Threskiornis aethiopicus
Drawn from open occurrence records in and around West Coast 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, with the widest coverage in January, February, 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: 4 squares of 25 km carry records for Sacred Ibis in and around West Coast National Park, and the 6,355 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.
Garden Route National Park, uKhahlamba-Drakensberg Park and Table Mountain National Park are among the 24 atlas places where Threskiornis aethiopicus is recorded. Records of the Sacred Ibis concentrate in South Africa, Taiwan, Kenya, Zimbabwe and Zambia. There are about 259,000 open records from 18 countries, and the map reflects where these records concentrate.
Of the 69 species with an atlas page recorded in and around West Coast National Park, the Sacred Ibis is the 10th most recorded.
The full atlas page, and everywhere else it is recorded