Tyrannus melancholicus
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 Tropical Kingbird in and around Machalilla National Park, and the 2,869 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, Osa Peninsula and Corcovado are among the six atlas places where the Tropical Kingbird is recorded. Its records concentrate most heavily in Costa Rica, Colombia, Panama, Mexico and the United States. The atlas holds about 1.1 million records of this bird from 17 countries, mapping where these sightings cluster.
Of the 51 species with an atlas page recorded in and around Machalilla National Park, the Tropical Kingbird is the 4th most recorded.
The full atlas page, and everywhere else it is recorded