Top Birds at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge in May
relative to other locations within 25 miles of New York, NY, USA
based on 1892 checklists
This page shows the probability of a species appearing on a checklist at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge in May. 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 | Yellow Warbler | 42.0% | 82.2% | 40.3% | |||
| 2 | Tree Swallow | 21.5% | 78.8% | 57.3% | |||
| 3 | Gray Catbird | 65.7% | 77.3% | 11.5% | |||
| 4 | Laughing Gull | 15.9% | 76.5% | 60.7% | |||
| 5 | Osprey | 15.4% | 75.7% | 60.3% | |||
| 6 | Red-winged Blackbird | 52.9% | 75.5% | 22.6% | |||
| 7 | American Robin | 73.3% | 69.9% | 3.4% | |||
| 8 | Canada Goose | 44.7% | 69.2% | 24.5% | |||
| 9 | Double-crested Cormorant | 33.4% | 68.7% | 35.3% | |||
| 10 | Great Egret | 24.7% | 68.4% | 43.7% | |||
| 11 | Brant | 9.8% | 67.9% | 58.1% | |||
| 12 | Mallard | 49.0% | 66.2% | 17.2% | |||
| 13 | Eastern Towhee | 19.1% | 65.8% | 46.7% | |||
| 14 | Northern Cardinal | 58.9% | 65.6% | 6.7% | |||
| 15 | Mute Swan | 10.6% | 64.7% | 54.1% | |||
| 16 | Herring Gull | 22.7% | 64.5% | 41.8% | |||
| 17 | Glossy Ibis | 3.2% | 64.2% | 61.0% | |||
| 18 | House Wren | 26.1% | 63.8% | 37.7% | |||
| 19 | Northern Mockingbird | 26.1% | 63.1% | 36.9% | |||
| 20 | Song Sparrow | 35.1% | 62.2% | 27.1% | |||
| 21 | Common Yellowthroat | 47.3% | 61.9% | 14.6% | |||
| 22 | Great Black-backed Gull | 12.6% | 57.6% | 45.1% | |||
| 23 | Snowy Egret | 9.1% | 56.9% | 47.7% | |||
| 24 | Ruddy Duck | 2.4% | 56.8% | 54.4% | |||
| 25 | Barn Swallow | 31.3% | 54.2% | 22.9% | |||
| 26 | Forster's Tern | 7.2% | 52.4% | 45.3% | |||
| 27 | American Redstart | 40.2% | 51.5% | 11.3% | |||
| 28 | European Starling | 58.5% | 51.4% | 7.2% | |||
| 29 | Mourning Dove | 53.5% | 50.7% | 2.7% | |||
| 30 | American Oystercatcher | 7.2% | 49.2% | 41.9% | |||
| 31 | Carolina Wren | 19.3% | 48.9% | 29.6% | |||
| 32 | Boat-tailed Grackle | 4.4% | 48.2% | 43.7% | |||
| 33 | Gadwall | 6.3% | 46.8% | 40.5% | |||
| 34 | Willet | 5.1% | 46.6% | 41.4% | |||
| 35 | Brown Thrasher | 6.7% | 44.5% | 37.8% | |||
| 36 | Yellow-rumped Warbler | 33.7% | 40.1% | 6.4% | |||
| 37 | American Black Duck | 4.4% | 40.1% | 35.6% | |||
| 38 | House Sparrow | 57.3% | 39.5% | 17.8% | |||
| 39 | Common Grackle | 55.2% | 38.7% | 16.4% | |||
| 40 | Northern Parula | 35.7% | 37.3% | 1.6% | |||
| 41 | Black-bellied Plover | 2.9% | 35.0% | 32.1% | |||
| 42 | Black-and-white Warbler | 39.6% | 34.8% | 4.8% | |||
| 43 | Brown-headed Cowbird | 20.5% | 34.6% | 14.0% | |||
| 44 | Yellow-crowned Night-Heron | 3.4% | 34.1% | 30.7% | |||
