
Actitis macularius
The Osa Peninsula and Corcovado are the two atlas places where the Spotted Sandpiper is recorded, with records gathering most thickly in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Costa Rica and Belize. The atlas holds about 1.1 million open records of this bird from eight countries, and its map follows where these records concentrate.
Seasons for recording this member of the Scolopacidae family differ by region, and each place page shows the months recorded there.
These are open occurrence records, so they show where people looked for and recorded the Spotted Sandpiper as much as where it lives. The atlas keeps a species' 200 best-recorded grid cells, so the map shows where records concentrate rather than its whole range. Cells are up to 25 km across, and every location is generalised to its cell.
Generalised encounter areas, not exact locations. Each shape is a grid cell coloured by how likely the species is there.
Conservation status not assessed here yet, so every location is generalised to its grid cell.