Vanellus spinosus
Drawn from open occurrence records in and around Murchison Falls 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, March, June, July, August, September 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 Spur-winged Lapwing in and around Murchison Falls National Park, and the 1,987 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.
Serengeti National Park, Maasai Mara National Reserve and Ngorongoro Conservation Area are among 15 atlas places where the Spur-winged Lapwing is recorded. Records of the bird gather most thickly in Israel, the Palestinian Territories, Jordan, Kenya and Uganda. The atlas holds about 142,000 open records from 29 countries, and the map shows where these records concentrate.
Of the 50 species with an atlas page recorded in and around Murchison Falls National Park, the Spur-winged Lapwing is the 7th most recorded.
The full atlas page, and everywhere else it is recorded