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Top Birds in April
within 25 miles of 35.791540, -78.781117

based on 23247 checklists in 408 hotspots

This page shows the probability of a species appearing on a checklist during the month of April. The change in probability from the previous month is also shown, to highlight which birds are coming and going. Rows with significant changes (< 0.5x or > 2x) are highlighted in red or green. Species that peak in April are indicated with a star. This is based on historical data from eBird, and does not include recently submitted checklists.

Rank Info Species Chart Peak March April Change
1   Northern Cardinal
75.4% 80.7% 5.4%
2   Carolina Wren
67.7% 71.6% 3.8%
3   Tufted Titmouse
67.4% 70.2% 2.8%
4   Carolina Chickadee
68.4% 66.0% 2.4%
5   Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
16.3% 63.5% 47.2%
6   Red-bellied Woodpecker
55.7% 58.3% 2.7%
7   White-throated Sparrow
56.2% 57.3% 1.1%
8   American Crow
58.5% 56.7% 1.8%
9   Eastern Bluebird
51.9% 49.1% 2.8%
10   Canada Goose
49.1% 48.6% 0.5%
11   Blue Jay
43.9% 48.6% 4.6%
12   American Goldfinch
34.8% 47.1% 12.3%
13   Pine Warbler
52.4% 45.5% 6.9%
14   Mourning Dove
40.0% 45.4% 5.3%
15   Yellow-rumped Warbler
46.3% 44.8% 1.5%
16   Eastern Towhee
41.8% 44.6% 2.7%
17   Great Blue Heron
43.2% 44.0% 0.7%
18   Chipping Sparrow
35.0% 43.6% 8.6%
19   Turkey Vulture
44.6% 42.8% 1.8%
20   American Robin
52.4% 42.0% 10.4%
21   Downy Woodpecker
49.0% 40.0% 9.0%
22   White-eyed Vireo
3.8% 39.6% 35.8%
23   Brown-headed Cowbird
17.5% 38.0% 20.5%
24   Fish Crow
37.2% 37.0% 0.2%
25   Northern Parula
3.7% 36.6% 32.9%
26   Eastern Phoebe
42.3% 35.4% 6.9%
27   Common Yellowthroat
6.2% 33.8% 27.6%
28   Red-shouldered Hawk
35.7% 33.2% 2.5%
29   Ruby-crowned Kinglet
43.5% 33.0% 10.5%
30   Brown-headed Nuthatch
36.7% 32.4% 4.4%
31   Red-eyed Vireo
0.1% 31.6% 31.5%
32   Mallard
36.4% 29.5% 6.8%
33   Northern Rough-winged Swallow
11.8% 28.5% 16.7%
34   House Finch
28.1% 27.2% 0.9%
35   Northern Mockingbird
28.2% 26.9% 1.3%
36   Red-winged Blackbird
22.4% 26.8% 4.4%
37   Common Grackle
16.5% 25.9% 9.4%
38   Double-crested Cormorant
34.5% 25.8% 8.8%
39   Song Sparrow
49.6% 23.8% 25.8%
40   Great Crested Flycatcher
0% 22.4% 22.4%
41   White-breasted Nuthatch
25.9% 22.3% 3.6%
42   Yellow-throated Warbler
9.0% 21.6% 12.6%
43   Black Vulture
17.7% 20.4% 2.8%
44   Pileated Woodpecker
17.4% 20.4% 3.0%
45   European Starling
17.8% 19.9% 2.2%
46   Brown Thrasher
20.7% 19.9% 0.8%
47   Barn Swallow
2.3% 19.6% 17.4%
48   Ovenbird
0.5% 18.8% 18.2%
49   Belted Kingfisher
21.6% 18.6% 2.9%
50   Gray Catbird
0.7% 18.3% 17.5%
51   Osprey
16.6% 17.5% 0.9%
52   Killdeer
