Bird Finder

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

based on 11914 checklists in 388 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.

Rank Info Species Chart Peak December January Change Relative
1   Carolina Wren
67.9% 61.2% 6.7% 0.9x
2   Carolina Chickadee
64.3% 59.9% 4.4% 0.9x
3   Northern Cardinal
62.9% 59.7% 3.2% 0.9x
4   Tufted Titmouse
58.4% 54.9% 3.5% 0.9x
5   White-throated Sparrow
61.5% 53.8% 7.6% 0.9x
6   Red-bellied Woodpecker
58.0% 52.7% 5.2% 0.9x
7   American Crow
58.0% 52.5% 5.5% 0.9x
8   Song Sparrow
53.8% 50.4% 3.4% 0.9x
9   Downy Woodpecker
48.8% 43.5% 5.3% 0.9x
10   Eastern Bluebird
49.2% 43.4% 5.8% 0.9x
11   Ruby-crowned Kinglet
49.6% 42.7% 6.9% 0.9x
12   Great Blue Heron
42.6% 39.8% 2.8% 0.9x
13   Blue Jay
46.6% 39.7% 6.9% 0.9x
14   Turkey Vulture
36.4% 35.1% 1.3% 1.0x
15   Canada Goose
32.0% 34.7% 2.7% 1.1x
16   Yellow-rumped Warbler
36.4% 34.0% 2.4% 0.9x
17   Eastern Towhee
39.1% 33.7% 5.4% 0.9x
18   Mallard
30.5% 33.2% 2.7% 1.1x
19   American Robin
36.2% 33.0% 3.2% 0.9x
20   Brown-headed Nuthatch
34.2% 32.5% 1.7% 1.0x
21   Dark-eyed Junco
36.4% 31.8% 4.6% 0.9x
22   White-breasted Nuthatch
34.5% 31.0% 3.5% 0.9x
23   Ring-billed Gull
29.1% 30.4% 1.3% 1.0x
24   Mourning Dove
24.4% 30.2% 5.8% 1.2x
25   American Goldfinch
40.9% 29.3% 11.6% 0.7x
26   Double-crested Cormorant
29.1% 29.2% 0.1% 1.0x
27   Northern Flicker
38.4% 28.8% 9.6% 0.8x
28   Northern Mockingbird
32.6% 28.5% 4.1% 0.9x
29   Golden-crowned Kinglet
32.3% 27.7% 4.7% 0.9x
30   Red-shouldered Hawk
28.2% 26.2% 2.0% 0.9x
31   Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
31.0% 24.7% 6.3% 0.8x
32   Eastern Phoebe
28.5% 23.3% 5.2% 0.8x
33   House Finch
23.9% 22.4% 1.5% 0.9x
34   Pine Warbler
18.2% 22.1% 3.9% 1.2x
35   Hooded Merganser
19.5% 21.3% 1.8% 1.1x
36   Belted Kingfisher
24.1% 19.8% 4.3% 0.8x
37   Hermit Thrush
22.3% 18.4% 3.9% 0.8x
38   Bald Eagle
16.5% 17.2% 0.7% 1.0x
39   Pied-billed Grebe
20.2% 16.8% 3.4% 0.8x
40   Ruddy Duck
15.4% 16.6% 1.1% 1.1x
41   Black Vulture
17.6% 16.2% 1.4% 0.9x
42   Chipping Sparrow
20.6% 16.2% 4.4% 0.8x
43   European Starling
16.0% 16.1% 0.2% 1.0x
44   Brown Thrasher
19.4% 15.8% 3.7% 0.8x
45   Red-tailed Hawk
16.6% 15.6% 1.0% 0.9x
46   Bufflehead
14.6% 15.5% 0.9% 1.1x
47   Killdeer
17.3% 15.4% 1.9% 0.9x
48   Swamp Sparrow
17.0% 15.1% 1.9% 0.9x
49   Field Sparrow
17.9% 13.3% 4.6% 0.7x
50   Pileated Woodpecker
15.7% 13.1% 2.6% 0.8x
51   Red-winged Blackbird
14.7% 11.7% 3.0% 0.8x
52   Red-headed Woodpecker
12.7% 11.4% 1.2% 0.9x
53   Winter Wren
15.1% 11.0% 4.1% 0.7x
54   Hairy Woodpecker
12.1% 10.4% 1.7% 0.9x
55   Ring-necked Duck
8.5% 9.4% 0.9% 1.1x
56   Brown Creeper
11.1% 9.2% 1.8% 0.8x
57   Bonaparte's Gull
11.5% 8.8% 2.7% 0.8x
58   Fox Sparrow
7.0% 7.1% 0.1% 1.0x
59   Cedar Waxwing
11.8% 7.0% 4.8% 0.6x
60   Rock Pigeon
6.4% 6.4% 0.0% 1.0x
61   Herring Gull
5.6% 5.5% 0.0% 1.0x
