Pternistis swainsonii
Drawn from open occurrence records in and around Hwange 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 April, May, June, July, August, September, October and November. 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: 3 squares of 25 km carry records for Swainson's Francolin in and around Hwange National Park, and the 832 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, the Okavango Delta and Chobe National Park are among the 10 atlas places where Swainson's Francolin is recorded. Its records concentrate in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Botswana and Mozambique. The atlas contains about 121,000 records of the bird across six countries, and this map shows where those records gather.
Of the 30 species with an atlas page recorded in and around Hwange National Park, the Swainson's Francolin is the 3rd most recorded.
The full atlas page, and everywhere else it is recorded