Cypsiurus parvus
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, 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 African Palm Swift in and around Samburu National Reserve, and the 1,866 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 Ngorongoro Conservation Area are among the 20 atlas places where the African Palm Swift is recorded. Its records concentrate in South Africa, Kenya, Uganda, Zimbabwe and Namibia. This map shows where its records gather, representing about 172,000 observations across 23 countries.
Of the 33 species with an atlas page recorded in and around Samburu National Reserve, the African Palm Swift is the 3rd most recorded.
The full atlas page, and everywhere else it is recorded