Eurasian Coot
Fulica atra
When to look
Records by month. January, 434,164 records. February, 333,651 records. March, 394,749 records. April, 468,494 records. May, 421,299 records. June, 271,365 records. July, 239,462 records. August, 246,287 records. September, 250,421 records. October, 281,754 records. November, 268,643 records. December, 310,230 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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