Bird Finder

Top Birds in April
within 25 miles of Cary, NC, USA

based on 16909 checklists in 395 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
75.1% 80.3% 5.2%
2   Carolina Wren
67.4% 70.5% 3.0%
3   Tufted Titmouse
66.2% 69.5% 3.3%
4   Carolina Chickadee
68.5% 66.0% 2.5%
5   Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
14.6% 62.4% 47.8%
6   Red-bellied Woodpecker
55.6% 58.1% 2.5%
7   White-throated Sparrow
54.5% 56.5% 2.1%
8   American Crow
58.5% 56.3% 2.3%
9   Blue Jay
45.4% 49.8% 4.4%
10   Canada Goose
50.3% 49.1% 1.2%
11   Eastern Bluebird
50.7% 48.2% 2.5%
12   Eastern Towhee
43.2% 46.4% 3.1%
13   Yellow-rumped Warbler
44.2% 46.3% 2.1%
14   Mourning Dove
40.8% 45.9% 5.1%
15   American Goldfinch
32.8% 45.1% 12.3%
16   Great Blue Heron
44.2% 44.7% 0.4%
17   Chipping Sparrow
32.7% 43.0% 10.3%
18   Pine Warbler
51.0% 43.0% 8.0%
19   Turkey Vulture
45.1% 42.7% 2.4%
20   American Robin
53.3% 42.6% 10.7%
21   Downy Woodpecker
46.9% 38.7% 8.1%
22   White-eyed Vireo
3.8% 37.8% 34.0%
23   Northern Parula
3.5% 36.0% 32.5%
24   Fish Crow
36.1% 35.7% 0.3%
25   Brown-headed Cowbird
16.2% 35.4% 19.2%
26   Eastern Phoebe
41.3% 34.3% 7.0%
27   Common Yellowthroat
6.1% 33.3% 27.1%
28   Ruby-crowned Kinglet
42.3% 32.8% 9.6%
29   Red-shouldered Hawk
34.7% 32.5% 2.2%
30   Brown-headed Nuthatch
34.9% 31.3% 3.6%
31   Mallard
37.2% 30.2% 7.0%
32   Red-eyed Vireo
0.1% 29.9% 29.8%
33   Northern Rough-winged Swallow
12.0% 29.8% 17.8%
34   Northern Mockingbird
29.3% 28.3% 1.0%
35   Common Grackle
17.8% 27.2% 9.5%
36   Double-crested Cormorant
34.4% 26.6% 7.8%
37   Red-winged Blackbird
21.9% 26.1% 4.1%
38   House Finch
25.5% 25.3% 0.2%
39   Song Sparrow
50.1% 22.7% 27.4%
40   White-breasted Nuthatch
25.3% 21.9% 3.4%
41   European Starling
19.1% 21.3% 2.2%
42   Brown Thrasher
20.7% 20.8% 0.1%
43   Yellow-throated Warbler
7.7% 19.9% 12.2%
44   Black Vulture
17.8% 19.8% 2.0%
45   Great Crested Flycatcher
0% 19.8% 19.8%
46   Pileated Woodpecker
17.0% 19.7% 2.7%
47   Barn Swallow
1.6% 19.2% 17.6%
48   Ovenbird
0.6% 19.0% 18.4%
49   Gray Catbird
0.7% 18.9% 18.2%
50   Belted Kingfisher
21.8% 18.5% 3.3%
51   Osprey
15.3% 16.9% 1.6%
52   Killdeer
17.1% 16.5% 0.6%
53   Red-headed Woodpecker
12.3% 14.3% 2.0%
54   Black-and-white Warbler
2.6% 14.2% 11.6%
55   Northern Flicker
28.0% 13.9% 14.1%
56   Summer Tanager
0% 13.8% 13.8%
57   Wood Duck
14.7% 13.5% 1.3%
58   Swamp Sparrow
16.9% 13.5% 3.4%
59   Red-tailed Hawk
15.2% 13.4% 1.8%
60   Chimney Swift
0.1% 13.3% 13.2%
61   Indigo Bunting
