| 50 | Greater Yellowlegs | 6.3% | 22.2% | 15.9% | |||
| 51 | Black-crowned Night-Heron | 7.5% | 20.8% | 13.3% | |||
| 52 | House Wren | 7.5% | 20.6% | 13.1% | |||
| 53 | Dark-eyed Junco | 20.2% | 20.0% | 0.1% | |||
| 54 | Yellow Warbler | 7.7% | 19.2% | 11.4% | |||
| 55 | House Finch | 16.6% | 18.9% | 2.3% | |||
| 56 | Little Blue Heron | 0.6% | 18.9% | 18.3% | |||
| 57 | Palm Warbler | 28.1% | 18.7% | 9.4% | |||
| 58 | Great Blue Heron | 11.1% | 18.1% | 7.0% | |||
| 59 | Ruby-crowned Kinglet | 29.5% | 17.7% | 11.8% | |||
| 60 | Eastern Phoebe | 19.0% | 17.6% | 1.5% | |||
| 61 | Lesser Scaup | 0.9% | 16.0% | 15.0% | |||
| 62 | Hermit Thrush | 25.6% | 15.7% | 9.8% | |||
| 63 | Chipping Sparrow | 25.2% | 14.4% | 10.8% | |||
| 64 | Blue-gray Gnatcatcher | 17.1% | 13.6% | 3.5% | |||
| 65 | Horned Grebe | 2.7% | 13.4% | 10.7% | |||
| 66 | Snow Goose | 0.4% | 13.4% | 13.0% | |||
| 67 | Savannah Sparrow | 7.8% | 13.3% | 5.5% | |||
| 68 | Willet | 1.3% | 11.8% | 10.5% | |||
| 69 | Tricolored Heron | 0.2% | 11.7% | 11.5% | |||
| 70 | Golden-crowned Kinglet | 11.8% | 11.5% | 0.2% | |||
| 71 | Swamp Sparrow | 17.9% | 11.3% | 6.6% | |||
| 72 | Black-capped Chickadee | 22.0% | 10.7% | 11.3% | |||
| 73 | American Wigeon | 1.3% | 9.3% | 8.1% | |||
| 74 | Blue-winged Teal | 1.6% | 9.1% | 7.4% | |||
| 75 | Black-bellied Plover | 0.6% | 8.7% | 8.2% | |||
| 76 | Northern Harrier | 1.8% | 8.6% | 6.8% | |||
| 77 | Blue Jay | 53.0% | 8.5% | 44.5% | |||
| 78 | Dunlin | 0.6% | 8.5% | 7.8% | |||
| 79 | Field Sparrow | 8.1% | 8.0% | 0.1% | |||
| 80 | Common Yellowthroat | 3.4% | 6.6% | 3.2% | |||
| 81 | Red-bellied Woodpecker | 40.0% | 6.5% | 33.5% | |||
| 82 | Yellow-crowned Night-Heron | 1.2% | 6.5% | 5.3% | |||
| 83 | Black-and-white Warbler | 12.1% | 5.8% | 6.3% | |||
| 84 | Belted Kingfisher | 10.2% | 5.8% | 4.5% | |||
| 85 | Killdeer | 9.3% | 5.8% | 3.6% | |||
| 86 | Lesser Yellowlegs | 1.4% | 5.5% | 4.1% | |||
| 87 | Pine Warbler | 15.8% | 5.3% | 10.5% | |||
| 88 | Common Loon | 5.2% | 5.2% | 0.0% | |||
| 89 | Hooded Merganser | 2.8% | 5.2% | 2.4% | |||
| 90 | Turkey Vulture | 12.6% | 5.0% | 7.5% | |||
| 91 | Wood Duck | 14.4% | 4.3% | 10.1% | |||
| 92 | Peregrine Falcon | 2.9% | 4.2% | 1.2% | |||
| 93 | White-eyed Vireo | 1.5% | 4.2% | 2.6% | |||
| 94 | Northern Rough-winged Swallow | 11.0% | 3.9% | 7.1% | |||
| 95 | Tufted Titmouse | 25.9% | 3.8% | 22.1% | |||
| 96 | Blue-headed Vireo | 9.6% | 3.8% | 5.8% | |||
