Milvago chimachima
Drawn from open occurrence records in and around Pacaya-Samiria National 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: 3 squares of 25 km carry records for Yellow-headed Caracara in and around Pacaya-Samiria National Reserve, and the 1,879 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, Corcovado and Manuel Antonio are among five atlas places where the Yellow-headed Caracara is recorded. Its records concentrate in Colombia, Costa Rica, Panama, Brazil and Venezuela, with about 338,000 records across 12 countries. Because the atlas maps where these records gather, the resulting range is a partial view of where it is recorded.
Of the 23 species with an atlas page recorded in and around Pacaya-Samiria National Reserve, the Yellow-headed Caracara is the 3rd most recorded.
The full atlas page, and everywhere else it is recorded