Top Birds in September
within 25 miles of 35.791540, -78.781117
based on 17679 checklists in 408 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.
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| Rank | Info | Species | Chart | Peak | August | September | Change | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Carolina Wren |
|
71.3% | 77.4% | 6.1% | |||
| 2 | Northern Cardinal |
|
66.4% | 74.6% | 8.2% | |||
| 3 | Carolina Chickadee |
|
56.7% | 71.7% | 14.9% | |||
| 4 | Tufted Titmouse |
|
52.4% | 66.9% | 14.5% | |||
| 5 | American Crow |
|
53.5% | 65.3% | 11.7% | |||
| 6 | Blue Jay |
|
34.8% | 58.9% | 24.1% | |||
| 7 | Downy Woodpecker |
|
40.2% | 58.2% | 18.0% | |||
| 8 | Red-bellied Woodpecker |
|
36.4% | 56.1% | 19.7% | |||
| 9 | American Goldfinch |
|
60.5% | 45.9% | 14.5% | |||
| 10 | Great Blue Heron |
|
45.3% | 43.6% | 1.7% | |||
| 11 | Eastern Bluebird |
|
39.8% | 43.6% | 3.8% | |||
| 12 | Gray Catbird |
|
24.9% | 42.2% | 17.3% | |||
| 13 | Pine Warbler |
|
16.3% | 41.5% | 25.1% | |||
| 14 | Turkey Vulture |
|
32.4% | 39.6% | 7.2% | |||
| 15 | Eastern Phoebe |
|
21.0% | 39.2% | 18.2% | |||
| 16 | Red-shouldered Hawk |
|
25.4% | 37.5% | 12.2% | |||
| 17 | White-breasted Nuthatch |
|
27.2% | 37.4% | 10.2% | |||
| 18 | Brown-headed Nuthatch |
|
26.9% | 37.0% | 10.2% | |||
| 19 | White-eyed Vireo |
|
21.3% | 35.2% | 13.9% | |||
| 20 | Mourning Dove |
|
46.0% | 35.0% | 11.0% | |||
| 21 | Ruby-throated Hummingbird |
|
33.7% | 32.9% | 0.8% | |||
| 22 | American Redstart |
|
6.0% | 31.6% | 25.6% | |||
| 23 | Brown Thrasher |
|
14.4% | 30.3% | 15.8% | |||
| 24 | Common Yellowthroat |
|
11.5% | 30.1% | 18.7% | |||
| 25 | Eastern Wood-Pewee |
|
20.5% | 29.6% | 9.1% | |||
| 26 | Red-eyed Vireo |
|
21.5% | 29.3% | 7.8% | |||
| 27 | American Robin |
|
24.8% | 28.3% | 3.6% | |||
| 28 | Northern Mockingbird |
|
26.6% | 28.3% | 1.7% | |||
| 29 | Blue-gray Gnatcatcher |
|
40.7% | 27.5% | 13.2% | |||
| 30 | Great Egret |
|
32.5% | 27.5% | 5.0% | |||
| 31 | Belted Kingfisher |
|
21.6% | 27.5% | 5.9% | |||
| 32 | Northern Parula |
|
7.2% | 26.3% | 19.0% | |||
| 33 | Pileated Woodpecker |
|
16.2% | 26.0% | 9.8% | |||
| 34 | Black-and-white Warbler |
|
5.7% | 25.6% | 19.9% | |||
| 35 | Eastern Towhee |
|
24.7% | 25.2% | 0.6% | |||
| 36 | Killdeer |
|
22.7% | 24.0% | 1.3% | |||
| 37 | Chimney Swift |
|
16.9% | 23.3% | 6.5% | |||
| 38 | Canada Goose |
|
24.4% | 23.3% | 1.1% | |||
| 39 | Summer Tanager |
|
14.6% | 22.3% | 7.7% | |||
| 40 | Northern Flicker |
|
7.5% | 21.7% | 14.2% | |||
| 41 | Fish Crow |
|
25.2% | 21.5% | 3.7% | |||
| 42 | Black Vulture |
|
16.8% | 21.2% | 4.4% | |||
| 43 | Mallard |
|
21.6% | 20.6% | 1.0% | |||
| 44 | House Finch |
|
20.4% | 20.1% | 0.3% | |||
| 45 | Magnolia Warbler |
|
0.6% | 17.7% | 17.0% | |||
| 46 | Indigo Bunting |
|
28.2% | 17.5% | 10.7% | |||
| 47 | Yellow-billed Cuckoo |
|
14.5% | 16.6% | 2.1% | |||
| 48 | Chipping Sparrow |
|
20.7% | 16.1% | 4.5% | |||
| 49 | Hairy Woodpecker |
|
9.0% | 16.0% | 7.0% | |||
| 50 | Double-crested Cormorant |
|
15.2% | 15.1% | 0.0% | |||
| 51 | Red-headed Woodpecker |
|
10.3% | 14.2% | 3.9% | |||
| 52 | Osprey |
|
23.1% | 13.5% | 9.6% | |||
| 53 | Bald Eagle |
|
10.0% | 13.2% | 3.2% | |||
