Bird Finder

Where to find Common Nighthawk in September
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 Common Nighthawk in September. 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 American Tobacco Trail--Blackwell Street Trailhead 15.4 1 1 100.0% 20.7%
2 Neuse River Trail--Old Falls of Neuse 15.1 1 1 100.0% 20.7%
3 Hank Anderson Community Park 20.3 14 63 22.2% 13.7%
4 Durham Hotel Rooftop 15.7 3 9 33.3% 12.1%
5 Mid Pines Rd. 6.7 38 337 11.3% 8.3%
6 Whippoorwill Park & Warren Creek Trail 19.4 2 8 25.0% 7.1%
7 North Carolina Museum of Art--Sculpture Garden 4.6 6 45 13.3% 6.3%
8 Krzyzewskiville 16.8 1 3 33.3% 6.1%
9 Dorothea Dix 6.6 2 10 20.0% 5.7%
10 Lake Raleigh 6.0 4 46 8.7% 3.4%
11 Maple View Farm (Birding From Roads Only) 24.1 6 109 5.5% 2.5%
12 Horseshoe Farm Nature Preserve 15.1 2 28 7.1% 2.0%
13 Falls Lake--Cheek Road Causeway (Durham Co.) 17.7 1 10 10.0% 1.8%
14 Schenck Forest 3.6 7 195 3.6% 1.7%
15 Duke University--East Campus 16.6 1 13 7.7% 1.4%
16 stakeout Varied Thrush, Cary (2020) 1.5 3 81 3.7% 1.3%
17 Yates Mill County Park 7.2 7 296 2.4% 1.2%
18 Fearrington Village 17.5 1 17 5.9% 1.0%
19 Jordan Lake--New Hope Creek arm (Chatham Co) 12.0 4 164 2.4% 1.0%
20 Prairie Ridge Ecostation for Wildlife Learning 3.9 5 248 2.0% 0.9%
21 North Wake Landfill Park (formerly North Wake Sanitary Landfill) 14.1 1 21 4.8% 0.8%
22 University Lake, Chapel Hill 19.3 1 22 4.5% 0.8%
23 Flat River Waterfowl Impoundment 23.4 3 130 2.3% 0.8%
24 Falls Lake--Rolling View 16.1 2 83 2.4% 0.7%
25 Town Lake Park 23.4 1 31 3.2% 0.6%
26 Duke University--Wetland Center 'SWAMP' 16.4 1 37 2.7% 0.5%
27 Eno River SP--Cole Mill/Pump Station 21.6 1 39 2.6% 0.5%
28 Third Fork Creek Trail 13.6 1 46 2.2% 0.4%
29 Apex Community Park 3.7 1 48 2.1% 0.4%
30 Johnston Mill Nature Preserve 20.5 1 52 1.9% 0.3%
31 Neuse River Trail--Abbotts Creek 14.5 2 163 1.2% 0.3%
32 Butner Game Land--Brickhouse Rd. (Granville Co.) 21.9 1 56 1.8% 0.3%
33 Sarah P. Duke Gardens 16.8 1 70 1.4% 0.3%
34 Mason Farm Biological Reserve 14.6 3 411 0.7% 0.2%
35 North Carolina State University Campus 6.2 1 75 1.3% 0.2%
36 Mary Hayes Barber Holmes Park 22.3 1 75 1.3% 0.2%
37 William B. Umstead SP--Big Lake 5.7 1 83 1.2% 0.2%
38 Durant Nature Preserve 13.3 1 83 1.2% 0.2%
39 Bass Lake Park & Trail 10.7 1 86 1.2% 0.2%
40 Lake Wheeler marshes 6.9 2 311 0.6% 0.2%
41 Jordan Game Land--Transis Camp Rd. 12.6 1 105 1.0% 0.2%
42 Jordan Game Land---(751 bridge) Northeast Creek 10.6 1 132 0.8% 0.1%
43 Sandy Creek Park 16.1 2 413 0.5% 0.1%
44 Eno River SP--Few's Ford 23.2 1 141 0.7% 0.1%
45 Lake Crabtree County Park 3.6 2 497 0.4% 0.1%
46 Bond Park 2.7 1 181 0.6% 0.1%
47 Falls Lake--Ellerbe Creek RR Grade 19.0 1 223 0.4% 0.1%
48 Brumley Nature Preserve--North 22.2 3 1701 0.2% 0.1%