California Towhee
Melozone crissalis
When to look
Records by month. January, 162,554 records. February, 156,706 records. March, 161,655 records. April, 200,174 records. May, 200,848 records. June, 144,102 records. July, 126,175 records. August, 124,280 records. September, 155,799 records. October, 152,900 records. November, 125,798 records. December, 150,477 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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