Butorides striata
Drawn from open occurrence records in and around Sundarbans 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, July, August, September, October, November and December, with the widest coverage in January, February, March, April, 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 Striated Heron in and around Sundarbans National Park, and the 1,478 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, the Okavango Delta and Nairobi National Park are among the seven atlas places where the Striated Heron is recorded. Records of the bird concentrate in Australia, Colombia, Brazil, Ecuador and South Africa. This atlas holds about 239,000 records of Butorides striata from 37 countries, and the map shows where these records concentrate.
Of the 9 species with an atlas page recorded in and around Sundarbans National Park, the Striated Heron is the 3rd most recorded.
The full atlas page, and everywhere else it is recorded