Calidris minuta
Drawn from open occurrence records in and around Namib-Naukluft, 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, July, August, September, October, November and December, with the widest coverage in January, February, March, April, May, 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 Little Stint in and around Namib-Naukluft, and the 2,649 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.
Ngorongoro Conservation Area in Tanzania, Namib-Naukluft and Dorob National Park are among the 13 atlas places where the Little Stint is recorded. Records of this bird gather most thickly in Spain, India, Israel, Norway and South Africa. The atlas holds about 197,000 open records of Calidris minuta from 37 countries, and the map follows where these records concentrate.
Of the 30 species with an atlas page recorded in and around Namib-Naukluft, the Little Stint is the 10th most recorded.
The full atlas page, and everywhere else it is recorded