Where to see
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Parque Estadual Encontro das Águas leads · 23 parks ranked by real sighting rates
Share of wildlife watchers reporting a Ringed Kingfisher during a day in the park, from citizen-science data (GBIF)
| # | Park | Country | Sighting |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Parque Estadual Encontro das Águas | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 2 | Cuyabeno Wildlife Reserve | 🇪🇨 Ecuador | |
| 3 | Anavilhanas National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 4 | Yasuní National Park | 🇪🇨 Ecuador | |
| 5 | Tortuguero National Park | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | |
| 6 | Utría National Natural Park | 🇨🇴 Colombia | |
| 7 | Iberá National Park | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 8 | Caroni Swamp | 🇹🇹 Trinidad and Tobago | |
| 9 | Amacayacu National Natural Park | 🇨🇴 Colombia | |
| 10 | Montes Azules Biosphere Reserve | 🇲🇽 Mexico | |
| 11 | Palo Verde National Park | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | |
| 12 | Bastimentos Island National Marine Park | 🇵🇦 Panama | |
| 13 | Biotopo Cerro Cahuí | 🇬🇹 Guatemala | |
| 14 | Carara National Park | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | |
| 15 | Lago de Yojoa | 🇭🇳 Honduras | |
| 16 | San Lorenzo Protected Forest | 🇵🇦 Panama | |
| 17 | Gandoca-Manzanillo Wildlife Refuge | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | |
| 18 | Soberanía National Park | 🇵🇦 Panama | |
| 19 | Ostional Wildlife Refuge | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | |
| 20 | Manu National Park | 🇵🇪 Peru | |
| 21 | Nahuel Huapi National Park | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 22 | El Impenetrable National Park | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 23 | Coiba National Park | 🇵🇦 Panama |
Parque Estadual Encontro das Águas
In Parque Estadual Encontro das Águas, Brazil, about 80% of wildlife watchers report a Ringed Kingfisher sighting on a given day, the highest of the 23 parks where we can rate it, from GBIF citizen-science data.
Cuyabeno Wildlife Reserve and more
After Parque Estadual Encontro das Águas, the next-best odds of seeing a Ringed Kingfisher are in Cuyabeno Wildlife Reserve (Ecuador, about 60%), Anavilhanas National Park (Brazil, about 50%) and Yasuní National Park (Ecuador, about 40%). Outside South America, the best options are Tortuguero National Park in Central America (about 40%) and Montes Azules Biosphere Reserve in North America (about 30%).
It depends on the park
In the top parks, the best months are July and August in Parque Estadual Encontro das Águas (about 90%), October in Cuyabeno Wildlife Reserve (about 80%) and November in Anavilhanas National Park (about 80%), as the share of wildlife watchers who report a Ringed Kingfisher on a given day. Each park's Ringed Kingfisher page has the full month-by-month chart.
