California Towhee
Melozone crissalis
When to look
Records by month. January, 173,782 records. February, 165,116 records. March, 168,518 records. April, 213,691 records. May, 208,749 records. June, 145,716 records. July, 127,347 records. August, 126,376 records. September, 165,319 records. October, 160,660 records. November, 133,199 records. December, 170,294 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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