Columbina talpacoti
Drawn from open occurrence records in and around Itatiaia 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 Ruddy Ground Dove in and around Itatiaia National Park, and the 3,425 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 Corcovado are among the five atlas places where the Ruddy Ground Dove is recorded. Records concentrate in Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Panama and Belize, with about 608,000 open records across 18 countries. The map follows where these records gather most thickly.
Of the 26 species with an atlas page recorded in and around Itatiaia National Park, the Ruddy Ground Dove is the 10th most recorded.
The full atlas page, and everywhere else it is recorded