Himantopus mexicanus
Drawn from open occurrence records in and around Joshua Tree 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 Black-necked Stilt in and around Joshua Tree National Park, and the 6,376 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 and Arenal are the two atlas parks where the Black-necked Stilt is recorded, with records concentrating in the United States, Mexico, Chile, Costa Rica, and Canada. The atlas holds about 1 million open records of this bird from 17 countries, and the map shows where these records gather.
Of the 8 species with an atlas page recorded in and around Joshua Tree National Park, the Black-necked Stilt is the most recorded.
The full atlas page, and everywhere else it is recorded