Megaptera novaeangliae
Drawn from open occurrence records in and around Channel Islands 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, 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: 4 squares of 25 km carry records for Humpback Whale in and around Channel Islands National Park, and the 1,464 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 and Garden Route National Park are the two atlas parks where the Humpback Whale is recorded, with records concentrating in Antarctica, Iceland, Canada, Australia, and Réunion. The atlas holds about 71,000 open records of this mammal across 21 countries. This map tracks where these records concentrate rather than the full range of Megaptera novaeangliae.
Of the 10 species with an atlas page recorded in and around Channel Islands National Park, the Humpback Whale is the 7th most recorded.
The full atlas page, and everywhere else it is recorded