Vanellus coronatus
Drawn from open occurrence records in and around Ngorongoro Conservation Area, 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, April, May, June, August, 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: 6 squares of 25 km carry records for Crowned Lapwing in and around Ngorongoro Conservation Area, and the 4,369 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, Serengeti National Park and Ngorongoro Conservation Area are among the 28 atlas places where the Crowned Lapwing is recorded. Its records concentrate in South Africa, Kenya and Tanzania, and the atlas map shows where these sightings gather. There are about 187,000 records of this bird from ten countries.
Of the 82 species with an atlas page recorded in and around Ngorongoro Conservation Area, the Crowned Lapwing is the 4th most recorded.
The full atlas page, and everywhere else it is recorded