Great Horned Owl
Bubo virginianus
When to look
Records by month. January, 165,765 records. February, 145,738 records. March, 163,690 records. April, 195,574 records. May, 185,740 records. June, 74,954 records. July, 62,915 records. August, 85,247 records. September, 124,224 records. October, 122,652 records. November, 106,496 records. December, 155,743 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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