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Where to find Mallard 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 Mallard 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 Moorman Swine Research Unit, Champaign 1.9 277 306 90.5% 86.7%
2 Legacy Ave Ponds 3.3 59 66 89.4% 79.7%
3 Heritage Park, Champaign 2.2 115 134 85.8% 78.9%
4 Salt Creek WMA 24.7 11 11 100.0% 74.1%
5 Kaufman Lake, Champaign 2.5 115 142 81.0% 73.7%
6 Curtis Road Wetlands 5.3 167 228 73.2% 67.1%
7 Crystal Lake Park, Urbana 1.7 371 611 60.7% 56.8%
8 Windsor Rd and 1st St Pond 2.4 48 71 67.6% 56.1%
9 Clinton Lake SRA--Radio Tower Access 24.7 34 50 68.0% 54.2%
10 Weaver Park, Urbana 3.4 70 114 61.4% 52.2%
11 Beringer Commons Pond, Urbana 4.1 59 96 61.5% 51.5%
12 Yankee Ridge Pond And Woods 3.4 34 53 64.2% 50.7%
13 Busey Woods, Urbana 1.8 440 870 50.6% 47.3%
14 Mattis Lake, Champaign 2.0 40 69 58.0% 46.2%
15 Fairmont Quarry Ponds (restricted access) 21.3 20 32 62.5% 45.3%
16 University of Illinois Arboretum, Champaign 2.2 67 127 52.8% 44.1%
17 Preservation Pond 1.4 3 3 100.0% 43.8%
18 Middle Fork River FP--South Waterfowl Management Area 23.4 3 3 100.0% 43.8%
19 University Cattle Farm, Urbana 2.3 19 31 61.3% 43.8%
20 Meadowbrook Park, Urbana 3.2 134 277 48.4% 42.6%
21 Boneyard Creek, Champaign 0.4 16 27 59.3% 40.7%
22 Colbert Park 4.6 23 42 54.8% 39.9%
23 Middle Fork River FP--Point Pleasant Wetland 22.7 7 10 70.0% 39.7%
24 Robert C. Porter Family Park 5.1 16 28 57.1% 39.1%
25 Middle Fork River FP--North Waterfowl Management Area 23.2 15 26 57.7% 38.9%
26 Harper's Ferry Rd. 4.3 4 5 80.0% 37.6%
27 Perkins Road Marsh, Urbana 2.9 8 13 61.5% 35.5%
28 Spring Lake (Champaign Co.) 11.6 3 4 75.0% 30.1%
29 Homer Lake State Conservation Area 14.0 71 232 30.6% 25.0%
30 Middle Fork River Forest Preserve 23.7 13 33 39.4% 24.7%
31 Maynard Lake 3.4 5 10 50.0% 23.7%
32 River Bend Forest Preserve 10.7 52 175 29.7% 23.4%
33 Boulware Trail 1.6 3 5 60.0% 23.1%
34 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1.3 18 54 33.3% 22.2%
35 Parkland College and Dodds Park 2.8 5 11 45.5% 21.3%
36 Chanute Air Force Base--Heritage Lake 13.2 2 3 66.7% 20.8%
37 Glenn Park 1.7 1 1 100.0% 20.7%
38 Clearlake Blvd Pond 2.6 1 1 100.0% 20.7%
39 Lake of the Woods Forest Preserve 9.7 20 69 29.0% 19.6%
40 Lake of the Woods Forest Preserve--Stidham Woods 9.3 5 12 41.7% 19.3%
41 Sangamon River Trail, Monticello 19.3 3 6 50.0% 18.8%
42 Middle Fork River FP--Campground 23.6 3 7 42.9% 15.8%
43 St. Joseph Wetland 10.3 14 62 22.6% 14.0%
44 Martin Luther King Trail, Champaign 0.5 3 8 37.5% 13.7%
45 UIUC Phillips Tract Bird Banding Station (restricted access) 5.1 3 9 33.3% 12.1%
46 Sangamon River Forest Preserve 12.5 9 45 20.0% 10.9%
47 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign--Boneyard Creek 0.9 2 6 33.3% 9.7%
48 Allerton Park 23.1 26 220 11.8% 8.2%
49 Lodge Park Forest Preserve 17.3 9 63 14.3% 7.7%
50 Sangamon River Corridor Reserve (Bruce Hannon Levee Trail) 19.2 3 14 21.4% 7.6%
51 Lake of the Woods Forest Preserve--Buffalo Trace Prairie 10.0 6 41 14.6% 6.9%
52 U of IL Forestry Plantations, Urbana 3.1 3 16 18.8% 6.6%
53 Barnhart Prairie Restoration 4.6 2 23 8.7% 2.4%
54 Woodlawn Cemetery, Champaign 1.8 2 29 6.9% 1.9%
55 Homer Lake Forest Preserve--North Lot 13.8 1 10 10.0% 1.8%
56 Monticello Road Field Station 8.4 2 37 5.4% 1.5%
57 Collins Pond Trail 14.2 1 14 7.1% 1.3%
58 Carle Park, Urbana 1.9 1 18 5.6% 1.0%
59 Allerton Park--Lost Garden Trail 23.3 1 20 5.0% 0.9%

Created by Michael Fogleman.

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