Black-crowned Night Heron
Nycticorax nycticorax
When to look
Records by month. January, 248,294 records. February, 197,040 records. March, 184,008 records. April, 277,485 records. May, 375,803 records. June, 256,080 records. July, 258,770 records. August, 277,145 records. September, 248,080 records. October, 220,157 records. November, 195,766 records. December, 209,400 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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