
Zonotrichia capensis
Arenal, Monteverde and Manuel Antonio are among three atlas places where the Rufous-collared Sparrow is recorded. Its records concentrate in Colombia, Costa Rica, Chile, Argentina and Ecuador, and the map follows where these sightings gather. The atlas holds about 828,000 records of this bird from 15 countries.
Recording seasons differ by region, and each place page shows the months when the Rufous-collared Sparrow is recorded there.
These are open occurrence records, so they show where people looked for and recorded the Rufous-collared Sparrow 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.