Elanus caeruleus
Drawn from open occurrence records in and around Eravikulam 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: 1 square of 25 km carry records for Black-winged Kite in and around Eravikulam National Park, and the 629 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, Table Mountain National Park and Garden Route National Park are among eleven atlas places where the Black-winged Kite is recorded. Its records concentrate in South Africa, Taiwan, India, Israel and the Palestinian Territories. The atlas holds about 273,000 records of this bird from 22 countries, and the map follows where they concentrate.
Of the 3 species with an atlas page recorded in and around Eravikulam National Park, the Black-winged Kite is the 3rd most recorded.
The full atlas page, and everywhere else it is recorded