Elanoides forficatus
Drawn from open occurrence records in and around Calilegua 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, September, October, November and December, with the widest coverage in January, February, March, April, 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 Swallow-tailed Kite in and around Calilegua National Park, and the 1,088 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.
The Osa Peninsula, Arenal and Manuel Antonio are among five atlas places where the Swallow-tailed Kite is recorded. Records of this bird concentrate most heavily in the United States, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Panama and Colombia. This atlas holds about 261,000 open records from 15 countries, and the map follows where these records gather.
Of the 17 species with an atlas page recorded in and around Calilegua National Park, the Swallow-tailed Kite is the 6th most recorded.
The full atlas page, and everywhere else it is recorded