Megaceryle torquata
Drawn from open occurrence records in and around Cuyabeno Wildlife Reserve, 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: 5 squares of 25 km carry records for Ringed Kingfisher in and around Cuyabeno Wildlife Reserve, and the 7,712 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, Tortuguero and Arenal are among six atlas places where the Ringed Kingfisher is recorded. Records gather most thickly in Costa Rica, Mexico and the United States, but also appear in Colombia and Brazil. The atlas holds about 243,000 open records of this bird from 19 countries, and the map follows where they concentrate.
Of the 69 species with an atlas page recorded in and around Cuyabeno Wildlife Reserve, the Ringed Kingfisher is the most recorded.
The full atlas page, and everywhere else it is recorded