Black-crowned Night Heron
Nycticorax nycticorax
When to look
Records by month. January, 248,459 records. February, 197,248 records. March, 184,226 records. April, 277,853 records. May, 376,334 records. June, 256,448 records. July, 259,066 records. August, 277,596 records. September, 248,452 records. October, 220,318 records. November, 195,888 records. December, 209,519 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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