NYC Results - Boroughs By the Numbers
First NYC results post: San Fransisco Sweeps the CNC
Second NYC results post: More results and NYC Highlights!
Full results: Results Announcement from the City Nature Challenge
Do you have a favorite borough? Interested in how it did? I did some data exploration over the weekend and found some more results to report! Note: All data were pulled on the evening of Saturday (May 5), so some of the totals may have changed by the time you are reading this.
OVERALL NUMBERS
Manhattan sweeps all three categories!
Observations
Manhattan - 9362
Bronx - 4241
Queens - 2980
Brooklyn - 2427
Staten Island - 1270
Species
Manhattan - 896
Bronx - 495
Brooklyn - 465
Queens - 431
Staten Island - 288
Observers
Manhattan - 241
Brooklyn - 146
Queens - 124
Bronx - 85
Staten Island - 22
TOP 5 PLANTS OBSERVED
Very similar species in the top 5 across all the boroughs except Staten Island.
Bronx
Garlic Mustard (109 observations)
Yellow Trout Lily (86)
Common Dandelion (84)
Red Deadnettle (83)
Common Mugwort (76)
Brooklyn
Common Mugwort (46)
Common Dandelion (38)
Red Deadnettle (26)
Common Blue Violet (26)
Shepherd's-Purse (25)
Manhattan
Common Dandelion (196)
Common Mugwort (117)
Common Blue Violet (104)
Garlic Mustard (97)
Common Ivy (86)
Queens
Common Dandelion (68)
Common Mugwort (63)
Japanese Knotweed (57)
Garlic Mustard (51)
Red Deadnettle (47)
Staten Island
Canada Mayflower (40)
Eastern Skunk Cabbage (38)
Northern Spicebush (33)
Sweet Birch (27)
American Beech (23)
TOP 5 ANIMALS OBSERVED
The American Robin was the most commonly spotted animal in every borough!
Bronx
American Robin (51 observations)
Eastern Gray Squirrel (20)
Pigeon (19)
Red-winged Blackbird (14)
Mallard (13)
Brooklyn
American Robin (34)
Pigeon (22)
Canada Goose (21)
Eastern Gray Squirrel (18)
House Sparrow (16)
Manhattan
American Robin (101)
Eastern Gray Squirrel (82)
Pigeon (78)
House Sparrow (64)
European Starling (49)
Queens
American Robin (46)
Red-winged Blackbird (26)
Pigeon (23)
Mallard (20)
European Starling (20)
Staten Island
American Robin (8)
Eastern Tent Caterpillar (8)
Hard Clam (7)
Canada Goose (5)
Soft-shelled Clam (5)
COMPARISON TO 2017 CITY NATURE CHALLENGE
Bronx has the greatest improvement in the number of species found compared to the CNC last year!
Bronx - 181% increase in the number of species found
Queens - 165%
Manhattan - 164%
Brooklyn - 136%
Staten Island - 33%
Comments
Fascinating, thank you for putting this together! Looks like I skewed the animal results on Staten Island, woops! (6 hard and 4 soft clams are mine). Can't wait for next year; may have to spend more time in poor S.I.
I enjoyed looking through this very much Kelly -- it really is interesting to see the differences in the boroughs. And Sara, any shells that you can find now or any time, I can ID!
If you are ever lucky enough to come across patches of beach drift that contain the shells of small species, we could ID quite a few more species! Also if you would like to continue learning to ID shells, even before the next CNC, I would be delighted to teach you! (Or anyone else.)
Staten Island is very rich in nature and very well worth exploring.
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