| 45 | Fish Crow | 10.5% | 33.9% | 23.4% | |||
| 46 | Least Sandpiper | 6.7% | 33.9% | 27.2% | |||
| 47 | Blackpoll Warbler | 21.7% | 33.2% | 11.5% | |||
| 48 | American Goldfinch | 28.6% | 31.9% | 3.3% | |||
| 49 | Semipalmated Sandpiper | 4.4% | 31.6% | 27.1% | |||
| 50 | Black-crowned Night-Heron | 11.3% | 31.4% | 20.1% | |||
| 51 | Ring-billed Gull | 14.0% | 30.7% | 16.6% | |||
| 52 | Magnolia Warbler | 27.5% | 27.9% | 0.4% | |||
| 53 | Willow Flycatcher | 5.1% | 27.5% | 22.4% | |||
| 54 | Semipalmated Plover | 4.2% | 26.4% | 22.3% | |||
| 55 | Common Tern | 5.5% | 25.8% | 20.3% | |||
| 56 | White-throated Sparrow | 34.4% | 25.5% | 9.0% | |||
| 57 | Rock Pigeon | 35.6% | 24.2% | 11.4% | |||
| 58 | House Finch | 15.9% | 23.9% | 8.1% | |||
| 59 | Spotted Sandpiper | 12.2% | 23.8% | 11.6% | |||
| 60 | Ruby-throated Hummingbird | 6.0% | 23.3% | 17.2% | |||
| 61 | American Crow | 17.6% | 23.0% | 5.4% | |||
| 62 | Black-throated Blue Warbler | 28.1% | 22.8% | 5.3% | |||
| 63 | Black-throated Green Warbler | 20.1% | 22.6% | 2.4% | |||
| 64 | Greater Yellowlegs | 5.6% | 22.3% | 16.7% | |||
| 65 | Eastern Kingbird | 16.8% | 21.8% | 5.0% | |||
| 66 | White-eyed Vireo | 4.0% | 21.6% | 17.6% | |||
| 67 | Red-eyed Vireo | 22.8% | 21.5% | 1.3% | |||
| 68 | Scarlet Tanager | 18.9% | 21.1% | 2.2% | |||
| 69 | Baltimore Oriole | 45.1% | 19.8% | 25.3% | |||
| 70 | Great Crested Flycatcher | 18.1% | 19.7% | 1.6% | |||
| 71 | Dunlin | 1.9% | 19.1% | 17.2% | |||
| 72 | Cedar Waxwing | 16.8% | 18.4% | 1.7% | |||
| 73 | Clapper Rail | 3.1% | 18.4% | 15.3% | |||
| 74 | Chestnut-sided Warbler | 16.2% | 17.5% | 1.3% | |||
| 75 | Rose-breasted Grosbeak | 16.4% | 17.2% | 0.7% | |||
| 76 | Ruddy Turnstone | 2.0% | 16.6% | 14.6% | |||
| 77 | Red-breasted Merganser | 1.4% | 16.5% | 15.1% | |||
| 78 | Little Blue Heron | 1.0% | 15.6% | 14.6% | |||
| 79 | Northern Flicker | 29.3% | 15.1% | 14.2% | |||
| 80 | Bay-breasted Warbler | 7.9% | 15.0% | 7.1% | |||
| 81 | Chimney Swift | 30.1% | 14.6% | 15.4% | |||
| 82 | Great Blue Heron | 9.5% | 14.6% | 5.2% | |||
| 83 | Downy Woodpecker | 28.4% | 14.0% | 14.4% | |||
| 84 | Warbling Vireo | 32.5% | 13.6% | 18.9% | |||
| 85 | Blue Jay | 49.9% | 13.3% | 36.6% | |||
| 86 | Bufflehead | 1.0% | 11.9% | 11.0% | |||
| 87 | Blue-headed Vireo | 14.3% | 11.7% | 2.6% | |||
| 88 | Lesser Yellowlegs | 2.6% | 11.7% | 9.1% | |||
| 89 | Marsh Wren | 4.5% | 11.6% | 7.1% | |||
| 90 | Ovenbird | 33.1% | 11.6% | 21.5% | |||
| 91 | Blackburnian Warbler | 9.4% | 11.5% | 2.1% | |||
| 92 | Northern Waterthrush | 23.4% | 11.4% | 12.1% | |||
| 93 | Red Knot | 0.5% | 11.0% | 10.5% | |||
| 94 | Northern Shoveler | 0.8% | 10.5% | 9.7% | |||
