Bird Finder

Top Birds in May
within 25 miles of 35.791540, -78.781117

based on 21060 checklists in 408 hotspots

This page shows the probability of a species appearing on a checklist during the month of May. 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 May 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 April May Change
1   Northern Cardinal
80.7% 79.5% 1.2%
2   Carolina Wren
71.6% 70.8% 0.7%
3   Tufted Titmouse
70.2% 65.2% 5.0%
4   Carolina Chickadee
66.0% 59.2% 6.8%
5   Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
63.5% 57.5% 6.0%
6   American Crow
56.7% 56.2% 0.6%
7   Red-bellied Woodpecker
58.3% 54.3% 4.0%
8   Red-eyed Vireo
31.6% 51.9% 20.3%
9   Eastern Bluebird
49.1% 49.6% 0.5%
10   Great Crested Flycatcher
22.4% 49.0% 26.6%
11   Mourning Dove
45.4% 47.8% 2.5%
12   Indigo Bunting
13.6% 45.6% 32.1%
13   Great Blue Heron
44.0% 45.2% 1.2%
14   American Goldfinch
47.1% 45.0% 2.1%
15   Blue Jay
48.6% 41.8% 6.7%
16   Pine Warbler
45.5% 41.6% 3.8%
17   Canada Goose
48.6% 41.2% 7.4%
18   Common Yellowthroat
33.8% 40.3% 6.5%
19   Downy Woodpecker
40.0% 40.3% 0.3%
20   Turkey Vulture
42.8% 38.4% 4.4%
21   Chipping Sparrow
43.6% 38.3% 5.3%
22   American Robin
42.0% 38.0% 4.0%
23   Summer Tanager
14.5% 37.8% 23.2%
24   Brown-headed Cowbird
38.0% 37.1% 0.9%
25   Eastern Towhee
44.6% 36.5% 8.1%
26   Northern Parula
36.6% 35.3% 1.3%
27   White-eyed Vireo
39.6% 34.8% 4.8%
28   Eastern Phoebe
35.4% 34.2% 1.2%
29   Fish Crow
37.0% 34.0% 3.0%
30   Common Grackle
25.9% 33.9% 8.0%
31   Red-shouldered Hawk
33.2% 31.9% 1.2%
32   Brown-headed Nuthatch
32.4% 30.8% 1.6%
33   Barn Swallow
19.6% 30.1% 10.4%
34   Northern Rough-winged Swallow
28.5% 30.0% 1.5%
35   Northern Mockingbird
26.9% 29.9% 3.0%
36   House Finch
27.2% 29.3% 2.1%
37   Mallard
29.5% 28.2% 1.3%
38   Gray Catbird
18.3% 28.1% 9.9%
39   Chimney Swift
13.9% 27.5% 13.6%
40   Red-winged Blackbird
26.8% 27.3% 0.5%
41   Eastern Kingbird
13.0% 27.0% 14.0%
42   Acadian Flycatcher
2.5% 25.7% 23.2%
43   Blue Grosbeak
9.1% 23.8% 14.7%
44   White-breasted Nuthatch
22.3% 23.1% 0.8%
45   American Redstart
9.3% 22.1% 12.8%
46   Eastern Wood-Pewee
1.5% 20.8% 19.3%
47   Black Vulture
20.4% 20.5% 0.0%
48   European Starling
19.9% 20.4% 0.5%
49   Killdeer
17.3% 19.5% 2.3%
50   Pileated Woodpecker
20.4% 19.0% 1.3%
51   Ruby-throated Hummingbird
9.1% 18.1% 9.1%
52   Ovenbird
18.8% 17.6% 1.2%
53   Double-crested Cormorant
25.8% 16.8% 8.9%
54   Osprey
17.5% 16.3% 1.2%
55   Yellow-throated Warbler
21.6% 16.2% 5.3%
56   Brown Thrasher
19.9% 16.2% 3.7%
57   Prothonotary Warbler
12.7% 15.9% 3.2%
58   Song Sparrow
