Great Horned Owl
Bubo virginianus
When to look
Records by month. January, 165,873 records. February, 145,875 records. March, 163,865 records. April, 195,731 records. May, 185,942 records. June, 75,084 records. July, 63,008 records. August, 85,430 records. September, 124,443 records. October, 122,747 records. November, 106,561 records. December, 155,798 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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