| 95 | Blue-gray Gnatcatcher | 14.5% | 10.3% | 4.2% | |||
| 96 | Least Tern | 3.8% | 10.1% | 6.3% | |||
| 97 | Eastern Wood-Pewee | 11.1% | 9.6% | 1.5% | |||
| 98 | Short-billed Dowitcher | 1.7% | 9.6% | 7.9% | |||
| 99 | Prairie Warbler | 8.5% | 9.6% | 1.1% | |||
| 100 | Chipping Sparrow | 18.4% | 9.5% | 8.9% | |||
| 101 | Greater Scaup | 0.3% | 9.5% | 9.2% | |||
| 102 | Killdeer | 9.3% | 9.4% | 0.1% | |||
| 103 | Savannah Sparrow | 5.4% | 9.3% | 3.9% | |||
| 104 | Tricolored Heron | 0.3% | 8.9% | 8.6% | |||
| 105 | Yellow-billed Cuckoo | 3.4% | 8.6% | 5.1% | |||
| 106 | White-crowned Sparrow | 3.6% | 8.5% | 4.9% | |||
| 107 | Swamp Sparrow | 13.1% | 8.4% | 4.7% | |||
| 108 | American Coot | 0.8% | 8.2% | 7.4% | |||
| 109 | Swainson's Thrush | 17.9% | 8.0% | 9.9% | |||
| 110 | Veery | 20.3% | 8.0% | 12.3% | |||
| 111 | Cape May Warbler | 7.0% | 7.8% | 0.8% | |||
| 112 | Red-bellied Woodpecker | 38.7% | 7.5% | 31.2% | |||
| 113 | Peregrine Falcon | 2.6% | 6.8% | 4.2% | |||
| 114 | Northern Rough-winged Swallow | 12.1% | 6.7% | 5.4% | |||
| 115 | Canada Warbler | 11.8% | 6.4% | 5.4% | |||
| 116 | Green-winged Teal | 0.5% | 6.3% | 5.8% | |||
| 117 | Purple Martin | 1.3% | 6.2% | 4.9% | |||
| 118 | Black-billed Cuckoo | 1.5% | 6.1% | 4.6% | |||
| 119 | Ruby-crowned Kinglet | 13.3% | 6.0% | 7.3% | |||
| 120 | Wilson's Warbler | 8.9% | 5.9% | 3.0% | |||
| 121 | Green Heron | 9.1% | 5.8% | 3.3% | |||
| 122 | Bank Swallow | 2.5% | 5.5% | 3.1% | |||
| 123 | Wood Duck | 9.4% | 5.2% | 4.2% | |||
| 124 | Common Loon | 2.4% | 5.0% | 2.6% | |||
| 125 | Yellow-throated Vireo | 4.6% | 4.9% | 0.2% | |||
| 126 | Wood Thrush | 23.4% | 4.7% | 18.8% | |||
| 127 | Palm Warbler | 5.3% | 4.5% | 0.8% | |||
| 128 | Sanderling | 1.6% | 4.5% | 2.9% | |||
| 129 | Blue-winged Teal | 0.4% | 4.4% | 4.0% | |||
| 130 | American Wigeon | 0.2% | 4.4% | 4.3% | |||
| 131 | Least Flycatcher | 6.0% | 4.4% | 1.6% | |||
| 132 | Black-capped Chickadee | 12.2% | 4.3% | 7.9% | |||
| 133 | Indigo Bunting | 10.1% | 4.2% | 5.9% | |||
| 134 | Nashville Warbler | 9.0% | 4.2% | 4.8% | |||
| 135 | Red-breasted Nuthatch | 2.8% | 4.2% | 1.4% | |||
| 136 | Turkey Vulture | 9.9% | 4.0% | 5.8% | |||
| 137 | Solitary Sandpiper | 5.8% | 4.0% | 1.9% | |||
| 138 | Northern Harrier | 0.6% | 3.8% | 3.2% | |||
| 139 | Field Sparrow | 3.4% | 3.5% | 0.2% | |||
| 140 | Lesser Scaup | 0.1% | 3.4% | 3.4% | |||
| 141 | Sage Thrasher | 0.0% | 3.3% | 3.3% | |||
| 142 | Red-tailed Hawk | 20.0% | 3.1% | 16.9% | |||
| 143 | White-rumped Sandpiper | 0.3% | 3.0% | 2.7% | |||
| 144 | Gull-billed Tern | 0.2% | 3.0% | 2.8% | |||
| 145 | Blue-winged Warbler | 6.7% | 2.9% | 3.9% | |||
