Top Birds in October
within 25 miles of Cary, NC, USA
based on 10394 checklists in 385 hotspots
This page shows the probability of a species appearing on a checklist during the month of October. 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 October 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 | September | October | Change | Relative | |
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1 | Carolina Wren |
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76.9% | 75.3% | 1.7% | 1.0x | |||
2 | Northern Cardinal |
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73.4% | 72.2% | 1.2% | 1.0x | |||
3 | Carolina Chickadee |
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71.2% | 71.0% | 0.2% | 1.0x | |||
4 | Blue Jay |
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60.4% | 70.7% | 10.3% | 1.2x | |||
5 | Red-bellied Woodpecker |
|
55.9% | 68.9% | 13.0% | 1.2x | |||
6 | American Crow |
|
64.8% | 68.3% | 3.5% | 1.1x | |||
7 | Tufted Titmouse |
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65.4% | 65.3% | 0.0% | 1.0x | |||
8 | Downy Woodpecker |
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56.2% | 57.5% | 1.4% | 1.0x | |||
9 | Northern Flicker |
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22.5% | 54.9% | 32.3% | 2.4x | |||
10 | Eastern Phoebe |
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37.1% | 53.9% | 16.8% | 1.5x | |||
11 | Eastern Bluebird |
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42.2% | 53.7% | 11.5% | 1.3x | |||
12 | Turkey Vulture |
|
39.5% | 43.7% | 4.2% | 1.1x | |||
13 | Great Blue Heron |
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44.7% | 42.9% | 1.8% | 1.0x | |||
14 | Northern Mockingbird |
|
31.1% | 42.8% | 11.7% | 1.4x | |||
15 | Eastern Towhee |
|
26.3% | 37.6% | 11.3% | 1.4x | |||
16 | Brown-headed Nuthatch |
|
36.0% | 37.0% | 1.0% | 1.0x | |||
17 | American Robin |
|
29.3% | 35.8% | 6.4% | 1.2x | |||
18 | White-breasted Nuthatch |
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36.4% | 35.5% | 0.9% | 1.0x | |||
19 | Red-shouldered Hawk |
|
36.6% | 35.4% | 1.3% | 1.0x | |||
20 | Pine Warbler |
|
40.5% | 35.2% | 5.3% | 0.9x | |||
21 | Song Sparrow |
|
9.2% | 34.8% | 25.6% | 3.8x | |||
22 | American Goldfinch |
|
47.2% | 33.5% | 13.8% | 0.7x | |||
23 | Yellow-rumped Warbler |
|
0.7% | 32.8% | 32.1% | 49.1x | |||
24 | Ruby-crowned Kinglet |
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2.3% | 32.6% | 30.4% | 14.3x | |||
25 | Brown Thrasher |
|
30.5% | 32.4% | 1.9% | 1.1x | |||
26 | Belted Kingfisher |
|
28.1% | 29.8% | 1.7% | 1.1x | |||
27 | House Finch |
|
19.5% | 29.1% | 9.6% | 1.5x | |||
28 | Gray Catbird |
|
42.8% | 28.5% | 14.2% | 0.7x | |||
29 | Mourning Dove |
|
38.3% | 28.3% | 10.0% | 0.7x | |||
30 | Canada Goose |
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24.8% | 25.9% | 1.1% | 1.0x | |||
