Bird Finder

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.

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%

Created by Michael Fogleman.

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