| 54 | Blue Grosbeak |
|
23.0% | 11.2% | 11.8% | |||
| 55 | Great Crested Flycatcher |
|
17.7% | 10.9% | 6.7% | |||
| 56 | Cape May Warbler |
|
0.0% | 10.6% | 10.5% | |||
| 57 | Chestnut-sided Warbler |
|
1.5% | 9.7% | 8.2% | |||
| 58 | Green Heron |
|
15.4% | 9.7% | 5.7% | |||
| 59 | Scarlet Tanager |
|
1.4% | 9.7% | 8.3% | |||
| 60 | Song Sparrow |
|
9.7% | 9.6% | 0.1% | |||
| 61 | European Starling |
|
8.4% | 9.1% | 0.7% | |||
| 62 | Yellow-throated Vireo |
|
4.2% | 8.6% | 4.4% | |||
| 63 | Red-tailed Hawk |
|
9.7% | 8.2% | 1.5% | |||
| 64 | Acadian Flycatcher |
|
9.7% | 8.1% | 1.6% | |||
| 65 | House Wren |
|
3.8% | 7.7% | 3.9% | |||
| 66 | Wood Duck |
|
10.2% | 7.3% | 2.9% | |||
| 67 | Hooded Warbler |
|
3.1% | 6.9% | 3.8% | |||
| 68 | Rose-breasted Grosbeak |
|
0.0% | 6.9% | 6.9% | |||
| 69 | Cedar Waxwing |
|
1.6% | 6.3% | 4.7% | |||
| 70 | Least Sandpiper |
|
9.2% | 6.3% | 3.0% | |||
| 71 | Swainson's Thrush |
|
0% | 6.0% | 6.0% | |||
| 72 | Yellow-throated Warbler |
|
1.9% | 5.9% | 3.9% | |||
| 73 | Solitary Sandpiper |
|
7.4% | 5.6% | 1.8% | |||
| 74 | Barred Owl |
|
4.7% | 5.6% | 0.9% | |||
| 75 | Spotted Sandpiper |
|
10.6% | 5.5% | 5.1% | |||
| 76 | Palm Warbler |
|
0.0% | 5.1% | 5.0% | |||
| 77 | Cooper's Hawk |
|
4.3% | 5.0% | 0.7% | |||
| 78 | Veery |
|
0.3% | 4.7% | 4.4% | |||
| 79 | Common Grackle |
|
9.3% | 4.5% | 4.8% | |||
| 80 | Black-throated Blue Warbler |
|
0.2% | 4.4% | 4.2% | |||
| 81 | Yellow Warbler |
|
2.6% | 4.4% | 1.9% | |||
| 82 | Lesser Yellowlegs |
|
4.8% | 4.3% | 0.5% | |||
| 83 | Pectoral Sandpiper |
|
5.7% | 4.3% | 1.4% | |||
| 84 | Prairie Warbler |
|
2.7% | 4.1% | 1.4% | |||
| 85 | Brown-headed Cowbird |
|
5.1% | 3.9% | 1.2% | |||
| 86 | Rock Pigeon |
|
5.0% | 3.8% | 1.2% | |||
| 87 | Blue-winged Warbler |
|
0.9% | 3.8% | 2.9% | |||
| 88 | Northern Waterthrush |
|
1.2% | 3.8% | 2.6% | |||
| 89 | Wood Thrush |
|
1.2% | 3.6% | 2.4% | |||
| 90 | Semipalmated Plover |
|
4.6% | 3.4% | 1.2% | |||
| 91 | Ovenbird |
|
1.3% | 3.3% | 2.0% | |||
| 92 | American Kestrel |
|
1.4% | 3.1% | 1.7% | |||
| 93 | Tennessee Warbler |
|
0.1% | 3.1% | 3.0% | |||
| 94 | Semipalmated Sandpiper |
|
3.6% | 3.1% | 0.6% | |||
| 95 | Worm-eating Warbler |
|
1.8% | 3.0% | 1.2% | |||
| 96 | Baltimore Oriole |
|
0.9% | 2.7% | 1.8% | |||
| 97 | Blackburnian Warbler |
|
0.2% | 2.6% | 2.4% | |||
| 98 | Blue-winged Teal |
|
2.0% | 2.4% | 0.3% | |||
| 99 | Greater Yellowlegs |
|
3.2% | 2.3% | 0.9% | |||
| 100 | Black-throated Green Warbler |
|
0.0% | 2.2% | 2.2% | |||
| 101 | Ruby-crowned Kinglet |
|
0.0% | 2.0% | 2.0% | |||
| 102 | Bay-breasted Warbler |
|
0.0% | 2.0% | 1.9% | |||
| 103 | Eastern Kingbird |
|
13.1% | 1.8% | 11.3% | |||
| 104 | Caspian Tern |
|
1.8% | 1.8% | 0.1% | |||
| 105 | Stilt Sandpiper |
|
1.2% | 1.6% | 0.4% | |||
| 106 | Little Blue Heron |
|
8.1% | 1.6% | 6.6% | |||
| 107 | Red-winged Blackbird |
|
5.1% | 1.5% | 3.6% | |||
| 108 | Yellow-breasted Chat |
|
1.6% | 1.4% | 0.2% | |||
| 109 | Bobolink |
|
0.4% | 1.4% | 1.0% | |||
| 110 | Barn Swallow |
|
11.5% | 1.4% | 10.1% | |||
| 111 | Muscovy Duck |
|
0.8% | 1.3% | 0.5% | |||
| 112 | Philadelphia Vireo |
|
0.0% | 1.3% | 1.3% | |||
| 113 | Field Sparrow |
|
