Apus affinis
Drawn from open occurrence records in and around Bandipur 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: 2 squares of 25 km carry records for Little Swift in and around Bandipur National Park, and the 1,624 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 Table Mountain National Park are among 19 atlas places where the Little Swift is recorded. Its records concentrate in India, South Africa and Kenya, and the atlas holds about 257,000 records from 17 countries. Because the map follows where these records gather, it shows a partial view of the total range.
Of the 14 species with an atlas page recorded in and around Bandipur National Park, the Little Swift is the 6th most recorded.
The full atlas page, and everywhere else it is recorded