California Towhee
Melozone crissalis
When to look
Records by month. January, 173,925 records. February, 165,215 records. March, 168,671 records. April, 213,950 records. May, 208,996 records. June, 145,872 records. July, 127,470 records. August, 126,545 records. September, 165,570 records. October, 160,736 records. November, 133,257 records. December, 170,360 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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