| 146 | Hermit Thrush | 11.2% | 2.6% | 8.6% | |||
| 147 | Orchard Oriole | 10.3% | 2.6% | 7.7% | |||
| 148 | Eastern Phoebe | 4.9% | 2.5% | 2.4% | |||
| 149 | Belted Kingfisher | 4.2% | 2.5% | 1.7% | |||
| 150 | Tufted Titmouse | 15.8% | 2.4% | 13.4% | |||
| 151 | Black Skimmer | 1.7% | 2.4% | 0.7% | |||
| 152 | Common Nighthawk | 1.4% | 2.2% | 0.8% | |||
| 153 | Seaside Sparrow | 0.8% | 2.1% | 1.3% | |||
| 154 | Lincoln's Sparrow | 2.9% | 2.0% | 0.9% | |||
| 155 | American Woodcock | 0.5% | 2.0% | 1.5% | |||
| 156 | Bald Eagle | 2.5% | 1.8% | 0.7% | |||
| 157 | Snow Goose | 0.1% | 1.8% | 1.7% | |||
| 158 | Merlin | 0.9% | 1.7% | 0.8% | |||
| 159 | White-breasted Nuthatch | 10.9% | 1.6% | 9.2% | |||
| 160 | Tennessee Warbler | 3.4% | 1.6% | 1.8% | |||
| 161 | White-faced Ibis | 0.0% | 1.5% | 1.5% | |||
| 162 | Mourning Warbler | 1.9% | 1.4% | 0.5% | |||
| 163 | Bobolink | 1.2% | 1.4% | 0.2% | |||
| 164 | Yellow-breasted Chat | 0.4% | 1.3% | 0.9% | |||
| 165 | Worm-eating Warbler | 4.0% | 1.3% | 2.7% | |||
| 166 | Gray-cheeked Thrush | 3.3% | 1.3% | 2.0% | |||
| 167 | Cerulean Warbler | 0.6% | 1.3% | 0.6% | |||
| 168 | Summer Tanager | 1.7% | 1.2% | 0.5% | |||
| 169 | Hooded Warbler | 4.1% | 1.1% | 3.0% | |||
| 170 | Cliff Swallow | 0.8% | 1.1% | 0.3% | |||
| 171 | Bonaparte's Gull | 0.6% | 1.1% | 0.5% | |||
| 172 | Wilson's Phalarope | 0.2% | 1.1% | 0.8% | |||
| 173 | Pied-billed Grebe | 0.1% | 1.1% | 0.9% | |||
| 174 | Red-necked Phalarope | 0.1% | 1.1% | 1.0% | |||
| 175 | American Kestrel | 2.2% | 1.0% | 1.2% | |||
| 176 | Common Raven | 2.5% | 1.0% | 1.6% | |||
| 177 | Olive-sided Flycatcher | 1.3% | 0.8% | 0.5% | |||
| 178 | Saltmarsh Sparrow | 0.7% | 0.8% | 0.0% | |||
| 179 | Hairy Woodpecker | 8.5% | 0.7% | 7.7% | |||
| 180 | Acadian Flycatcher | 0.5% | 0.7% | 0.2% | |||
| 181 | Least Bittern | 0.5% | 0.7% | 0.3% | |||
| 182 | Horned Grebe | 0.2% | 0.7% | 0.5% | |||
| 183 | Pine Warbler | 1.7% | 0.6% | 1.1% | |||
| 184 | Purple Finch | 1.3% | 0.6% | 0.7% | |||
| 185 | Hooded Merganser | 0.2% | 0.6% | 0.4% | |||
| 186 | Common Gallinule | 0.1% | 0.6% | 0.5% | |||
| 187 | Black-necked Stilt | 0.1% | 0.6% | 0.5% | |||
| 188 | Eurasian Wigeon | 0.0% | 0.6% | 0.6% | |||
| 189 | Prothonotary Warbler | 1.1% | 0.5% | 0.6% | |||
| 190 | Fulvous Whistling-Duck | 0.0% | 0.5% | 0.5% | |||
| 191 | Red-throated Loon | 1.1% | 0.5% | 0.6% | |||
| 192 | Virginia Rail | 0.3% | 0.5% | 0.2% | |||
| 193 | Northern Pintail | 0.1% | 0.5% | 0.3% | |||
| 194 | Piping Plover | 1.4% | 0.4% | 1.0% | |||
| 195 | Yellow-bellied Flycatcher | 0.7% | 0.4% | 0.3% | |||
| 196 | Long-tailed Duck | 0.2% | 0.4% | 0.2% | |||
| 197 | Sora | 0.1% | 0.4% | 0.3% | |||
