Top Birds at Lake Wheeler marshes in August
relative to other locations within 25 miles of Cary, NC, USA
based on 444 checklists
This page shows the probability of a species appearing on a checklist at Lake Wheeler marshes in August. 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 | Great Blue Heron | 43.5% | 95.3% | 51.8% | 2.2x | |||
| 2 | Great Egret | 29.7% | 90.3% | 60.6% | 3.0x | |||
| 3 | Killdeer | 18.6% | 88.7% | 70.1% | 4.8x | |||
| 4 | Mallard | 19.8% | 74.1% | 54.3% | 3.8x | |||
| 5 | Canada Goose | 23.0% | 71.8% | 48.8% | 3.1x | |||
| 6 | Carolina Wren | 73.0% | 61.9% | 11.1% | 0.8x | |||
| 7 | Least Sandpiper | 5.3% | 61.9% | 56.7% | 11.7x | |||
| 8 | American Crow | 53.4% | 59.5% | 6.0% | 1.1x | |||
| 9 | Belted Kingfisher | 20.5% | 57.9% | 37.4% | 2.8x | |||
| 10 | Fish Crow | 23.8% | 57.7% | 33.8% | 2.4x | |||
| 11 | Little Blue Heron | 4.7% | 46.6% | 41.9% | 9.8x | |||
| 12 | Pectoral Sandpiper | 3.3% | 46.4% | 43.1% | 14.0x | |||
| 13 | American Goldfinch | 60.4% | 43.9% | 16.4% | 0.7x | |||
| 14 | Osprey | 19.5% | 41.0% | 21.4% | 2.1x | |||
| 15 | Spotted Sandpiper | 8.9% | 40.3% | 31.4% | 4.5x | |||
| 16 | Carolina Chickadee | 59.7% | 36.7% | 22.9% | 0.6x | |||
| 17 | Northern Cardinal | 68.0% | 36.3% | 31.7% | 0.5x | |||
| 18 | Red-shouldered Hawk | 24.7% | 36.0% | 11.4% | 1.5x | |||
| 19 | Tufted Titmouse | 53.5% | 35.1% | 18.4% | 0.7x | |||
| 20 | Red-bellied Woodpecker | 39.4% | 31.3% | 8.1% | 0.8x | |||
| 21 | Bald Eagle | 7.6% | 30.9% | 23.3% | 4.1x | |||
| 22 | Greater Yellowlegs | 1.5% | 30.0% | 28.4% | 19.5x | |||
| 23 | Wood Duck | 9.9% | 29.3% | 19.4% | 3.0x | |||
| 24 | Blue Jay | 37.1% | 29.1% | 8.0% | 0.8x | |||
| 25 | Double-crested Cormorant | 14.0% | 28.8% | 14.8% | 2.1x | |||
| 26 | Semipalmated Plover | 2.5% | 27.9% | 25.5% | 11.3x | |||
| 27 | Roseate Spoonbill | 1.0% | 26.8% | 25.8% | 27.7x | |||
| 28 | Brown-headed Nuthatch | 26.2% | 26.6% | 0.4% | 1.0x | |||
| 29 | Solitary Sandpiper | 6.3% | 26.1% | 19.8% | 4.2x | |||
| 30 | Chimney Swift | 18.1% | 25.9% | 7.8% | 1.4x | |||
| 31 | Green Heron | 17.8% | 25.0% | 7.2% | 1.4x | |||
| 32 | Pileated Woodpecker | 15.4% | 23.6% | 8.2% | 1.5x | |||
| 33 | Lesser Yellowlegs | 3.2% | 23.4% | 20.3% | 7.4x | |||
| 34 | Turkey Vulture | 32.1% | 22.3% | 9.8% | 0.7x | |||
| 35 | Mourning Dove | 49.3% | 21.2% | 28.1% | 0.4x | |||
| 36 | American Avocet | 0.5% | 20.5% | 20.0% | 39.0x | |||
| 37 | Downy Woodpecker | 41.8% | 20.0% | 21.7% | 0.5x | |||
| 38 | Tricolored Heron | 3.1% | 18.9% | 15.8% | 6.1x | |||
| 39 | Eastern Kingbird | 13.7% | 18.2% | 4.6% | 1.3x | |||
| 40 | Short-billed Dowitcher | 0.9% | 18.2% | 17.3% | 19.7x | |||
