Milvus migrans
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 Black Kite in and around Bandipur National Park, and the 4,197 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.
Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Lake Manyara and Table Mountain are among the five atlas places where the Black Kite is recorded. Its records concentrate in India, Spain, Australia, Georgia and France. The atlas includes about 1.1 million records of the bird across 27 countries, and the map shows where these sightings concentrate.
Of the 14 species with an atlas page recorded in and around Bandipur National Park, the Black Kite is the 2nd most recorded.
The full atlas page, and everywhere else it is recorded