31 | White-throated Sparrow |
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0.0% | 23.9% | 23.9% | 872.4x | |||
32 | Killdeer |
|
23.9% | 23.4% | 0.5% | 1.0x | |||
33 | Chipping Sparrow |
|
14.3% | 22.7% | 8.4% | 1.6x | |||
34 | Mallard |
|
20.1% | 22.3% | 2.2% | 1.1x | |||
35 | Pileated Woodpecker |
|
24.5% | 22.1% | 2.4% | 0.9x | |||
36 | Black Vulture |
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21.2% | 21.7% | 0.5% | 1.0x | |||
37 | Northern Parula |
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25.0% | 21.5% | 3.5% | 0.9x | |||
38 | Double-crested Cormorant |
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15.4% | 20.3% | 4.9% | 1.3x | |||
39 | Yellow-bellied Sapsucker |
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0.3% | 18.6% | 18.3% | 59.8x | |||
40 | Common Yellowthroat |
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29.8% | 18.3% | 11.6% | 0.6x | |||
41 | Fish Crow |
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21.9% | 17.6% | 4.3% | 0.8x | |||
42 | Palm Warbler |
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4.9% | 17.1% | 12.2% | 3.5x | |||
43 | American Redstart |
|
30.9% | 16.1% | 14.8% | 0.5x | |||
44 | Great Egret |
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29.3% | 15.7% | 13.6% | 0.5x | |||
45 | Bald Eagle |
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12.2% | 15.2% | 2.9% | 1.2x | |||
46 | Hairy Woodpecker |
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14.2% | 15.1% | 0.9% | 1.1x | |||
47 | Golden-crowned Kinglet |
|
0% | 15.0% | 15.0% | ∞ | |||
48 | Common Grackle |
|
5.4% | 14.1% | 8.7% | 2.6x | |||
49 | European Starling |
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10.9% | 13.7% | 2.8% | 1.3x | |||
50 | Eastern Wood-Pewee |
|
27.8% | 13.6% | 14.2% | 0.5x | |||
51 | Red-headed Woodpecker |
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14.8% | 13.5% | 1.2% | 0.9x | |||
52 | Black-throated Blue Warbler |
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5.3% | 13.2% | 7.8% | 2.5x | |||
53 | Cape May Warbler |
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9.9% | 12.9% | 3.1% | 1.3x | |||
54 | Black-and-white Warbler |
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24.2% | 12.7% | 11.5% | 0.5x | |||
55 | Red-tailed Hawk |
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9.4% | 12.4% | 3.0% | 1.3x | |||
56 | Chimney Swift |
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24.5% | 12.3% | 12.2% | 0.5x | |||
57 | Magnolia Warbler |
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17.5% | 12.1% | 5.4% | 0.7x | |||
58 | Swamp Sparrow |
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0.1% | 9.9% | 9.8% | 154.4x | |||
59 | Brown-headed Cowbird |
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4.4% | 8.9% | 4.5% | 2.0x | |||
