
Platalea ajaja
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.
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.
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.