Coracias caudatus
Drawn from open occurrence records in and around Samburu National Reserve, 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, with the widest coverage in January, February, April, May, June, July, August, September, October and November. 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 Lilac-breasted Roller in and around Samburu National Reserve, and the 1,896 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, the Okavango Delta and Serengeti National Park are among 35 atlas places where the Lilac-breasted Roller is recorded. Records of the bird concentrate in South Africa, Kenya, Tanzania, Botswana and Namibia. The atlas holds about 128,000 open records of this species across 13 countries, and the map shows where these records concentrate.
Of the 33 species with an atlas page recorded in and around Samburu National Reserve, the Lilac-breasted Roller is the 2nd most recorded.
The full atlas page, and everywhere else it is recorded