Bird Finder

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

based on 13117 checklists in 395 hotspots

This page shows the probability of a species appearing on a checklist during the month of September. 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 September 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 August September Change
1   Carolina Wren
71.3% 77.3% 6.0%
2   Northern Cardinal
65.2% 73.6% 8.4%
3   Carolina Chickadee
56.4% 71.0% 14.6%
4   Tufted Titmouse
51.3% 65.5% 14.2%
5   American Crow
53.7% 65.3% 11.6%
6   Blue Jay
34.2% 59.0% 24.8%
7   Downy Woodpecker
39.3% 56.8% 17.5%
8   Red-bellied Woodpecker
36.3% 55.4% 19.1%
9   American Goldfinch
60.2% 47.2% 13.0%
10   Great Blue Heron
47.4% 45.6% 1.8%
11   Eastern Bluebird
39.6% 43.2% 3.6%
12   Gray Catbird
26.3% 43.1% 16.7%
13   Pine Warbler
16.0% 40.6% 24.7%
14   Turkey Vulture
32.3% 40.0% 7.6%
15   Eastern Phoebe
20.7% 38.5% 17.8%
16   Red-shouldered Hawk
24.7% 37.0% 12.3%
17   Mourning Dove
46.8% 36.6% 10.2%
18   White-breasted Nuthatch
26.1% 36.2% 10.1%
19   Brown-headed Nuthatch
25.0% 35.1% 10.1%
20   White-eyed Vireo
20.7% 34.7% 14.0%
21   Ruby-throated Hummingbird
33.8% 33.3% 0.5%
22   Brown Thrasher
14.5% 30.9% 16.4%
23   American Redstart
6.1% 30.5% 24.4%
24   Common Yellowthroat
12.2% 30.2% 18.0%
25   Northern Mockingbird
28.0% 29.5% 1.5%
26   Great Egret
33.8% 28.9% 4.9%
27   Red-eyed Vireo
21.7% 28.7% 7.0%
28   American Robin
25.9% 28.6% 2.7%
29   Eastern Wood-Pewee
20.6% 28.6% 8.0%
30   Belted Kingfisher
22.1% 27.9% 5.8%
31   Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
40.3% 26.9% 13.4%
32   Eastern Towhee
25.6% 26.5% 0.9%
33   Canada Goose
25.8% 25.0% 0.7%
34   Northern Parula
7.3% 24.9% 17.6%
35   Pileated Woodpecker
15.8% 24.8% 9.0%
36   Killdeer
24.8% 24.3% 0.5%
37   Black-and-white Warbler
5.7% 24.1% 18.5%
38   Chimney Swift
18.1% 23.7% 5.6%
39   Northern Flicker
8.0% 22.6% 14.5%
40   Summer Tanager
14.4% 21.8% 7.3%
41   Fish Crow
25.6% 21.4% 4.1%
42   Black Vulture
16.7% 21.4% 4.7%
43   Mallard
22.3% 20.3% 2.0%
44   House Finch
19.1% 18.9% 0.2%
45   Indigo Bunting
29.9% 18.1% 11.7%
46   Magnolia Warbler
0.6% 17.7% 17.1%
47   Yellow-billed Cuckoo
15.9% 15.9% 0.1%
48   Double-crested Cormorant
14.8% 15.0% 0.2%
49   Chipping Sparrow
19.5% 14.9% 4.6%
50   Red-headed Woodpecker
10.1% 14.4% 4.3%
51   Hairy Woodpecker
8.0% 14.2% 6.3%
52   Osprey
22.2% 13.2% 8.9%
53   Bald Eagle
9.3% 12.5% 3.2%
54   Green Heron
17.4% 12.0% 5.4%
55   Blue Grosbeak
23.6% 11.3% 12.3%
56   Great Crested Flycatcher
17.5% 11.2% 6.3%
57   European Starling
9.0% 10.2% 1.2%
58   Song Sparrow
9.6% 9.7% 0.0%
59   Cape May Warbler
0.0% 9.6% 9.6%
60   Chestnut-sided Warbler
1.6% 9.5% 7.9%
61   Scarlet Tanager
