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Top Birds at Falls Lake--Ellerbe Creek RR Grade in September
relative to other locations within 25 miles of Cary, NC, USA

based on 210 checklists

This page shows the probability of a species appearing on a checklist at Falls Lake--Ellerbe Creek RR Grade during the month of September. The difference in probability relative to other nearby locations is also shown, to highlight which birds are particularly likely to be found (or not found) at this specific location. The chart shows how many distinct species have historically been observed at this location for each month of the year.

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Rank Info Pics Species Entire Region This Location Difference Relative
1   Great Egret 28.1% 89.0% 60.9% 3.2x
2   Great Blue Heron 43.8% 85.7% 41.9% 2.0x
3   Killdeer 22.8% 80.0% 57.2% 3.5x
4   Double-crested Cormorant 14.3% 71.9% 57.6% 5.0x
5   Carolina Chickadee 71.2% 69.0% 2.2% 1.0x
6   Carolina Wren 77.1% 68.6% 8.5% 0.9x
7   American Crow 64.8% 67.1% 2.3% 1.0x
8   Northern Cardinal 73.5% 66.2% 7.4% 0.9x
9   Pectoral Sandpiper 3.6% 61.0% 57.3% 16.9x
10   Tufted Titmouse 65.5% 60.5% 5.0% 0.9x
11   Fish Crow 21.2% 57.6% 36.4% 2.7x
12   Least Sandpiper 5.2% 55.7% 50.5% 10.6x
13   Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 25.9% 52.4% 26.5% 2.0x
14   White-eyed Vireo 33.2% 51.9% 18.7% 1.6x
15   Downy Woodpecker 56.3% 50.5% 5.8% 0.9x
16   Belted Kingfisher 27.7% 49.5% 21.9% 1.8x
17   Lesser Yellowlegs 3.6% 49.0% 45.5% 13.7x
18   Eastern Phoebe 37.0% 41.9% 4.9% 1.1x
19   Semipalmated Sandpiper 2.2% 41.9% 39.7% 18.9x
20   Turkey Vulture 39.5% 41.0% 1.5% 1.0x
21   Red-bellied Woodpecker 56.3% 40.0% 16.3% 0.7x
22   American Goldfinch 47.4% 40.0% 7.4% 0.8x
23   Osprey 12.4% 40.0% 27.6% 3.2x
24   Spotted Sandpiper 5.1% 38.6% 33.5% 7.6x
25   Blue Jay 60.8% 37.6% 23.2% 0.6x
26   Red-shouldered Hawk 36.6% 36.7% 0.0% 1.0x
27   Pileated Woodpecker 24.3% 36.2% 11.9% 1.5x
28   Pine Warbler 40.6% 35.2% 5.4% 0.9x
29   Semipalmated Plover 2.6% 34.8% 32.1% 13.2x
30   Eastern Bluebird 42.4% 33.3% 9.0% 0.8x
31   Northern Mockingbird 31.1% 31.4% 0.3% 1.0x
32   Common Yellowthroat 29.8% 31.0% 1.1% 1.0x
33   Eastern Towhee 26.2% 31.0% 4.7% 1.2x
34   Greater Yellowlegs 1.8% 28.6% 26.7% 15.6x
35   Mourning Dove 38.6% 27.1% 11.4% 0.7x
36   Brown-headed Nuthatch 36.1% 27.1% 9.0% 0.8x
37   Indigo Bunting 17.2% 27.1% 9.9% 1.6x
38   Stilt Sandpiper 1.4% 27.1% 25.7% 19.4x
39   Gray Catbird 43.1% 26.7% 16.4% 0.6x
40   Summer Tanager 22.3% 24.8% 2.5% 1.1x
41   Bald Eagle 12.0% 24.3% 12.3% 2.0x
42   Northern Flicker 22.5% 23.3% 0.8% 1.0x
43   Solitary Sandpiper 4.7% 22.9% 18.1% 4.8x
44   Blue-winged Teal 2.2% 22.4% 20.2% 10.0x
45   Chimney Swift 24.5% 21.0% 3.6% 0.9x
46   Ruby-throated Hummingbird 32.9% 20.5% 12.4% 0.6x
47   Canada Goose 24.9% 20.5% 4.4% 0.8x
