Passer melanurus
Drawn from open occurrence records in and around Walvis Bay, 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: 3 squares of 25 km carry records for Cape Sparrow in and around Walvis Bay, and the 3,628 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 21 species with an atlas page recorded in and around Walvis Bay, the Cape Sparrow is the 3rd most recorded.
The full atlas page, and everywhere else it is recorded