Yellow-crowned Night Heron
Nyctanassa violacea
Arenal, Tortuguero and Corcovado are among the five atlas places where the Yellow-crowned Night Heron is recorded. Records concentrate in the United States, Mexico, Costa Rica, Belize and Bermuda, and the map shows where these sightings gather most thickly. The atlas holds about 505,000 open records of this bird from 16 countries.
Because it is recorded in both the northern and southern hemispheres, seasons differ by region. Each place page in the atlas shows the months recorded there.
- Records
- 504,679
- Countries
- 16
- Atlas places
- 5
These are open occurrence records, so they show where people looked for and recorded the Yellow-crowned Night Heron 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.
- Very likelyUnited States25 km zone · high confidence · 414474 records · updated 40 days ago
- Very likelyMexico25 km zone · high confidence · 22765 records · updated 40 days ago
- Very likelyCosta Rica25 km zone · high confidence · 17591 records · updated 40 days ago
- Very likelyBelize25 km zone · high confidence · 10674 records · updated 40 days ago
- Very likelyBermuda25 km zone · high confidence · 9292 records · updated 40 days ago
- Very likelyEcuador25 km zone · high confidence · 6338 records · updated 40 days ago
- Very likelyPuerto Rico25 km zone · high confidence · 6215 records · updated 40 days ago
- Very likelyPanama25 km zone · high confidence · 5942 records · updated 40 days ago
- Very likelyBahamas25 km zone · high confidence · 2172 records · updated 40 days ago
- Very likelyPeru25 km zone · high confidence · 2010 records · updated 40 days ago
Conservation status not assessed here yet, so every location is generalised to its grid cell.
