Top Birds at Sandy Creek Park in May
relative to other locations within 25 miles of Cary, NC, USA
based on 755 checklists
This page shows the probability of a species appearing on a checklist at Sandy Creek Park in May. 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.
| Rank | Info | Pics | Species | Entire Region | This Location | Difference | Relative | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Northern Cardinal | 79.6% | 83.4% | 3.9% | 1.0x | |||
| 2 | Carolina Wren | 70.3% | 75.1% | 4.8% | 1.1x | |||
| 3 | Common Grackle | 33.8% | 71.8% | 38.0% | 2.1x | |||
| 4 | Great Blue Heron | 45.2% | 70.6% | 25.4% | 1.6x | |||
| 5 | Carolina Chickadee | 59.7% | 70.3% | 10.6% | 1.2x | |||
| 6 | Blue-gray Gnatcatcher | 56.1% | 69.9% | 13.8% | 1.2x | |||
| 7 | Tufted Titmouse | 64.5% | 67.7% | 3.2% | 1.0x | |||
| 8 | Canada Goose | 40.3% | 67.2% | 26.9% | 1.7x | |||
| 9 | Red-bellied Woodpecker | 53.7% | 65.0% | 11.3% | 1.2x | |||
| 10 | American Robin | 37.1% | 64.6% | 27.5% | 1.7x | |||
| 11 | Eastern Bluebird | 48.9% | 63.6% | 14.6% | 1.3x | |||
| 12 | Downy Woodpecker | 38.8% | 62.1% | 23.3% | 1.6x | |||
| 13 | Red-winged Blackbird | 25.6% | 61.7% | 36.1% | 2.4x | |||
| 14 | American Crow | 56.8% | 59.3% | 2.6% | 1.0x | |||
| 15 | Eastern Phoebe | 33.1% | 58.1% | 25.0% | 1.8x | |||
| 16 | Northern Rough-winged Swallow | 30.9% | 52.6% | 21.7% | 1.7x | |||
| 17 | Mallard | 27.7% | 52.6% | 24.9% | 1.9x | |||
| 18 | Red-eyed Vireo | 51.4% | 51.8% | 0.3% | 1.0x | |||
| 19 | Great Crested Flycatcher | 48.2% | 50.7% | 2.6% | 1.1x | |||
| 20 | Common Yellowthroat | 40.3% | 49.7% | 9.4% | 1.2x | |||
| 21 | Chimney Swift | 27.6% | 48.2% | 20.6% | 1.7x | |||
| 22 | Red-shouldered Hawk | 30.7% | 47.8% | 17.1% | 1.6x | |||
| 23 | Gray Catbird | 30.1% | 47.0% | 17.0% | 1.6x | |||
| 24 | American Goldfinch | 44.5% | 46.4% | 1.9% | 1.0x | |||
| 25 | Eastern Towhee | 37.1% | 45.6% | 8.5% | 1.2x | |||
| 26 | Prothonotary Warbler | 14.8% | 43.7% | 28.9% | 3.0x | |||
| 27 | Blue Jay | 43.3% | 42.9% | 0.4% | 1.0x | |||
| 28 | Mourning Dove | 48.9% | 41.9% | 7.0% | 0.9x | |||
| 29 | European Starling | 21.6% | 35.4% | 13.8% | 1.6x | |||
| 30 | Brown-headed Nuthatch | 30.2% | 35.1% | 4.9% | 1.2x | |||
| 31 | Northern Parula | 36.6% | 32.1% | 4.6% | 0.9x | |||
| 32 | House Finch | 27.7% | 32.1% | 4.4% | 1.2x | |||
| 33 | Turkey Vulture | 40.2% | 31.1% | 9.0% | 0.8x | |||
| 34 | Indigo Bunting | 46.1% | 29.9% | 16.2% | 0.6x | |||
