Blue Jay
Cyanocitta cristata
When to look
Records by month. January, 1,666,287 records. February, 1,830,241 records. March, 1,770,793 records. April, 2,655,306 records. May, 3,594,359 records. June, 1,657,976 records. July, 1,303,364 records. August, 1,482,084 records. September, 2,326,396 records. October, 2,396,674 records. November, 1,650,949 records. December, 1,625,432 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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