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Where to find Brown-headed Cowbird in January
within 25 miles of Cary, NC, USA

This page shows which locations in the selected region historically had the highest probability of a checklist including Brown-headed Cowbird in January. Because some locations may be undersampled, the results are sorted based on a confidence score which takes into account how many samples are available. The bar chart shows how the probability of observing this species varies over the year.

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Rank Map Pics Location Distance Observed Sampled Frequency Confidence
1 Prairie Ridge Ecostation--Bird Feeders 3.9 32 78 41.0% 30.8%
2 Lake Benson 11.9 56 150 37.3% 30.0%
3 Prairie Ridge Ecostation for Wildlife Learning 3.9 129 462 27.9% 24.0%
4 Mid Pines Rd. 6.7 211 817 25.8% 22.9%
5 Neuse River Trail--Mial Plantation Road 18.1 6 14 42.9% 21.4%
6 Howling Cow Creamery 7.2 6 15 40.0% 19.8%
7 Inwood Rd. 7.3 20 92 21.7% 14.5%
8 NCSU Experimental Farm 7.1 13 60 21.7% 13.1%
9 Kaplan Drive Park 4.1 2 5 40.0% 11.8%
10 North Carolina Museum of Art--Goodnight Park 4.4 2 6 33.3% 9.7%
11 Hilltop Needmore Park--North 11.1 4 22 18.2% 7.3%
12 Briar Chapel--Pokeberry Creek 18.2 9 68 13.2% 7.1%
13 Maple View Farm (Birding From Roads Only) 24.1 18 171 10.5% 6.8%
14 East Fork Mine Creek Trail (Bent Creek) 9.4 1 3 33.3% 6.1%
15 Williamson Preserve 19.2 3 18 16.7% 5.8%
16 Schenck Forest 3.6 16 250 6.4% 4.0%
17 Hank Anderson Community Park 20.3 5 60 8.3% 3.6%
18 Horseshoe Farm Nature Preserve 15.1 4 46 8.7% 3.4%
19 Middle Creek Bottomlands II 24.9 2 17 11.8% 3.3%
20 Jack Marley Park 19.7 1 6 16.7% 3.0%
21 White Deer Park 11.6 3 37 8.1% 2.8%
22 Fred Fletcher Park 7.4 6 103 5.8% 2.7%
23 stakeout Varied Thrush, Cary (2020) 1.5 6 104 5.8% 2.7%
24 Kildaire Farms Lake 2.3 1 9 11.1% 2.0%
25 White Oak Creek Greenway--Wetland 6.1 1 9 11.1% 2.0%
26 Beaver Creek Greenway 7.0 1 9 11.1% 2.0%
27 Flat River Waterfowl Impoundment 23.4 8 209 3.8% 2.0%
28 Jordan Game Land--Farrington Point Boating Access 13.1 2 29 6.9% 1.9%
29 stakeout Bullock's Oriole, Fuquay-Varina (2024) 14.9 5 116 4.3% 1.9%
30 Lake Johnson Park 4.2 10 302 3.3% 1.8%
31 Neuse River Trail (Historic only. Use more specific location.) 13.5 1 11 9.1% 1.6%
32 Beaver Creek Waterfowl Impoundment 10.6 1 11 9.1% 1.6%
33 Raleigh-Durham Airport Observation Deck 6.4 1 12 8.3% 1.5%
34 Bond Park 2.7 5 145 3.4% 1.5%
35 Neuse River Trail--Abbotts Creek 14.5 5 150 3.3% 1.4%
36 Yates Mill County Park 7.2 11 436 2.5% 1.4%
37 Rainbow Soccer Complex 16.2 3 73 4.1% 1.4%
38 Laurel Hill Park 5.4 1 13 7.7% 1.4%
39 Martin Luther King Jr Park 19.7 1 15 6.7% 1.2%
40 American Tobacco Trail--New Hill-Olive Chapel Road Access 10.5 3 87 3.4% 1.2%
41 AIHF Trail 8300 Health Park 10.0 1 16 6.2% 1.1%
42 Jordan Lake--Marthas Chapel Pulloff 12.6 1 16 6.2% 1.1%
43 Crabtree Creek Watershed 4.7 2 57 3.5% 1.0%
44 Higgins Greenway 1.2 1 19 5.3% 0.9%
45 Wendell Park 22.6 1 21 4.8% 0.8%
46 Macedonia Lake/Speight Branch Greenway 3.5 1 22 4.5% 0.8%
47 Lake Betz 7.3 6 346 1.7% 0.8%
48 Dorothea Dix Park 6.9 3 142 2.1% 0.7%
49 Jordan Game Land--Mason Point Peninsula 12.1 1 25 4.0% 0.7%
50 Edna Metz Wells Park 7.1 1 26 3.8% 0.7%
51 Duke Forest--Hollow Rock & Hollow Rock Nature Park 17.9 1 27 3.7% 0.7%
52 Apex Community Park 3.7 4 257 1.6% 0.6%
53 North Carolina Museum of Art--Sculpture Garden 4.6 1 30 3.3% 0.6%
54 Wilkerson Nature Preserve Park 13.6 1 34 2.9% 0.5%
55 Hemlock Bluffs Nature Preserve 4.6 1 35 2.9% 0.5%
56 North Wake Landfill Park (formerly North Wake Sanitary Landfill) 14.1 1 35 2.9% 0.5%
57 Jordan Lake SRA--Ebenezer Point 15.0 4 338 1.2% 0.5%
58 Mason Farm Biological Reserve 14.6 4 361 1.1% 0.4%
59 Butner Game Land--Brickhouse Rd. (Durham Co.) 21.9 1 50 2.0% 0.4%
60 Lake Lynn 7.7 2 164 1.2% 0.3%
61 Third Fork Creek Trail 13.6 1 57 1.8% 0.3%
62 Sandy Creek Park 16.1 3 448 0.7% 0.2%
63 Bass Lake Park & Trail 10.7 1 89 1.1% 0.2%
64 Crabtree Creek Wetland--West of Raleigh Blvd. 9.8 1 116 0.9% 0.2%
65 Shelley Lake 8.1 1 131 0.8% 0.1%
66 Jordan Lake--B. Everett Jordan Dam 18.7 1 141 0.7% 0.1%
67 Jordan Game Land--Transis Camp Rd. 12.6 1 184 0.5% 0.1%
68 Brumley Nature Preserve--North 22.2 1 197 0.5% 0.1%
69 Beaver Marsh 16.7 1 351 0.3% 0.1%
70 Lake Crabtree County Park 3.6 1 593 0.2% 0.0%