| 35 | Pine Warbler | 40.6% | 28.7% | 11.9% | 0.7x | |||
| 36 | White-eyed Vireo | 33.7% | 28.3% | 5.4% | 0.8x | |||
| 37 | Fish Crow | 33.5% | 28.2% | 5.3% | 0.8x | |||
| 38 | White-breasted Nuthatch | 23.5% | 27.2% | 3.6% | 1.2x | |||
| 39 | Song Sparrow | 14.2% | 26.2% | 12.0% | 1.8x | |||
| 40 | Red-headed Woodpecker | 10.0% | 25.3% | 15.3% | 2.5x | |||
| 41 | Wood Duck | 12.4% | 25.2% | 12.8% | 2.0x | |||
| 42 | Pileated Woodpecker | 19.0% | 23.3% | 4.4% | 1.2x | |||
| 43 | Brown-headed Cowbird | 36.0% | 22.4% | 13.6% | 0.6x | |||
| 44 | Acadian Flycatcher | 26.2% | 20.7% | 5.6% | 0.8x | |||
| 45 | Northern Mockingbird | 31.5% | 19.9% | 11.6% | 0.6x | |||
| 46 | American Redstart | 22.8% | 19.9% | 2.9% | 0.9x | |||
| 47 | Black Vulture | 21.2% | 19.5% | 1.8% | 0.9x | |||
| 48 | Green Heron | 10.2% | 17.7% | 7.6% | 1.7x | |||
| 49 | House Wren | 9.2% | 17.6% | 8.4% | 1.9x | |||
| 50 | Eastern Kingbird | 27.0% | 17.1% | 9.9% | 0.6x | |||
| 51 | Brown Thrasher | 17.4% | 17.0% | 0.4% | 1.0x | |||
| 52 | Yellow Warbler | 7.6% | 16.7% | 9.1% | 2.2x | |||
| 53 | Chipping Sparrow | 39.2% | 16.4% | 22.8% | 0.4x | |||
| 54 | Summer Tanager | 38.4% | 16.2% | 22.2% | 0.4x | |||
| 55 | Hooded Merganser | 1.1% | 16.2% | 15.1% | 15.1x | |||
| 56 | Ruby-throated Hummingbird | 19.3% | 15.5% | 3.8% | 0.8x | |||
| 57 | Yellow-throated Warbler | 15.6% | 15.2% | 0.3% | 1.0x | |||
| 58 | Hairy Woodpecker | 8.4% | 13.8% | 5.4% | 1.6x | |||
| 59 | Eastern Wood-Pewee | 21.7% | 13.6% | 8.1% | 0.6x | |||
| 60 | Northern Waterthrush | 6.7% | 12.8% | 6.2% | 1.9x | |||
| 61 | Belted Kingfisher | 11.8% | 12.3% | 0.5% | 1.0x | |||
| 62 | Solitary Sandpiper | 7.9% | 11.4% | 3.4% | 1.4x | |||
| 63 | Yellow-crowned Night-Heron | 0.5% | 11.3% | 10.8% | 23.6x | |||
| 64 | Yellow-rumped Warbler | 11.3% | 11.1% | 0.2% | 1.0x | |||
| 65 | White-throated Sparrow | 8.4% | 10.9% | 2.5% | 1.3x | |||
| 66 | Tree Swallow | 14.7% | 10.6% | 4.1% | 0.7x | |||
| 67 | Black-and-white Warbler | 16.1% | 10.3% | 5.8% | 0.6x | |||
| 68 | Osprey | 16.2% | 9.7% | 6.6% | 0.6x | |||
| 69 | Northern Flicker | 8.7% | 9.7% | 1.0% | 1.1x | |||
| 70 | Killdeer | 20.5% | 9.3% | 11.2% | 0.5x | |||
| 71 | Barred Owl | 7.8% | 8.1% | 0.3% | 1.0x | |||
| 72 | Cedar Waxwing | 13.7% | 7.7% | 6.0% | 0.6x | |||
| 73 | Blackpoll Warbler | 7.3% | 7.2% | 0.1% | 1.0x | |||
| 74 | Orchard Oriole | 15.6% | 6.8% | 8.9% | 0.4x | |||
| 75 | Scarlet Tanager | 12.2% | 6.2% | 5.9% | 0.5x | |||
| 76 | Blue Grosbeak | 24.3% | 6.1% | 18.2% | 0.3x | |||