0.0% 12.5% 12.5%
62   Tree Swallow
7.6% 12.3% 4.6%
63   Prothonotary Warbler
0.0% 12.1% 12.1%
64   Bald Eagle
15.7% 12.0% 3.7%
65   Eastern Kingbird
0% 11.9% 11.9%
66   Field Sparrow
16.1% 11.8% 4.4%
67   House Wren
1.3% 10.5% 9.2%
68   Louisiana Waterthrush
3.9% 10.3% 6.5%
69   Hooded Warbler
0% 9.1% 9.1%
70   Hairy Woodpecker
9.8% 9.0% 0.8%
71   Barred Owl
7.3% 8.8% 1.5%
72   American Redstart
0.0% 8.8% 8.8%
73   Blue Grosbeak
0% 8.6% 8.6%
74   Palm Warbler
2.4% 8.6% 6.2%
75   Ruby-throated Hummingbird
0.0% 8.4% 8.3%
76   Hermit Thrush
15.8% 8.2% 7.6%
77   Wood Thrush
0% 8.1% 8.1%
78   Prairie Warbler
0.2% 8.0% 7.8%
79   Spotted Sandpiper
0.1% 7.4% 7.4%
80   Ring-billed Gull
17.0% 7.3% 9.8%
81   Green Heron
0.5% 6.9% 6.4%
82   Eastern Meadowlark
4.8% 6.8% 2.0%
83   Orchard Oriole
0% 6.6% 6.6%
84   Purple Martin
3.0% 6.3% 3.3%
85   Black-throated Blue Warbler
0% 6.2% 6.2%
86   Cedar Waxwing
3.5% 6.2% 2.7%
87   Yellow-throated Vireo
0.1% 5.7% 5.6%
88   Rock Pigeon
4.6% 5.6% 1.0%
89   Solitary Sandpiper
0.0% 5.6% 5.6%
90   Dark-eyed Junco
26.1% 4.5% 21.5%
91   Scarlet Tanager
0% 4.4% 4.4%
92   Savannah Sparrow
3.1% 4.3% 1.2%
93   Blue-headed Vireo
1.7% 4.3% 2.6%
94   Bonaparte's Gull
7.3% 3.8% 3.4%
95   Cooper's Hawk
4.8% 3.8% 1.0%
96   Pine Siskin
4.7% 3.6% 1.1%
97   Northern Waterthrush
0% 3.5% 3.5%
98   Cliff Swallow
0.2% 3.4% 3.2%
99   Caspian Tern
0.1% 3.0% 2.9%
100   Ruddy Duck
13.1% 2.9% 10.2%
101   Yellow Warbler
0.0% 2.8% 2.8%
102   Yellow-breasted Chat
0.0% 2.8% 2.7%
103   Great Egret
2.0% 2.6% 0.5%
104   Pied-billed Grebe
13.7% 2.4% 11.3%
105   House Sparrow
1.9% 2.3% 0.4%
106   Acadian Flycatcher
0% 2.3% 2.3%
107   Worm-eating Warbler
0.0% 2.3% 2.3%
108   Blue-winged Teal
1.5% 2.3% 0.7%
109   Hooded Merganser
9.2% 2.2% 7.0%
110   Wild Turkey
0.8% 1.8% 1.0%
111   Grasshopper Sparrow
0.0% 1.6% 1.6%
112   Bufflehead
11.5% 1.6% 9.9%
113   Bobolink
0% 1.6% 1.6%
114   Eastern Wood-Pewee
0% 1.5% 1.5%
115   Veery
0% 1.4% 1.4%
116   Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
14.4% 1.4% 13.0%
117   Lesser Yellowlegs
0.1% 1.3% 1.3%
118   Rose-breasted Grosbeak
0% 1.3% 1.3%
119   Winter Wren
8.3% 1.2% 7.1%
120   Blue-winged Warbler
0% 1.1% 1.1%
121   Sharp-shinned Hawk
1.6% 1.1% 0.5%
122   American Kestrel
2.7% 1.1% 1.6%
123   Horned Lark
1.1% 1.1% 0.1%
124   Yellow-billed Cuckoo
0% 1.1% 1.1%
125   Least Sandpiper
0.0% 1.0% 1.0%
126   Wilson's Snipe
3.2% 1.0% 2.2%
127   American Coot
4.0% 1.0% 3.0%
128   American Bittern
0.8% 1.0% 0.2%
129   Broad-winged Hawk
