Top Birds in December
within 25 miles of Cary, NC, USA
based on 8748 checklists in 385 hotspots
This page shows the probability of a species appearing on a checklist during the month of December. 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 December 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 | November | December | Change | Relative | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Carolina Wren |
|
66.4% | 67.8% | 1.4% | 1.0x | |||
| 2 | Carolina Chickadee |
|
60.2% | 64.4% | 4.1% | 1.1x | |||
| 3 | Northern Cardinal |
|
59.2% | 62.8% | 3.7% | 1.1x | |||
| 4 | White-throated Sparrow |
|
59.6% | 61.5% | 1.9% | 1.0x | |||
| 5 | Tufted Titmouse |
|
51.2% | 58.3% | 7.1% | 1.1x | |||
| 6 | American Crow |
|
60.8% | 58.1% | 2.7% | 1.0x | |||
| 7 | Red-bellied Woodpecker |
|
56.8% | 57.9% | 1.2% | 1.0x | |||
| 8 | Song Sparrow |
|
57.3% | 53.8% | 3.5% | 0.9x | |||
| 9 | Ruby-crowned Kinglet |
|
48.4% | 49.7% | 1.2% | 1.0x | |||
| 10 | Eastern Bluebird |
|
53.2% | 49.2% | 3.9% | 0.9x | |||
| 11 | Downy Woodpecker |
|
42.5% | 48.8% | 6.3% | 1.1x | |||
| 12 | Blue Jay |
|
48.0% | 46.7% | 1.4% | 1.0x | |||
| 13 | Great Blue Heron |
|
43.6% | 42.6% | 1.0% | 1.0x | |||
| 14 | American Goldfinch |
|
41.2% | 40.8% | 0.4% | 1.0x | |||
| 15 | Eastern Towhee |
|
35.1% | 39.1% | 4.0% | 1.1x | |||
| 16 | Northern Flicker |
|
39.9% | 38.3% | 1.6% | 1.0x | |||
| 17 | Dark-eyed Junco |
|
27.3% | 36.4% | 9.1% | 1.3x | |||
| 18 | Yellow-rumped Warbler |
|
38.0% | 36.3% | 1.6% | 1.0x | |||
| 19 | Turkey Vulture |
|
41.5% | 36.3% | 5.1% | 0.9x | |||
| 20 | American Robin |
|
39.6% | 36.1% | 3.5% | 0.9x | |||
| 21 | White-breasted Nuthatch |
|
27.8% | 34.5% | 6.7% | 1.2x | |||
| 22 | Brown-headed Nuthatch |
|
30.0% | 34.2% | 4.2% | 1.1x | |||
| 23 | Northern Mockingbird |
|
35.4% | 32.6% | 2.8% | 0.9x | |||
| 24 | Golden-crowned Kinglet |
|
29.3% | 32.4% | 3.1% | 1.1x | |||
| 25 | Canada Goose |
|
29.9% | 31.9% | 2.0% | 1.1x | |||
| 26 | Yellow-bellied Sapsucker |
|
22.2% | 31.0% | 8.8% | 1.4x | |||
| 27 | Mallard |
|
27.6% | 30.5% | 2.9% | 1.1x | |||
| 28 | Ring-billed Gull |
|
20.0% | 29.0% | 9.1% | 1.5x | |||
| 29 | Double-crested Cormorant |
|
28.9% | 29.0% | 0.1% | 1.0x | |||
| 30 | Eastern Phoebe |
|
35.5% | 28.6% | 6.9% | 0.8x | |||
| 31 | Red-shouldered Hawk |
|
26.2% | 28.2% | 2.1% | 1.1x | |||
| 32 | Mourning Dove |
|
23.5% | 24.3% | 0.8% | 1.0x | |||
| 33 | Belted Kingfisher |
|
26.0% | 24.1% | 1.9% | 0.9x | |||
| 34 | House Finch |
|
23.8% | 23.9% | 0.1% | 1.0x | |||
| 35 | Hermit Thrush |
|
20.0% | 22.3% | 2.3% | 1.1x | |||
| 36 | Chipping Sparrow |
|
26.6% | 20.6% | 6.0% | 0.8x | |||
| 37 | Pied-billed Grebe |
|
20.7% | 20.2% | 0.6% | 1.0x | |||
| 38 | Hooded Merganser |
|
10.9% | 19.5% | 8.6% | 1.8x | |||
| 39 | Brown Thrasher |
|
16.1% | 19.4% | 3.4% | 1.2x | |||
| 40 | Pine Warbler |
|
14.5% | 18.2% | 3.7% | 1.3x | |||
| 41 | Field Sparrow |