2.3% | 1.2% | 1.1% | |||
| 114 | Graylag Goose |
|
0.8% | 1.2% | 0.4% | |||
| 115 | Pied-billed Grebe |
|
0.4% | 1.1% | 0.8% | |||
| 116 | Nashville Warbler |
|
0.0% | 1.1% | 1.1% | |||
| 117 | Wood Stork |
|
2.0% | 1.1% | 0.9% | |||
| 118 | Common Nighthawk |
|
0.7% | 1.1% | 0.4% | |||
| 119 | Forster's Tern |
|
1.0% | 1.1% | 0.1% | |||
| 120 | Least Flycatcher |
|
0.2% | 1.1% | 0.9% | |||
| 121 | Canada Warbler |
|
0.4% | 1.1% | 0.7% | |||
| 122 | American Golden-Plover |
|
0.5% | 1.1% | 0.6% | |||
| 123 | Red-breasted Nuthatch |
|
0.0% | 1.0% | 1.0% | |||
| 124 | Broad-winged Hawk |
|
0.7% | 1.0% | 0.3% | |||
| 125 | Sanderling |
|
0.6% | 1.0% | 0.4% | |||
| 126 | Great Horned Owl |
|
1.0% | 1.0% | 0.1% | |||
| 127 | Wild Turkey |
|
0.8% | 0.9% | 0.1% | |||
| 128 | Tricolored Heron |
|
3.0% | 0.9% | 2.1% | |||
| 129 | Eastern Meadowlark |
|
2.0% | 0.9% | 1.2% | |||
| 130 | Short-billed Dowitcher |
|
1.3% | 0.9% | 0.5% | |||
| 131 | American Avocet |
|
1.2% | 0.9% | 0.3% | |||
| 132 | Snowy Egret |
|
2.3% | 0.8% | 1.5% | |||
| 133 | Northern Shoveler |
|
0.1% | 0.8% | 0.7% | |||
| 134 | White Ibis |
|
2.4% | 0.8% | 1.6% | |||
| 135 | Common Tern |
|
0.2% | 0.7% | 0.5% | |||
| 136 | Black-bellied Plover |
|
0.3% | 0.7% | 0.4% | |||
| 137 | Gray-cheeked Thrush |
|
0% | 0.7% | 0.7% | |||
| 138 | Buff-breasted Sandpiper |
|
0.0% | 0.7% | 0.6% | |||
| 139 | Black Tern |
|
1.2% | 0.7% | 0.5% | |||
| 140 | House Sparrow |
|
1.2% | 0.7% | 0.5% | |||
| 141 | Sharp-shinned Hawk |
|
0.2% | 0.7% | 0.5% | |||
| 142 | Yellow-rumped Warbler |
|
0% | 0.7% | 0.7% | |||
| 143 | Blue-headed Vireo |
|
0.1% | 0.6% | 0.6% | |||
| 144 | Kirtland's Warbler |
|
0% | 0.6% | 0.6% | |||
| 145 | Golden-winged Warbler |
|
0.1% | 0.6% | 0.5% | |||
| 146 | White-rumped Sandpiper |
|
0.5% | 0.6% | 0.1% | |||
| 147 | Prothonotary Warbler |
|
2.5% | 0.6% | 1.9% | |||
| 148 | Western Sandpiper |
|
0.8% | 0.6% | 0.2% | |||
| 149 | Merlin |
|
0.0% | 0.6% | 0.5% | |||
| 150 | Common Raven |
|
0.2% | 0.6% | 0.3% | |||
| 151 | Wilson's Snipe |
|
0.1% | 0.6% | 0.4% | |||
| 152 | Roseate Spoonbill |
|
1.8% | 0.6% | 1.2% | |||
| 153 | Blackpoll Warbler |
|
0.0% | 0.5% | 0.5% | |||
| 154 | Tree Swallow |
|
0.5% | 0.5% | 0.0% | |||
| 155 | Northern Harrier |
|
0.1% | 0.5% | 0.4% | |||
| 156 | Peregrine Falcon |
|
0.0% | 0.5% | 0.4% | |||
| 157 | Baird's Sandpiper |
|
1.1% | 0.5% | 0.6% | |||
| 158 | Olive-sided Flycatcher |
|
0.2% | 0.4% | 0.2% | |||
| 159 | Yellow-bellied Flycatcher |
|
0.1% | 0.4% | 0.4% | |||
| 160 | Wilson's Warbler |
|
0.0% | 0.4% | 0.4% | |||
| 161 | Northern Rough-winged Swallow |
|
0.8% | 0.4% | 0.3% | |||
| 162 | Eastern Screech-Owl |
|
0.2% | 0.4% | 0.2% | |||
| 163 | Royal Tern |
|
0.1% | 0.4% | 0.3% | |||
| 164 | Common Gallinule |
|
0.0% | 0.4% | 0.3% | |||
| 165 | Laughing Gull |
|
0.4% | 0.3% | 0.0% | |||
| 166 | Marsh Wren |
|
0.0% | 0.3% | 0.3% | |||
| 167 | Ring-billed Gull |
|
0.2% | 0.3% | 0.1% | |||
| 168 | Mute Swan |
|
0.4% | 0.3% | 0.1% | |||
| 169 | Black-crowned Night-Heron |
|
0.3% | 0.3% | 0.0% | |||
| 170 | Yellow-bellied Sapsucker |
|
0.0% | 0.2% | 0.2% | |||
| 171 | Yellow-crowned Night-Heron |
|
1.4% | 0.2% | 1.2% | |||
| 172 | Anhinga |
|
1.9% | 0.2% | 1.7% | |||