| 77 | Black-throated Blue Warbler | 14.2% | 6.0% | 8.3% | 0.4x | |||
| 78 | Red-tailed Hawk | 13.7% | 5.8% | 7.9% | 0.4x | |||
| 79 | Spotted Sandpiper | 16.9% | 5.4% | 11.5% | 0.3x | |||
| 80 | Louisiana Waterthrush | 7.5% | 5.2% | 2.3% | 0.7x | |||
| 81 | Barn Swallow | 31.8% | 4.8% | 27.0% | 0.1x | |||
| 82 | Yellow-billed Cuckoo | 10.7% | 4.6% | 6.0% | 0.4x | |||
| 83 | Swamp Sparrow | 1.9% | 4.6% | 2.7% | 2.4x | |||
| 84 | Ovenbird | 19.4% | 4.2% | 15.2% | 0.2x | |||
| 85 | Prairie Warbler | 7.8% | 3.8% | 4.0% | 0.5x | |||
| 86 | Magnolia Warbler | 3.6% | 3.6% | 0.0% | 1.0x | |||
| 87 | Cooper's Hawk | 2.7% | 3.4% | 0.7% | 1.3x | |||
| 88 | Wood Thrush | 14.2% | 2.5% | 11.7% | 0.2x | |||
| 89 | Purple Martin | 10.8% | 2.4% | 8.4% | 0.2x | |||
| 90 | Yellow-throated Vireo | 6.9% | 2.4% | 4.5% | 0.3x | |||
| 91 | Swainson's Thrush | 6.3% | 2.1% | 4.1% | 0.3x | |||
| 92 | swallow sp. | 1.1% | 1.9% | 0.8% | 1.8x | |||
| 93 | Great Egret | 2.2% | 1.7% | 0.5% | 0.8x | |||
| 94 | Veery | 3.6% | 1.6% | 2.0% | 0.4x | |||
| 95 | Yellow-breasted Chat | 11.6% | 1.3% | 10.3% | 0.1x | |||
| 96 | Field Sparrow | 3.7% | 1.2% | 2.5% | 0.3x | |||
| 97 | Rose-breasted Grosbeak | 2.4% | 1.2% | 1.2% | 0.5x | |||
| 98 | Pine Siskin | 0.8% | 1.2% | 0.4% | 1.6x | |||
| 99 | Wilson's Warbler | 0.6% | 1.2% | 0.6% | 1.9x | |||
| 100 | Hooded Warbler | 11.9% | 1.1% | 10.9% | 0.1x | |||
| 101 | Palm Warbler | 0.9% | 1.1% | 0.2% | 1.2x | |||
| 102 | duck sp. | 0.5% | 1.1% | 0.6% | 2.2x | |||
| 103 | hawk sp. | 0.4% | 1.1% | 0.6% | 2.4x | |||
| 104 | House Sparrow | 3.8% | 0.9% | 2.9% | 0.2x | |||
| 105 | crow sp. | 1.5% | 0.9% | 0.6% | 0.6x | |||
| 106 | Baltimore Oriole | 1.1% | 0.9% | 0.2% | 0.9x | |||
| 107 | Black-throated Green Warbler | 0.5% | 0.9% | 0.4% | 1.7x | |||
| 108 | Double-crested Cormorant | 19.1% | 0.8% | 18.3% | 0.0x | |||
| 109 | Canada Warbler | 0.4% | 0.8% | 0.4% | 2.0x | |||
| 110 | Blackburnian Warbler | 0.3% | 0.8% | 0.5% | 2.9x | |||
| 111 | Bald Eagle | 10.8% | 0.7% | 10.1% | 0.1x | |||
| 112 | Ruby-crowned Kinglet | 1.6% | 0.7% | 1.0% | 0.4x | |||
| 113 | Common Loon | 0.4% | 0.7% | 0.3% | 1.8x | |||
| 114 | Blue-winged Warbler | 0.3% | 0.7% | 0.4% | 2.3x | |||
| 115 | Empidonax sp. | 0.2% | 0.7% | 0.4% | 2.9x | |||
| 116 | Least Sandpiper | 5.8% | 0.5% | 5.2% | 0.1x | |||
| 117 | Blue-headed Vireo | 1.3% | 0.5% | 0.7% | 0.4x | |||
| 118 | Worm-eating Warbler | 1.2% | 0.5% | 0.7% | 0.4x | |||
