Numenius phaeopus
Drawn from open occurrence records in and around Pacific Rim National Park Reserve, aggregated onto a 25 km grid. A cell is matched by its centre, which can sit up to 16 km outside the boundary, so this covers the surrounding country too.
Occurrence records measure where people looked and found something, which is not the same as where the animal is. This is a relative likelihood, not a probability.
Records exist for March, April, May, June, July, August and September, with the widest coverage in March, April, May, June, July, August and September. A quiet month can mean the animal was absent, or that nobody was looking.
A grid cell is a square of the map, not a sighting: 1 square of 25 km carry records for Whimbrel in and around Pacific Rim National Park Reserve, and the 2,394 records behind them were collected by other people and published openly. Nothing here counts animals, and a place with more records is not always a place with more animals.
Arenal, Tortuguero and the Osa Peninsula are among the seven atlas places where the Whimbrel is recorded. Its records concentrate in the United States, Chile, Australia, Spain and Portugal. The atlas holds about 630,000 open records of this bird across 35 countries, and the map follows where these records gather most thickly.
Of the 10 species with an atlas page recorded in and around Pacific Rim National Park Reserve, the Whimbrel is the 2nd most recorded.
The full atlas page, and everywhere else it is recorded