23.8% 15.7% 8.1%
59   Spotted Sandpiper
7.3% 15.6% 8.2%
60   Orchard Oriole
7.2% 15.5% 8.3%
61   Tree Swallow
14.5% 15.2% 0.7%
62   Black-and-white Warbler
15.2% 15.1% 0.0%
63   Cedar Waxwing
5.8% 14.0% 8.2%
64   Wood Thrush
7.9% 13.0% 5.1%
65   Wood Duck
13.3% 12.5% 0.8%
66   Red-tailed Hawk
12.5% 12.1% 0.4%
67   Black-throated Blue Warbler
6.0% 12.1% 6.1%
68   Belted Kingfisher
18.6% 12.1% 6.5%
69   Scarlet Tanager
4.5% 11.6% 7.1%
70   Yellow-billed Cuckoo
1.3% 11.6% 10.3%
71   Yellow-breasted Chat
3.3% 11.1% 7.8%
72   Hooded Warbler
9.6% 10.5% 0.9%
73   Bald Eagle
12.4% 10.5% 2.0%
74   Purple Martin
7.0% 10.5% 3.5%
75   Red-headed Woodpecker
13.0% 10.4% 2.6%
76   Yellow-rumped Warbler
44.8% 9.9% 34.9%
77   Green Heron
6.4% 9.8% 3.4%
78   Hairy Woodpecker
10.1% 8.8% 1.3%
79   House Wren
10.2% 8.5% 1.7%
80   Northern Flicker
13.1% 8.5% 4.6%
81   Eastern Meadowlark
6.6% 8.2% 1.6%
82   White-throated Sparrow
57.3% 7.9% 49.4%
83   Yellow Warbler
2.6% 7.8% 5.2%
84   Solitary Sandpiper
5.9% 7.7% 1.8%
85   Blackpoll Warbler
0.2% 7.6% 7.4%
86   Barred Owl
8.7% 7.3% 1.4%
87   Louisiana Waterthrush
10.5% 7.0% 3.5%
88   Swainson's Thrush
0.8% 7.0% 6.2%
89   Yellow-throated Vireo
6.4% 7.0% 0.6%
90   Northern Waterthrush
3.3% 6.7% 3.5%
91   Prairie Warbler
7.5% 6.7% 0.9%
92   Rock Pigeon
4.9% 5.6% 0.7%
93   Cliff Swallow
3.5% 5.0% 1.5%
94   Least Sandpiper
1.1% 4.9% 3.9%
95   Magnolia Warbler
0.2% 3.3% 3.1%
96   House Sparrow
2.2% 3.3% 1.1%
97   Field Sparrow
10.7% 3.0% 7.7%
98   Kentucky Warbler
0.8% 2.9% 2.1%
99   Veery
1.3% 2.8% 1.6%
100   Bobolink
1.3% 2.8% 1.5%
101   Cooper's Hawk
3.8% 2.7% 1.1%
102   Grasshopper Sparrow
1.5% 2.7% 1.2%
103   Great Egret
2.2% 2.5% 0.3%
104   Semipalmated Sandpiper
0.1% 2.4% 2.4%
105   Mississippi Kite
0.2% 2.2% 2.1%
106   Rose-breasted Grosbeak
1.4% 2.1% 0.7%
107   Swamp Sparrow
14.1% 2.0% 12.1%
108   Semipalmated Plover
0.1% 2.0% 1.8%
109   Hooded Merganser
2.3% 1.7% 0.6%
110   Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
1.8% 1.5% 0.3%
111   Warbling Vireo
0.2% 1.4% 1.2%
112   Wild Turkey
2.0% 1.4% 0.6%
113   Lesser Yellowlegs
1.4% 1.4% 0.0%
114   Ruby-crowned Kinglet
33.0% 1.3% 31.7%
115   Ring-billed Gull
6.3% 1.3% 5.0%
116   Bank Swallow
0.3% 1.2% 0.9%
117   Chestnut-sided Warbler
0.1% 1.2% 1.1%
118   Baltimore Oriole
0.7% 1.2% 0.5%
119   Blue-headed Vireo
4.2% 1.2% 3.0%
120   Savannah Sparrow
4.1% 1.1% 3.0%
121   Horned Lark
1.0% 1.0% 0.0%
122   Greater Yellowlegs
0.8% 1.0% 0.2%
123   Muscovy Duck
0.8% 1.0% 0.2%
124   Worm-eating Warbler
2.2% 1.0% 1.2%
125   Red-necked Phalarope
0% 0.9% 0.9%
126   Broad-winged Hawk
1.0% 0.8% 0.2%