| 173 | Black-billed Cuckoo |
|
0% | 0.2% | 0.2% | |||
| 174 | Purple Martin |
|
2.6% | 0.2% | 2.4% | |||
| 175 | Limpkin |
|
0.4% | 0.2% | 0.2% | |||
| 176 | Lark Sparrow |
|
0.5% | 0.2% | 0.3% | |||
| 177 | Green-winged Teal |
|
0.0% | 0.2% | 0.1% | |||
| 178 | Loggerhead Shrike |
|
0.2% | 0.2% | 0.0% | |||
| 179 | Red-necked Phalarope |
|
0.1% | 0.2% | 0.1% | |||
| 180 | Ruddy Turnstone |
|
0.2% | 0.1% | 0.0% | |||
| 181 | Horned Lark |
|
0.2% | 0.1% | 0.0% | |||
| 182 | Eastern Whip-poor-will |
|
0.2% | 0.1% | 0.1% | |||
| 183 | Sora |
|
0.0% | 0.1% | 0.1% | |||
| 184 | Kentucky Warbler |
|
0.7% | 0.1% | 0.5% | |||
| 185 | Connecticut Warbler |
|
0% | 0.1% | 0.1% | |||
| 186 | Warbling Vireo |
|
0.0% | 0.1% | 0.1% | |||
| 187 | Hudsonian Godwit |
|
0.0% | 0.1% | 0.1% | |||
| 188 | Wilson's Phalarope |
|
1.0% | 0.1% | 0.9% | |||
| 189 | American Black Duck |
|
0.1% | 0.1% | 0.0% | |||
| 190 | Sandwich Tern |
|
0% | 0.1% | 0.1% | |||
| 191 | Mississippi Kite |
|
1.3% | 0.1% | 1.2% | |||
| 192 | Willow Flycatcher |
|
0.0% | 0.1% | 0.1% | |||
| 193 | Western Kingbird |
|
0% | 0.1% | 0.1% | |||
| 194 | American Herring Gull |
|
0.1% | 0.1% | 0.0% | |||
| 195 | Winter Wren |
|
0% | 0.1% | 0.1% | |||
| 196 | Bank Swallow |
|
0.1% | 0.1% | 0.0% | |||
| 197 | Glossy Ibis |
|
0.0% | 0.1% | 0.0% | |||
| 198 | Lesser Black-backed Gull |
|
0% | 0.1% | 0.1% | |||
| 199 | Orchard Oriole |
|
1.9% | 0.1% | 1.9% | |||
| 200 | American Pipit |
|
0.0% | 0.1% | 0.0% | |||
| 201 | American Wigeon |
|
0% | 0.1% | 0.1% | |||
| 202 | Mourning Warbler |
|
0% | 0.1% | 0.1% | |||
| 203 | Northern Bobwhite |
|
0.9% | 0.1% | 0.8% | |||
| 204 | Least Tern |
|
0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | |||
| 205 | Long-billed Dowitcher |
|
0.0% | 0.1% | 0.0% | |||
| 206 | Sabine's Gull |
|
0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | |||
| 207 | Hooded Merganser |
|
0.2% | 0.0% | 0.2% | |||
| 208 | Grasshopper Sparrow |
|
1.1% | 0.0% | 1.1% | |||
| 209 | Parasitic Jaeger |
|
0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | |||
| 210 | Marbled Godwit |
|
0.1% | 0.0% | 0.0% | |||
| 211 | Brown Booby |
|
0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | |||
| 212 | Sedge Wren |
|
0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | |||
| 213 | Swamp Sparrow |
|
0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | |||
| 214 | Brewster's Warbler (hybrid) |
|
0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | |||
| 215 | Dickcissel |
|
0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | |||
| 216 | Ruddy Duck |
|
0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | |||
| 217 | Gadwall |
|
0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | |||
| 218 | Clapper Rail |
|
0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | |||
| 219 | Virginia Rail |
|
0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | |||
| 220 | Sooty Tern |
|
0.3% | 0.0% | 0.2% | |||
| 221 | American Coot |
|
0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | |||
| 222 | Cliff Swallow |
|
0.8% | 0.0% | 0.8% | |||
| 223 | Orange-crowned Warbler |
|
0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | |||
| 224 | Savannah Sparrow |
|