| 119 | Black-billed Cuckoo | 0.2% | 0.5% | 0.3% | 2.2x | |||
| 120 | White-crowned Sparrow | 0.1% | 0.5% | 0.4% | 4.3x | |||
| 121 | Rock Pigeon | 6.5% | 0.4% | 6.1% | 0.1x | |||
| 122 | Cliff Swallow | 5.6% | 0.4% | 5.2% | 0.1x | |||
| 123 | Bobolink | 3.3% | 0.4% | 2.9% | 0.1x | |||
| 124 | Kentucky Warbler | 2.4% | 0.4% | 2.0% | 0.2x | |||
| 125 | Mississippi Kite | 2.4% | 0.4% | 2.0% | 0.2x | |||
| 126 | Savannah Sparrow | 1.2% | 0.4% | 0.8% | 0.3x | |||
| 127 | Broad-winged Hawk | 0.9% | 0.4% | 0.5% | 0.4x | |||
| 128 | Bay-breasted Warbler | 0.4% | 0.4% | 0.0% | 1.0x | |||
| 129 | Sharp-shinned Hawk | 0.3% | 0.4% | 0.1% | 1.3x | |||
| 130 | Common Nighthawk | 0.2% | 0.4% | 0.2% | 2.2x | |||
| 131 | new world sparrow sp. | 0.2% | 0.4% | 0.2% | 2.2x | |||
| 132 | new world vulture sp. | 0.1% | 0.4% | 0.3% | 4.5x | |||
| 133 | Mallard x American Black Duck (hybrid) | 0.1% | 0.4% | 0.3% | 6.5x | |||
| 134 | Warbling Vireo | 1.7% | 0.3% | 1.4% | 0.2x | |||
| 135 | Wild Turkey | 1.6% | 0.3% | 1.3% | 0.2x | |||
| 136 | Chestnut-sided Warbler | 1.6% | 0.3% | 1.3% | 0.2x | |||
| 137 | Cape May Warbler | 0.9% | 0.3% | 0.6% | 0.3x | |||
| 138 | warbler sp. (Parulidae sp.) | 0.5% | 0.3% | 0.3% | 0.5x | |||
| 139 | Snowy Egret | 0.3% | 0.3% | 0.0% | 0.9x | |||
| 140 | Buteo sp. | 0.2% | 0.3% | 0.0% | 1.1x | |||
| 141 | American/Fish Crow | 0.2% | 0.3% | 0.0% | 1.2x | |||
| 142 | American Black Duck | 0.0% | 0.3% | 0.2% | 9.7x | |||
| 143 | Grasshopper Sparrow | 2.9% | 0.1% | 2.8% | 0.0x | |||
| 144 | Greater Yellowlegs | 1.3% | 0.1% | 1.1% | 0.1x | |||
| 145 | American Kestrel | 0.7% | 0.1% | 0.6% | 0.2x | |||
| 146 | Gray-cheeked Thrush | 0.5% | 0.1% | 0.4% | 0.2x | |||
| 147 | Hermit Thrush | 0.3% | 0.1% | 0.2% | 0.4x | |||
| 148 | Northern Harrier | 0.3% | 0.1% | 0.2% | 0.4x | |||
| 149 | Downy/Hairy Woodpecker | 0.3% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.5x | |||
| 150 | Summer/Scarlet Tanager | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.0% | 1.0x | |||
| 151 | Domestic goose sp. (Domestic type) | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.0% | 1.4x | |||
| 152 | Accipiter sp. | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 1.8x | |||
| 153 | Purple Finch | 0.0% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 3.2x | |||
| 154 | heron sp. | 0.0% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 3.9x | |||
| 155 | Rusty Blackbird | 0.0% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 4.9x |