17.8% 17.3% 0.6%
53   Black-and-white Warbler
3.0% 15.2% 12.2%
54   Summer Tanager
0.0% 14.5% 14.5%
55   Tree Swallow
9.5% 14.5% 5.0%
56   Swamp Sparrow
18.0% 14.1% 3.9%
57   Chimney Swift
0.2% 13.9% 13.8%
58   Indigo Bunting
0.0% 13.6% 13.6%
59   Wood Duck
14.5% 13.3% 1.2%
60   Northern Flicker
27.4% 13.1% 14.3%
61   Eastern Kingbird
0.0% 13.0% 13.0%
62   Red-headed Woodpecker
10.9% 13.0% 2.1%
63   Prothonotary Warbler
0.0% 12.7% 12.7%
64   Red-tailed Hawk
14.2% 12.5% 1.7%
65   Bald Eagle
16.2% 12.4% 3.8%
66   Field Sparrow
14.5% 10.7% 3.8%
67   Louisiana Waterthrush
4.2% 10.5% 6.4%
68   House Wren
1.3% 10.2% 8.9%
69   Hairy Woodpecker
11.0% 10.1% 0.9%
70   Hooded Warbler
0% 9.6% 9.6%
71   American Redstart
0.0% 9.3% 9.3%
72   Blue Grosbeak
0% 9.1% 9.1%
73   Ruby-throated Hummingbird
0.0% 9.1% 9.0%
74   Barred Owl
7.1% 8.7% 1.5%
75   Hermit Thrush
17.3% 8.2% 9.1%
76   Wood Thrush
0% 7.9% 7.9%
77   Palm Warbler
2.6% 7.9% 5.3%
78   Prairie Warbler
0.1% 7.5% 7.4%
79   Spotted Sandpiper
0.0% 7.3% 7.3%
80   Orchard Oriole
0% 7.2% 7.2%
81   Purple Martin
3.8% 7.0% 3.2%
82   Eastern Meadowlark
4.4% 6.6% 2.1%
83   Green Heron
0.4% 6.4% 6.0%
84   Yellow-throated Vireo
0.1% 6.4% 6.3%
85   Ring-billed Gull
15.6% 6.3% 9.3%
86   Black-throated Blue Warbler
0% 6.0% 6.0%
87   Solitary Sandpiper
0.0% 5.9% 5.9%
88   Cedar Waxwing
3.4% 5.8% 2.4%
89   Dark-eyed Junco
28.3% 5.1% 23.2%
90   Rock Pigeon
4.2% 4.9% 0.7%
91   Scarlet Tanager
0.0% 4.5% 4.5%
92   Blue-headed Vireo
1.6% 4.2% 2.5%
93   Savannah Sparrow
3.0% 4.1% 1.1%
94   Cooper's Hawk
4.5% 3.8% 0.6%
95   Bonaparte's Gull
7.6% 3.6% 4.0%
96   Cliff Swallow
0.3% 3.5% 3.3%
97   Northern Waterthrush
0% 3.3% 3.3%
98   Yellow-breasted Chat
0.0% 3.3% 3.2%
99   Pine Siskin
4.1% 3.2% 0.9%
100   Ruddy Duck
13.5% 2.9% 10.6%
101   Yellow Warbler
0.0% 2.6% 2.6%
102   Caspian Tern
0.1% 2.5% 2.5%
103   Acadian Flycatcher
0% 2.5% 2.5%
104   Hooded Merganser
8.9% 2.3% 6.6%
105   Great Egret
2.0% 2.2% 0.3%
106   Worm-eating Warbler
0.0% 2.2% 2.2%
107   Blue-winged Teal
1.4% 2.2% 0.8%
108   House Sparrow
1.9% 2.2% 0.3%
109   Pied-billed Grebe
12.6% 2.1% 10.6%
110   Wild Turkey
0.9% 2.0% 1.2%
111   Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
0.2% 1.8% 1.6%
112   Grasshopper Sparrow
0.0% 1.5% 1.5%
113   Eastern Wood-Pewee
0% 1.5% 1.5%
114   Lesser Yellowlegs
0.1% 1.4% 1.3%
115   Rose-breasted Grosbeak
0% 1.4% 1.4%
116   Bobolink
0% 1.3% 1.3%
117   Winter Wren
8.8% 1.3% 7.4%
118   Yellow-billed Cuckoo
0% 1.3% 1.3%
119   Bufflehead
11.3% 1.3% 10.0%
120   Veery
0% 1.3% 1.3%
121   Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
13.9% 1.2% 12.8%
122   Least Sandpiper
0.0% 1.1% 1.1%
123   American Bittern