48   Red-headed Woodpecker 14.7% 19.5% 4.9% 1.3x
49   Black Vulture 21.3% 18.6% 2.7% 0.9x
50   American Redstart 31.2% 18.1% 13.1% 0.6x
51   Brown Thrasher 30.8% 18.1% 12.7% 0.6x
52   Wood Duck 8.3% 18.1% 9.8% 2.2x
53   Caspian Tern 1.5% 16.2% 14.7% 10.5x
54   Buff-breasted Sandpiper 0.2% 16.2% 16.0% 69.5x
55   Short-billed Dowitcher 1.0% 15.7% 14.8% 16.4x
56   Snowy Egret 0.6% 15.2% 14.7% 25.9x
57   Red-eyed Vireo 28.9% 14.8% 14.1% 0.5x
58   Northern Parula 25.2% 14.8% 10.5% 0.6x
59   Sanderling 0.7% 14.3% 13.6% 20.4x
60   peep sp. 1.4% 13.8% 12.4% 9.8x
61   White-breasted Nuthatch 36.8% 13.3% 23.5% 0.4x
62   Black-and-white Warbler 24.4% 13.3% 11.0% 0.5x
63   Hairy Woodpecker 14.2% 13.3% 0.9% 0.9x
64   House Finch 19.6% 12.9% 6.8% 0.7x
65   Magnolia Warbler 17.6% 12.9% 4.8% 0.7x
66   Yellow-billed Cuckoo 15.5% 12.9% 2.6% 0.8x
67   Eastern Wood-Pewee 28.1% 11.9% 16.2% 0.4x
68   Yellow Warbler 3.6% 11.4% 7.8% 3.2x
69   European Starling 10.9% 11.0% 0.1% 1.0x
70   Western Sandpiper 0.7% 11.0% 10.3% 16.3x
71   American Avocet 0.6% 11.0% 10.4% 18.7x
72   Mallard 20.3% 9.5% 10.8% 0.5x
73   Northern Shoveler 0.5% 9.5% 9.0% 18.2x
74   Red-tailed Hawk 9.4% 9.0% 0.3% 1.0x
75   Palm Warbler 4.8% 9.0% 4.2% 1.9x
76   Wild Turkey 0.9% 9.0% 8.1% 10.0x
77   American Robin 29.8% 8.6% 21.2% 0.3x
78   Yellow-throated Warbler 4.7% 8.6% 3.9% 1.8x
79   Cedar Waxwing 7.1% 8.1% 1.0% 1.1x
80   White-rumped Sandpiper 0.3% 8.1% 7.8% 28.0x
81   Cape May Warbler 9.9% 7.1% 2.8% 0.7x
82   House Wren 8.5% 7.1% 1.4% 0.8x
83   Barred Owl 5.7% 7.1% 1.5% 1.3x
84   Cooper's Hawk 5.2% 7.1% 2.0% 1.4x
85   Northern Waterthrush 3.5% 7.1% 3.7% 2.0x
86   Barn Swallow 1.6% 6.7% 5.1% 4.2x
87   Ruddy Turnstone 0.1% 6.7% 6.6% 71.5x
88   Blue Grosbeak 11.5% 5.7% 5.8% 0.5x
89   Wood Stork 1.2% 5.7% 4.5% 4.8x
90   Baird's Sandpiper 0.6% 5.7% 5.1% 8.9x
91   Great Crested Flycatcher 10.7% 5.2% 5.5% 0.5x
92   Scarlet Tanager 9.6% 5.2% 4.4% 0.5x
93   Prairie Warbler 4.5% 5.2% 0.8% 1.2x
94   American Golden-Plover 0.3% 4.8% 4.4% 14.2x
95   Chestnut-sided Warbler 9.6% 4.3% 5.3% 0.4x
96   Marsh Wren 0.4% 4.3% 3.9% 11.2x
97   Greater/Lesser Yellowlegs 0.2% 4.3% 4.1% 27.0x
98   Chipping Sparrow 14.5% 3.8% 10.7% 0.3x
99   Little Blue Heron 1.9% 3.8% 1.9% 2.0x
100   Bobolink 1.6% 3.8% 2.2% 2.3x
101   Peregrine Falcon 0.3% 3.8% 3.5% 11.0x
102   Rose-breasted Grosbeak 6.9% 3.3% 3.6% 0.5x
103   Common Grackle 5.5% 3.3% 2.1% 0.6x
104   Rock Pigeon 4.5% 3.3% 1.2% 0.7x
105   Red-winged Blackbird 1.6% 3.3% 1.7% 2.0x
106   Northern Harrier 0.4% 3.3% 2.9% 8.1x
107   Black-crowned Night-Heron 0.2% 3.3% 3.1% 17.0x
108   Green Heron 10.9% 2.9% 8.0% 0.3x
109   Black-throated Green Warbler 2.3% 2.9% 0.6% 1.3x
110   Field Sparrow 1.6% 2.9% 1.3% 1.8x
111   crow sp. 1.1% 2.9% 1.7% 2.6x
112   Merlin 0.5% 2.9% 2.4% 5.9x
113   Hooded Warbler 7.1% 2.4% 4.7% 0.3x
