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Where to find Blue Jay 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 Blue Jay 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 Homer Lake State Conservation Area 14.0 173 232 74.6% 68.6%
2 Sangamon River Forest Preserve 12.5 36 45 80.0% 66.2%
3 Busey Woods, Urbana 1.8 571 870 65.6% 62.4%
4 Woodlawn Cemetery, Champaign 1.8 23 29 79.3% 61.6%
5 Lake of the Woods Forest Preserve--Buffalo Trace Prairie 10.0 30 41 73.2% 58.1%
6 UIUC Phillips Tract Bird Banding Station (restricted access) 5.1 8 9 88.9% 56.5%
7 Hidden Acres Park 13.2 10 12 83.3% 55.2%
8 River Bend Forest Preserve 10.7 109 175 62.3% 54.9%
9 Allerton Park 23.1 134 220 60.9% 54.3%
10 Clinton Lake SRA--Radio Tower Access 24.7 33 50 66.0% 52.2%
11 Allerton Park--Lost Garden Trail 23.3 14 20 70.0% 48.1%
12 Allerton Park--Buck Schroth Trail 22.2 18 27 66.7% 47.8%
13 Yankee Ridge Pond And Woods 3.4 32 53 60.4% 46.9%
14 Salt Creek WMA 24.7 8 11 72.7% 43.4%
15 Crystal Lake Park, Urbana 1.7 275 611 45.0% 41.1%
16 Middle Fork River Forest Preserve 23.7 19 33 57.6% 40.8%
17 Middle Fork River FP--North Waterfowl Management Area 23.2 15 26 57.7% 38.9%
18 Heron View Forest Preserve 12.3 2 2 100.0% 34.2%
19 Lake of the Woods Forest Preserve--Stidham Woods 9.3 7 12 58.3% 32.0%
20 Weaver Park, Urbana 3.4 46 114 40.4% 31.8%
21 Meadowbrook Park, Urbana 3.2 102 277 36.8% 31.4%
22 University of Illinois Arboretum, Champaign 2.2 50 127 39.4% 31.3%
23 Homer Lake Forest Preserve--North Lot 13.8 6 10 60.0% 31.3%
24 Spring Lake (Champaign Co.) 11.6 3 4 75.0% 30.1%
25 Shady Rest County Forest Preserve 15.3 3 4 75.0% 30.1%
26 Lodge Park Forest Preserve 17.3 26 63 41.3% 30.0%
27 Perkins Road Marsh, Urbana 2.9 7 13 53.8% 29.1%
28 Lake of the Woods Forest Preserve 9.7 27 69 39.1% 28.5%
29 U of IL Forestry Plantations, Urbana 3.1 8 16 50.0% 28.0%
30 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1.3 21 54 38.9% 27.0%
31 Middle Fork River FP--Campground 23.6 4 7 57.1% 25.0%
32 Valentine Park 17.6 10 25 40.0% 23.4%
33 Heritage Park, Champaign 2.2 38 134 28.4% 21.4%
34 Sangamon River Corridor Reserve (Bruce Hannon Levee Trail) 19.2 6 14 42.9% 21.4%
35 Parkland College and Dodds Park 2.8 5 11 45.5% 21.3%
36 Bement Cemetery (Piatt Co.) 20.7 2 3 66.7% 20.8%
37 Middle Fork River FP--South Waterfowl Management Area 23.4 2 3 66.7% 20.8%
38 Carle Park, Urbana 1.9 7 18 38.9% 20.3%
39 Sangamon River Trail, Monticello 19.3 3 6 50.0% 18.8%
40 Fairmont Quarry Ponds (restricted access) 21.3 9 32 28.1% 15.6%
41 Sangamon Park 12.0 2 4 50.0% 15.0%
42 Thomas Woods 23.8 2 4 50.0% 15.0%
43 Martin Luther King Trail, Champaign 0.5 3 8 37.5% 13.7%
44 Mattis Lake, Champaign 2.0 15 69 21.7% 13.6%
45 St. Joseph Wetland 10.3 13 62 21.0% 12.7%
46 Boulware Trail 1.6 2 5 40.0% 11.8%
47 Kaufman Lake, Champaign 2.5 23 142 16.2% 11.0%
48 Chanute Air Force Base--Heritage Lake 13.2 1 3 33.3% 6.1%
49 Monticello Township Cemetery 18.0 1 3 33.3% 6.1%
50 Maynard Lake 3.4 2 10 20.0% 5.7%
51 Upper Sangamon River Land and Water Reserve 21.1 2 11 18.2% 5.1%
52 Boneyard Creek, Champaign 0.4 3 27 11.1% 3.9%
53 West Side Park, Champaign 0.3 1 7 14.3% 2.6%
54 Windsor Rd and 1st St Pond 2.4 3 71 4.2% 1.4%
55 Collins Pond Trail 14.2 1 14 7.1% 1.3%
56 Moorman Swine Research Unit, Champaign 1.9 5 306 1.6% 0.7%
57 Beringer Commons Pond, Urbana 4.1 2 96 2.1% 0.6%
58 Legacy Ave Ponds 3.3 1 66 1.5% 0.3%

Created by Michael Fogleman.

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