Top Birds in September
within 25 miles of Cary, NC, USA
based on 10938 checklists in 385 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 | Relative | |
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1 | Carolina Wren |
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72.4% | 76.9% | 4.5% | 1.1x | |||
2 | Northern Cardinal |
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66.2% | 73.4% | 7.3% | 1.1x | |||
3 | Carolina Chickadee |
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58.3% | 71.2% | 12.9% | 1.2x | |||
4 | Tufted Titmouse |
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52.4% | 65.4% | 13.0% | 1.2x | |||
5 | American Crow |
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53.8% | 64.8% | 11.0% | 1.2x | |||
6 | Blue Jay |
|
36.6% | 60.4% | 23.8% | 1.6x | |||
7 | Downy Woodpecker |
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40.5% | 56.2% | 15.7% | 1.4x | |||
8 | Red-bellied Woodpecker |
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38.9% | 55.9% | 17.0% | 1.4x | |||
9 | American Goldfinch |
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59.4% | 47.2% | 12.2% | 0.8x | |||
10 | Great Blue Heron |
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46.6% | 44.7% | 2.0% | 1.0x | |||
11 | Gray Catbird |
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27.2% | 42.8% | 15.6% | 1.6x | |||
12 | Eastern Bluebird |
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39.8% | 42.2% | 2.4% | 1.1x | |||
13 | Pine Warbler |
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16.2% | 40.5% | 24.4% | 2.5x | |||
14 | Turkey Vulture |
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31.5% | 39.5% | 8.0% | 1.3x | |||
15 | Mourning Dove |
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47.6% | 38.3% | 9.3% | 0.8x | |||
16 | Eastern Phoebe |
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20.1% | 37.1% | 17.1% | 1.9x | |||
17 | Red-shouldered Hawk |
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25.3% | 36.6% | 11.3% | 1.4x | |||
18 | White-breasted Nuthatch |
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27.7% | 36.4% | 8.6% | 1.3x | |||
19 | Brown-headed Nuthatch |
|
26.2% | 36.0% | 9.7% | 1.4x | |||
20 | White-eyed Vireo |
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20.5% | 33.5% | 13.0% | 1.6x | |||
21 | Ruby-throated Hummingbird |
|
34.0% | 32.7% | 1.3% | 1.0x | |||
22 | Northern Mockingbird |
|
29.4% | 31.1% | 1.8% | 1.1x | |||
23 | American Redstart |
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6.3% | 30.9% | 24.6% | 4.9x | |||
24 | Brown Thrasher |
|
15.1% | 30.5% | 15.4% | 2.0x | |||
25 | Common Yellowthroat |
|
12.1% | 29.8% | 17.8% | 2.5x | |||
26 | American Robin |
|
28.2% | 29.3% | 1.2% | 1.0x | |||
27 | Great Egret |
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33.4% | 29.3% | 4.1% | 0.9x | |||
28 | Red-eyed Vireo |
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21.6% | 28.6% | 7.0% | 1.3x | |||
