Uraeginthus angolensis
Drawn from open occurrence records in and around Madikwe Game Reserve, 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, February, March, May, June, July, August, September and October. 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 Blue Waxbill in and around Madikwe Game Reserve, and the 2,031 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 Okavango Delta are among the 14 atlas places where the Blue Waxbill is recorded. These records gather most thickly in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Namibia and Botswana. The atlas holds about 157,000 open records of this bird from 11 countries, and the map follows where these records concentrate. Within the Estrildidae family, this species is recorded across a broad area of the atlas.
Of the 32 species with an atlas page recorded in and around Madikwe Game Reserve, the Blue Waxbill is the most recorded.
The full atlas page, and everywhere else it is recorded