Passer diffusus
Drawn from open occurrence records in and around Kgalagadi Transfrontier 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 Southern Grey-headed Sparrow in and around Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, and the 1,185 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, uKhahlamba-Drakensberg Park and Garden Route National Park are among 19 atlas places where the Southern Grey-headed Sparrow is recorded. Records concentrate in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Botswana and Zambia, and the map shows where these sightings cluster. The atlas holds about 179,000 open records of the bird from eight countries.
Of the 16 species with an atlas page recorded in and around Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, the Southern Grey-headed Sparrow is the 5th most recorded.
The full atlas page, and everywhere else it is recorded