Black-crowned Night Heron
Nycticorax nycticorax
When to look
Records by month. January, 217,700 records. February, 171,550 records. March, 165,998 records. April, 255,438 records. May, 344,349 records. June, 245,223 records. July, 242,231 records. August, 255,582 records. September, 221,605 records. October, 189,394 records. November, 170,677 records. December, 181,704 records.
Occurrence data from GBIF (incl. the eBird Observation Dataset, © Cornell Lab of Ornithology, CC BY 4.0). Descriptive, not predictive.
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