29 | Belted Kingfisher |
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22.7% | 28.1% | 5.4% | 1.2x | |||
30 | Eastern Wood-Pewee |
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19.3% | 27.8% | 8.4% | 1.4x | |||
31 | Blue-gray Gnatcatcher |
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40.7% | 26.4% | 14.3% | 0.6x | |||
32 | Eastern Towhee |
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25.2% | 26.3% | 1.1% | 1.0x | |||
33 | Northern Parula |
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7.4% | 25.0% | 17.6% | 3.4x | |||
34 | Canada Goose |
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25.9% | 24.8% | 1.1% | 1.0x | |||
35 | Pileated Woodpecker |
|
15.9% | 24.5% | 8.6% | 1.5x | |||
36 | Chimney Swift |
|
18.5% | 24.5% | 5.9% | 1.3x | |||
37 | Black-and-white Warbler |
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5.6% | 24.2% | 18.6% | 4.3x | |||
38 | Killdeer |
|
22.8% | 23.9% | 1.1% | 1.0x | |||
39 | Northern Flicker |
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8.8% | 22.5% | 13.7% | 2.6x | |||
40 | Summer Tanager |
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14.7% | 22.3% | 7.7% | 1.5x | |||
41 | Fish Crow |
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25.8% | 21.9% | 3.9% | 0.8x | |||
42 | Black Vulture |
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15.8% | 21.2% | 5.4% | 1.3x | |||
43 | Mallard |
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23.0% | 20.1% | 2.9% | 0.9x | |||
44 | House Finch |
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20.1% | 19.5% | 0.6% | 1.0x | |||
45 | Magnolia Warbler |
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0.6% | 17.5% | 16.9% | 29.8x | |||
46 | Indigo Bunting |
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28.0% | 17.4% | 10.6% | 0.6x | |||
47 | Yellow-billed Cuckoo |
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15.7% | 15.4% | 0.3% | 1.0x | |||
48 | Double-crested Cormorant |
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14.9% | 15.4% | 0.5% | 1.0x | |||
49 | Red-headed Woodpecker |
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10.4% | 14.8% | 4.4% | 1.4x | |||
50 | Chipping Sparrow |
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18.5% | 14.3% | 4.2% | 0.8x | |||
51 | Hairy Woodpecker |
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8.0% | 14.2% | 6.3% | 1.8x | |||
52 | Osprey |
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20.8% | 12.9% | 7.9% | 0.6x | |||
53 | Bald Eagle |
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9.0% | 12.2% | 3.3% | 1.4x | |||
54 | Blue Grosbeak |
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22.1% | 11.4% | 10.7% | 0.5x | |||
55 | European Starling |
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9.9% | 10.9% | 0.9% | 1.1x | |||
56 | Green Heron |
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18.2% | 10.7% | 7.5% | 0.6x | |||
