Great Blue Heron
Ardea herodias
When to look
Records by month. January, 910,731 records. February, 744,211 records. March, 904,496 records. April, 1,433,359 records. May, 1,694,753 records. June, 960,912 records. July, 978,005 records. August, 1,190,626 records. September, 1,247,153 records. October, 1,091,748 records. November, 871,754 records. December, 820,705 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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