Vanellus armatus
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. 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: 5 squares of 25 km carry records for Blacksmith Lapwing in and around Etosha National Park, and the 5,302 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, Ngorongoro Conservation Area and Etosha National Park are among the 25 atlas places where the Blacksmith Lapwing is recorded. Its records concentrate in South Africa, Namibia and Zimbabwe, and the map follows these clusters. The atlas holds about 290,000 records of Vanellus armatus from eight countries.
Of the 39 species with an atlas page recorded in and around Etosha National Park, the Blacksmith Lapwing is the 3rd most recorded.
The full atlas page, and everywhere else it is recorded