Top Birds in January
within 25 miles of Cary, NC, USA
based on 14023 checklists in 395 hotspots
This page shows the probability of a species appearing on a checklist during the month of January. 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 January are indicated with a star. This is based on historical data from eBird, and does not include recently submitted checklists.
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| Rank | Info | Species | Chart | Peak | December | January | Change | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Carolina Wren |
|
68.4% | 60.5% | 8.0% | |||
| 2 | Northern Cardinal |
|
63.0% | 59.0% | 4.0% | |||
| 3 | Carolina Chickadee |
|
64.4% | 58.7% | 5.8% | |||
| 4 | Tufted Titmouse |
|
58.6% | 53.8% | 4.7% | |||
| 5 | White-throated Sparrow |
|
62.1% | 53.5% | 8.6% | |||
| 6 | American Crow |
|
58.7% | 52.8% | 5.9% | |||
| 7 | Red-bellied Woodpecker |
|
57.5% | 51.4% | 6.1% | |||
| 8 | Song Sparrow |
|
55.2% | 50.7% | 4.5% | |||
| 9 | Eastern Bluebird |
|
49.8% | 44.2% | 5.6% | |||
| 10 | Downy Woodpecker |
|
49.5% | 43.2% | 6.3% | |||
| 11 | Ruby-crowned Kinglet |
|
50.7% | 42.3% | 8.4% | |||
| 12 | Great Blue Heron |
|
43.1% | 39.0% | 4.0% | |||
| 13 | Blue Jay |
|
45.7% | 38.8% | 6.9% | |||
| 14 | Turkey Vulture |
|
36.0% | 35.4% | 0.6% | |||
| 15 | American Robin |
|
37.9% | 34.6% | 3.3% | |||
| 16 | Canada Goose |
|
32.0% | 34.5% | 2.5% | |||
| 17 | Yellow-rumped Warbler |
|
38.2% | 34.4% | 3.8% | |||
| 18 | Eastern Towhee |
|
38.3% | 32.6% | 5.7% | |||
| 19 | Mallard |
|
30.1% | 32.3% | 2.2% | |||
| 20 | Dark-eyed Junco |
|
37.2% | 32.0% | 5.2% | |||
| 21 | Brown-headed Nuthatch |
|
34.9% | 31.9% | 3.0% | |||
| 22 | White-breasted Nuthatch |
|
34.4% | 30.2% | 4.2% | |||
| 23 | Mourning Dove |
|
24.0% | 30.0% | 5.9% | |||
| 24 | Double-crested Cormorant |
|
30.2% | 29.9% | 0.3% | |||
| 25 | Ring-billed Gull |
|
29.1% | 29.7% | 0.5% | |||
| 26 | American Goldfinch |
|
41.7% | 28.9% | 12.8% | |||
| 27 | Northern Mockingbird |
|
32.1% | 28.8% | 3.3% | |||
| 28 | Northern Flicker |
|
39.0% | 28.2% | 10.9% | |||
| 29 | Golden-crowned Kinglet |
|
33.1% | 26.6% | 6.5% | |||
| 30 | Red-shouldered Hawk |
|
29.1% | 26.3% | 2.7% | |||
| 31 | Eastern Phoebe |
|
30.5% | 24.4% | 6.1% | |||
| 32 | Yellow-bellied Sapsucker |
|
31.3% | 24.4% | 6.9% | |||
| 33 | House Finch |
|
24.4% | 23.6% | 0.8% | |||
| 34 | Pine Warbler |
|
18.2% | 21.7% | 3.6% | |||
| 35 | Hooded Merganser |
|
18.8% | 20.5% | 1.7% | |||
| 36 | Belted Kingfisher |
|
24.3% | 19.5% | 4.8% | |||
| 37 | Hermit Thrush |
|
24.3% | 18.3% | 6.0% | |||
| 38 | Bald Eagle |
|
17.1% | 16.9% | 0.1% | |||
| 39 | European Starling |
|
15.4% | 16.6% | 1.2% | |||
| 40 | Ruddy Duck |
|
15.5% | 16.6% | 1.1% | |||
