Columba guinea
Drawn from open occurrence records in and around Golden Gate Highlands 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: 3 squares of 25 km carry records for Speckled Pigeon in and around Golden Gate Highlands National Park, and the 1,360 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.
Garden Route, Table Mountain and Addo Elephant National Park are among 25 atlas places where the Speckled Pigeon is recorded. Records concentrate in South Africa, Kenya, Namibia, Gambia and Ethiopia. The atlas holds about 227,000 records of the bird from 11 countries, and the map shows where these records gather.
Of the 34 species with an atlas page recorded in and around Golden Gate Highlands National Park, the Speckled Pigeon is the 6th most recorded.
The full atlas page, and everywhere else it is recorded