Mycteria americana
Drawn from open occurrence records in and around Everglades 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, with the widest coverage in January, February, March, May, 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: 9 squares of 25 km carry records for Wood Stork in and around Everglades National Park, and the 20,695 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.
Monteverde, the Osa Peninsula and Arenal are among the four atlas places where the Wood Stork is recorded. Records of this bird gather most thickly in the United States, Costa Rica, Mexico, Belize and Brazil. The atlas holds about 597,000 open records of the species from 11 countries, and the map follows where they concentrate. Because this bird is recorded across both hemispheres, seasons differ by region and each place page shows the months recorded there.
Of the 38 species with an atlas page recorded in and around Everglades National Park, the Wood Stork is the 5th most recorded.
The full atlas page, and everywhere else it is recorded