| 41 | Chipping Sparrow |
|
21.1% | 16.5% | 4.6% | |||
| 42 | Pied-billed Grebe |
|
20.4% | 16.4% | 4.0% | |||
| 43 | Killdeer |
|
18.2% | 16.3% | 1.8% | |||
| 44 | Black Vulture |
|
17.1% | 16.1% | 0.9% | |||
| 45 | Swamp Sparrow |
|
17.8% | 15.5% | 2.3% | |||
| 46 | Bufflehead |
|
14.3% | 15.3% | 1.0% | |||
| 47 | Brown Thrasher |
|
18.8% | 15.2% | 3.7% | |||
| 48 | Red-tailed Hawk |
|
16.0% | 15.1% | 0.9% | |||
| 49 | Field Sparrow |
|
17.3% | 13.2% | 4.0% | |||
| 50 | Pileated Woodpecker |
|
15.7% | 12.7% | 3.0% | |||
| 51 | Red-winged Blackbird |
|
15.4% | 12.0% | 3.4% | |||
| 52 | Winter Wren |
|
15.8% | 11.2% | 4.7% | |||
| 53 | Red-headed Woodpecker |
|
12.2% | 10.7% | 1.5% | |||
| 54 | Hairy Woodpecker |
|
12.8% | 10.3% | 2.5% | |||
| 55 | Bonaparte's Gull |
|
12.7% | 9.4% | 3.3% | |||
| 56 | Ring-necked Duck |
|
8.0% | 9.0% | 1.0% | |||
| 57 | Brown Creeper |
|
10.7% | 8.7% | 2.1% | |||
| 58 | Cedar Waxwing |
|
13.5% | 7.4% | 6.1% | |||
| 59 | Fox Sparrow |
|
7.2% | 6.7% | 0.5% | |||
| 60 | Rock Pigeon |
|
6.0% | 6.5% | 0.4% | |||
| 61 | Herring Gull |
|
5.4% | 5.5% | 0.2% | |||
| 62 | Gadwall |
|
5.1% | 5.5% | 0.4% | |||
| 63 | American Kestrel |
|
6.1% | 5.4% | 0.7% | |||
| 64 | Common Grackle |
|
5.6% | 4.8% | 0.9% | |||
| 65 | Brown-headed Cowbird |
|
5.7% | 4.7% | 0.9% | |||
| 66 | Eastern Meadowlark |
|
4.0% | 4.6% | 0.6% | |||
| 67 | Lesser Scaup |
|
3.7% | 4.5% | 0.8% | |||
| 68 | Pine Siskin |
|
8.3% | 4.4% | 3.9% | |||
| 69 | Fish Crow |
|
1.9% | 4.3% | 2.5% | |||
| 70 | Savannah Sparrow |
|
5.2% | 4.3% | 0.9% | |||
| 71 | Horned Grebe |
|
5.9% | 4.1% | 1.8% | |||
| 72 | Cooper's Hawk |
|
4.6% | 3.8% | 0.8% | |||
| 73 | Northern Shoveler |
|
4.4% | 3.7% | 0.6% | |||
| 74 | Purple Finch |
|
4.7% | 3.7% | 1.0% | |||
| 75 | Green-winged Teal |
|
3.1% | 3.5% | 0.4% | |||
| 76 | Wood Duck |
|
3.5% | 3.1% | 0.5% | |||
| 77 | Rusty Blackbird |
|
3.2% | 2.9% | 0.3% | |||
| 78 | Barred Owl |
|
3.0% | 2.9% | 0.1% | |||
| 79 | American Coot |
|
3.2% | 2.5% | 0.7% | |||
| 80 | Red-breasted Nuthatch |
|
3.4% | 2.4% | 1.1% | |||
| 81 | American Pipit |
|
3.7% | 2.4% | 1.3% | |||
| 82 | Wilson's Snipe |
|
2.0% | 2.1% | 0.1% | |||
| 83 | Palm Warbler |
|
3.0% | 2.0% | 0.9% | |||
| 84 | Greater Scaup |
|
0.9% | 1.8% | 0.9% | |||
| 85 | Sharp-shinned Hawk |
|
2.4% | 1.8% | 0.6% | |||
| 86 | Horned Lark |
|
1.9% | 1.8% | 0.1% | |||
| 87 | Common Loon |
|
3.6% | 1.7% | 1.9% | |||
| 88 | American Black Duck |
|
1.8% | 1.7% | 0.1% | |||
| 89 | House Sparrow |
|
1.3% | 1.6% | 0.3% | |||
| 90 | Canvasback |
|
1.2% | 1.5% | 0.2% | |||
| 91 | White-crowned Sparrow |
|
0.9% | 1.4% | 0.6% | |||
| 92 | American Woodcock |
|
0.9% | 1.4% | 0.5% | |||
| 93 | Great Egret |
|
1.2% | 1.3% | 0.1% | |||
