Patagioenas leucocephala
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 March 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: 16 squares of 25 km carry records for White-crowned Pigeon in and around Everglades National Park, and the 18,921 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 is the atlas place where the White-crowned Pigeon is recorded, with records gathering most thickly across the United States, Bahamas, Puerto Rico, Jamaica and Cuba. The atlas holds about 124,000 open records of this bird from 22 countries. Because the mapping is partial, the map follows where these records concentrate.
Of the 38 species with an atlas page recorded in and around Everglades National Park, the White-crowned Pigeon is the 8th most recorded.
The full atlas page, and everywhere else it is recorded