Caracara plancus
Drawn from open occurrence records in and around Nahuel Huapi 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: 2 squares of 25 km carry records for Southern Caracara in and around Nahuel Huapi National Park, and the 2,768 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.
Arenal, Manuel Antonio and Corcovado are among the five atlas places where the Southern Caracara is recorded. Its records concentrate in the United States, Mexico, Argentina, Costa Rica and Brazil. The atlas holds about 586,000 open records of this bird from 16 countries, and the map shows where these records gather.
Of the 7 species with an atlas page recorded in and around Nahuel Huapi National Park, the Southern Caracara is the 4th most recorded.
The full atlas page, and everywhere else it is recorded