Burrowing Owl

Athene cunicularia

Burrowing Owl photographed by Hassan

When to look

Reported most in May, across 325K open records.

Records by month. January, 32,126 records. February, 26,243 records. March, 25,347 records. April, 29,185 records. May, 36,713 records. June, 27,513 records. July, 25,081 records. August, 22,363 records. September, 21,516 records. October, 27,891 records. November, 25,532 records. December, 25,421 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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