Pluvialis squatarola
Drawn from open occurrence records in and around Joshua Tree 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 Grey Plover in and around Joshua Tree National Park, and the 3,653 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.
West Coast National Park is the atlas place where the Grey Plover is recorded, and its records concentrate in the United States, Canada, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, and Portugal. This atlas holds about 1.1 million open records of the bird from 20 countries. Because the map shows where records concentrate, it represents a partial view of the total range.
Of the 8 species with an atlas page recorded in and around Joshua Tree National Park, the Grey Plover is the 4th most recorded.
The full atlas page, and everywhere else it is recorded