Jacana spinosa
Drawn from open occurrence records in and around Tortuguero, 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 January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November and December, with the widest coverage in January, March, May, July, August and October. 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: 6 squares of 25 km carry records for Northern Jacana in and around Tortuguero, and the 6,367 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.
Tortuguero, Osa Peninsula and Arenal are among the six atlas places where the Northern Jacana is recorded. Its records concentrate in Costa Rica, Mexico, Belize, Guatemala and Honduras, with about 170,000 records across 12 countries. Because this atlas map follows where records gather most thickly, it represents a partial view of its range. Records for the Northern Jacana span every month of the year.
Of the 102 species with an atlas page recorded in and around Tortuguero, the Northern Jacana is the 4th most recorded.
The full atlas page, and everywhere else it is recorded