Eubalaena australis
Drawn from open occurrence records in and around Blue Mountains 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 July, with the widest coverage in July. 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 Southern Right Whale in and around Blue Mountains National Park, and the 6 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.
Table Mountain and Garden Route National Parks are the two atlas places where the Southern Right Whale is recorded. Its records concentrate in Australia, Argentina, South Africa, Brazil and the Falkland Islands. With about 13,000 records across nine countries, the map shows where these observations gather.
Of the 6 species with an atlas page recorded in and around Blue Mountains National Park, the Southern Right Whale is the 3rd most recorded.
The full atlas page, and everywhere else it is recorded