| 94 | House Wren |
|
2.7% | 1.3% | 1.4% | |||
| 95 | Great Horned Owl |
|
1.3% | 1.2% | 0.1% | |||
| 96 | American Wigeon |
|
1.1% | 1.2% | 0.1% | |||
| 97 | Vesper Sparrow |
|
0.9% | 1.1% | 0.1% | |||
| 98 | Lesser Black-backed Gull |
|
0.7% | 1.1% | 0.4% | |||
| 99 | Red Crossbill |
|
0.8% | 1.1% | 0.3% | |||
| 100 | Nashville Warbler |
|
0% | 1.0% | 1.0% | |||
| 101 | Redhead |
|
1.0% | 1.0% | 0.1% | |||
| 102 | Orange-crowned Warbler |
|
1.0% | 1.0% | 0.0% | |||
| 103 | Mute Swan |
|
0.8% | 1.0% | 0.2% | |||
| 104 | Black-and-white Warbler |
|
1.0% | 1.0% | 0.0% | |||
| 105 | Common Goldeneye |
|
0.1% | 1.0% | 0.8% | |||
| 106 | Red-breasted Merganser |
|
1.5% | 0.9% | 0.5% | |||
| 107 | Northern Pintail |
|
1.0% | 0.9% | 0.2% | |||
| 108 | Gray Catbird |
|
1.8% | 0.9% | 0.9% | |||
| 109 | Blue-headed Vireo |
|
1.3% | 0.8% | 0.4% | |||
| 110 | Muscovy Duck |
|
0.8% | 0.8% | 0.0% | |||
| 111 | Ross's Goose |
|
0.0% | 0.8% | 0.8% | |||
| 112 | Bullock's Oriole |
|
0% | 0.7% | 0.7% | |||
| 113 | Common Merganser |
|
0.2% | 0.7% | 0.4% | |||
| 114 | Common Raven |
|
0.9% | 0.5% | 0.3% | |||
| 115 | Northern Harrier |
|
1.0% | 0.5% | 0.4% | |||
| 116 | Loggerhead Shrike |
|
0.7% | 0.5% | 0.2% | |||
| 117 | Peregrine Falcon |
|
0.9% | 0.5% | 0.4% | |||
| 118 | Graylag Goose |
|
0.8% | 0.5% | 0.3% | |||
| 119 | Varied Thrush |
|
1.7% | 0.5% | 1.3% | |||
| 120 | Evening Grosbeak |
|
0.3% | 0.5% | 0.1% | |||
| 121 | Clay-colored Sparrow |
|
0% | 0.5% | 0.5% | |||
| 122 | Pacific-slope Flycatcher |
|
0% | 0.4% | 0.4% | |||
| 123 | Common Yellowthroat |
|
0.5% | 0.4% | 0.1% | |||
| 124 | Eared Grebe |
|
0.2% | 0.4% | 0.2% | |||
| 125 | Merlin |
|
0.5% | 0.4% | 0.2% | |||
| 126 | Greater White-fronted Goose |
|
0.6% | 0.4% | 0.2% | |||
| 127 | Wild Turkey |
|
0.3% | 0.3% | 0.0% | |||
| 128 | Virginia Rail |
|
0.3% | 0.3% | 0.0% | |||
| 129 | American Bittern |
|
0.5% | 0.3% | 0.2% | |||
| 130 | Baltimore Oriole |
|
0.2% | 0.3% | 0.0% | |||
| 131 | White-winged Scoter |
|
0.0% | 0.2% | 0.2% | |||
| 132 | Eastern Screech-Owl |
|
0.3% | 0.2% | 0.1% | |||
| 133 | Great Black-backed Gull |
|
0.2% | 0.2% | 0.1% | |||
| 134 | Long-tailed Duck |
|
0.1% | 0.2% | 0.1% | |||
| 135 | Red Phalarope |
|
0.0% | 0.2% | 0.2% | |||
| 136 | Prairie Warbler |
|
0.1% | 0.2% | 0.1% | |||
| 137 | Green Heron |
|
0.1% | 0.2% | 0.0% | |||
| 138 | Snow Goose |
|
0.2% | 0.1% | 0.0% | |||
| 139 | American White Pelican |
|
0% | 0.1% | 0.1% | |||
| 140 | Blue-gray Gnatcatcher |
|
0.6% | 0.1% | 0.4% | |||
| 141 | Surf Scoter |
|
0.1% | 0.1% | 0.0% | |||
| 142 | Red-necked Grebe |
|
0.4% | 0.1% | 0.3% | |||
| 143 | Lincoln's Sparrow |
|
0.2% | 0.1% | 0.1% | |||
| 144 | Blue-winged Teal |
|
0.1% | 0.1% | 0.0% | |||
| 145 | Iceland Gull |
