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Drawn from open occurrence records in and around Koshi Tappu Wildlife Reserve, 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, September, October, November and December, with the widest coverage in January, February, March, April, May, 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 Pied Kingfisher in and around Koshi Tappu Wildlife Reserve, and the 532 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 Garden Route National Park are among 15 atlas places where the Pied Kingfisher is recorded. Records concentrate most heavily in South Africa, India, Israel, China and Jordan. The atlas contains about 242,000 records of this bird from 30 countries, and the map shows where these records concentrate.
Of the 2 species with an atlas page recorded in and around Koshi Tappu Wildlife Reserve, the Pied Kingfisher is the 2nd most recorded.
The full atlas page, and everywhere else it is recorded