Great Horned Owl
Bubo virginianus
When to look
Records by month. January, 156,389 records. February, 137,586 records. March, 154,737 records. April, 180,529 records. May, 163,221 records. June, 70,232 records. July, 60,110 records. August, 82,621 records. September, 119,437 records. October, 119,686 records. November, 103,747 records. December, 141,672 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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