Ploceus velatus
Drawn from open occurrence records in and around Pilanesberg 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 Southern Masked Weaver in and around Pilanesberg National Park, and the 3,432 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 Addo Elephant National Park are among the 18 atlas places where the Southern Masked Weaver is recorded. Records concentrate in South Africa, Namibia and Zimbabwe, and the map shows where these records gather. The atlas holds about 325,000 open records of this bird from eight countries.
Of the 86 species with an atlas page recorded in and around Pilanesberg National Park, the Southern Masked Weaver is the 8th most recorded.
The full atlas page, and everywhere else it is recorded