Saxicola torquatus
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 African Stonechat in and around Golden Gate Highlands National Park, and the 1,577 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.
uKhahlamba-Drakensberg Park, Kruger National Park and Garden Route National Park are among the 16 atlas places where the African Stonechat is recorded. Its records concentrate in South Africa, Lesotho, France, Zimbabwe and Madagascar, and the map shows where these sightings gather. The atlas holds about 153,000 records of this bird from 17 countries.
Of the 34 species with an atlas page recorded in and around Golden Gate Highlands National Park, the African Stonechat is the 3rd most recorded.
The full atlas page, and everywhere else it is recorded