Charadrius tricollaris
Drawn from open occurrence records in and around Serengeti 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: 6 squares of 25 km carry records for Three-banded Plover in and around Serengeti National Park, and the 3,383 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 Addo Elephant National Park are among 32 atlas places where the Three-banded Plover is recorded. Its records concentrate in South Africa, Kenya, Namibia, Zimbabwe and Tanzania. The atlas holds about 122,000 records of this bird from ten countries, and the map shows where these records gather.
Of the 67 species with an atlas page recorded in and around Serengeti National Park, the Three-banded Plover is the 9th most recorded.
The full atlas page, and everywhere else it is recorded