| 97 | Red-throated Loon | 4.4% | 3.8% | 0.5% | |||
| 98 | Pied-billed Grebe | 2.8% | 3.8% | 1.0% | |||
| 99 | Clapper Rail | 0.9% | 3.7% | 2.8% | |||
| 100 | Common Tern | 0.1% | 3.6% | 3.4% | |||
| 101 | Merlin | 2.0% | 3.3% | 1.4% | |||
| 102 | American Tree Sparrow | 0.6% | 3.3% | 2.7% | |||
| 103 | Great Horned Owl | 2.5% | 2.9% | 0.5% | |||
| 104 | Brown Creeper | 9.4% | 2.8% | 6.5% | |||
| 105 | Least Sandpiper | 0.6% | 2.7% | 2.1% | |||
| 106 | Rose-breasted Grosbeak | 1.6% | 2.5% | 0.9% | |||
| 107 | Northern Pintail | 0.6% | 2.5% | 1.8% | |||
| 108 | Great Cormorant | 0.6% | 2.5% | 1.8% | |||
| 109 | Hairy Woodpecker | 10.1% | 2.3% | 7.8% | |||
| 110 | American Kestrel | 5.5% | 2.3% | 3.2% | |||
| 111 | Yellow-bellied Sapsucker | 10.4% | 2.2% | 8.2% | |||
| 112 | American Woodcock | 0.7% | 2.1% | 1.4% | |||
| 113 | Red-breasted Nuthatch | 2.9% | 2.0% | 0.9% | |||
| 114 | Marsh Wren | 0.9% | 2.0% | 1.1% | |||
| 115 | Canvasback | 0.2% | 2.0% | 1.7% | |||
| 116 | Bank Swallow | 0.5% | 1.8% | 1.3% | |||
| 117 | Red-tailed Hawk | 25.1% | 1.7% | 23.3% | |||
| 118 | White-breasted Nuthatch | 18.0% | 1.7% | 16.3% | |||
| 119 | Bald Eagle | 3.9% | 1.7% | 2.2% | |||
| 120 | Redhead | 0.2% | 1.7% | 1.5% | |||
| 121 | Northern Parula | 4.9% | 1.6% | 3.3% | |||
| 122 | Ring-necked Duck | 3.0% | 1.6% | 1.4% | |||
| 123 | Eastern Kingbird | 1.2% | 1.5% | 0.3% | |||
| 124 | Green Heron | 3.6% | 1.4% | 2.2% | |||
| 125 | Chimney Swift | 5.4% | 1.2% | 4.2% | |||
| 126 | Rusty Blackbird | 4.4% | 1.2% | 3.1% | |||
| 127 | Winter Wren | 3.7% | 1.2% | 2.5% | |||
| 128 | Cooper's Hawk | 3.7% | 1.2% | 2.5% | |||
| 129 | Ovenbird | 3.6% | 1.2% | 2.4% | |||
| 130 | Purple Martin | 0.5% | 1.2% | 0.8% | |||
| 131 | Pectoral Sandpiper | 0.1% | 1.2% | 1.1% | |||
| 132 | Fox Sparrow | 3.2% | 1.1% | 2.1% | |||
| 133 | Sharp-shinned Hawk | 2.5% | 1.1% | 1.4% | |||
| 134 | Black-throated Green Warbler | 2.3% | 1.1% | 1.2% | |||
| 135 | Common Goldeneye | 0.2% | 1.1% | 0.9% | |||
| 136 | Short-billed Dowitcher | 0.1% | 1.1% | 1.0% | |||
| 137 | Yellow-breasted Chat | 0.0% | 1.1% | 1.1% | |||
| 138 | White-faced Ibis | 0.0% | 1.1% | 1.1% | |||
| 139 | Northern Waterthrush | 5.2% | 1.0% | 4.2% | |||
| 140 | Prairie Warbler | 2.7% | 1.0% | 1.7% | |||
| 141 | White-crowned Sparrow | 0.9% | 1.0% | 0.0% | |||
| 142 | Indigo Bunting | 0.9% | 0.9% | 0.0% | |||
| 143 | Ruby-throated Hummingbird | 0.5% | 0.9% | 0.4% | |||
| 144 | Cliff Swallow | 0.3% | 0.9% | 0.6% | |||