57 | Great Crested Flycatcher |
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17.9% | 10.6% | 7.3% | 0.6x | |||
58 | Cape May Warbler |
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0.0% | 9.9% | 9.8% | 368.5x | |||
59 | Chestnut-sided Warbler |
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1.7% | 9.5% | 7.8% | 5.5x | |||
60 | Scarlet Tanager |
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1.4% | 9.5% | 8.1% | 6.8x | |||
61 | Red-tailed Hawk |
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10.2% | 9.4% | 0.8% | 0.9x | |||
62 | Song Sparrow |
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9.5% | 9.2% | 0.3% | 1.0x | |||
63 | House Wren |
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4.6% | 8.5% | 3.9% | 1.8x | |||
64 | Wood Duck |
|
11.0% | 8.5% | 2.5% | 0.8x | |||
65 | Yellow-throated Vireo |
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3.6% | 7.6% | 4.0% | 2.1x | |||
66 | Cedar Waxwing |
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1.4% | 7.1% | 5.7% | 5.0x | |||
67 | Hooded Warbler |
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3.1% | 7.0% | 3.9% | 2.2x | |||
68 | Rose-breasted Grosbeak |
|
0% | 6.8% | 6.8% | ∞ | |||
69 | Acadian Flycatcher |
|
9.6% | 6.8% | 2.8% | 0.7x | |||
70 | Least Sandpiper |
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8.6% | 6.2% | 2.4% | 0.7x | |||
71 | Spotted Sandpiper |
|
10.8% | 5.7% | 5.0% | 0.5x | |||
72 | Barred Owl |
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4.6% | 5.7% | 1.1% | 1.2x | |||
73 | Common Grackle |
|
10.0% | 5.4% | 4.6% | 0.5x | |||
74 | Black-throated Blue Warbler |
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0.2% | 5.3% | 5.1% | 23.4x | |||
75 | Cooper's Hawk |
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4.5% | 5.2% | 0.7% | 1.2x | |||
76 | Solitary Sandpiper |
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7.5% | 5.1% | 2.4% | 0.7x | |||
77 | Swainson's Thrush |
|
0% | 5.0% | 5.0% | ∞ | |||
78 | Palm Warbler |
|
0.0% | 4.9% | 4.9% | 122.6x | |||
79 | Yellow-throated Warbler |
|
1.8% | 4.8% | 3.0% | 2.7x | |||
80 | Pectoral Sandpiper |
|
5.9% | 4.7% | 1.2% | 0.8x | |||
81 | Rock Pigeon |
|
5.7% | 4.5% | 1.2% | 0.8x | |||
82 | Prairie Warbler |
|
2.9% | 4.5% | 1.6% | 1.6x | |||
83 | Lesser Yellowlegs |
|
4.4% | 4.5% | 0.1% | 1.0x | |||
84 | Blue-winged Warbler |
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1.2% | 4.4% | 3.2% | 3.6x | |||
85 | Brown-headed Cowbird |
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5.7% | 4.4% | 1.3% | 0.8x | |||
86 | Veery |
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0.2% | 4.1% | 3.9% | 20.3x | |||
87 | Yellow Warbler |
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2.3% | 3.7% | 1.4% | 1.6x | |||
88 | American Kestrel |
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2.1% | 3.7% | 1.6% | 1.8x | |||