0.0% 1.0% 0.9%
130   Red-breasted Nuthatch
1.8% 0.9% 0.9%
131   Muscovy Duck
1.0% 0.9% 0.1%
132   Rusty Blackbird
3.4% 0.9% 2.5%
133   Swainson's Thrush
0% 0.9% 0.9%
134   Great Horned Owl
1.0% 0.9% 0.1%
135   Golden-crowned Kinglet
18.6% 0.8% 17.8%
136   Greater Yellowlegs
0.3% 0.7% 0.4%
137   Northern Harrier
0.7% 0.7% 0.0%
138   Lesser Scaup
4.0% 0.7% 3.3%
139   Red-breasted Merganser
2.2% 0.7% 1.5%
140   Kentucky Warbler
0% 0.7% 0.7%
141   Purple Finch
2.6% 0.7% 1.9%
142   Baltimore Oriole
0.1% 0.6% 0.5%
143   Black-throated Green Warbler
0.0% 0.6% 0.6%
144   Graylag Goose
0.6% 0.6% 0.0%
145   Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
0.0% 0.6% 0.6%
146   Common Loon
1.4% 0.6% 0.8%
147   Herring Gull
2.5% 0.6% 1.9%
148   Mute Swan
0.9% 0.5% 0.4%
149   White-crowned Sparrow
0.6% 0.5% 0.1%
150   Eastern Whip-poor-will
0.1% 0.4% 0.3%
151   Ring-necked Duck
5.0% 0.4% 4.5%
152   Cape May Warbler
0.2% 0.4% 0.2%
153   Green-winged Teal
2.8% 0.4% 2.4%
154   Brown Creeper
6.4% 0.4% 6.0%
155   Vesper Sparrow
0.6% 0.4% 0.2%
156   Common Raven
0.5% 0.4% 0.1%
157   Sedge Wren
0% 0.4% 0.4%
158   Orange-crowned Warbler
0.5% 0.3% 0.2%
159   Bank Swallow
0% 0.3% 0.3%
160   Horned Grebe
2.9% 0.3% 2.6%
161   Chuck-will's-widow
0% 0.3% 0.3%
162   Swainson's Warbler
0% 0.3% 0.3%
163   Merlin
0.3% 0.3% 0.0%
164   Forster's Tern
0.0% 0.3% 0.2%
165   Neotropic Cormorant
0% 0.3% 0.3%
166   Loggerhead Shrike
0.2% 0.3% 0.0%
167   Blackpoll Warbler
0% 0.3% 0.3%
168   American Pipit
1.0% 0.2% 0.8%
169   Northern Shoveler
2.3% 0.2% 2.1%
170   Pectoral Sandpiper
0.3% 0.2% 0.1%
171   Mississippi Kite
0.0% 0.2% 0.2%
172   Blackburnian Warbler
0% 0.2% 0.2%
173   Magnolia Warbler
0% 0.2% 0.2%
174   Marsh Wren
0.0% 0.2% 0.1%
175   Eastern Screech-Owl
0.2% 0.2% 0.0%
176   Semipalmated Plover
0% 0.2% 0.2%
177   Chestnut-sided Warbler
0% 0.2% 0.2%
178   American Wigeon
0.7% 0.1% 0.6%
179   Cattle Egret
0.0% 0.1% 0.1%
180   Painted Bunting
0% 0.1% 0.1%
181   Virginia Rail
0.2% 0.1% 0.1%
182   Dunlin
0.0% 0.1% 0.1%
183   Little Blue Heron
0.1% 0.1% 0.1%
184   Northern Bobwhite
0.0% 0.1% 0.1%
185   Gadwall
2.2% 0.1% 2.1%
186   American Black Duck
0.2% 0.1% 0.1%
187   American Woodcock
1.2% 0.1% 1.1%
188   Snowy Egret
0.0% 0.1% 0.1%
189   Cerulean Warbler
0% 0.1% 0.1%
190   Anhinga
0.0% 0.1% 0.1%
191   Sora
0.0% 0.1% 0.1%
192   Black-crowned Night-Heron
0.0% 0.1% 0.1%
193   Lesser Black-backed Gull
1.2% 0.1% 1.1%
194   Greater Scaup
1.1% 0.1% 1.0%
195   Semipalmated Sandpiper
0.0% 0.1% 0.1%
