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Parque Estadual Encontro das Águas leads · 19 parks ranked by real sighting rates
Share of wildlife watchers reporting a Southern Rough-winged Swallow during a day in the park, from citizen-science data (GBIF)
| # | Park | Country | Sighting |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Parque Estadual Encontro das Águas | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 2 | Serra da Canastra National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 3 | Emas National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 4 | Serra dos Órgãos National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 5 | Tayrona National Natural Park | 🇨🇴 Colombia | |
| 6 | Manu National Park | 🇵🇪 Peru | |
| 7 | Farallones de Cali National Natural Park | 🇨🇴 Colombia | |
| 8 | Soberanía National Park | 🇵🇦 Panama | |
| 9 | Chapada dos Guimarães National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 10 | Anavilhanas National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 11 | Arenal Volcano National Park | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | |
| 12 | Chapada Diamantina National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 13 | Itatiaia National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 14 | Chagres National Park | 🇵🇦 Panama | |
| 15 | Machalilla National Park | 🇪🇨 Ecuador | |
| 16 | Braulio Carrillo National Park | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | |
| 17 | Tambopata National Reserve | 🇵🇪 Peru | |
| 18 | El Impenetrable National Park | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 19 | San Lorenzo Protected Forest | 🇵🇦 Panama |
Parque Estadual Encontro das Águas
In Parque Estadual Encontro das Águas, Brazil, about 70% of wildlife watchers report a Southern Rough-winged Swallow sighting on a given day, the highest of the 19 parks where we can rate it, from GBIF citizen-science data.
Serra da Canastra National Park and more
After Parque Estadual Encontro das Águas, the next-best odds of seeing a Southern Rough-winged Swallow are in Serra da Canastra National Park (Brazil, about 60%), Emas National Park (Brazil, about 50%) and Serra dos Órgãos National Park (Brazil, about 40%). Outside South America, the best option is Soberanía National Park in Central 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 80%), August and October in Serra da Canastra National Park (about 70%) and June and August in Emas National Park (about 60%), as the share of wildlife watchers who report a Southern Rough-winged Swallow on a given day. Each park's Southern Rough-winged Swallow page has the full month-by-month chart.