62   Gadwall
5.0% 5.5% 0.4% 1.1x
63   American Kestrel
6.3% 5.3% 0.9% 0.8x
64   Pine Siskin
9.3% 5.0% 4.2% 0.5x
65   Brown-headed Cowbird
5.8% 4.8% 1.0% 0.8x
66   Common Grackle
5.8% 4.8% 1.0% 0.8x
67   Eastern Meadowlark
3.9% 4.4% 0.5% 1.1x
68   Lesser Scaup
3.7% 4.2% 0.5% 1.1x
69   Horned Grebe
5.5% 4.1% 1.4% 0.7x
70   Savannah Sparrow
4.8% 4.1% 0.7% 0.9x
71   Purple Finch
5.4% 4.1% 1.3% 0.8x
72   Cooper's Hawk
4.8% 3.9% 0.8% 0.8x
73   Northern Shoveler
4.5% 3.9% 0.5% 0.9x
74   Green-winged Teal
3.2% 3.7% 0.5% 1.2x
75   Fish Crow
1.3% 3.2% 1.9% 2.5x
76   Wood Duck
3.9% 3.2% 0.7% 0.8x
77   Barred Owl
3.0% 3.2% 0.1% 1.0x
78   Rusty Blackbird
3.3% 2.9% 0.5% 0.9x
79   Red-breasted Nuthatch
4.1% 2.9% 1.3% 0.7x
80   American Coot
3.1% 2.8% 0.3% 0.9x
81   American Pipit
3.2% 2.3% 0.9% 0.7x
82   Wilson's Snipe
1.9% 2.0% 0.2% 1.1x
83   Greater Scaup
1.0% 1.9% 1.0% 2.0x
84   Sharp-shinned Hawk
2.6% 1.9% 0.7% 0.7x
85   American Black Duck
1.9% 1.9% 0.0% 1.0x
86   Palm Warbler
2.5% 1.7% 0.8% 0.7x
87   Common Loon
3.1% 1.7% 1.4% 0.5x
88   Horned Lark
1.6% 1.7% 0.1% 1.1x
89   House Sparrow
1.3% 1.6% 0.3% 1.2x
90   White-crowned Sparrow
0.9% 1.5% 0.6% 1.7x
91   gull sp.
1.8% 1.5% 0.4% 0.8x
92   Great Egret
1.2% 1.4% 0.2% 1.1x
93   American Woodcock
1.0% 1.4% 0.4% 1.3x
94   House Wren
2.9% 1.3% 1.6% 0.5x
95   Great Horned Owl
1.3% 1.3% 0.0% 1.0x
96   Canvasback
1.4% 1.3% 0.1% 0.9x
97   American Wigeon
1.2% 1.3% 0.0% 1.0x
98   Red Crossbill
0.9% 1.2% 0.3% 1.4x
99   Nashville Warbler
0% 1.2% 1.2%
100   Common Goldeneye
0.1% 1.1% 1.0% 8.3x
101   duck sp.
1.2% 1.1% 0.0% 1.0x
102   Orange-crowned Warbler
1.0% 1.1% 0.1% 1.1x
103   Redhead
1.1% 1.1% 0.0% 1.0x
104   Mute Swan
0.8% 1.1% 0.2% 1.3x
105   Greater/Lesser Scaup
0.7% 1.1% 0.4% 1.6x
106   Red-breasted Merganser
1.4% 1.0% 0.4% 0.7x
107   Black-and-white Warbler
1.0% 1.0% 0.0% 1.0x
108   new world sparrow sp.
1.0% 1.0% 0.0% 1.0x
109   Lesser Black-backed Gull
0.7% 0.9% 0.2% 1.3x
110   Muscovy Duck
0.8% 0.9% 0.1% 1.1x
111   Gray Catbird
1.8% 0.9% 0.9% 0.5x
112   Blue-headed Vireo
1.1% 0.8% 0.3% 0.8x
113   Vesper Sparrow
0.6% 0.8% 0.2% 1.3x
114   Common Merganser
0.3% 0.8% 0.5% 2.8x
115   Northern Pintail
1.0% 0.6% 0.3% 0.6x
116   Loggerhead Shrike
0.8% 0.6% 0.2% 0.8x
117   Northern Harrier
1.1% 0.6% 0.5% 0.6x
118   Common Raven
0.8% 0.6% 0.2% 0.7x
119   Varied Thrush
2.1% 0.6% 1.5% 0.3x
120   Graylag Goose
0.8% 0.6% 0.3% 0.7x
121   Evening Grosbeak
0.4% 0.5% 0.2% 1.4x
122   hawk sp.
0.5% 0.5% 0.0% 1.1x
123   Peregrine Falcon
0.9% 0.5% 0.4% 0.6x
124   Common Yellowthroat
0.5% 0.5% 0.0% 0.9x
125   Eared Grebe
0.0% 0.5% 0.4% 20.2x
126   Greater White-fronted Goose
0.7% 0.4% 0.2% 0.7x
127   blackbird sp.
0.6% 0.4% 0.1% 0.8x
128   Merlin
0.5% 0.4% 0.2% 0.7x
129   Ross's Goose
0.0% 0.4% 0.4% 16.5x
130   Downy/Hairy Woodpecker
0.4% 0.4% 0.0% 0.9x
131   Wild Turkey
0.4% 0.4% 0.0% 1.0x
132   crow sp.