89 | Northern Waterthrush |
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0.9% | 3.6% | 2.7% | 4.1x | |||
90 | Ovenbird |
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1.2% | 3.4% | 2.2% | 2.8x | |||
91 | Wood Thrush |
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1.4% | 3.4% | 2.0% | 2.4x | |||
92 | Worm-eating Warbler |
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1.8% | 3.3% | 1.5% | 1.8x | |||
93 | Semipalmated Plover |
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4.0% | 3.2% | 0.7% | 0.8x | |||
94 | Semipalmated Sandpiper |
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3.6% | 3.0% | 0.6% | 0.8x | |||
95 | Tennessee Warbler |
|
0.1% | 2.9% | 2.8% | 35.8x | |||
96 | Baltimore Oriole |
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0.6% | 2.8% | 2.2% | 4.4x | |||
97 | Empidonax sp. |
|
0.7% | 2.8% | 2.1% | 4.0x | |||
98 | Blue-winged Teal |
|
1.2% | 2.6% | 1.4% | 2.2x | |||
99 | Greater Yellowlegs |
|
3.2% | 2.3% | 0.9% | 0.7x | |||
100 | Black-throated Green Warbler |
|
0.0% | 2.3% | 2.3% | 85.5x | |||
101 | Ruby-crowned Kinglet |
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0.0% | 2.3% | 2.3% | 170.2x | |||
102 | Blackburnian Warbler |
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0.1% | 2.2% | 2.1% | 16.5x | |||
103 | Little Blue Heron |
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7.2% | 2.0% | 5.3% | 0.3x | |||
104 | Stilt Sandpiper |
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1.3% | 1.9% | 0.6% | 1.5x | |||
105 | Caspian Tern |
|
2.0% | 1.8% | 0.1% | 0.9x | |||
106 | Yellow-breasted Chat |
|
1.5% | 1.7% | 0.2% | 1.1x | |||
107 | Barn Swallow |
|
11.4% | 1.7% | 9.7% | 0.1x | |||
108 | Bobolink |
|
0.6% | 1.7% | 1.1% | 2.9x | |||
109 | Red-winged Blackbird |
|
6.0% | 1.7% | 4.3% | 0.3x | |||
110 | warbler sp. (Parulidae sp.) |
|
0.4% | 1.6% | 1.2% | 3.8x | |||
111 | peep sp. |
|
2.0% | 1.6% | 0.3% | 0.8x | |||
112 | Eastern Kingbird |
|
13.9% | 1.6% | 12.3% | 0.1x | |||
113 | Field Sparrow |
|
2.6% | 1.6% | 1.0% | 0.6x | |||
114 | Red-breasted Nuthatch |
|
0.0% | 1.4% | 1.4% | 52.0x | |||
115 | Pied-billed Grebe |
|
0.5% | 1.4% | 0.9% | 2.8x | |||
116 | Tricolored Heron |
|
4.0% | 1.3% | 2.7% | 0.3x | |||
117 | Wood Stork |
|
1.8% | 1.3% | 0.6% | 0.7x | |||
118 | Short-billed Dowitcher |
|
2.0% | 1.2% | 0.7% | 0.6x | |||
119 | Philadelphia Vireo |
|
0.0% | 1.2% | 1.2% | 92.3x | |||
120 | Forster's Tern |
|
0.5% | 1.2% | 0.7% | 2.6x | |||
121 | Canada Warbler |
|
0.3% | 1.2% | 0.8% | 3.5x | |||
122 | Graylag Goose |
|
1.2% | 1.2% | 0.0% | 1.0x | |||
123 | crow sp. |
|
1.4% | 1.1% | 0.2% | 0.8x | |||
124 | Nashville Warbler |
|
0.0% | 1.1% | 1.1% | 28.0x | |||
125 | Muscovy Duck |
|
0.9% | 1.1% | 0.2% | 1.2x | |||
126 | Wild Turkey |
|
1.0% | 1.1% | 0.1% | 1.1x | |||
127 | Common Nighthawk |
|
0.7% | 1.0% | 0.3% | 1.4x | |||
128 | Kirtland's Warbler |
|
0% | 1.0% | 1.0% | ∞ | |||
129 | Eastern Meadowlark |