| 198 | Pectoral Sandpiper | 0.1% | 0.4% | 0.3% | |||
| 199 | Grasshopper Sparrow | 0.1% | 0.4% | 0.3% | |||
| 200 | Cooper's Hawk | 2.0% | 0.4% | 1.6% | |||
| 201 | Alder Flycatcher | 0.6% | 0.4% | 0.2% | |||
| 202 | Ring-necked Duck | 0.1% | 0.4% | 0.2% | |||
| 203 | Kentucky Warbler | 0.8% | 0.3% | 0.5% | |||
| 204 | Black Tern | 0.1% | 0.3% | 0.2% | |||
| 205 | Great Cormorant | 0.1% | 0.3% | 0.2% | |||
| 206 | Great Horned Owl | 1.0% | 0.3% | 0.7% | |||
| 207 | Blue Grosbeak | 0.8% | 0.3% | 0.5% | |||
| 208 | Cattle Egret | 0.1% | 0.3% | 0.2% | |||
| 209 | Ring-necked Pheasant | 1.0% | 0.2% | 0.8% | |||
| 210 | Sharp-shinned Hawk | 0.8% | 0.2% | 0.6% | |||
| 211 | King Eider | 0.1% | 0.2% | 0.1% | |||
| 212 | Whimbrel | 0.1% | 0.2% | 0.1% | |||
| 213 | Monk Parakeet | 2.1% | 0.2% | 1.9% | |||
| 214 | Broad-winged Hawk | 1.1% | 0.2% | 1.0% | |||
| 215 | Evening Grosbeak | 0.3% | 0.2% | 0.1% | |||
| 216 | Wilson's Snipe | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.1% | |||
| 217 | Glaucous Gull | 0.1% | 0.2% | 0.1% | |||
| 218 | Iceland Gull | 0.1% | 0.2% | 0.1% | |||
| 219 | Louisiana Waterthrush | 1.9% | 0.1% | 1.7% | |||
| 220 | Red-shouldered Hawk | 0.6% | 0.1% | 0.5% | |||
| 221 | Dark-eyed Junco | 0.5% | 0.1% | 0.4% | |||
| 222 | Yellow-throated Warbler | 0.3% | 0.1% | 0.2% | |||
| 223 | Caspian Tern | 0.2% | 0.1% | 0.1% | |||
| 224 | Brown Creeper | 0.2% | 0.1% | 0.1% | |||
| 225 | Mississippi Kite | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.0% | |||
| 226 | Golden-crowned Kinglet | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.0% | |||
| 227 | Canvasback | 0.0% | 0.1% | 0.1% | |||
| 228 | Bar-tailed Godwit | 0.0% | 0.1% | 0.1% | |||
| 229 | Red-headed Woodpecker | 0.8% | 0.1% | 0.8% | |||
| 230 | Pine Siskin | 0.4% | 0.1% | 0.4% | |||
| 231 | American Bittern | 0.3% | 0.1% | 0.3% | |||
| 232 | Northern Gannet | 0.3% | 0.1% | 0.2% | |||
| 233 | Purple Sandpiper | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | |||
| 234 | Philadelphia Vireo | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | |||
| 235 | White-winged Scoter | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | |||
| 236 | Common Eider | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.0% | |||
| 237 | Nelson's Sparrow | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.0% | |||
| 238 | Red-necked Grebe | 0.0% | 0.1% | 0.0% | |||
| 239 | Eastern Meadowlark | 0.0% | 0.1% | 0.0% | |||
| 240 | Royal Tern | 0.0% | 0.1% | 0.0% | |||
| 241 | Swallow-tailed Kite | 0.0% | 0.1% | 0.0% | |||
| 242 | American Tree Sparrow | 0.0% | 0.1% | 0.0% | |||
| 243 | Red Junglefowl | 0.0% | 0.1% | 0.1% |