0.8% 1.0% 0.2%
124   Broad-winged Hawk
0.0% 1.0% 1.0%
125   Sharp-shinned Hawk
1.5% 1.0% 0.4%
126   Blue-winged Warbler
0% 1.0% 1.0%
127   Horned Lark
1.0% 1.0% 0.0%
128   Wilson's Snipe
3.1% 1.0% 2.1%
129   American Kestrel
2.3% 1.0% 1.4%
130   American Coot
3.5% 0.8% 2.7%
131   Great Horned Owl
1.0% 0.8% 0.2%
132   Greater Yellowlegs
0.3% 0.8% 0.5%
133   Red-breasted Nuthatch
1.5% 0.8% 0.6%
134   Swainson's Thrush
0% 0.8% 0.8%
135   Rusty Blackbird
3.3% 0.8% 2.5%
136   Golden-crowned Kinglet
19.1% 0.8% 18.3%
137   Northern Harrier
0.6% 0.8% 0.2%
138   Kentucky Warbler
0% 0.8% 0.8%
139   Muscovy Duck
0.9% 0.8% 0.1%
140   Baltimore Oriole
0.1% 0.7% 0.6%
141   Purple Finch
3.1% 0.7% 2.4%
142   Red-breasted Merganser
2.0% 0.7% 1.4%
143   Lesser Scaup
4.0% 0.7% 3.3%
144   Common Loon
1.6% 0.6% 0.9%
145   Swainson's Warbler
0% 0.6% 0.6%
146   Black-throated Green Warbler
0.0% 0.6% 0.6%
147   Eastern Whip-poor-will
0.2% 0.6% 0.3%
148   Graylag Goose
0.6% 0.5% 0.1%
149   American Herring Gull
2.3% 0.5% 1.8%
150   Cape May Warbler
0.2% 0.5% 0.3%
151   Chuck-will's-widow
0% 0.4% 0.4%
152   Mute Swan
0.9% 0.4% 0.5%
153   White-crowned Sparrow
0.5% 0.4% 0.1%
154   Ring-necked Duck
4.6% 0.4% 4.2%
155   Common Raven
0.5% 0.4% 0.1%
156   Green-winged Teal
3.0% 0.3% 2.6%
157   Horned Grebe
2.8% 0.3% 2.5%
158   Brown Creeper
6.9% 0.3% 6.5%
159   Bank Swallow
0% 0.3% 0.3%
160   Orange-crowned Warbler
0.4% 0.3% 0.1%
161   Vesper Sparrow
0.5% 0.3% 0.2%
162   Sedge Wren
0% 0.3% 0.3%
163   Marsh Wren
0.0% 0.2% 0.2%
164   Merlin
0.2% 0.2% 0.0%
165   Warbling Vireo
0% 0.2% 0.2%
166   Blackpoll Warbler
0% 0.2% 0.2%
167   Forster's Tern
0.0% 0.2% 0.2%
168   Loggerhead Shrike
0.2% 0.2% 0.0%
169   Painted Bunting
0% 0.2% 0.2%
170   Neotropic Cormorant
0% 0.2% 0.2%
171   Mississippi Kite
0.0% 0.2% 0.2%
172   Magnolia Warbler
0% 0.2% 0.2%
173   Sora
0.0% 0.2% 0.2%
174   American Pipit
0.9% 0.2% 0.7%
175   Eastern Screech-Owl
0.2% 0.2% 0.0%
176   Northern Shoveler
2.0% 0.2% 1.8%
177   Blackburnian Warbler
0% 0.2% 0.2%
178   Northern Bobwhite
0.0% 0.2% 0.1%
179   Pectoral Sandpiper
0.2% 0.2% 0.1%
180   Anhinga
0.1% 0.1% 0.1%
181   Semipalmated Plover
0% 0.1% 0.1%
182   Tricolored Heron
0% 0.1% 0.1%
183   Chestnut-sided Warbler
0% 0.1% 0.1%
184   American Wigeon
0.9% 0.1% 0.8%
185   Western Cattle-Egret
0.1% 0.1% 0.0%
186   Lesser Black-backed Gull
1.4% 0.1% 1.3%
187   Virginia Rail
0.2% 0.1% 0.1%
188   Gadwall
2.1% 0.1% 2.0%
189   Little Blue Heron
0.1% 0.1% 0.0%
190   Snowy Egret
0.0% 0.1% 0.1%
191   Dunlin
0.0% 0.1% 0.1%
192   American Woodcock
1.1% 0.1% 1.0%
193   American Black Duck
0.2% 0.1% 0.1%
194   Black-crowned Night-Heron
0.0% 0.1% 0.1%
195   Cerulean Warbler