0.3% 0.3% 0.0% 1.0x
133   American Bittern
0.5% 0.3% 0.2% 0.6x
134   Virginia Rail
0.2% 0.3% 0.1% 1.3x
135   White-winged Scoter
0.0% 0.3% 0.2% 6.2x
136   Accipiter sp.
0.3% 0.3% 0.0% 0.9x
137   Great Black-backed Gull
0.2% 0.3% 0.1% 1.4x
138   Long-tailed Duck
0.1% 0.3% 0.2% 3.1x
139   Baltimore Oriole
0.2% 0.3% 0.0% 1.1x
140   Eastern Screech-Owl
0.3% 0.2% 0.1% 0.8x
141   Prairie Warbler
0.1% 0.2% 0.1% 1.7x
142   Green Heron
0.2% 0.2% 0.0% 1.3x
143   Ruby-crowned/Golden-crowned Kinglet
0.1% 0.2% 0.1% 1.5x
144   Snow Goose
0.2% 0.2% 0.0% 0.9x
145   American White Pelican
0% 0.2% 0.2%
146   Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
0.4% 0.1% 0.2% 0.4x
147   woodpecker sp.
0.1% 0.1% 0.0% 1.1x
148   Red-necked Grebe
0.4% 0.1% 0.3% 0.3x
149   Surf Scoter
0.1% 0.1% 0.0% 1.0x
150   Lincoln's Sparrow
0.2% 0.1% 0.1% 0.6x
151   Domestic goose sp. (Domestic type)
0.1% 0.1% 0.0% 1.1x
152   Buteo sp.
0.3% 0.1% 0.2% 0.4x
153   Sharp-shinned/Cooper's Hawk
0.2% 0.1% 0.1% 0.4x
154   House/Purple Finch
0.1% 0.1% 0.0% 1.0x
155   Iceland Gull
0.0% 0.1% 0.1% 6.6x
156   Least Sandpiper
0.5% 0.1% 0.4% 0.2x
157   Blue-winged Teal
0.1% 0.1% 0.0% 0.7x
158   King Rail
0% 0.1% 0.1%
159   Mallard x American Black Duck (hybrid)
0.1% 0.1% 0.0% 0.8x
160   new world vulture sp.
0.1% 0.1% 0.1% 0.5x
161   passerine sp.
0.2% 0.1% 0.2% 0.3x
162   American/Fish Crow
0.0% 0.1% 0.0% 2.0x
163   Tree Swallow
0.1% 0.1% 0.0% 1.0x
164   Black-crowned Night-Heron
0.0% 0.1% 0.0% 5.1x
165   Tundra Swan
0.2% 0.1% 0.1% 0.3x
166   Red-throated Loon
0.2% 0.1% 0.2% 0.2x
167   Northern Bobwhite
0.0% 0.1% 0.0% 2.2x
168   Pacific-slope/Cordilleran Flycatcher (Western Flycatcher)
0% 0.1% 0.1%
169   Spotted Sandpiper
0.1% 0.0% 0.1% 0.3x
170   warbler sp. (Parulidae sp.)
0.1% 0.0% 0.1% 0.3x
171   Dunlin
0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.5x
172   Yellow-breasted Chat
0.1% 0.0% 0.1% 0.2x
173   Greater Yellowlegs
0.2% 0.0% 0.2% 0.1x
174   Osprey
0.2% 0.0% 0.1% 0.1x
175   Marsh Wren
0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.7x
176   peep sp.
0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.4x
177   Anhinga
0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.5x
178   Rufous Hummingbird
0% 0.0% 0.0%
179   Glaucous Gull
0% 0.0% 0.0%
180   Sandhill Crane
0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 1.5x
181   Red Phalarope
0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.7x
182   Aythya sp.
0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.7x
183   Swan Goose
0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 1.5x
184   Graylag x Canada Goose (hybrid)
0% 0.0% 0.0%
185   merganser sp.
0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.7x
186   Black-headed Gull
0% 0.0% 0.0%
187   California Gull
0% 0.0% 0.0%
188   Wood Thrush
0% 0.0% 0.0%
189   Laughing Gull
0.2% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0x
190   Dickcissel
0.1% 0.0% 0.1% 0.1x
191   Brown Pelican
0% 0.0% 0.0%
192   Common Redpoll
0% 0.0% 0.0%
193   Lesser Yellowlegs
0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2x
194   Northern Parula
0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.4x
195   Veery
0% 0.0% 0.0%
196   Forster's Tern
0.1% 0.0% 0.1% 0.1x
197   Western Kingbird
0% 0.0% 0.0%
198   Ash-throated Flycatcher
0% 0.0% 0.0%
199   Eurasian Collared-Dove
0% 0.0% 0.0%
200   Great Cormorant
0% 0.0% 0.0%
201   Blue Grosbeak
0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.7x
202   shorebird sp.
0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.7x
203   nuthatch sp.
0% 0.0% 0.0%
204   goose sp.
0% 0.0% 0.0%