|
17.0% | 17.9% | 0.9% | 1.1x | |||
| 42 | Black Vulture |
|
19.8% | 17.6% | 2.2% | 0.9x | |||
| 43 | Killdeer |
|
23.4% | 17.3% | 6.1% | 0.7x | |||
| 44 | Swamp Sparrow |
|
18.1% | 17.0% | 1.1% | 0.9x | |||
| 45 | Red-tailed Hawk |
|
17.0% | 16.6% | 0.4% | 1.0x | |||
| 46 | Bald Eagle |
|
14.9% | 16.5% | 1.6% | 1.1x | |||
| 47 | European Starling |
|
17.1% | 16.0% | 1.2% | 0.9x | |||
| 48 | Pileated Woodpecker |
|
14.3% | 15.7% | 1.4% | 1.1x | |||
| 49 | Ruddy Duck |
|
14.2% | 15.4% | 1.2% | 1.1x | |||
| 50 | Winter Wren |
|
12.8% | 15.1% | 2.4% | 1.2x | |||
| 51 | Red-winged Blackbird |
|
22.5% | 14.7% | 7.8% | 0.7x | |||
| 52 | Bufflehead |
|
9.6% | 14.6% | 5.0% | 1.5x | |||
| 53 | Red-headed Woodpecker |
|
12.3% | 12.7% | 0.4% | 1.0x | |||
| 54 | Hairy Woodpecker |
|
9.7% | 12.0% | 2.3% | 1.2x | |||
| 55 | Cedar Waxwing |
|
11.2% | 11.8% | 0.7% | 1.1x | |||
| 56 | Bonaparte's Gull |
|
9.9% | 11.4% | 1.5% | 1.2x | |||
| 57 | Brown Creeper |
|
7.4% | 11.1% | 3.7% | 1.5x | |||
| 58 | Pine Siskin |
|
7.3% | 9.3% | 2.0% | 1.3x | |||
| 59 | Ring-necked Duck |
|
6.8% | 8.4% | 1.6% | 1.2x | |||
| 60 | Fox Sparrow |
|
2.7% | 6.9% | 4.3% | 2.6x | |||
| 61 | Rock Pigeon |
|
7.3% | 6.4% | 0.9% | 0.9x | |||
| 62 | American Kestrel |
|
7.0% | 6.3% | 0.7% | 0.9x | |||
| 63 | Brown-headed Cowbird |
|
10.5% | 5.8% | 4.7% | 0.6x | |||
| 64 | Common Grackle |
|
13.7% | 5.8% | 7.9% | 0.4x | |||
| 65 | Herring Gull |
|
4.3% | 5.6% | 1.3% | 1.3x | |||
| 66 | Horned Grebe |
|
5.8% | 5.5% | 0.3% | 0.9x | |||
| 67 | Purple Finch |
|
4.1% | 5.4% | 1.3% | 1.3x | |||
| 68 | Gadwall |
|
5.7% | 5.0% | 0.7% | 0.9x | |||
| 69 | Savannah Sparrow |
|
6.6% | 4.8% | 1.8% | 0.7x | |||
| 70 | Cooper's Hawk |
|
5.6% | 4.8% | 0.9% | 0.8x | |||
| 71 | Northern Shoveler |
|
4.0% | 4.5% | 0.5% | 1.1x | |||
| 72 | Red-breasted Nuthatch |
|
4.1% | 4.1% | 0.0% | 1.0x | |||
| 73 | Eastern Meadowlark |
|
6.5% | 3.9% | 2.6% | 0.6x | |||
| 74 | Wood Duck |
|
4.9% | 3.8% | 1.1% | 0.8x | |||
| 75 | Lesser Scaup |
|
2.4% | 3.7% | 1.3% | 1.6x | |||
| 76 | Rusty Blackbird |
|
3.9% | 3.3% | 0.6% | 0.9x | |||
| 77 | American Pipit |
|
5.4% | 3.2% | 2.2% | 0.6x | |||
| 78 | Green-winged Teal |
|
4.0% | 3.2% | 0.8% | 0.8x | |||
| 79 | American Coot |
|
6.2% | 3.1% | 3.0% | 0.5x | |||
| 80 | Common Loon |
|
4.5% | 3.1% | 1.4% | 0.7x | |||
| 81 | Barred Owl |
|
2.6% | 3.0% | 0.5% | 1.2x | |||
| 82 | House Wren |
|
3.8% | 2.9% | 0.9% | 0.8x | |||
| 83 | Sharp-shinned Hawk |
|
3.2% | 2.6% | 0.6% | 0.8x | |||
| 84 | Palm Warbler |
|
5.5% | 2.5% | 3.0% | 0.5x | |||
| 85 | Varied Thrush |
|
0% | 2.1% | 2.1% | ∞ | |||
| 86 | American Black Duck |
|
1.5% | 1.9% | 0.4% | 1.2x | |||
| 87 | Wilson's Snipe |
|
1.9% | 1.9% | 0.0% | 1.0x | |||
| 88 | gull sp. |
|
1.7% | 1.8% | 0.1% | 1.1x | |||
| 89 | Gray Catbird |
|
2.2% | 1.8% | 0.4% | 0.8x | |||
| 90 | Horned Lark |
|
2.5% | 1.6% | 0.9% | 0.6x | |||
