Roseate Spoonbill
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Roseate Spoonbill

Platalea ajaja

Overview

The Osa Peninsula, Arenal and Corcovado are among the four atlas places where the Roseate Spoonbill is recorded. Its records concentrate in the United States, Costa Rica, Mexico, Brazil and Argentina. The atlas holds about 552,000 open records of this bird from 13 countries, and the map shows where these records concentrate.

Recorded seasons differ by region, and each place page shows the months where it is documented there.

Records
551,835
Countries
13
Atlas places
4
Recorded in and around these atlas places

These are open occurrence records, so they show where people looked for and recorded the Roseate Spoonbill 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.

Where you'll find them

Generalised encounter areas, not exact locations. Each shape is a grid cell coloured by how likely the species is there.

  • United States
    25 km zone · high confidence · 482720 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Costa Rica
    25 km zone · high confidence · 22863 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Mexico
    25 km zone · high confidence · 16047 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Brazil
    25 km zone · high confidence · 7103 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Argentina
    25 km zone · high confidence · 5104 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Belize
    25 km zone · high confidence · 5056 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Colombia
    25 km zone · high confidence · 3863 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Cuba
    25 km zone · high confidence · 3138 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Ecuador
    25 km zone · high confidence · 2116 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Honduras
    25 km zone · high confidence · 1343 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely

Conservation status not assessed here yet, so every location is generalised to its grid cell.

Photographs
1 of Roseate Spoonbill