0% 0.1% 0.1%
196   Lincoln's Sparrow
0.2% 0.1% 0.2%
197   Semipalmated Sandpiper
0.0% 0.1% 0.1%
198   Greater Scaup
0.9% 0.1% 0.8%
199   Fox Sparrow
2.4% 0.1% 2.4%
200   Laughing Gull
0% 0.1% 0.1%
201   Short-billed Dowitcher
0% 0.1% 0.1%
202   Nashville Warbler
0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
203   Common Tern
0% 0.0% 0.0%
204   American White Pelican
0.4% 0.0% 0.3%
205   Tennessee Warbler
0% 0.0% 0.0%
206   Gray-cheeked Thrush
0% 0.0% 0.0%
207   Peregrine Falcon
0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
208   Willet
0% 0.0% 0.0%
209   Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
0% 0.0% 0.0%
210   Evening Grosbeak
0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
211   Common Nighthawk
0% 0.0% 0.0%
212   Common Gallinule
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
213   Arctic Tern
0% 0.0% 0.0%
214   Glossy Ibis
0% 0.0% 0.0%
215   Least Flycatcher
0% 0.0% 0.0%
216   Golden-winged Warbler
0% 0.0% 0.0%
217   Black-billed Cuckoo
0% 0.0% 0.0%
218   Least Bittern
0% 0.0% 0.0%
219   Redhead
0.3% 0.0% 0.3%
220   Black-bellied Plover
0% 0.0% 0.0%
221   Bay-breasted Warbler
0% 0.0% 0.0%
222   Canada Warbler
0% 0.0% 0.0%
223   Western Tanager
0% 0.0% 0.0%
224   Northern Pintail
0.1% 0.0% 0.1%
225   Common Goldeneye
0.1% 0.0% 0.1%
226   Canvasback
0.4% 0.0% 0.4%
227   American Oystercatcher
0% 0.0% 0.0%
228   Wilson's Warbler
0.1% 0.0% 0.1%
229   Clay-colored Sparrow
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
230   Trumpeter Swan
0% 0.0% 0.0%
231   Rufous Hummingbird
0.1% 0.0% 0.1%
232   Upland Sandpiper
0% 0.0% 0.0%
233   Black-headed Gull
0.2% 0.0% 0.2%
234   California Gull
0% 0.0% 0.0%
235   Red-necked Grebe
0.6% 0.0% 0.6%
236   Dickcissel
0% 0.0% 0.0%
237   Royal Tern
0% 0.0% 0.0%
238   Stilt Sandpiper
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
239   Surf Scoter
0% 0.0% 0.0%
240   King Rail
0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
241   Red Crossbill
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
242   Sanderling
0% 0.0% 0.0%
243   Northern Saw-whet Owl
0% 0.0% 0.0%
244   Ring-necked Pheasant
0% 0.0% 0.0%
245   White-rumped Sandpiper
0% 0.0% 0.0%
246   Swallow-tailed Kite
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
247   Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
0% 0.0% 0.0%
248   Mandarin Duck
0% 0.0% 0.0%
249   Red-cockaded Woodpecker
0% 0.0% 0.0%
250   Lawrence's Warbler (hybrid)
0% 0.0% 0.0%
251   Swan Goose
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%

Created by Michael Fogleman.

Data from the eBird Basic Dataset. Version: EBD_relSep-2025. Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York. Sep 2025.