Hooded Merganser
Lophodytes cucullatus
When to look
Records by month. January, 513,913 records. February, 380,409 records. March, 494,834 records. April, 362,487 records. May, 173,301 records. June, 70,726 records. July, 56,115 records. August, 73,283 records. September, 80,700 records. October, 152,364 records. November, 436,498 records. December, 466,740 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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