| 41 | Semipalmated Sandpiper | 2.7% | 17.8% | 15.1% | 6.7x | |||
| 42 | Eastern Bluebird | 41.3% | 16.4% | 24.9% | 0.4x | |||
| 43 | Pine Warbler | 16.2% | 15.3% | 0.9% | 0.9x | |||
| 44 | Barn Swallow | 11.1% | 15.1% | 4.0% | 1.4x | |||
| 45 | Common Grackle | 9.7% | 14.2% | 4.5% | 1.5x | |||
| 46 | Barred Owl | 4.0% | 13.5% | 9.5% | 3.4x | |||
| 47 | Great Crested Flycatcher | 18.3% | 12.4% | 5.9% | 0.7x | |||
| 48 | Blue-gray Gnatcatcher | 42.6% | 11.9% | 30.7% | 0.3x | |||
| 49 | Blue Grosbeak | 22.8% | 11.9% | 10.8% | 0.5x | |||
| 50 | House Finch | 20.6% | 11.9% | 8.7% | 0.6x | |||
| 51 | Eastern Phoebe | 20.6% | 11.7% | 8.9% | 0.6x | |||
| 52 | peep sp. | 1.4% | 11.5% | 10.1% | 8.2x | |||
| 53 | Ruby-throated Hummingbird | 35.4% | 10.4% | 25.1% | 0.3x | |||
| 54 | White-breasted Nuthatch | 28.9% | 9.7% | 19.2% | 0.3x | |||
| 55 | Common Yellowthroat | 12.3% | 9.5% | 2.8% | 0.8x | |||
| 56 | Brown Pelican | 0.2% | 9.2% | 9.0% | 38.2x | |||
| 57 | Red-eyed Vireo | 22.5% | 8.1% | 14.4% | 0.4x | |||
| 58 | Red-winged Blackbird | 5.9% | 7.4% | 1.5% | 1.3x | |||
| 59 | Graylag Goose | 0.8% | 7.4% | 6.7% | 9.9x | |||
| 60 | Red-tailed Hawk | 10.4% | 7.0% | 3.5% | 0.7x | |||
| 61 | Blue-winged Teal | 0.8% | 7.0% | 6.2% | 8.6x | |||
| 62 | Black Vulture | 16.4% | 6.8% | 9.6% | 0.4x | |||
| 63 | Yellow-billed Cuckoo | 16.3% | 6.8% | 9.5% | 0.4x | |||
| 64 | American Robin | 29.5% | 6.5% | 23.0% | 0.2x | |||
| 65 | White-eyed Vireo | 21.4% | 6.5% | 14.8% | 0.3x | |||
| 66 | Northern Flicker | 9.0% | 6.3% | 2.7% | 0.7x | |||
| 67 | Great Horned Owl | 0.7% | 6.1% | 5.4% | 8.6x | |||
| 68 | Indigo Bunting | 29.5% | 5.2% | 24.3% | 0.2x | |||
| 69 | Stilt Sandpiper | 1.1% | 5.0% | 3.9% | 4.7x | |||
| 70 | Purple Martin | 2.2% | 4.7% | 2.6% | 2.2x | |||
| 71 | Wilson's Phalarope | 0.2% | 4.3% | 4.1% | 18.8x | |||
| 72 | Summer Tanager | 15.4% | 4.1% | 11.3% | 0.3x | |||
| 73 | White Ibis | 2.2% | 4.1% | 1.9% | 1.9x | |||
| 74 | Caspian Tern | 1.8% | 3.8% | 2.0% | 2.1x | |||
| 75 | Eastern Towhee | 26.6% | 3.6% | 23.0% | 0.1x | |||
| 76 | Rock Pigeon | 5.9% | 3.6% | 2.3% | 0.6x | |||
| 77 | Cooper's Hawk | 4.6% | 3.2% | 1.4% | 0.7x | |||
| 78 | Snowy Egret | 2.2% | 2.7% | 0.5% | 1.2x | |||
| 79 | Wood Stork | 1.8% | 2.5% | 0.7% | 1.4x | |||
| 80 | Black Tern | 1.4% | 2.5% | 1.0% | 1.7x | |||
| 81 | European Starling | 10.4% | 2.3% | 8.2% | 0.2x | |||
| 82 | Northern Parula | 7.7% | 2.3% | 5.5% | 0.3x | |||
| 83 | crow sp. | 1.3% | 2.3% | 0.9% | 1.7x | |||
| 84 | Northern Mockingbird | 31.1% | 1.6% | 29.5% | 0.1x | |||
| 85 | Red-headed Woodpecker | 11.0% | 1.6% | 9.4% | 0.1x | |||
| 86 | swallow sp. | 0.7% | 1.6% | 0.9% | 2.3x | |||
