Buteo platypterus
Drawn from open occurrence records in and around Acadia National Park, 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 April, May, June, July, August, September and October, with the widest coverage in April, May, June, July, August, September 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: 1 square of 25 km carry records for Broad-winged Hawk in and around Acadia National Park, and the 2,794 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, Monteverde and Manuel Antonio are the three atlas places where the Broad-winged Hawk is recorded, with records gathering most thickly in the United States, Canada, Costa Rica, Mexico and Colombia. The atlas holds about 406,000 open records of this bird from 11 countries, and the map follows where these records concentrate.
Of the 16 species with an atlas page recorded in and around Acadia National Park, the Broad-winged Hawk is the 8th most recorded.
The full atlas page, and everywhere else it is recorded