1.3% 9.2% 7.8%
62   Red-tailed Hawk
10.4% 9.0% 1.4%
63   House Wren
4.3% 8.5% 4.2%
64   Wood Duck
11.9% 8.1% 3.8%
65   Yellow-throated Vireo
3.9% 8.0% 4.1%
66   Acadian Flycatcher
9.9% 7.8% 2.1%
67   Hooded Warbler
3.2% 6.8% 3.5%
68   Solitary Sandpiper
8.6% 6.6% 2.1%
69   Least Sandpiper
11.0% 6.5% 4.6%
70   Cedar Waxwing
1.3% 6.4% 5.1%
71   Rose-breasted Grosbeak
0% 6.4% 6.4%
72   Spotted Sandpiper
11.9% 5.8% 6.1%
73   Barred Owl
4.6% 5.5% 0.8%
74   Palm Warbler
0.0% 5.2% 5.2%
75   Cooper's Hawk
4.6% 5.1% 0.6%
76   Common Grackle
9.5% 5.1% 4.4%
77   Yellow-throated Warbler
1.8% 5.1% 3.3%
78   Lesser Yellowlegs
6.1% 5.1% 1.0%
79   Swainson's Thrush
0% 4.9% 4.9%
80   Black-throated Blue Warbler
0.2% 4.7% 4.6%
81   Pectoral Sandpiper
7.3% 4.7% 2.5%
82   Brown-headed Cowbird
5.5% 4.3% 1.3%
83   Veery
0.2% 4.3% 4.1%
84   Rock Pigeon
5.6% 4.2% 1.4%
85   Prairie Warbler
3.1% 4.2% 1.1%
86   Blue-winged Warbler
1.1% 4.1% 3.1%
87   Yellow Warbler
2.7% 3.9% 1.2%
88   Northern Waterthrush
1.3% 3.8% 2.6%
89   Semipalmated Plover
5.6% 3.7% 1.8%
90   American Kestrel
1.9% 3.6% 1.7%
91   Ovenbird
1.3% 3.4% 2.1%
92   Semipalmated Sandpiper
4.5% 3.3% 1.2%
93   Wood Thrush
1.4% 3.3% 1.9%
94   Worm-eating Warbler
2.0% 3.2% 1.2%
95   Blue-winged Teal
2.5% 2.9% 0.4%
96   Greater Yellowlegs
4.0% 2.8% 1.2%
97   Tennessee Warbler
0.1% 2.7% 2.6%
98   Baltimore Oriole
0.6% 2.7% 2.1%
99   Blackburnian Warbler
0.2% 2.4% 2.2%
100   Black-throated Green Warbler
0.0% 2.3% 2.3%
101   Ruby-crowned Kinglet
0.0% 2.1% 2.1%
102   Stilt Sandpiper
1.5% 2.1% 0.6%
103   Eastern Kingbird
14.5% 2.0% 12.6%
104   Little Blue Heron
8.8% 1.8% 7.0%
105   Caspian Tern
1.8% 1.7% 0.2%
106   Barn Swallow
11.8% 1.7% 10.1%
107   Yellow-breasted Chat
1.6% 1.7% 0.0%
108   Red-winged Blackbird
5.7% 1.6% 4.1%
109   Bobolink
0.5% 1.6% 1.1%
110   Field Sparrow
2.3% 1.5% 0.8%
111   Muscovy Duck
1.0% 1.5% 0.5%
112   Wood Stork
2.4% 1.4% 1.0%
113   Graylag Goose
1.1% 1.4% 0.3%
114   Pied-billed Grebe
0.4% 1.3% 0.9%
115   Red-breasted Nuthatch
0.0% 1.2% 1.2%
116   Bay-breasted Warbler
0.0% 1.2% 1.2%
117   Canada Warbler
0.4% 1.2% 0.8%
118   Short-billed Dowitcher
1.7% 1.2% 0.6%
119   Philadelphia Vireo
0.0% 1.1% 1.1%
120   Nashville Warbler
0.0% 1.1% 1.1%
121   Common Nighthawk
0.7% 1.1% 0.4%
122   Tricolored Heron
3.3% 1.1% 2.1%
123   Wild Turkey
1.0% 1.1% 0.1%
124   Sanderling
0.6% 1.1% 0.5%
125   American Avocet
1.6% 1.1% 0.5%
126   Northern Shoveler
0.2% 1.0% 0.9%
127   Forster's Tern
0.5% 1.0% 0.5%
128   Eastern Meadowlark
2.2% 1.0% 1.2%
129   Snowy Egret
2.7% 1.0% 1.7%
130   White Ibis
2.8% 1.0% 1.8%
131   Broad-winged Hawk
0.7% 1.0% 0.3%
132   Least Flycatcher
0.1% 0.9% 0.8%
133   Kirtland's Warbler
0% 0.9% 0.9%
134   Great Horned Owl
