Pelecanus occidentalis
Drawn from open occurrence records in and around Redwood National and State Parks, 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 Brown Pelican in and around Redwood National and State Parks, and the 3,106 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.
Manuel Antonio is the atlas park where the Brown Pelican is recorded, with records gathering most thickly in the United States, Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama and Puerto Rico. The atlas holds about 2 million open records of the bird from nine countries. Because its map shows where records concentrate, it reflects only a portion of its range.
Of the 13 species with an atlas page recorded in and around Redwood National and State Parks, the Brown Pelican is the 5th most recorded.
The full atlas page, and everywhere else it is recorded