196   Tricolored Heron
0% 0.1% 0.1%
197   Fox Sparrow
2.5% 0.1% 2.4%
198   Lincoln's Sparrow
0.3% 0.1% 0.2%
199   Short-billed Dowitcher
0% 0.1% 0.1%
200   Laughing Gull
0% 0.1% 0.1%
201   Common Tern
0% 0.1% 0.1%
202   Nashville Warbler
0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
203   Tennessee Warbler
0% 0.0% 0.0%
204   Warbling Vireo
0% 0.0% 0.0%
205   American White Pelican
0.2% 0.0% 0.1%
206   Gray-cheeked Thrush
0% 0.0% 0.0%
207   Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
0% 0.0% 0.0%
208   Evening Grosbeak
0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
209   Peregrine Falcon
0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
210   Common Gallinule
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
211   Arctic Tern
0% 0.0% 0.0%
212   Least Flycatcher
0% 0.0% 0.0%
213   Willet
0% 0.0% 0.0%
214   Least Bittern
0% 0.0% 0.0%
215   Redhead
0.4% 0.0% 0.4%
216   Northern Pintail
0.1% 0.0% 0.1%
217   Common Nighthawk
0% 0.0% 0.0%
218   Black-bellied Plover
0% 0.0% 0.0%
219   Bay-breasted Warbler
0% 0.0% 0.0%
220   Glossy Ibis
0% 0.0% 0.0%
221   Canada Warbler
0% 0.0% 0.0%
222   Western Tanager
0% 0.0% 0.0%
223   Common Goldeneye
0.1% 0.0% 0.1%
224   Canvasback
0.2% 0.0% 0.2%
225   American Oystercatcher
0% 0.0% 0.0%
226   Wilson's Warbler
0% 0.0% 0.0%
227   Golden-winged Warbler
0% 0.0% 0.0%
228   Trumpeter Swan
0% 0.0% 0.0%
229   Rufous Hummingbird
0.1% 0.0% 0.1%
230   Upland Sandpiper
0% 0.0% 0.0%
231   Black-headed Gull
0.2% 0.0% 0.2%
232   California Gull
0% 0.0% 0.0%
233   Red-necked Grebe
0.7% 0.0% 0.7%
234   Dickcissel
0% 0.0% 0.0%
235   Royal Tern
0% 0.0% 0.0%
236   Stilt Sandpiper
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
237   Surf Scoter
0% 0.0% 0.0%
238   King Rail
0.1% 0.0% 0.1%
239   Red Crossbill
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
240   Sanderling
0% 0.0% 0.0%
241   Northern Saw-whet Owl
0% 0.0% 0.0%
242   Ring-necked Pheasant
0% 0.0% 0.0%
243   White-rumped Sandpiper
0% 0.0% 0.0%
244   Black-billed Cuckoo
0% 0.0% 0.0%
245   Swallow-tailed Kite
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
246   Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
0% 0.0% 0.0%
247   Red-cockaded Woodpecker
0% 0.0% 0.0%
248   Lawrence's Warbler (hybrid)
0% 0.0% 0.0%
249   Swan Goose
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%

Created by Michael Fogleman.

Data from the eBird Basic Dataset. Version: EBD_relJan-2024. Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York. Jan 2024.