| 91 | Red-breasted Merganser |
|
0.7% | 1.4% | 0.7% | 2.0x | |||
| 92 | Canvasback |
|
0.6% | 1.4% | 0.8% | 2.4x | |||
| 93 | Great Horned Owl |
|
0.8% | 1.3% | 0.6% | 1.8x | |||
| 94 | House Sparrow |
|
1.0% | 1.3% | 0.3% | 1.3x | |||
| 95 | Fish Crow |
|
3.7% | 1.3% | 2.4% | 0.3x | |||
| 96 | American Wigeon |
|
2.1% | 1.2% | 0.9% | 0.6x | |||
| 97 | Great Egret |
|
2.6% | 1.2% | 1.4% | 0.5x | |||
| 98 | duck sp. |
|
1.3% | 1.2% | 0.2% | 0.9x | |||
| 99 | Blue-headed Vireo |
|
2.4% | 1.1% | 1.3% | 0.5x | |||
| 100 | Redhead |
|
0.8% | 1.1% | 0.2% | 1.3x | |||
| 101 | Northern Harrier |
|
1.3% | 1.1% | 0.2% | 0.8x | |||
| 102 | Orange-crowned Warbler |
|
0.6% | 1.0% | 0.4% | 1.6x | |||
| 103 | new world sparrow sp. |
|
0.8% | 1.0% | 0.2% | 1.2x | |||
| 104 | Black-and-white Warbler |
|
0.6% | 1.0% | 0.4% | 1.6x | |||
| 105 | American Woodcock |
|
0.3% | 1.0% | 0.7% | 3.6x | |||
| 106 | Northern Pintail |
|
0.9% | 1.0% | 0.1% | 1.1x | |||
| 107 | Greater Scaup |
|
0.2% | 1.0% | 0.8% | 5.3x | |||
| 108 | Peregrine Falcon |
|
0.7% | 0.9% | 0.2% | 1.3x | |||
| 109 | Red Crossbill |
|
0.0% | 0.9% | 0.9% | 79.8x | |||
| 110 | White-crowned Sparrow |
|
1.1% | 0.9% | 0.3% | 0.8x | |||
| 111 | Muscovy Duck |
|
1.0% | 0.8% | 0.2% | 0.8x | |||
| 112 | Mute Swan |
|
0.6% | 0.8% | 0.2% | 1.3x | |||
| 113 | Graylag Goose |
|
1.0% | 0.8% | 0.1% | 0.9x | |||
| 114 | Common Raven |
|
0.8% | 0.8% | 0.0% | 1.0x | |||
| 115 | Loggerhead Shrike |
|
1.1% | 0.8% | 0.3% | 0.7x | |||
| 116 | Lesser Black-backed Gull |
|
0.2% | 0.7% | 0.5% | 3.4x | |||
| 117 | Greater White-fronted Goose |
|
0.1% | 0.7% | 0.6% | 9.8x | |||
| 118 | Greater/Lesser Scaup |
|
0.4% | 0.7% | 0.2% | 1.5x | |||
| 119 | Vesper Sparrow |
|
1.4% | 0.6% | 0.9% | 0.4x | |||
| 120 | blackbird sp. |
|
0.9% | 0.6% | 0.3% | 0.7x | |||
| 121 | American Bittern |
|
0.3% | 0.5% | 0.2% | 1.8x | |||
| 122 | Merlin |
|
0.7% | 0.5% | 0.1% | 0.8x | |||
| 123 | Common Yellowthroat |
|
0.6% | 0.5% | 0.1% | 0.8x | |||
| 124 | hawk sp. |
|
0.6% | 0.5% | 0.1% | 0.8x | |||
| 125 | Least Sandpiper |
|
1.1% | 0.5% | 0.6% | 0.5x | |||
| 126 | Red-necked Grebe |
|
0.3% | 0.4% | 0.2% | 1.7x | |||
| 127 | Downy/Hairy Woodpecker |
|
0.3% | 0.4% | 0.1% | 1.3x | |||
| 128 | Evening Grosbeak |
|
0.0% | 0.4% | 0.4% | 11.5x | |||
| 129 | Blue-gray Gnatcatcher |
|
0.6% | 0.4% | 0.2% | 0.6x | |||
| 130 | Wild Turkey |
|
0.2% | 0.4% | 0.1% | 1.6x | |||
| 131 | crow sp. |
|
0.6% | 0.3% | 0.2% | 0.6x | |||
| 132 | Eastern Screech-Owl |
|
0.1% | 0.3% | 0.2% | 2.3x | |||
| 133 | Accipiter sp. |
|
0.5% | 0.3% | 0.2% | 0.6x | |||
| 134 | Common Merganser |
|
0.2% | 0.3% | 0.1% | 1.4x | |||
| 135 | Buteo sp. |
|
0.1% | 0.3% | 0.1% | 1.7x | |||
| 136 | Brant |
|
0% | 0.2% | 0.2% | ∞ | |||
| 137 | Virginia Rail |
|
0.1% | 0.2% | 0.2% | 4.2x | |||
| 138 | Baltimore Oriole |
|
0.1% | 0.2% | 0.2% | 3.4x | |||
| 139 | passerine sp. |
|
0.2% | 0.2% | 0.0% | 1.1x | |||