1.1% 0.8% 0.3%
135   American Golden-Plover
0.6% 0.8% 0.3%
136   White-rumped Sandpiper
0.6% 0.8% 0.2%
137   Western Sandpiper
1.0% 0.8% 0.2%
138   Roseate Spoonbill
2.3% 0.7% 1.6%
139   Blue-headed Vireo
0.1% 0.7% 0.6%
140   Black Tern
1.3% 0.7% 0.5%
141   House Sparrow
1.3% 0.7% 0.6%
142   Sharp-shinned Hawk
0.2% 0.7% 0.5%
143   Prothonotary Warbler
2.8% 0.7% 2.1%
144   Gray-cheeked Thrush
0% 0.6% 0.6%
145   Baird's Sandpiper
1.5% 0.6% 0.8%
146   Common Tern
0.2% 0.6% 0.4%
147   Yellow-rumped Warbler
0% 0.6% 0.6%
148   Golden-winged Warbler
0.1% 0.6% 0.5%
149   Blackpoll Warbler
0% 0.6% 0.6%
150   Buff-breasted Sandpiper
0.0% 0.6% 0.5%
151   Wilson's Snipe
0.1% 0.6% 0.4%
152   Peregrine Falcon
0.1% 0.6% 0.5%
153   Northern Harrier
0.1% 0.6% 0.4%
154   Tree Swallow
0.5% 0.5% 0.1%
155   Olive-sided Flycatcher
0.3% 0.5% 0.3%
156   Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
0.1% 0.5% 0.4%
157   Common Raven
0.2% 0.5% 0.3%
158   Merlin
0.1% 0.5% 0.4%
159   Royal Tern
0.1% 0.5% 0.4%
160   Common Gallinule
0.1% 0.5% 0.4%
161   Eastern Screech-Owl
0.2% 0.4% 0.2%
162   Marsh Wren
0% 0.4% 0.4%
163   Wilson's Warbler
0.0% 0.4% 0.4%
164   Ring-billed Gull
0.2% 0.4% 0.1%
165   Laughing Gull
0.2% 0.3% 0.1%
166   Northern Rough-winged Swallow
0.8% 0.3% 0.4%
167   Mute Swan
0.3% 0.3% 0.0%
168   Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
0.0% 0.3% 0.3%
169   Limpkin
0.5% 0.3% 0.3%
170   Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
1.2% 0.3% 1.0%
171   Black-billed Cuckoo
0% 0.3% 0.3%
172   Black-bellied Plover
0.3% 0.2% 0.1%
173   Lark Sparrow
0.5% 0.2% 0.2%
174   Black-crowned Night-Heron
0.3% 0.2% 0.1%
175   Anhinga
1.6% 0.2% 1.4%
176   Red-necked Phalarope
0.1% 0.2% 0.1%
177   Green-winged Teal
0.0% 0.2% 0.2%
178   Ruddy Turnstone
0.2% 0.2% 0.0%
179   Loggerhead Shrike
0.2% 0.2% 0.0%
180   Horned Lark
0.1% 0.2% 0.1%
181   Purple Martin
2.7% 0.2% 2.5%
182   Sora
0.0% 0.2% 0.1%
183   Hudsonian Godwit
0.0% 0.2% 0.1%
184   Kentucky Warbler
0.8% 0.1% 0.6%
185   Eastern Whip-poor-will
0.3% 0.1% 0.1%
186   Sandwich Tern
0% 0.1% 0.1%
187   American Black Duck
0.1% 0.1% 0.0%
188   Mississippi Kite
1.4% 0.1% 1.3%
189   Wilson's Phalarope
1.4% 0.1% 1.3%
190   Connecticut Warbler
0% 0.1% 0.1%
191   Warbling Vireo
0.0% 0.1% 0.1%
192   Herring Gull
0.1% 0.1% 0.0%
193   Western Kingbird
0% 0.1% 0.1%
194   Winter Wren
0% 0.1% 0.1%
195   Bank Swallow
0.0% 0.1% 0.0%
196   Lesser Black-backed Gull
0% 0.1% 0.1%
197   Willow Flycatcher
0.0% 0.1% 0.1%
198   American Wigeon
0% 0.1% 0.1%
199   Orchard Oriole
2.3% 0.1% 2.2%
200   Least Tern
0.1% 0.1% 0.0%
201   Long-billed Dowitcher
0.1% 0.1% 0.0%
202   Sabine's Gull
0% 0.1% 0.1%
203   Northern Bobwhite
0.5% 0.1% 0.4%
204   Parasitic Jaeger
