
Vanellus chilensis
The Osa Peninsula and Corcovado are the two atlas places where the Southern Lapwing is recorded. Its records concentrate in Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Panama, and the atlas map follows where they gather most thickly. There are about 534,000 open records of this bird from 14 countries.
Seasons differ by region for Vanellus chilensis, and each place page shows the months it was recorded there.
These are open occurrence records, so they show where people looked for and recorded the Southern Lapwing 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.