Lamprotornis nitens
Drawn from open occurrence records in and around Etosha 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, with the widest coverage in January, March, April, May, 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: 6 squares of 25 km carry records for Cape Starling in and around Etosha National Park, and the 4,169 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, Addo Elephant National Park and iSimangaliso Wetland Park are among the 16 atlas places where the Cape Starling is recorded. Its records concentrate in South Africa, Namibia, Mozambique, Botswana and Eswatini. The atlas holds about 203,000 records of the species across six countries, and the map shows where these observations gather.
Of the 39 species with an atlas page recorded in and around Etosha National Park, the Cape Starling is the 5th most recorded.
The full atlas page, and everywhere else it is recorded