| 145 | Eurasian Wigeon | 0.1% | 0.9% | 0.7% | |||
| 146 | Baltimore Oriole | 2.9% | 0.7% | 2.1% | |||
| 147 | Black-throated Blue Warbler | 1.7% | 0.7% | 0.9% | |||
| 148 | American Redstart | 1.3% | 0.7% | 0.5% | |||
| 149 | Long-tailed Duck | 1.0% | 0.7% | 0.3% | |||
| 150 | Common Raven | 3.7% | 0.6% | 3.1% | |||
| 151 | Bonaparte's Gull | 0.9% | 0.6% | 0.3% | |||
| 152 | Great Crested Flycatcher | 0.9% | 0.6% | 0.3% | |||
| 153 | Yellow-throated Vireo | 0.8% | 0.6% | 0.2% | |||
| 154 | Wood Thrush | 2.1% | 0.5% | 1.6% | |||
| 155 | Wilson's Snipe | 2.0% | 0.5% | 1.5% | |||
| 156 | Spotted Sandpiper | 1.8% | 0.5% | 1.3% | |||
| 157 | Solitary Sandpiper | 0.8% | 0.5% | 0.3% | |||
| 158 | Warbling Vireo | 3.4% | 0.4% | 3.0% | |||
| 159 | Common Merganser | 2.6% | 0.4% | 2.2% | |||
| 160 | Northern Gannet | 2.3% | 0.4% | 1.9% | |||
| 161 | Blue-winged Warbler | 1.8% | 0.4% | 1.4% | |||
| 162 | Nashville Warbler | 0.9% | 0.4% | 0.5% | |||
| 163 | Sanderling | 0.7% | 0.4% | 0.3% | |||
| 164 | Lesser Black-backed Gull | 0.3% | 0.4% | 0.0% | |||
| 165 | Semipalmated Plover | 0.1% | 0.4% | 0.3% | |||
| 166 | Cedar Waxwing | 3.6% | 0.2% | 3.4% | |||
| 167 | Black Vulture | 2.5% | 0.2% | 2.3% | |||
| 168 | Purple Finch | 1.9% | 0.2% | 1.7% | |||
| 169 | Veery | 1.4% | 0.2% | 1.2% | |||
| 170 | Pine Siskin | 0.8% | 0.2% | 0.5% | |||
| 171 | Scarlet Tanager | 0.6% | 0.2% | 0.3% | |||
| 172 | American Pipit | 0.1% | 0.2% | 0.1% | |||
| 173 | Ruddy Turnstone | 0.1% | 0.2% | 0.2% | |||
| 174 | Semipalmated Sandpiper | 0.0% | 0.2% | 0.2% | |||
| 175 | Long-billed Dowitcher | 0.0% | 0.2% | 0.2% | |||
| 176 | Louisiana Waterthrush | 7.1% | 0.1% | 7.0% | |||
| 177 | Monk Parakeet | 2.5% | 0.1% | 2.4% | |||
| 178 | Prothonotary Warbler | 1.7% | 0.1% | 1.6% | |||
| 179 | Piping Plover | 0.8% | 0.1% | 0.7% | |||
| 180 | American Bittern | 0.5% | 0.1% | 0.4% | |||
| 181 | Red-necked Grebe | 0.5% | 0.1% | 0.4% | |||
| 182 | Vesper Sparrow | 0.4% | 0.1% | 0.3% | |||
| 183 | Orange-crowned Warbler | 0.4% | 0.1% | 0.3% | |||
| 184 | Virginia Rail | 0.3% | 0.1% | 0.2% | |||
| 185 | White-winged Scoter | 0.3% | 0.1% | 0.2% | |||
| 186 | Saltmarsh Sparrow | 0.2% | 0.1% | 0.0% | |||
| 187 | Seaside Sparrow | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.0% | |||
| 188 | Common Gallinule | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.0% | |||
| 189 | Red Knot | 0.0% | 0.1% | 0.1% | |||
| 190 | Red-necked Phalarope | 0.0% | 0.1% | 0.1% |