Hirundo smithii
Drawn from open occurrence records in and around Nagarhole 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, August, September, October, November and December, with the widest coverage in January, February, March, April, May, June, 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 Wire-tailed Swallow in and around Nagarhole National Park, and the 306 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 the Serengeti are among the 16 atlas places where the Wire-tailed Swallow is recorded. Its records concentrate in India, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Kenya. The atlas holds about 148,000 records of the bird from 18 countries, and the map shows where these records gather.
Of the 4 species with an atlas page recorded in and around Nagarhole National Park, the Wire-tailed Swallow is the 4th most recorded.
The full atlas page, and everywhere else it is recorded