|
2.0% | 1.0% | 1.0% | 0.5x | |||
130 | Broad-winged Hawk |
|
0.7% | 1.0% | 0.3% | 1.4x | |||
131 | Sanderling |
|
0.5% | 1.0% | 0.4% | 1.8x | |||
132 | Bay-breasted Warbler |
|
0.0% | 0.9% | 0.9% | 65.6x | |||
133 | Western Sandpiper |
|
0.6% | 0.9% | 0.2% | 1.4x | |||
134 | Snowy Egret |
|
2.2% | 0.9% | 1.4% | 0.4x | |||
135 | Blue-headed Vireo |
|
0.1% | 0.9% | 0.8% | 9.1x | |||
136 | Great Horned Owl |
|
1.0% | 0.8% | 0.2% | 0.8x | |||
137 | hawk sp. |
|
0.5% | 0.8% | 0.3% | 1.7x | |||
138 | American Avocet |
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1.7% | 0.8% | 0.9% | 0.5x | |||
139 | House Sparrow |
|
1.3% | 0.8% | 0.5% | 0.6x | |||
140 | Black Tern |
|
1.5% | 0.8% | 0.7% | 0.5x | |||
141 | White Ibis |
|
2.3% | 0.8% | 1.5% | 0.3x | |||
142 | Roseate Spoonbill |
|
2.5% | 0.8% | 1.8% | 0.3x | |||
143 | Least Flycatcher |
|
0.1% | 0.7% | 0.6% | 5.6x | |||
144 | Baird's Sandpiper |
|
0.5% | 0.7% | 0.3% | 1.6x | |||
145 | Common Tern |
|
0.3% | 0.7% | 0.4% | 2.7x | |||
146 | Northern Shoveler |
|
0.2% | 0.7% | 0.5% | 4.3x | |||
147 | Sharp-shinned Hawk |
|
0.2% | 0.7% | 0.5% | 4.3x | |||
148 | Yellow-rumped Warbler |
|
0% | 0.7% | 0.7% | ∞ | |||
149 | Golden-winged Warbler |
|
0.1% | 0.7% | 0.6% | 10.0x | |||
150 | Blackpoll Warbler |
|
0% | 0.6% | 0.6% | ∞ | |||
151 | Gray-cheeked Thrush |
|
0% | 0.6% | 0.6% | ∞ | |||
152 | Yellow-bellied Flycatcher |
|
0.1% | 0.6% | 0.5% | 5.8x | |||
153 | Royal Tern |
|
0.1% | 0.6% | 0.5% | 6.3x | |||
154 | Prothonotary Warbler |
|
2.5% | 0.6% | 1.9% | 0.2x | |||
155 | Common Gallinule |
|
0% | 0.6% | 0.6% | ∞ | |||
156 | Common Raven |
|
0.2% | 0.5% | 0.4% | 3.1x | |||
157 | Buff-breasted Sandpiper |
|
0.1% | 0.5% | 0.5% | 10.1x | |||
158 | Tree Swallow |
|
0.5% | 0.5% | 0.1% | 1.1x | |||
159 | Merlin |
|
0.0% | 0.5% | 0.5% | 13.2x | |||
160 | duck sp. |
|
0.4% | 0.5% | 0.2% | 1.5x | |||
161 | Northern Harrier |
|
0.1% | 0.5% | 0.3% | 3.5x | |||
162 | Eastern Screech-Owl |
|
0.2% | 0.5% | 0.3% | 2.7x | |||
163 | passerine sp. |
|
0.1% | 0.5% | 0.3% | 3.2x | |||
164 | Catharus sp. |
|
0% | 0.5% | 0.5% | ∞ | |||
165 | Marsh Wren |
|
0% | 0.5% | 0.5% | ∞ | |||
166 | Wilson's Warbler |
|
0.0% | 0.4% | 0.4% | 33.5x | |||
167 | Wilson's Snipe |
|
0.1% | 0.4% | 0.4% | 8.4x | |||
168 | White-rumped Sandpiper |
|
0.3% | 0.4% | 0.2% | 1.6x | |||
169 | Ring-billed Gull |
|
0.3% | 0.4% | 0.2% | 1.6x | |||
170 | American Golden-Plover |
|
0.1% | 0.4% | 0.3% | 3.9x | |||
171 | Peregrine Falcon |
|
0.1% | 0.4% | 0.3% | 6.2x | |||
172 | Laughing Gull |
|
0.2% | 0.4% | 0.2% | 1.7x | |||
173 | Mute Swan |
|
0.3% | 0.4% | 0.0% | 1.1x | |||
174 | Downy/Hairy Woodpecker |
|
0.3% | 0.4% | 0.0% | 1.1x | |||
175 | Sterna sp. |
|
0.0% | 0.4% | 0.3% | 13.3x | |||
176 | Yellow-bellied Sapsucker |
|
0.0% | 0.3% | 0.3% | 23.2x | |||
177 | swallow sp. |
|
0.7% | 0.3% | 0.4% | 0.4x | |||
178 | Northern Rough-winged Swallow |
|
0.8% | 0.3% | 0.5% | 0.4x | |||
