Turtur chalcospilos
Drawn from open occurrence records in and around iSimangaliso Wetland 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, with the widest coverage in January, March, 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: 14 squares of 25 km carry records for Emerald-spotted Wood Dove in and around iSimangaliso Wetland Park, and the 12,396 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.
Kruger National Park, iSimangaliso Wetland Park and the Okavango Delta are among 25 atlas places where the Emerald-spotted Wood Dove is recorded. Its records concentrate in South Africa, Kenya and Zambia, and the map shows where these records gather. The atlas holds about 121,000 open records of this bird from 13 countries.
Of the 103 species with an atlas page recorded in and around iSimangaliso Wetland Park, the Emerald-spotted Wood Dove is the 5th most recorded.
The full atlas page, and everywhere else it is recorded