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Where to find American Goldfinch in April
within 25 miles of Champaign, IL, USA

This page shows which locations in the selected region historically had the highest probability of a checklist including American Goldfinch in April. 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 Hidden Acres Park 13.2 11 12 91.7% 64.6%
2 Heritage Park, Champaign 2.2 81 134 60.4% 52.0%
3 Homer Lake State Conservation Area 14.0 133 232 57.3% 50.9%
4 Crystal Lake Park, Urbana 1.7 331 611 54.2% 50.2%
5 Busey Woods, Urbana 1.8 442 870 50.8% 47.5%
6 Meadowbrook Park, Urbana 3.2 139 277 50.2% 44.3%
7 Lake of the Woods Forest Preserve--Buffalo Trace Prairie 10.0 23 41 56.1% 41.0%
8 Yankee Ridge Pond And Woods 3.4 27 53 50.9% 37.9%
9 UIUC Phillips Tract Bird Banding Station (restricted access) 5.1 6 9 66.7% 35.4%
10 Parkland College and Dodds Park 2.8 7 11 63.6% 35.4%
11 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1.3 22 54 40.7% 28.7%
12 Kaufman Lake, Champaign 2.5 50 142 35.2% 27.8%
13 Middle Fork River Forest Preserve 23.7 14 33 42.4% 27.2%
14 Allerton Park--Lost Garden Trail 23.3 9 20 45.0% 25.8%
15 Lake of the Woods Forest Preserve--Stidham Woods 9.3 6 12 50.0% 25.4%
16 Allerton Park--Buck Schroth Trail 22.2 11 27 40.7% 24.5%
17 River Bend Forest Preserve 10.7 54 175 30.9% 24.5%
18 Allerton Park 23.1 64 220 29.1% 23.5%
19 University of Illinois Arboretum, Champaign 2.2 39 127 30.7% 23.4%
20 Lake of the Woods Forest Preserve 9.7 22 69 31.9% 22.1%
21 Preservation Pond 1.4 2 3 66.7% 20.8%
22 Robert C. Porter Family Park 5.1 10 28 35.7% 20.7%
23 Valentine Park 17.6 9 25 36.0% 20.2%
24 Fairmont Quarry Ponds (restricted access) 21.3 10 32 31.2% 18.0%
25 Perkins Road Marsh, Urbana 2.9 5 13 38.5% 17.7%
26 Mattis Lake, Champaign 2.0 18 69 26.1% 17.2%
27 Weaver Park, Urbana 3.4 27 114 23.7% 16.8%
28 Homer Lake Forest Preserve--North Lot 13.8 4 10 40.0% 16.8%
29 Clinton Lake SRA--Radio Tower Access 24.7 13 50 26.0% 15.9%
30 West Side Park, Champaign 0.3 3 7 42.9% 15.8%
31 Sangamon Park 12.0 2 4 50.0% 15.0%
32 Windsor Rd and 1st St Pond 2.4 16 71 22.5% 14.4%
33 Martin Luther King Trail, Champaign 0.5 3 8 37.5% 13.7%
34 Lodge Park Forest Preserve 17.3 13 63 20.6% 12.5%
35 Legacy Ave Ponds 3.3 12 66 18.2% 10.7%
36 Heron View Forest Preserve 12.3 1 2 50.0% 9.5%
37 St. Joseph Wetland 10.3 10 62 16.1% 9.0%
38 Carle Park, Urbana 1.9 4 18 22.2% 9.0%
39 Sangamon River Forest Preserve 12.5 7 45 15.6% 7.7%
40 Woodlawn Cemetery, Champaign 1.8 5 29 17.2% 7.6%
41 Sangamon River Corridor Reserve (Bruce Hannon Levee Trail) 19.2 3 14 21.4% 7.6%
42 Collins Pond Trail 14.2 3 14 21.4% 7.6%
43 U of IL Forestry Plantations, Urbana 3.1 3 16 18.8% 6.6%
44 Middle Fork River FP--North Waterfowl Management Area 23.2 4 26 15.4% 6.1%
45 Chanute Air Force Base--Heritage Lake 13.2 1 3 33.3% 6.1%
46 Bement Cemetery (Piatt Co.) 20.7 1 3 33.3% 6.1%
47 Boneyard Creek, Champaign 0.4 4 27 14.8% 5.9%
48 Middle Fork River FP--Point Pleasant Wetland 22.7 2 10 20.0% 5.7%
49 Moorman Swine Research Unit, Champaign 1.9 24 306 7.8% 5.3%
50 Thomas Woods 23.8 1 4 25.0% 4.6%
51 Spring Lake (Champaign Co.) 11.6 1 4 25.0% 4.6%
52 Shady Rest County Forest Preserve 15.3 1 4 25.0% 4.6%
53 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign--Boneyard Creek 0.9 1 6 16.7% 3.0%
54 Colbert Park 4.6 3 42 7.1% 2.5%
55 Beringer Commons Pond, Urbana 4.1 5 96 5.2% 2.2%
56 Upper Sangamon River Land and Water Reserve 21.1 1 11 9.1% 1.6%
57 Victory Park, Urbana 2.5 1 12 8.3% 1.5%
58 Barnhart Prairie Restoration 4.6 1 23 4.3% 0.8%
59 Curtis Road Wetlands 5.3 2 228 0.9% 0.2%

Created by Michael Fogleman.

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