127   Cape May Warbler
0.5% 0.8% 0.3%
128   Palm Warbler
7.9% 0.7% 7.2%
129   Swainson's Warbler
0.6% 0.7% 0.1%
130   Caspian Tern
2.5% 0.7% 1.9%
131   White-rumped Sandpiper
0.0% 0.7% 0.7%
132   Pine Siskin
3.2% 0.6% 2.6%
133   American Kestrel
1.0% 0.6% 0.4%
134   Wilson's Warbler
0.0% 0.5% 0.5%
135   Gray-cheeked Thrush
0.0% 0.5% 0.5%
136   Northern Bobwhite
0.2% 0.5% 0.3%
137   Dickcissel
0.0% 0.5% 0.5%
138   Great Horned Owl
0.8% 0.5% 0.4%
139   Black-throated Green Warbler
0.6% 0.5% 0.1%
140   Dunlin
0.1% 0.5% 0.4%
141   Canada Warbler
0.0% 0.4% 0.4%
142   Eastern Whip-poor-will
0.6% 0.4% 0.1%
143   Painted Bunting
0.2% 0.4% 0.2%
144   Loggerhead Shrike
0.2% 0.4% 0.2%
145   Ruddy Duck
2.9% 0.4% 2.5%
146   Snowy Egret
0.1% 0.4% 0.3%
147   Graylag Goose
0.5% 0.4% 0.1%
148   Bay-breasted Warbler
0.0% 0.4% 0.4%
149   Chuck-will's-widow
0.4% 0.4% 0.1%
150   Blackburnian Warbler
0.2% 0.3% 0.2%
151   Common Loon
0.6% 0.3% 0.3%
152   Hermit Thrush
8.2% 0.3% 7.9%
153   Blue-winged Teal
2.2% 0.3% 1.9%
154   Northern Harrier
0.8% 0.3% 0.5%
155   Sharp-shinned Hawk
1.0% 0.3% 0.7%
156   Mute Swan
0.4% 0.3% 0.1%
157   Anhinga
0.1% 0.3% 0.1%
158   Least Bittern
0.0% 0.3% 0.2%
159   Blue-winged Warbler
1.0% 0.2% 0.8%
160   Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
0.0% 0.2% 0.2%
161   Pectoral Sandpiper
0.2% 0.2% 0.1%
162   Common Raven
0.4% 0.2% 0.2%
163   Red-breasted Merganser
0.7% 0.2% 0.5%
164   Western Cattle-Egret
0.1% 0.2% 0.1%
165   Laughing Gull
0.1% 0.2% 0.1%
166   Willow Flycatcher
0% 0.2% 0.2%
167   Olive-sided Flycatcher
0% 0.2% 0.2%
168   Common Tern
0.0% 0.2% 0.1%
169   Black-billed Cuckoo
0.0% 0.2% 0.2%
170   Common Nighthawk
0.0% 0.2% 0.2%
171   Black-bellied Plover
0.0% 0.2% 0.1%
172   Glossy Ibis
0.0% 0.1% 0.1%
173   American Coot
0.8% 0.1% 0.7%
174   Western Sandpiper
0% 0.1% 0.1%
175   Alder Flycatcher
0% 0.1% 0.1%
176   White-crowned Sparrow
0.4% 0.1% 0.3%
177   Bonaparte's Gull
3.6% 0.1% 3.5%
178   Pied-billed Grebe
2.1% 0.1% 2.0%
179   Short-billed Dowitcher
0.1% 0.1% 0.1%
180   Tricolored Heron
0.1% 0.1% 0.0%
181   Eastern Screech-Owl
0.2% 0.1% 0.0%
182   Merlin
0.2% 0.1% 0.1%
183   Black Tern
0% 0.1% 0.1%
184   Tennessee Warbler
0.0% 0.1% 0.1%
185   American Herring Gull
0.5% 0.1% 0.4%
186   Ring-necked Duck
0.4% 0.1% 0.3%
187   American Bittern
1.0% 0.1% 0.9%
188   Little Blue Heron
0.1% 0.1% 0.0%
189   Red-breasted Nuthatch
0.8% 0.1% 0.7%
190   Black-necked Stilt
0% 0.1% 0.1%
191   Northern Shoveler
0.2% 0.1% 0.1%
192   American Woodcock
0.1% 0.1% 0.0%
193   Ruddy Turnstone
0% 0.1% 0.1%
194   Dark-eyed Junco
5.1% 0.1% 5.0%
