Hooded Merganser
Lophodytes cucullatus
When to look
Records by month. January, 514,140 records. February, 380,628 records. March, 495,044 records. April, 362,654 records. May, 173,392 records. June, 70,770 records. July, 56,155 records. August, 73,331 records. September, 80,780 records. October, 152,404 records. November, 436,634 records. December, 466,880 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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