| 87 | Greater/Lesser Yellowlegs | 0.1% | 1.6% | 1.4% | 12.3x | |||
| 88 | Eastern Wood-Pewee | 20.5% | 1.4% | 19.1% | 0.1x | |||
| 89 | Brown-headed Cowbird | 6.0% | 1.4% | 4.6% | 0.2x | |||
| 90 | Cliff Swallow | 0.8% | 1.1% | 0.3% | 1.4x | |||
| 91 | Western Sandpiper | 0.6% | 1.1% | 0.5% | 1.9x | |||
| 92 | Bobolink | 0.6% | 1.1% | 0.6% | 2.0x | |||
| 93 | Gray Catbird | 28.8% | 0.9% | 27.9% | 0.0x | |||
| 94 | shorebird sp. | 0.1% | 0.9% | 0.8% | 7.9x | |||
| 95 | Brown Thrasher | 16.0% | 0.7% | 15.4% | 0.0x | |||
| 96 | Hairy Woodpecker | 8.4% | 0.7% | 7.7% | 0.1x | |||
| 97 | American Redstart | 6.6% | 0.7% | 5.9% | 0.1x | |||
| 98 | Yellow Warbler | 2.4% | 0.7% | 1.7% | 0.3x | |||
| 99 | Anhinga | 1.7% | 0.7% | 1.1% | 0.4x | |||
| 100 | Northern Rough-winged Swallow | 0.8% | 0.7% | 0.1% | 0.8x | |||
| 101 | Chipping Sparrow | 19.7% | 0.5% | 19.2% | 0.0x | |||
| 102 | Black-and-white Warbler | 5.9% | 0.5% | 5.4% | 0.1x | |||
| 103 | Ovenbird | 1.3% | 0.5% | 0.8% | 0.4x | |||
| 104 | hawk sp. | 0.5% | 0.5% | 0.0% | 0.9x | |||
| 105 | Tree Swallow | 0.5% | 0.5% | 0.0% | 1.0x | |||
| 106 | White-rumped Sandpiper | 0.3% | 0.5% | 0.2% | 1.7x | |||
| 107 | American/Fish Crow | 0.2% | 0.5% | 0.3% | 2.4x | |||
| 108 | woodpecker sp. | 0.1% | 0.5% | 0.3% | 3.5x | |||
| 109 | Accipiter sp. | 0.1% | 0.5% | 0.4% | 4.5x | |||
| 110 | Green-winged Teal | 0% | 0.5% | 0.5% | ∞ | |||
| 111 | Acadian Flycatcher | 10.2% | 0.2% | 10.0% | 0.0x | |||
| 112 | Song Sparrow | 10.1% | 0.2% | 9.8% | 0.0x | |||
| 113 | Orchard Oriole | 2.1% | 0.2% | 1.8% | 0.1x | |||
| 114 | Yellow-throated Warbler | 1.9% | 0.2% | 1.7% | 0.1x | |||
| 115 | Yellow-breasted Chat | 1.6% | 0.2% | 1.4% | 0.1x | |||
| 116 | Yellow-crowned Night-Heron | 1.5% | 0.2% | 1.3% | 0.2x | |||
| 117 | Common Nighthawk | 0.8% | 0.2% | 0.6% | 0.3x | |||
| 118 | Empidonax sp. | 0.7% | 0.2% | 0.5% | 0.3x | |||
| 119 | Pied-billed Grebe | 0.5% | 0.2% | 0.3% | 0.5x | |||
| 120 | Forster's Tern | 0.5% | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.5x | |||
| 121 | duck sp. | 0.4% | 0.2% | 0.1% | 0.6x | |||
| 122 | Buteo sp. | 0.3% | 0.2% | 0.0% | 0.8x | |||
| 123 | Northern Shoveler | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.1% | 1.4x | |||
| 124 | Sharp-shinned Hawk | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.1% | 1.4x | |||
| 125 | Northern Harrier | 0.1% | 0.2% | 0.1% | 1.8x | |||
| 126 | American Golden-Plover | 0.1% | 0.2% | 0.1% | 2.3x | |||
| 127 | American Black Duck | 0.1% | 0.2% | 0.1% | 2.3x | |||
| 128 | Sharp-shinned/Cooper's Hawk | 0.1% | 0.2% | 0.2% | 3.2x | |||
| 129 | blackbird sp. | 0.0% | 0.2% | 0.2% | 15.8x | |||
| 130 | Hudsonian Godwit | 0% | 0.2% | 0.2% | ∞ |