
Calidris mauri
Arenal and Monteverde are the two atlas places where the Western Sandpiper is recorded. Its records concentrate in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Costa Rica, and Panama, and the atlas map follows where they gather. There are about 583,000 open records of this bird from eight countries.
Records of Calidris mauri span the year, appearing in every month.
Each bar is the share of its 200 month-dated grid cells with records in that month.
These are open occurrence records, so they show where people looked for and recorded the Western 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.