Columbina passerina
Drawn from open occurrence records in and around Big Bend 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 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.
A grid cell is a square of the map, not a sighting: 1 square of 25 km carry records for Common Ground Dove in and around Big Bend National Park, and the 1,151 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 and Monteverde are the two atlas parks where the Common Ground Dove is recorded, with records gathering most in the United States, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica and the Bahamas. The atlas holds about 564,000 open records of this bird from 23 countries, and the map shows where these records concentrate.
Of the 15 species with an atlas page recorded in and around Big Bend National Park, the Common Ground Dove is the 10th most recorded.
The full atlas page, and everywhere else it is recorded