114   Forster's Tern 1.1% 2.4% 1.2% 2.1x
115   Broad-winged Hawk 1.0% 2.4% 1.4% 2.5x
116   Black-bellied Plover 0.2% 2.4% 2.1% 9.8x
117   Red-necked Phalarope 0.2% 2.4% 2.2% 10.6x
118   shorebird sp. 0.1% 2.4% 2.3% 19.6x
119   Yellow-throated Vireo 7.7% 1.9% 5.8% 0.2x
120   Black-throated Blue Warbler 5.4% 1.9% 3.5% 0.4x
121   Brown-headed Cowbird 4.5% 1.9% 2.6% 0.4x
122   Veery 4.1% 1.9% 2.2% 0.5x
123   American Kestrel 3.7% 1.9% 1.8% 0.5x
124   Tree Swallow 0.5% 1.9% 1.4% 3.8x
125   Blackburnian Warbler 2.2% 1.4% 0.8% 0.6x
126   Eastern Kingbird 1.6% 1.4% 0.2% 0.9x
127   hawk sp. 0.8% 1.4% 0.6% 1.7x
128   Black Tern 0.8% 1.4% 0.7% 1.9x
129   Wilson's Snipe 0.4% 1.4% 1.0% 3.3x
130   Northern Rough-winged Swallow 0.3% 1.4% 1.1% 5.1x
131   Green-winged Teal 0.2% 1.4% 1.2% 7.7x
132   Ring-necked Duck 0% 1.4% 1.4%
133   Song Sparrow 9.4% 1.0% 8.4% 0.1x
134   Swainson's Thrush 5.1% 1.0% 4.2% 0.2x
135   Empidonax sp. 2.8% 1.0% 1.8% 0.3x
136   Ruby-crowned Kinglet 2.3% 1.0% 1.4% 0.4x
137   Yellow-breasted Chat 1.7% 1.0% 0.8% 0.6x
138   warbler sp. (Parulidae sp.) 1.7% 1.0% 0.7% 0.6x
139   Philadelphia Vireo 1.2% 1.0% 0.3% 0.8x
140   Sharp-shinned Hawk 0.7% 1.0% 0.3% 1.4x
141   Yellow-rumped Warbler 0.7% 1.0% 0.3% 1.4x
142   Prothonotary Warbler 0.6% 1.0% 0.4% 1.6x
143   duck sp. 0.5% 1.0% 0.4% 1.8x
144   Ring-billed Gull 0.4% 1.0% 0.5% 2.3x
145   Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 0.3% 1.0% 0.7% 3.2x
146   Accipiter sp. 0.2% 1.0% 0.8% 4.9x
147   American/Fish Crow 0.2% 1.0% 0.8% 5.1x
148   Wilson's Phalarope 0.1% 1.0% 0.8% 7.3x
149   American Black Duck 0.1% 1.0% 0.8% 7.9x
150   Bank Swallow 0.1% 1.0% 0.9% 12.8x
151   Ruddy Duck 0.0% 1.0% 0.9% 25.5x
152   Acadian Flycatcher 6.9% 0.5% 6.5% 0.1x
153   Blue-winged Warbler 4.5% 0.5% 4.0% 0.1x
154   Tennessee Warbler 2.9% 0.5% 2.4% 0.2x
155   Baltimore Oriole 2.8% 0.5% 2.4% 0.2x
156   Red-breasted Nuthatch 1.4% 0.5% 0.9% 0.3x
157   Nashville Warbler 1.1% 0.5% 0.7% 0.4x
158   Common Nighthawk 1.0% 0.5% 0.6% 0.5x
159   Eastern Meadowlark 1.0% 0.5% 0.5% 0.5x
160   Bay-breasted Warbler 0.9% 0.5% 0.4% 0.5x
161   Blue-headed Vireo 0.9% 0.5% 0.4% 0.6x
162   Least Flycatcher 0.8% 0.5% 0.3% 0.6x
163   Common Raven 0.5% 0.5% 0.1% 0.9x
164   Catharus sp. 0.5% 0.5% 0.0% 1.0x
165   swallow sp. 0.3% 0.5% 0.2% 1.5x
166   Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 0.3% 0.5% 0.2% 1.7x
167   Anhinga 0.2% 0.5% 0.2% 2.0x
168   Sora 0.2% 0.5% 0.3% 2.8x
169   Kentucky Warbler 0.2% 0.5% 0.3% 3.0x
170   Warbling Vireo 0.1% 0.5% 0.4% 3.9x
171   Willow Flycatcher 0.1% 0.5% 0.4% 5.7x
172   Swamp Sparrow 0.1% 0.5% 0.4% 8.5x
173   Virginia Rail 0.0% 0.5% 0.4% 10.2x
174   Gadwall 0.0% 0.5% 0.4% 17.0x
175   Short-billed/Long-billed Dowitcher 0.0% 0.5% 0.4% 17.0x
176   White-throated Sparrow 0.0% 0.5% 0.5% 25.5x
177   small falcon sp. 0% 0.5% 0.5%
178   Ruff 0% 0.5% 0.5%