Spilopelia senegalensis
Drawn from open occurrence records in and around Table Mountain 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 Laughing Dove in and around Table Mountain National Park, and the 23,736 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, Table Mountain and Garden Route National Park are among the ten atlas places where the Laughing Dove is recorded. Its records concentrate in South Africa, India, Israel, Palestinian Territories and the United Arab Emirates. The atlas holds about 648,000 records of this bird from 23 countries, and the map follows where they gather.
Of the 99 species with an atlas page recorded in and around Table Mountain National Park, the Laughing Dove is the 10th most recorded.
The full atlas page, and everywhere else it is recorded