60 | Indigo Bunting |
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17.4% | 8.3% | 9.1% | 0.5x | |||
61 | Yellow-billed Cuckoo |
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15.4% | 8.1% | 7.3% | 0.5x | |||
62 | House Wren |
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8.5% | 8.1% | 0.4% | 0.9x | |||
63 | Red-winged Blackbird |
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1.7% | 7.9% | 6.2% | 4.7x | |||
64 | Cooper's Hawk |
|
5.2% | 7.7% | 2.5% | 1.5x | |||
65 | Red-eyed Vireo |
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28.6% | 7.5% | 21.1% | 0.3x | |||
66 | Pied-billed Grebe |
|
1.4% | 7.4% | 6.0% | 5.4x | |||
67 | Osprey |
|
12.9% | 7.4% | 5.5% | 0.6x | |||
68 | Cedar Waxwing |
|
7.1% | 6.7% | 0.4% | 0.9x | |||
69 | Scarlet Tanager |
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9.5% | 6.5% | 3.0% | 0.7x | |||
70 | Blackpoll Warbler |
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0.6% | 6.1% | 5.4% | 9.6x | |||
71 | Wood Duck |
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8.5% | 5.9% | 2.6% | 0.7x | |||
72 | Swainson's Thrush |
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5.0% | 5.9% | 0.8% | 1.2x | |||
73 | Rose-breasted Grosbeak |
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6.8% | 5.6% | 1.2% | 0.8x | |||
74 | Rock Pigeon |
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4.5% | 5.5% | 1.0% | 1.2x | |||
75 | American Kestrel |
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3.7% | 5.5% | 1.8% | 1.5x | |||
76 | Red-breasted Nuthatch |
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1.4% | 5.4% | 4.0% | 3.9x | |||
77 | White-eyed Vireo |
|
33.5% | 5.4% | 28.2% | 0.2x | |||
78 | Black-throated Green Warbler |
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2.3% | 5.3% | 3.0% | 2.3x | |||
79 | Winter Wren |
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0.1% | 5.1% | 5.0% | 50.4x | |||
80 | Field Sparrow |
|
1.6% | 5.0% | 3.4% | 3.1x | |||
81 | Eastern Meadowlark |
|
1.0% | 4.4% | 3.4% | 4.4x | |||
82 | Ring-billed Gull |
|
0.4% | 4.1% | 3.7% | 9.9x | |||
83 | Barred Owl |
|
5.7% | 4.1% | 1.6% | 0.7x | |||
84 | Hermit Thrush |
|
0.0% | 3.9% | 3.9% | 423.0x | |||
85 | Blue-headed Vireo |
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0.9% | 3.5% | 2.7% | 4.2x | |||
86 | Sharp-shinned Hawk |
|
0.7% | 3.4% | 2.7% | 4.9x | |||
87 | Ruddy Duck |
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0.1% | 3.4% | 3.3% | 61.7x | |||
88 | Tennessee Warbler |
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2.9% | 3.4% | 0.5% | 1.2x | |||
89 | Wood Thrush |
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3.4% | 3.2% | 0.1% | 1.0x | |||
90 | Chestnut-sided Warbler |
|
9.5% | 3.1% | 6.5% | 0.3x | |||
91 | Ruby-throated Hummingbird |
