Fregata magnificens
Drawn from open occurrence records in and around Machalilla 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: 1 square of 25 km carry records for Magnificent Frigatebird in and around Machalilla National Park, and the 3,329 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.
Corcovado, Osa Peninsula and Manuel Antonio are among the six atlas parks where the Magnificent Frigatebird is recorded. Its records concentrate in the United States, Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama and Belize. The atlas holds about 500,000 records of the species across 34 countries, and the map shows where these sightings gather.
Of the 51 species with an atlas page recorded in and around Machalilla National Park, the Magnificent Frigatebird is the most recorded.
The full atlas page, and everywhere else it is recorded