Limosa lapponica
Drawn from open occurrence records in and around Fiordland 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 Bar-tailed Godwit in and around Fiordland National Park, and the 546 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.
Dorob National Park, West Coast National Park and Namib-Naukluft are among the five atlas places where the Bar-tailed Godwit is recorded. Its records concentrate in Australia, Norway, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Spain, with the atlas map following where these observations cluster. There are about 268,000 records of this bird across 29 countries.
Of the 3 species with an atlas page recorded in and around Fiordland National Park, the Bar-tailed Godwit is the 3rd most recorded.
The full atlas page, and everywhere else it is recorded