Calidris ferruginea
Drawn from open occurrence records in and around Dorob 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 Curlew Sandpiper in and around Dorob National Park, and the 5,275 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.
Table Mountain National Park, Dorob National Park and Namib-Naukluft are among nine atlas places where the Curlew Sandpiper is recorded. Its records concentrate in Australia, South Africa and Spain, and the atlas holds about 189,000 records of Calidris ferruginea across 38 countries. Because this map is based on open records, it shows where they concentrate rather than the entire range.
Of the 25 species with an atlas page recorded in and around Dorob National Park, the Curlew Sandpiper is the 2nd most recorded.
The full atlas page, and everywhere else it is recorded