Great Blue Heron
Ardea herodias
When to look
Records by month. January, 1,015,650 records. February, 820,647 records. March, 970,591 records. April, 1,542,171 records. May, 1,843,531 records. June, 1,003,866 records. July, 1,020,040 records. August, 1,253,786 records. September, 1,344,800 records. October, 1,189,384 records. November, 965,118 records. December, 929,619 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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