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Where to find Downy Woodpecker 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 Downy Woodpecker 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 Busey Woods, Urbana 1.8 656 870 75.4% 72.4%
2 Hidden Acres Park 13.2 11 12 91.7% 64.6%
3 Homer Lake State Conservation Area 14.0 160 232 69.0% 62.7%
4 UIUC Phillips Tract Bird Banding Station (restricted access) 5.1 8 9 88.9% 56.5%
5 Allerton Park 23.1 137 220 62.3% 55.7%
6 Allerton Park--Buck Schroth Trail 22.2 20 27 74.1% 55.3%
7 Allerton Park--Lost Garden Trail 23.3 15 20 75.0% 53.1%
8 Yankee Ridge Pond And Woods 3.4 33 53 62.3% 48.8%
9 Sangamon River Corridor Reserve (Bruce Hannon Levee Trail) 19.2 10 14 71.4% 45.4%
10 Crystal Lake Park, Urbana 1.7 301 611 49.3% 45.3%
11 Meadowbrook Park, Urbana 3.2 141 277 50.9% 45.0%
12 Lake of the Woods Forest Preserve 9.7 39 69 56.5% 44.8%
13 Middle Fork River FP--South Waterfowl Management Area 23.4 3 3 100.0% 43.8%
14 Martin Luther King Trail, Champaign 0.5 6 8 75.0% 40.9%
15 Lodge Park Forest Preserve 17.3 33 63 52.4% 40.3%
16 Heritage Park, Champaign 2.2 64 134 47.8% 39.5%
17 River Bend Forest Preserve 10.7 81 175 46.3% 39.1%
18 Middle Fork River Forest Preserve 23.7 18 33 54.5% 38.0%
19 Sangamon River Forest Preserve 12.5 23 45 51.1% 37.0%
20 Valentine Park 17.6 13 25 52.0% 33.5%
21 Lake of the Woods Forest Preserve--Buffalo Trace Prairie 10.0 19 41 46.3% 32.1%
22 Sangamon Park 12.0 3 4 75.0% 30.1%
23 Thomas Woods 23.8 3 4 75.0% 30.1%
24 Middle Fork River FP--North Waterfowl Management Area 23.2 12 26 46.2% 28.8%
25 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1.3 20 54 37.0% 25.4%
26 Perkins Road Marsh, Urbana 2.9 6 13 46.2% 23.2%
27 U of IL Forestry Plantations, Urbana 3.1 7 16 43.8% 23.1%
28 Kaufman Lake, Champaign 2.5 39 142 27.5% 20.8%
29 University of Illinois Arboretum, Champaign 2.2 34 127 26.8% 19.8%
30 Lake of the Woods Forest Preserve--Stidham Woods 9.3 5 12 41.7% 19.3%
31 Middle Fork River FP--Point Pleasant Wetland 22.7 4 10 40.0% 16.8%
32 Homer Lake Forest Preserve--North Lot 13.8 4 10 40.0% 16.8%
33 Carle Park, Urbana 1.9 6 18 33.3% 16.3%
34 Clinton Lake SRA--Radio Tower Access 24.7 13 50 26.0% 15.9%
35 Fairmont Quarry Ponds (restricted access) 21.3 9 32 28.1% 15.6%
36 Shady Rest County Forest Preserve 15.3 2 4 50.0% 15.0%
37 Woodlawn Cemetery, Champaign 1.8 7 29 24.1% 12.2%
38 Weaver Park, Urbana 3.4 20 114 17.5% 11.7%
39 Parkland College and Dodds Park 2.8 3 11 27.3% 9.7%
40 Sangamon River Trail, Monticello 19.3 2 6 33.3% 9.7%
41 Heron View Forest Preserve 12.3 1 2 50.0% 9.5%
42 Victory Park, Urbana 2.5 3 12 25.0% 8.9%
43 Collins Pond Trail 14.2 3 14 21.4% 7.6%
44 Monticello Township Cemetery 18.0 1 3 33.3% 6.1%
45 Preservation Pond 1.4 1 3 33.3% 6.1%
46 Salt Creek WMA 24.7 2 11 18.2% 5.1%
47 Mattis Lake, Champaign 2.0 7 69 10.1% 5.0%
48 Maplewood Cemetery 15.7 1 4 25.0% 4.6%
49 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign--Boneyard Creek 0.9 1 6 16.7% 3.0%
50 Middle Fork River FP--Campground 23.6 1 7 14.3% 2.6%
51 West Side Park, Champaign 0.3 1 7 14.3% 2.6%
52 Boneyard Creek, Champaign 0.4 2 27 7.4% 2.1%
53 Maynard Lake 3.4 1 10 10.0% 1.8%
54 Upper Sangamon River Land and Water Reserve 21.1 1 11 9.1% 1.6%
55 Legacy Ave Ponds 3.3 3 66 4.5% 1.6%
56 Windsor Rd and 1st St Pond 2.4 3 71 4.2% 1.4%
57 St. Joseph Wetland 10.3 2 62 3.2% 0.9%
58 Robert C. Porter Family Park 5.1 1 28 3.6% 0.6%
59 Colbert Park 4.6 1 42 2.4% 0.4%
60 Moorman Swine Research Unit, Champaign 1.9 2 306 0.7% 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.