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32.7% | 3.0% | 29.6% | 0.1x | |||
92 | Blackburnian Warbler |
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2.2% | 2.8% | 0.6% | 1.3x | |||
93 | Savannah Sparrow |
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0.0% | 2.8% | 2.7% | 60.4x | |||
94 | Bay-breasted Warbler |
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0.9% | 2.6% | 1.7% | 3.0x | |||
95 | Pine Siskin |
|
0.0% | 2.5% | 2.5% | 137.9x | |||
96 | Blue-gray Gnatcatcher |
|
26.4% | 2.5% | 23.9% | 0.1x | |||
97 | Gray-cheeked Thrush |
|
0.6% | 2.4% | 1.8% | 3.8x | |||
98 | Summer Tanager |
|
22.3% | 2.4% | 19.9% | 0.1x | |||
99 | Dark-eyed Junco |
|
0% | 2.3% | 2.3% | ∞ | |||
100 | Blue Grosbeak |
|
11.4% | 2.2% | 9.2% | 0.2x | |||
101 | Brown Creeper |
|
0.0% | 2.0% | 2.0% | 107.9x | |||
102 | Least Sandpiper |
|
6.2% | 1.9% | 4.3% | 0.3x | |||
103 | Greater Yellowlegs |
|
2.3% | 1.8% | 0.5% | 0.8x | |||
104 | Muscovy Duck |
|
1.1% | 1.8% | 0.7% | 1.6x | |||
105 | Ovenbird |
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3.4% | 1.8% | 1.7% | 0.5x | |||
106 | American Coot |
|
0.0% | 1.7% | 1.6% | 37.0x | |||
107 | Spotted Sandpiper |
|
5.7% | 1.7% | 4.0% | 0.3x | |||
108 | Blue-winged Teal |
|
2.6% | 1.6% | 1.0% | 0.6x | |||
109 | Tree Swallow |
|
0.5% | 1.5% | 1.0% | 2.9x | |||
110 | warbler sp. (Parulidae sp.) |
|
1.6% | 1.5% | 0.2% | 0.9x | |||
111 | Northern Shoveler |
|
0.7% | 1.3% | 0.7% | 1.9x | |||
112 | Pectoral Sandpiper |
|
4.7% | 1.3% | 3.4% | 0.3x | |||
113 | American Pipit |
|
0.0% | 1.3% | 1.3% | 48.1x | |||
114 | Graylag Goose |
|
1.2% | 1.3% | 0.1% | 1.1x | |||
115 | Northern Harrier |
|
0.5% | 1.3% | 0.8% | 2.7x | |||
116 | Solitary Sandpiper |
|
5.1% | 1.2% | 3.8% | 0.2x | |||
117 | Lesser Yellowlegs |
|
4.5% | 1.2% | 3.3% | 0.3x | |||
118 | Hooded Warbler |
|
7.0% | 1.1% | 5.9% | 0.2x | |||
119 | Horned Lark |
|
0.2% | 1.1% | 0.9% | 5.0x | |||
120 | House Sparrow |
|
0.8% | 1.1% | 0.3% | 1.4x | |||
121 | Yellow-throated Vireo |
|
7.6% | 1.1% | 6.5% | 0.1x | |||
122 | Merlin |
|
0.5% | 1.1% | 0.5% | 2.0x | |||
123 | Green-winged Teal |
|
0.2% | 1.0% | 0.8% | 5.0x | |||
124 | Green Heron |
|
10.7% | 1.0% | 9.7% | 0.1x | |||
125 | Yellow Warbler |
|
3.7% | 1.0% | 2.7% | 0.3x | |||
126 | Northern Waterthrush |
|
3.6% | 1.0% | 2.6% | 0.3x | |||
127 | crow sp. |
|
1.1% | 1.0% | 0.1% | 0.9x | |||
128 | Veery |
|
4.1% | 0.9% | 3.1% | 0.2x | |||
129 | Wilson's Snipe |
|
0.4% | 0.9% | 0.5% | 2.1x | |||
130 | Bonaparte's Gull |
|
0.0% | 0.9% | 0.9% | 98.9x | |||
131 | Yellow-throated Warbler |
|
4.8% | 0.9% | 3.8% | 0.2x | |||
132 | Ring-necked Duck |
|
0.0% | 0.9% | 0.8% | 31.9x | |||
133 | Purple Finch |
|
0% | 0.9% | 0.9% | ∞ | |||
134 | Peregrine Falcon |
|
0.4% | 0.8% | 0.4% | 1.9x | |||
135 | Great Horned Owl |
|
0.8% | 0.8% | 0.1% | 0.9x | |||
136 | duck sp. |
|
