Upupa epops
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, with the widest coverage in January, February, March, April, May, June, 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 Eurasian Hoopoe in and around Bandipur National Park, and the 2,820 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.
iSimangaliso Wetland Park, Lake Nakuru National Park and Kruger National Park are among the five atlas places where the Eurasian Hoopoe is recorded. Records concentrate most in Spain, India, Portugal, Israel and France, and the atlas map shows where these records gather. In total, there are about 346,000 records of this bird across 23 countries.
Of the 14 species with an atlas page recorded in and around Bandipur National Park, the Eurasian Hoopoe is the 3rd most recorded.
The full atlas page, and everywhere else it is recorded