| 140 | Red-throated Loon |
|
0.2% | 0.2% | 0.0% | 1.0x | |||
| 141 | Greater Yellowlegs |
|
1.3% | 0.2% | 1.1% | 0.2x | |||
| 142 | Lincoln's Sparrow |
|
0.5% | 0.2% | 0.3% | 0.4x | |||
| 143 | Tundra Swan |
|
0.3% | 0.2% | 0.1% | 0.6x | |||
| 144 | Great Black-backed Gull |
|
0% | 0.2% | 0.2% | ∞ | |||
| 145 | Sharp-shinned/Cooper's Hawk |
|
0.3% | 0.2% | 0.1% | 0.6x | |||
| 146 | Laughing Gull |
|
0.3% | 0.2% | 0.1% | 0.6x | |||
| 147 | Osprey |
|
0.8% | 0.2% | 0.7% | 0.2x | |||
| 148 | Snow Goose |
|
0.3% | 0.2% | 0.1% | 0.6x | |||
| 149 | Lapland Longspur |
|
0.1% | 0.2% | 0.0% | 1.3x | |||
| 150 | Green Heron |
|
0.2% | 0.2% | 0.0% | 1.0x | |||
| 151 | new world vulture sp. |
|
0.2% | 0.1% | 0.0% | 0.9x | |||
| 152 | Common Goldeneye |
|
0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 1.7x | |||
| 153 | warbler sp. (Parulidae sp.) |
|
0.1% | 0.1% | 0.0% | 0.9x | |||
| 154 | Prairie Warbler |
|
0.1% | 0.1% | 0.0% | 1.0x | |||
| 155 | Spotted Sandpiper |
|
0.2% | 0.1% | 0.0% | 0.7x | |||
| 156 | Surf Scoter |
|
0.2% | 0.1% | 0.0% | 0.8x | |||
| 157 | woodpecker sp. |
|
0.1% | 0.1% | 0.0% | 1.6x | |||
| 158 | Yellow-breasted Chat |
|
0.0% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 5.1x | |||
| 159 | Ruby-crowned/Golden-crowned Kinglet |
|
0.1% | 0.1% | 0.0% | 1.7x | |||
| 160 | Blue-winged Teal |
|
0.7% | 0.1% | 0.6% | 0.1x | |||
| 161 | Domestic goose sp. (Domestic type) |
|
0.1% | 0.1% | 0.0% | 1.8x | |||
| 162 | Swainson's Thrush |
|
0.0% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 8.1x | |||
| 163 | Forster's Tern |
|
0.2% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.4x | |||
| 164 | Dunlin |
|
0.6% | 0.1% | 0.5% | 0.2x | |||
| 165 | Mallard x American Black Duck (hybrid) |
|
0.1% | 0.1% | 0.0% | 1.0x | |||
| 166 | Dickcissel |
|
0.1% | 0.1% | 0.0% | 1.0x | |||
| 167 | Long-tailed Duck |
|
0.1% | 0.1% | 0.0% | 1.2x | |||
| 168 | House/Purple Finch |
|
0.1% | 0.1% | 0.0% | 0.7x | |||
| 169 | Wilson's Warbler |
|
0% | 0.1% | 0.1% | ∞ | |||
| 170 | Tree Swallow |
|
0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.5x | |||
| 171 | Northern Rough-winged Swallow |
|
0.1% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.7x | |||
| 172 | White-winged Scoter |
|
0.2% | 0.0% | 0.2% | 0.2x | |||
| 173 | peep sp. |
|
0.1% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.8x | |||
| 174 | White-eyed Vireo |
|
0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | ∞ | |||
| 175 | Lesser Yellowlegs |
|
0.2% | 0.0% | 0.1% | 0.2x | |||
| 176 | Black-bellied Plover |
|
0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1.5x | |||
| 177 | Anhinga |
|
0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1.0x | |||
| 178 | Black Scoter |
|
0.2% | 0.0% | 0.2% | 0.2x | |||
| 179 | American/Fish Crow |
|
0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.8x | |||
| 180 | Eared Grebe |
|