179 | Black-billed Cuckoo |
|
0% | 0.3% | 0.3% | ∞ | |||
180 | Black-bellied Plover |
|
0.1% | 0.3% | 0.1% | 1.9x | |||
181 | Yellow-crowned Night-Heron |
|
1.4% | 0.3% | 1.1% | 0.2x | |||
182 | Lark Sparrow |
|
0.1% | 0.3% | 0.2% | 5.1x | |||
183 | new world sparrow sp. |
|
0.2% | 0.3% | 0.0% | 1.1x | |||
184 | Red-necked Phalarope |
|
0.1% | 0.3% | 0.1% | 1.8x | |||
185 | Black-crowned Night-Heron |
|
0.4% | 0.3% | 0.1% | 0.6x | |||
186 | Anhinga |
|
1.7% | 0.2% | 1.4% | 0.1x | |||
187 | Greater/Lesser Yellowlegs |
|
0.2% | 0.2% | 0.0% | 1.1x | |||
188 | Ruddy Turnstone |
|
0.1% | 0.2% | 0.1% | 1.8x | |||
189 | Horned Lark |
|
0.1% | 0.2% | 0.1% | 1.5x | |||
190 | Buteo sp. |
|
0.3% | 0.2% | 0.0% | 0.8x | |||
191 | Green-winged Teal |
|
0.0% | 0.2% | 0.2% | 7.9x | |||
192 | Loggerhead Shrike |
|
0.3% | 0.2% | 0.1% | 0.8x | |||
193 | Accipiter sp. |
|
0.1% | 0.2% | 0.1% | 1.7x | |||
194 | new world vulture sp. |
|
0.3% | 0.2% | 0.1% | 0.8x | |||
195 | American/Fish Crow |
|
0.2% | 0.2% | 0.0% | 1.0x | |||
196 | Hudsonian Godwit |
|
0.0% | 0.2% | 0.2% | 13.7x | |||
197 | Sora |
|
0.1% | 0.2% | 0.1% | 3.2x | |||
198 | shorebird sp. |
|
0.2% | 0.2% | 0.0% | 1.0x | |||
199 | Kentucky Warbler |
|
0.9% | 0.2% | 0.7% | 0.2x | |||
200 | Purple Martin |
|
2.3% | 0.2% | 2.2% | 0.1x | |||
201 | Sandwich Tern |
|
0% | 0.2% | 0.2% | ∞ | |||
202 | Mississippi Kite |
|
0.9% | 0.1% | 0.7% | 0.2x | |||
203 | Wilson's Phalarope |
|
0.5% | 0.1% | 0.3% | 0.3x | |||
204 | American Black Duck |
|
0.1% | 0.1% | 0.0% | 1.3x | |||
205 | Connecticut Warbler |
|
0% | 0.1% | 0.1% | ∞ | |||
206 | Sharp-shinned/Cooper's Hawk |
|
0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 1.7x | |||
207 | Warbling Vireo |
|
0% | 0.1% | 0.1% | ∞ | |||
208 | Eastern Whip-poor-will |
|
0.2% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.5x | |||
209 | Herring Gull |
|
0.1% | 0.1% | 0.0% | 1.2x | |||
210 | woodpecker sp. |
|
0.1% | 0.1% | 0.0% | 0.7x | |||
211 | Alder/Willow Flycatcher (Traill's Flycatcher) |
|
0.1% | 0.1% | 0.0% | 1.6x | |||
212 | Winter Wren |
|
0% | 0.1% | 0.1% | ∞ | |||
213 | Lesser Black-backed Gull |
|
0% | 0.1% | 0.1% | ∞ | |||
214 | Summer/Scarlet Tanager |
|
0.0% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 7.5x | |||
215 | Willow Flycatcher |
|
0.0% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 6.8x | |||
216 | Bank Swallow |
|
0.1% | 0.1% | 0.0% | 1.7x | |||
217 | Domestic goose sp. (Domestic type) |
|
0.1% | 0.1% | 0.0% | 0.8x | |||
218 | Least Tern |
|
0.1% | 0.1% | 0.0% | 1.2x | |||
219 | gull sp. |
|
0.1% | 0.1% | 0.0% | 0.9x | |||
220 | Long-billed Dowitcher |
|
0.1% | 0.1% | 0.0% | 1.2x | |||
221 | Sabine's Gull |
|
0% | 0.1% | 0.1% | ∞ | |||
222 | Parasitic Jaeger |
|
0% | 0.1% | 0.1% | ∞ | |||
223 | Orchard Oriole |
|
2.0% | 0.1% | 1.9% | 0.0x | |||
224 | Mourning Warbler |
|
0% | 0.1% | 0.1% | ∞ | |||
225 | Swamp Sparrow |
|
0% | 0.1% | 0.1% | ∞ |