Microcarbo africanus
Drawn from open occurrence records in and around Chobe National Park, aggregated onto a 25 km grid. A cell is matched by its centre, which can sit up to 16 km outside the boundary, so this covers the surrounding country too.
Occurrence records measure where people looked and found something, which is not the same as where the animal is. This is a relative likelihood, not a probability.
Records exist for January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November and December. A quiet month can mean the animal was absent, or that nobody was looking.
A grid cell is a square of the map, not a sighting: 3 squares of 25 km carry records for Long-tailed Cormorant in and around Chobe National Park, and the 3,073 records behind them were collected by other people and published openly. Nothing here counts animals, and a place with more records is not always a place with more animals.
Kruger National Park, iSimangaliso Wetland Park and Addo Elephant National Park are among 19 atlas places where the Long-tailed Cormorant is recorded. Records concentrate most in South Africa, Kenya, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe. The atlas holds about 203,000 records of the bird from 18 countries, and the map shows where these records concentrate.
Of the 73 species with an atlas page recorded in and around Chobe National Park, the Long-tailed Cormorant is the 6th most recorded.
The full atlas page, and everywhere else it is recorded