0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.5x | |||
| 181 | Western Sandpiper |
|
0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | ∞ | |||
| 182 | Marsh Wren |
|
0.1% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.3x | |||
| 183 | Northern Bobwhite |
|
0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.5x | |||
| 184 | Northern Goshawk |
|
0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | ∞ | |||
| 185 | Northern Parula |
|
0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.7x | |||
| 186 | dabbling duck sp. |
|
0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | ∞ | |||
| 187 | Ross's Goose |
|
0.4% | 0.0% | 0.4% | 0.1x | |||
| 188 | Little Gull |
|
0.5% | 0.0% | 0.5% | 0.0x | |||
| 189 | Mandarin Duck |
|
0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | ∞ | |||
| 190 | Red Phalarope |
|
0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | ∞ | |||
| 191 | Aythya sp. |
|
0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 2.0x | |||
| 192 | merganser sp. |
|
0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1.0x | |||
| 193 | Iceland Gull |
|
0.2% | 0.0% | 0.2% | 0.1x | |||
| 194 | Ruddy Turnstone |
|
0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | ∞ | |||
| 195 | Red-eyed Vireo |
|
0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.5x | |||
| 196 | Louisiana Waterthrush |
|
0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | ∞ | |||
| 197 | Sora |
|
0.1% | 0.0% | 0.1% | 0.1x | |||
| 198 | Blackpoll Warbler |
|
0.2% | 0.0% | 0.2% | 0.1x | |||
| 199 | Black-crowned Night-Heron |
|
0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.5x | |||
| 200 | Grasshopper Sparrow |
|
0.1% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.2x | |||
| 201 | Blue Grosbeak |
|
0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1.0x | |||
| 202 | Black-necked Swan |
|
0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1.0x | |||
| 203 | Trumpeter Swan |
|
0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | ∞ | |||
| 204 | Long-billed Dowitcher |
|
0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.3x | |||
| 205 | Barnacle Goose |
|
0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | ∞ | |||
| 206 | shorebird sp. |
|
0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.3x | |||
| 207 | bird sp. |
|
0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | ∞ | |||
| 208 | Sandhill Crane |
|
0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1.0x | |||
| 209 | loon sp. |
|
0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.5x | |||
| 210 | swallow sp. |
|
0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1.0x | |||
| 211 | Greater/Lesser Yellowlegs |
|
0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.3x | |||
| 212 | Swan Goose |
|
0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1.0x | |||
| 213 | Sedge Wren |
|
0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1.0x |