0% 0.1% 0.1%
205   Glossy Ibis
0.1% 0.1% 0.0%
206   Mourning Warbler
0% 0.1% 0.1%
207   Swamp Sparrow
0% 0.1% 0.1%
208   Marbled Godwit
0.1% 0.1% 0.0%
209   Hooded Merganser
0.1% 0.0% 0.1%
210   Ruddy Duck
0% 0.0% 0.0%
211   Gadwall
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
212   Virginia Rail
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
213   Sooty Tern
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
214   Sedge Wren
0% 0.0% 0.0%
215   American Coot
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
216   Dickcissel
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
217   Cliff Swallow
0.8% 0.0% 0.8%
218   Orange-crowned Warbler
0% 0.0% 0.0%
219   American Pipit
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
220   Grasshopper Sparrow
1.2% 0.0% 1.2%
221   Savannah Sparrow
0% 0.0% 0.0%
222   Clapper Rail
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
223   Ring-necked Duck
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
224   Northern Pintail
0% 0.0% 0.0%
225   Brown Pelican
0.6% 0.0% 0.6%
226   American Oystercatcher
0% 0.0% 0.0%
227   American Bittern
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
228   Alder Flycatcher
0% 0.0% 0.0%
229   Red Phalarope
0% 0.0% 0.0%
230   Bridled Tern
0% 0.0% 0.0%
231   Great Black-backed Gull
0% 0.0% 0.0%
232   Brown Creeper
0% 0.0% 0.0%
233   Lincoln's Sparrow
0% 0.0% 0.0%
234   Louisiana Waterthrush
1.1% 0.0% 1.1%
235   White-throated Sparrow
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
236   Pine Siskin
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
237   Dunlin
0% 0.0% 0.0%
238   Wilson's Storm-Petrel
0% 0.0% 0.0%
239   Brewster's Warbler (hybrid)
0% 0.0% 0.0%
240   Chuck-will's-widow
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
241   Swainson's Warbler
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
242   Leach's Storm-Petrel
0% 0.0% 0.0%
243   White-crowned Sparrow
0% 0.0% 0.0%
244   Hermit Thrush
0% 0.0% 0.0%
245   Willet
0.2% 0.0% 0.2%
246   Ruff
0% 0.0% 0.0%
247   Arctic Tern
0% 0.0% 0.0%
248   Nelson's Sparrow
0% 0.0% 0.0%
249   Cattle Egret
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
250   Bonaparte's Gull
0% 0.0% 0.0%
251   Red Knot
0.1% 0.0% 0.1%
252   Least Bittern
0.2% 0.0% 0.2%
253   Upland Sandpiper
0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
254   Barn Owl
0% 0.0% 0.0%
255   American Woodcock
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
256   Red-cockaded Woodpecker
0% 0.0% 0.0%
257   Lawrence's Warbler (hybrid)
0% 0.0% 0.0%
258   Swan Goose
0.0% 0.0% 0.0%

Created by Michael Fogleman.

Data from the eBird Basic Dataset. Version: EBD_relJan-2024. Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York. Jan 2024.