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Where to find Purple Martin in August
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 Purple Martin in August. 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 Lake Betz 7.3 33 206 16.0% 11.6%
2 Mid Pines Rd. 6.7 46 315 14.6% 11.1%
3 Prairie Ridge Ecostation for Wildlife Learning 3.9 20 183 10.9% 7.2%
4 Macedonia Lake/Speight Branch Greenway 3.5 2 8 25.0% 7.1%
5 Neuse River Trail--Mial Plantation Road 18.1 3 15 20.0% 7.0%
6 White Oak Creek Greenway--West Side 6.7 4 25 16.0% 6.4%
7 Schenck Forest 3.6 8 84 9.5% 4.9%
8 North Carolina Museum of Art--Sculpture Garden 4.6 6 58 10.3% 4.8%
9 Roland E. Horne Walking Trail 23.4 1 4 25.0% 4.6%
10 Neuse River Trail--Old Falls of Neuse 15.1 1 4 25.0% 4.6%
11 Yates Mill County Park 7.2 15 242 6.2% 3.8%
12 North Carolina Museum of Art--Goodnight Park 4.4 1 5 20.0% 3.6%
13 North Wake Landfill Park (formerly North Wake Sanitary Landfill) 14.1 2 17 11.8% 3.3%
14 Horseshoe Farm Nature Preserve 15.1 2 17 11.8% 3.3%
15 Lake Wheeler marshes 6.9 21 450 4.7% 3.1%
16 Carpenter Park 5.1 1 6 16.7% 3.0%
17 Middle Creek Bottomlands II 24.9 2 19 10.5% 2.9%
18 Shiloh Greenway 5.1 1 7 14.3% 2.6%
19 Flat River Waterfowl Impoundment 23.4 7 137 5.1% 2.5%
20 Falls Lake--Mountains-to-Sea Trail Jimmy Rogers Road Access 15.2 3 43 7.0% 2.4%
21 Jordan Lake--Crosswinds Marina 13.2 1 8 12.5% 2.2%
22 Maple View Farm (Birding From Roads Only) 24.1 6 130 4.6% 2.1%
23 Harris Game Land--Upper Boat Ramp 15.5 3 50 6.0% 2.1%
24 Bass Lake Park & Trail 10.7 3 50 6.0% 2.1%
25 American Tobacco Trail--Olive Chapel Road Access 9.5 1 9 11.1% 2.0%
26 Eagle Spur Rail Trail--Stagecoach Rd. 11.9 2 30 6.7% 1.8%
27 New Hope Waterfowl Impoundment 13.8 2 30 6.7% 1.8%
28 Durant Nature Preserve 13.3 3 56 5.4% 1.8%
29 Jordan Game Land--Mason Point Peninsula 12.1 1 10 10.0% 1.8%
30 J.C. Raulston Arboretum 4.6 1 10 10.0% 1.8%
31 Jordan Game Land--(Hortons Pond Rd.) Mill Branch 11.6 1 11 9.1% 1.6%
32 Jordan Lake--Morgan Creek arm (seasonal mudflats) 12.6 1 12 8.3% 1.5%
33 Neuse River Trail--Anderson Point Park 13.5 1 13 7.7% 1.4%
34 Jordan Game Land--(751 bridge) White Oak Creek 10.3 1 14 7.1% 1.3%
35 NCSU Experimental Farm 7.1 1 17 5.9% 1.0%
36 Lake Crabtree Nature Trail--Southport Entrance 3.3 6 306 2.0% 0.9%
37 Duke University--East Campus 16.6 1 20 5.0% 0.9%
38 Jordan Lake--Historical Data Only 15.3 1 21 4.8% 0.8%
39 Crabtree Creek Wetland--West of Raleigh Blvd. 9.8 2 68 2.9% 0.8%
40 Inwood Rd. 7.3 1 22 4.5% 0.8%
41 Jordan Lake--New Hope Creek arm (Chatham Co) 12.0 4 202 2.0% 0.8%
42 William B. Umstead SP--Big Lake 5.7 1 26 3.8% 0.7%
43 Lake Benson 11.9 1 26 3.8% 0.7%
44 Mason Farm Biological Reserve 14.6 4 231 1.7% 0.7%
45 Jordan Lake SRA--Ebenezer Point 15.0 1 27 3.7% 0.7%
46 Lake Crabtree Dam 3.3 3 158 1.9% 0.6%
47 Apex Community Park 3.7 1 29 3.4% 0.6%
48 Brumley Nature Preserve--South 22.7 1 29 3.4% 0.6%
49 Lake Raleigh 6.0 1 31 3.2% 0.6%
50 Jordan Lake--B. Everett Jordan Dam 18.7 1 33 3.0% 0.5%
51 Jordan Game Land--Transis Camp Rd. 12.6 3 203 1.5% 0.5%
52 Falls Lake--Ellerbe Creek RR Grade 19.0 3 216 1.4% 0.5%
53 Eno River SP--Few's Ford 23.2 1 40 2.5% 0.4%
54 Butner Game Land--Brickhouse Rd. (Durham Co.) 21.9 1 44 2.3% 0.4%
55 Third Fork Creek Trail 13.6 1 49 2.0% 0.4%
56 Pinehurst Drive Ponds 15.6 1 72 1.4% 0.2%
57 Sandy Creek Park 16.1 2 287 0.7% 0.2%
58 Lake Lynn 7.7 1 143 0.7% 0.1%
59 Dorothea Dix Park 6.9 1 159 0.6% 0.1%
60 Lake Johnson Park 4.2 1 184 0.5% 0.1%
61 Lake Crabtree County Park 3.6 1 215 0.5% 0.1%

Created by Michael Fogleman.

Data from the eBird Basic Dataset. Version: EBD_relJan-2024. Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York. Jan 2024.