Bird Finder

Where to find Brown-headed Cowbird in December
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 December. 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 Mid Pines Rd. 6.7 247 608 40.6% 36.8%
2 Prairie Ridge Ecostation for Wildlife Learning 3.9 121 308 39.3% 34.0%
3 Lake Benson 11.9 34 94 36.2% 27.2%
4 Prairie Ridge Ecostation--Bird Feeders 3.9 7 17 41.2% 21.6%
5 Inwood Rd. 7.3 12 34 35.3% 21.5%
6 Shaw Lake 9.9 1 1 100.0% 20.7%
7 Neuse River Trail--Mial Plantation Road 18.1 5 15 33.3% 15.2%
8 NCSU Experimental Farm 7.1 6 22 27.3% 13.2%
9 Howling Cow Creamery 7.2 2 5 40.0% 11.8%
10 Dorothea Dix 6.6 4 18 22.2% 9.0%
11 Williamson Preserve 19.2 7 42 16.7% 8.3%
12 Crabtree Creek Trail--Lindsay Dr. to Bridge by Galax Dr. 5.5 2 7 28.6% 8.2%
13 Schenck Forest 3.6 15 137 10.9% 6.7%
14 Historic Oakwood Cemetery 8.7 1 4 25.0% 4.6%
15 Macedonia Lake/Speight Branch Greenway 3.5 3 23 13.0% 4.5%
16 Ammons Farm Rd. 24.7 1 5 20.0% 3.6%
17 Flat River Waterfowl Impoundment 23.4 12 212 5.7% 3.3%
18 Fred Fletcher Park 7.4 4 49 8.2% 3.2%
19 Lake Wheeler marshes 6.9 7 109 6.4% 3.1%
20 Apex Nature Park 8.6 1 6 16.7% 3.0%
21 Dorothea Dix Park 6.9 1 6 16.7% 3.0%
22 Briar Chapel--Pokeberry Creek 18.2 5 72 6.9% 3.0%
23 Maple View Farm (Birding From Roads Only) 24.1 6 93 6.5% 3.0%
24 North Carolina Museum of Art--Sculpture Garden 4.6 4 55 7.3% 2.9%
25 Walnut Creek Wetland Center 9.0 2 21 9.5% 2.7%
26 Yates Mill County Park 7.2 15 347 4.3% 2.6%
27 Walnut Creek Trail--Wetland Center 9.0 1 7 14.3% 2.6%
28 Bond Park 2.7 6 110 5.5% 2.5%
29 Crabtree Creek Wetland--West of Raleigh Blvd. 9.8 4 75 5.3% 2.1%
30 Eden Lakes 23.7 1 11 9.1% 1.6%
31 Martin Luther King Jr Park 19.7 1 11 9.1% 1.6%
32 Pullen Park 6.6 1 12 8.3% 1.5%
33 Jordan Game Land--Transis Camp Rd. 12.6 3 72 4.2% 1.4%
34 Brookhaven Nature Park 6.7 1 13 7.7% 1.4%
35 Horseshoe Farm Nature Preserve 15.1 2 43 4.7% 1.3%
36 Butner Game Land--H Street Fields 23.2 1 14 7.1% 1.3%
37 Johnston Mill Nature Preserve 20.5 2 47 4.3% 1.2%
38 Middle Creek Bottomlands II 24.9 1 16 6.2% 1.1%
39 AIHF Trail 8300 Health Park 10.0 1 17 5.9% 1.0%
40 Hilltop Needmore Park--North 11.1 1 17 5.9% 1.0%
41 Lake Betz 7.3 4 177 2.3% 0.9%
42 Jordan Game Land---(751 bridge) Northeast Creek 10.6 1 21 4.8% 0.8%
43 White Deer Park 11.6 1 21 4.8% 0.8%
44 Fearrington Village 17.5 1 22 4.5% 0.8%
45 Neuse River Trail--Abbotts Creek 14.5 3 132 2.3% 0.8%
46 stakeout Varied Thrush, Cary (2020) 1.5 4 215 1.9% 0.7%
47 Duke Forest--Korstian Division 19.6 1 28 3.6% 0.6%
48 North Wake Landfill Park (formerly North Wake Sanitary Landfill) 14.1 1 30 3.3% 0.6%
49 North Carolina State University Campus 6.2 1 42 2.4% 0.4%
50 Shelley Lake 8.1 2 131 1.5% 0.4%
51 Rainbow Soccer Complex 16.2 1 67 1.5% 0.3%
52 Lake Johnson Park 4.2 2 218 0.9% 0.3%
53 Sarah P. Duke Gardens 16.8 1 71 1.4% 0.2%
54 Hank Anderson Community Park 20.3 1 71 1.4% 0.2%
55 Jordan Lake--B. Everett Jordan Dam 18.7 1 76 1.3% 0.2%
56 Brier Creek Reservoir 5.9 1 86 1.2% 0.2%
57 Lake Raleigh 6.0 1 99 1.0% 0.2%
58 William B. Umstead SP--Big Lake 5.7 1 102 1.0% 0.2%
59 Lake Crabtree Nature Trail--Southport Entrance 3.3 1 108 0.9% 0.2%
60 Sandy Creek Park 16.1 2 336 0.6% 0.2%
61 Lake Lynn 7.7 1 166 0.6% 0.1%
62 Falls Lake--Rolling View 16.1 1 178 0.6% 0.1%
63 Lake Crabtree Dam 3.3 1 214 0.5% 0.1%
64 Mason Farm Biological Reserve 14.6 1 295 0.3% 0.1%
65 Lake Crabtree County Park 3.6 1 441 0.2% 0.0%