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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 76 42.1% 31.6%
2 Prairie Ridge Ecostation for Wildlife Learning 3.9 128 413 31.0% 26.7%
3 Lake Benson 11.9 41 122 33.6% 25.8%
4 Mid Pines Rd. 6.7 190 661 28.7% 25.4%
5 Neuse River Trail--Mial Plantation Road 18.1 6 13 46.2% 23.2%
6 Inwood Rd. 7.3 18 73 24.7% 16.2%
7 North Carolina Museum of Art--Goodnight Park 4.4 2 4 50.0% 15.0%
8 NCSU Experimental Farm 7.1 11 44 25.0% 14.6%
9 Howling Cow Creamery 7.2 3 9 33.3% 12.1%
10 Kaplan Drive Park 4.1 2 5 40.0% 11.8%
11 Hilltop Needmore Park--North 11.1 4 17 23.5% 9.6%
12 Williamson Preserve 19.2 3 13 23.1% 8.2%
13 East Fork Mine Creek Trail (Bent Creek) 9.4 1 3 33.3% 6.1%
14 Briar Chapel--Pokeberry Creek 18.2 7 59 11.9% 5.9%
15 Hank Anderson Community Park 20.3 5 49 10.2% 4.4%
16 Schenck Forest 3.6 15 235 6.4% 3.9%
17 Horseshoe Farm Nature Preserve 15.1 4 42 9.5% 3.8%
18 Jack Marley Park 19.7 1 5 20.0% 3.6%
19 Middle Creek Bottomlands II 24.9 2 16 12.5% 3.5%
20 stakeout Varied Thrush, Cary (2020) 1.5 6 94 6.4% 3.0%
21 White Oak Creek Greenway--Wetland 6.1 1 7 14.3% 2.6%
22 Jordan Game Land--Farrington Point Boating Access 13.1 2 26 7.7% 2.1%
23 Kildaire Farms Lake 2.3 1 9 11.1% 2.0%
24 Flat River Waterfowl Impoundment 23.4 7 189 3.7% 1.8%
25 Lake Johnson Park 4.2 8 232 3.4% 1.8%
26 Maple View Farm (Birding From Roads Only) 24.1 5 130 3.8% 1.7%
27 Neuse River Trail (Historic only. Use more specific location.) 13.5 1 11 9.1% 1.6%
28 Beaver Creek Waterfowl Impoundment 10.6 1 11 9.1% 1.6%
29 Rainbow Soccer Complex 16.2 3 64 4.7% 1.6%
30 Bond Park 2.7 5 137 3.6% 1.6%
31 Yates Mill County Park 7.2 10 358 2.8% 1.5%
32 Laurel Hill Park 5.4 1 12 8.3% 1.5%
33 Martin Luther King Jr Park 19.7 1 12 8.3% 1.5%
34 American Tobacco Trail--New Hill-Olive Chapel Road Access 10.5 3 72 4.2% 1.4%
35 Jordan Lake--Marthas Chapel Pulloff 12.6 1 13 7.7% 1.4%
36 AIHF Trail 8300 Health Park 10.0 1 16 6.2% 1.1%
37 Macedonia Lake/Speight Branch Greenway 3.5 1 17 5.9% 1.0%
38 Wendell Park 22.6 1 17 5.9% 1.0%
39 Lake Betz 7.3 6 298 2.0% 0.9%
40 Jordan Game Land--Mason Point Peninsula 12.1 1 20 5.0% 0.9%
41 Neuse River Trail--Abbotts Creek 14.5 3 141 2.1% 0.7%
42 Duke Forest--Hollow Rock & Hollow Rock Nature Park 17.9 1 25 4.0% 0.7%
43 Edna Metz Wells Park 7.1 1 26 3.8% 0.7%
44 Fred Fletcher Park 7.4 2 81 2.5% 0.7%
45 Apex Community Park 3.7 4 243 1.6% 0.6%
46 North Carolina Museum of Art--Sculpture Garden 4.6 1 28 3.6% 0.6%
47 Wilkerson Nature Preserve Park 13.6 1 30 3.3% 0.6%
48 Hemlock Bluffs Nature Preserve 4.6 1 31 3.2% 0.6%
49 North Wake Landfill Park (formerly North Wake Sanitary Landfill) 14.1 1 31 3.2% 0.6%
50 White Deer Park 11.6 1 32 3.1% 0.6%
51 Butner Game Land--Brickhouse Rd. (Durham Co.) 21.9 1 36 2.8% 0.5%
52 Mason Farm Biological Reserve 14.6 4 327 1.2% 0.5%
53 Crabtree Creek Watershed 4.7 1 40 2.5% 0.4%
54 Jordan Lake SRA--Ebenezer Point 15.0 3 231 1.3% 0.4%
55 Brian P's Yard (Private) 14.4 1 43 2.3% 0.4%
56 Third Fork Creek Trail 13.6 1 44 2.3% 0.4%
57 Sandy Creek Park 16.1 3 401 0.7% 0.3%
58 Bass Lake Park & Trail 10.7 1 75 1.3% 0.2%
59 Crabtree Creek Wetland--West of Raleigh Blvd. 9.8 1 90 1.1% 0.2%
60 Lake Lynn 7.7 1 146 0.7% 0.1%
61 Brumley Nature Preserve--North 22.2 1 165 0.6% 0.1%
62 Jordan Game Land--Transis Camp Rd. 12.6 1 174 0.6% 0.1%
63 Beaver Marsh 16.7 1 322 0.3% 0.1%

Created by Michael Fogleman.

Data from the eBird Basic Dataset. Version: EBD_relJun-2023. Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York. Jun 2023.