0.5% | 0.8% | 0.2% | 1.4x | |||
137 | Herring Gull |
|
0.1% | 0.8% | 0.6% | 6.8x | |||
138 | Nashville Warbler |
|
1.1% | 0.8% | 0.4% | 0.7x | |||
139 | Northern Rough-winged Swallow |
|
0.3% | 0.8% | 0.4% | 2.5x | |||
140 | Common Loon |
|
0% | 0.7% | 0.7% | ∞ | |||
141 | Laughing Gull |
|
0.4% | 0.7% | 0.3% | 1.8x | |||
142 | Orange-crowned Warbler |
|
0.0% | 0.7% | 0.6% | 15.2x | |||
143 | Caspian Tern |
|
1.8% | 0.7% | 1.1% | 0.4x | |||
144 | Gadwall |
|
0.0% | 0.7% | 0.6% | 18.2x | |||
145 | Prairie Warbler |
|
4.5% | 0.7% | 3.8% | 0.1x | |||
146 | hawk sp. |
|
0.8% | 0.7% | 0.2% | 0.8x | |||
147 | White-crowned Sparrow |
|
0.0% | 0.6% | 0.6% | 70.5x | |||
148 | Acadian Flycatcher |
|
6.8% | 0.6% | 6.2% | 0.1x | |||
149 | Philadelphia Vireo |
|
1.2% | 0.6% | 0.6% | 0.5x | |||
150 | new world sparrow sp. |
|
0.3% | 0.6% | 0.3% | 2.2x | |||
151 | Common Raven |
|
0.5% | 0.6% | 0.1% | 1.1x | |||
152 | Horned Grebe |
|
0% | 0.6% | 0.6% | ∞ | |||
153 | Forster's Tern |
|
1.2% | 0.6% | 0.6% | 0.5x | |||
154 | Rusty Blackbird |
|
0% | 0.6% | 0.6% | ∞ | |||
155 | Empidonax sp. |
|
2.8% | 0.5% | 2.2% | 0.2x | |||
156 | Franklin's Gull |
|
0% | 0.5% | 0.5% | ∞ | |||
157 | Marsh Wren |
|
0.5% | 0.5% | 0.1% | 1.2x | |||
158 | Loggerhead Shrike |
|
0.2% | 0.5% | 0.3% | 2.5x | |||
159 | Catharus sp. |
|
0.5% | 0.5% | 0.0% | 1.0x | |||
160 | Vesper Sparrow |
|
0% | 0.5% | 0.5% | ∞ | |||
161 | Baltimore Oriole |
|
2.8% | 0.5% | 2.3% | 0.2x | |||
162 | Accipiter sp. |
|
0.2% | 0.5% | 0.3% | 2.2x | |||
163 | Lincoln's Sparrow |
|
0.0% | 0.5% | 0.4% | 24.7x | |||
164 | gull sp. |
|
0.1% | 0.5% | 0.4% | 5.5x | |||
165 | Mute Swan |
|
0.4% | 0.4% | 0.1% | 1.2x | |||
166 | Wild Turkey |
|
1.1% | 0.4% | 0.6% | 0.4x | |||
167 | Downy/Hairy Woodpecker |
|
0.4% | 0.4% | 0.1% | 1.2x | |||
168 | Connecticut Warbler |
|
0.1% | 0.4% | 0.3% | 2.9x | |||
169 | Semipalmated Sandpiper |
|
3.0% | 0.4% | 2.6% | 0.1x | |||
170 | blackbird sp. |
|
0.0% | 0.4% | 0.3% | 8.0x | |||
171 | American Golden-Plover |
|
0.4% | 0.4% | 0.1% | 0.8x | |||
172 | American Wigeon |
|
0.0% | 0.3% | 0.3% | 18.9x | |||
173 | Worm-eating Warbler |
|
3.3% | 0.3% | 3.0% | 0.1x | |||
174 | passerine sp. |
|
0.5% | 0.3% | 0.1% | 0.7x | |||
175 | Barn Swallow |
|
1.7% | 0.3% | 1.4% | 0.2x | |||
176 | Black-bellied Plover |
|
0.3% | 0.3% | 0.0% | 1.1x | |||
177 | American Black Duck |
|
0.1% | 0.3% | 0.2% | 2.2x | |||
178 | Wilson's Warbler |
|
0.4% | 0.3% | 0.2% | 0.6x | |||
179 | peep sp. |
|
1.6% | 0.3% | 1.4% | 0.2x | |||
180 | Dunlin |
|
0.0% | 0.3% | 0.3% | 15.3x | |||
181 | Northern Pintail |
|
0.0% | 0.3% | 0.3% | 29.5x | |||
182 | Lesser Scaup |
|
0% | 0.3% | 0.3% | ∞ | |||
183 | American Bittern |
|
0.0% | 0.3% | 0.3% | 14.7x | |||
184 | Black-billed Cuckoo |
|
0.3% | 0.3% | 0.0% | 0.9x | |||
185 | Virginia Rail |
|
0.1% | 0.3% | 0.2% | 4.7x | |||
