Brown-headed Cowbird
Molothrus ater
When to look
Records by month. January, 155,540 records. February, 216,228 records. March, 518,841 records. April, 1,800,605 records. May, 2,650,988 records. June, 1,295,451 records. July, 615,267 records. August, 223,314 records. September, 131,026 records. October, 168,742 records. November, 113,668 records. December, 115,155 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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