0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | |||
| 225 | Northern Pintail |
|
0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | |||
| 226 | White-throated Sparrow |
|
0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | |||
| 227 | American Bittern |
|
0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | |||
| 228 | Red Phalarope |
|
0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | |||
| 229 | Ring-necked Duck |
|
0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | |||
| 230 | Brown Pelican |
|
0.5% | 0.0% | 0.4% | |||
| 231 | American Oystercatcher |
|
0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | |||
| 232 | Alder Flycatcher |
|
0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | |||
| 233 | Bridled Tern |
|
0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | |||
| 234 | Leach's Storm-Petrel |
|
0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | |||
| 235 | Great Black-backed Gull |
|
0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | |||
| 236 | Brown Creeper |
|
0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | |||
| 237 | Hermit Thrush |
|
0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | |||
| 238 | Lincoln's Sparrow |
|
0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | |||
| 239 | Louisiana Waterthrush |
|
1.0% | 0.0% | 1.0% | |||
| 240 | Pine Siskin |
|
0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | |||
| 241 | Dunlin |
|
0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | |||
| 242 | Wilson's Storm-Petrel |
|
0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | |||
| 243 | Red Knot |
|
0.1% | 0.0% | 0.1% | |||
| 244 | Chuck-will's-widow |
|
0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | |||
| 245 | Swainson's Warbler |
|
0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | |||
| 246 | American Woodcock |
|
0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | |||
| 247 | White-crowned Sparrow |
|
0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | |||
| 248 | Willet |
|
0.2% | 0.0% | 0.2% | |||
| 249 | Ruff |
|
0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | |||
| 250 | Arctic Tern |
|
0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | |||
| 251 | Nelson's Sparrow |
|
0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | |||
| 252 | Bonaparte's Gull |
|
0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | |||
| 253 | King Rail |
|
0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | |||
| 254 | Rufous Hummingbird |
|
0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | |||
| 255 | Upland Sandpiper |
|
0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | |||
| 256 | Red-cockaded Woodpecker |
|
0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | |||
| 257 | Seaside Sparrow |
|
0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | |||
| 258 | Lawrence's Warbler (hybrid) |
|
0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | |||
| 259 | Swan Goose |
|
0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | |||
| 260 | American Barn Owl |
|
0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | |||
| 261 | Western Cattle-Egret |
|
0.1% | 0.0% | 0.1% | |||
| 262 | Least Bittern |
|
0.1% | 0.0% | 0.1% |