186 | swallow sp. |
|
0.3% | 0.3% | 0.1% | 0.8x | |||
187 | Sharp-shinned/Cooper's Hawk |
|
0.1% | 0.3% | 0.1% | 1.8x | |||
188 | Hooded Merganser |
|
0.1% | 0.2% | 0.2% | 4.4x | |||
189 | Bobolink |
|
1.7% | 0.2% | 1.5% | 0.1x | |||
190 | Semipalmated Plover |
|
3.2% | 0.2% | 3.0% | 0.1x | |||
191 | Common Tern |
|
0.7% | 0.2% | 0.5% | 0.3x | |||
192 | Eastern Screech-Owl |
|
0.5% | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.5x | |||
193 | Broad-winged Hawk |
|
1.0% | 0.2% | 0.8% | 0.2x | |||
194 | Buteo sp. |
|
0.2% | 0.2% | 0.0% | 0.9x | |||
195 | Red-necked Grebe |
|
0% | 0.2% | 0.2% | ∞ | |||
196 | Least Flycatcher |
|
0.7% | 0.2% | 0.6% | 0.3x | |||
197 | Clay-colored Sparrow |
|
0% | 0.2% | 0.2% | ∞ | |||
198 | Cattle Egret |
|
0.0% | 0.2% | 0.2% | 21.0x | |||
199 | Anhinga |
|
0.2% | 0.2% | 0.1% | 0.8x | |||
200 | American Avocet |
|
0.8% | 0.2% | 0.6% | 0.2x | |||
201 | White-rumped Sandpiper |
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0.4% | 0.2% | 0.3% | 0.4x | |||
202 | Dickcissel |
|
0.0% | 0.2% | 0.1% | 3.6x | |||
203 | new world vulture sp. |
|
0.2% | 0.2% | 0.0% | 0.8x | |||
204 | Glossy Ibis |
|
0.1% | 0.2% | 0.1% | 2.4x | |||
205 | Yellow-breasted Chat |
|
1.7% | 0.1% | 1.6% | 0.1x | |||
206 | Surf Scoter |
|
0% | 0.1% | 0.1% | ∞ | |||
207 | Sanderling |
|
1.0% | 0.1% | 0.8% | 0.2x | |||
208 | Blue-winged Warbler |
|
4.4% | 0.1% | 4.3% | 0.0x | |||
209 | Great Crested Flycatcher |
|
10.6% | 0.1% | 10.5% | 0.0x | |||
210 | Sora |
|
0.2% | 0.1% | 0.0% | 0.7x | |||
211 | Wood Stork |
|
1.3% | 0.1% | 1.2% | 0.1x | |||
212 | Tricolored Heron |
|
1.3% | 0.1% | 1.2% | 0.1x | |||
213 | Stilt Sandpiper |
|
1.9% | 0.1% | 1.8% | 0.1x | |||
214 | American White Pelican |
|
0% | 0.1% | 0.1% | ∞ | |||
215 | woodpecker sp. |
|
0.1% | 0.1% | 0.0% | 1.0x | |||
216 | Domestic goose sp. (Domestic type) |
|
0.1% | 0.1% | 0.0% | 1.2x | |||
217 | Black-crowned Night-Heron |
|
0.3% | 0.1% | 0.2% | 0.4x | |||
218 | Golden-winged Warbler |
|
0.7% | 0.1% | 0.6% | 0.1x | |||
219 | Summer/Scarlet Tanager |
|
0.1% | 0.1% | 0.0% | 1.0x | |||
220 | Common Nighthawk |
|
1.0% | 0.1% | 0.9% | 0.1x | |||
221 | Wilson's Storm-Petrel |
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0.0% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 4.7x | |||
222 | shorebird sp. |
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0.2% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.5x | |||
223 | Red-cockaded Woodpecker |
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0.0% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 9.5x | |||
224 | Greater/Lesser Yellowlegs |
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0.2% | 0.1% | 0.2% | 0.4x | |||
225 | Ruddy Turnstone |
|
0.2% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.4x | |||
226 | Lark Sparrow |
|