Passer melanurus
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, June, July, August, September, October, November and December, with the widest coverage in January, February, March, May and July. 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 Cape Sparrow in and around Namib-Naukluft, and the 4,402 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.
West Coast National Park, Table Mountain National Park and the Namib-Naukluft are among the 12 atlas places where the Cape Sparrow is recorded. Its records concentrate in South Africa, Namibia, Lesotho and Botswana, and this map follows where they gather most thickly. The atlas holds about 261,000 open records of this bird from four countries.
Of the 30 species with an atlas page recorded in and around Namib-Naukluft, the Cape Sparrow is the 4th most recorded.
The full atlas page, and everywhere else it is recorded