
Sporophila corvina
Osa Peninsula, Tortuguero and Corcovado are among the six atlas places where the Variable Seedeater is recorded. Most records of the bird concentrate in Costa Rica, Panama and Ecuador. Across ten countries, the atlas holds about 294,000 records of this species, and the map follows where these records gather most thickly.
Because the bird is recorded in both hemispheres, its seasons 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 Variable Seedeater 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.