195   Horned Grebe
0.3% 0.1% 0.3%
196   American Pipit
0.2% 0.1% 0.1%
197   Forster's Tern
0.2% 0.1% 0.2%
198   Lesser Scaup
0.7% 0.1% 0.6%
199   Sora
0.2% 0.1% 0.1%
200   American White Pelican
0.0% 0.1% 0.0%
201   Sedge Wren
0.3% 0.1% 0.2%
202   Least Tern
0% 0.1% 0.1%
203   Whimbrel
0% 0.0% 0.0%
204   Common Gallinule
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
205   Black-crowned Night-Heron
0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
206   Willet
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
207   Cerulean Warbler
0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
208   Roseate Spoonbill
0% 0.0% 0.0%
209   Nashville Warbler
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
210   Least Flycatcher
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
211   Wilson's Snipe
1.0% 0.0% 0.9%
212   Purple Finch
0.7% 0.0% 0.7%
213   Northern Pintail
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
214   Lincoln's Sparrow
0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
215   American Black Duck
0.1% 0.0% 0.1%
216   Virginia Rail
0.1% 0.0% 0.1%
217   Brown Creeper
0.3% 0.0% 0.3%
218   American Wigeon
0.1% 0.0% 0.1%
219   Rusty Blackbird
0.8% 0.0% 0.8%
220   Sanderling
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
221   Swallow-tailed Kite
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
222   Gadwall
0.1% 0.0% 0.1%
223   Marsh Wren
0.2% 0.0% 0.2%
224   Greater Scaup
0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
225   Orange-crowned Warbler
0.3% 0.0% 0.3%
226   Lesser Black-backed Gull
0.1% 0.0% 0.1%
227   Piping Plover
0% 0.0% 0.0%
228   Swan Goose
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
229   Green-winged Teal
0.3% 0.0% 0.3%
230   Common Merganser
0% 0.0% 0.0%
231   Mourning Warbler
0% 0.0% 0.0%
232   Peregrine Falcon
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
233   Stilt Sandpiper
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
234   Philadelphia Vireo
0% 0.0% 0.0%
235   Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
0% 0.0% 0.0%
236   Connecticut Warbler
0% 0.0% 0.0%
237   Redhead
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
238   American Avocet
0% 0.0% 0.0%
239   Golden-crowned Kinglet
0.8% 0.0% 0.8%
240   King Rail
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
241   Helmeted Guineafowl
0% 0.0% 0.0%
242   Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
243   American Barn Owl
0% 0.0% 0.0%

Created by Michael Fogleman.

Data from the eBird Basic Dataset. Version: EBD_relSep-2025. Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York. Sep 2025.