Brown-headed Cowbird
Molothrus ater
When to look
Records by month. January, 164,451 records. February, 218,552 records. March, 515,201 records. April, 1,847,755 records. May, 2,798,360 records. June, 1,338,154 records. July, 637,590 records. August, 247,361 records. September, 147,375 records. October, 185,775 records. November, 127,296 records. December, 127,436 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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