Morus capensis
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, June, July, August, September, October, November and December, with the widest coverage in November. 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: 11 squares of 25 km carry records for Cape Gannet in and around Namib-Naukluft, and the 16,525 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.
Namib-Naukluft, Garden Route National Park and iSimangaliso Wetland Park are among the 12 atlas places where the Cape Gannet is recorded. Its records concentrate in South Africa, Namibia, Australia, Mozambique and New Zealand. The atlas holds about 126,000 open records of this bird from six countries, and the map shows where these records concentrate.
Of the 30 species with an atlas page recorded in and around Namib-Naukluft, the Cape Gannet is the most recorded.
The full atlas page, and everywhere else it is recorded