|
0.0% | 0.1% | 0.1% | |||
| 146 | Tree Swallow |
|
0.1% | 0.1% | 0.0% | |||
| 147 | Least Sandpiper |
|
0.5% | 0.1% | 0.4% | |||
| 148 | King Rail |
|
0% | 0.1% | 0.1% | |||
| 149 | Red-throated Loon |
|
0.5% | 0.0% | 0.4% | |||
| 150 | Black-crowned Night-Heron |
|
0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | |||
| 151 | Northern Bobwhite |
|
0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | |||
| 152 | Tundra Swan |
|
0.2% | 0.0% | 0.1% | |||
| 153 | Spotted Sandpiper |
|
0.1% | 0.0% | 0.1% | |||
| 154 | Greater Yellowlegs |
|
0.2% | 0.0% | 0.2% | |||
| 155 | Osprey |
|
0.2% | 0.0% | 0.1% | |||
| 156 | Dunlin |
|
0.1% | 0.0% | 0.1% | |||
| 157 | Yellow-breasted Chat |
|
0.1% | 0.0% | 0.1% | |||
| 158 | Sandhill Crane |
|
0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | |||
| 159 | Black-headed Gull |
|
0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | |||
| 160 | White-eyed Vireo |
|
0.1% | 0.0% | 0.1% | |||
| 161 | Northern Rough-winged Swallow |
|
0.1% | 0.0% | 0.1% | |||
| 162 | Marsh Wren |
|
0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | |||
| 163 | Anhinga |
|
0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | |||
| 164 | Rufous Hummingbird |
|
0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | |||
| 165 | Glaucous Gull |
|
0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | |||
| 166 | Swan Goose |
|
0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | |||
| 167 | California Gull |
|
0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | |||
| 168 | Wood Thrush |
|
0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | |||
| 169 | Laughing Gull |
|
0.1% | 0.0% | 0.1% | |||
| 170 | Dickcissel |
|
0.1% | 0.0% | 0.1% | |||
| 171 | Brown Pelican |
|
0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | |||
| 172 | Common Redpoll |
|
0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | |||
| 173 | Lesser Yellowlegs |
|
0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | |||
| 174 | Northern Parula |
|
0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | |||
| 175 | Veery |
|
0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | |||
| 176 | Forster's Tern |
|
0.1% | 0.0% | 0.1% | |||
| 177 | Western Kingbird |
|
0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | |||
| 178 | Ash-throated Flycatcher |
|
0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | |||
| 179 | Eurasian Collared-Dove |
|
0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | |||
| 180 | Great Cormorant |
|
0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | |||
| 181 | Blue Grosbeak |
|
0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | |||
| 182 | Sedge Wren |
|
0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |