Scopus umbretta
Drawn from open occurrence records in and around Queen Elizabeth 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: 4 squares of 25 km carry records for Hamerkop in and around Queen Elizabeth National Park, and the 3,193 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 the Serengeti are among 24 atlas places where the Hamerkop is recorded, with records concentrating in South Africa, Kenya, Uganda, Zimbabwe and Tanzania. The atlas holds about 111,000 open records of this bird across 19 countries, and the map shows where these records concentrate.
Of the 56 species with an atlas page recorded in and around Queen Elizabeth National Park, the Hamerkop is the 3rd most recorded.
The full atlas page, and everywhere else it is recorded