Tropical Kingbird in Osa Peninsula

Tyrannus melancholicus

Chance of an encounter
Very likely

Drawn from open occurrence records in and around Osa Peninsula, 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.

When it has been recorded here

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Records exist for January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November and December. A quiet month can mean the animal was absent, or that nobody was looking.

The evidence here

Grid cells
4
Records
15,549
Cell size
25 km
Years covered
1980 to 2026

A grid cell is a square of the map, not a sighting: 4 squares of 25 km carry records for Tropical Kingbird in and around Osa Peninsula, and the 15,549 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.

About the Tropical Kingbird

Arenal, Osa Peninsula and Corcovado are among the six atlas places where the Tropical Kingbird is recorded. Its records concentrate most heavily in Costa Rica, Colombia, Panama, Mexico and the United States. The atlas holds about 1.1 million records of this bird from 17 countries, mapping where these sightings cluster.

Of the 145 species with an atlas page recorded in and around Osa Peninsula, the Tropical Kingbird is the 8th most recorded.

The full atlas page, and everywhere else it is recorded