Larus dominicanus
Drawn from open occurrence records in and around Mount Aspiring 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 Kelp Gull in and around Mount Aspiring National Park, and the 1,116 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.
Garden Route National Park, Table Mountain National Park, and Dorob National Park are among the eight atlas places where the Kelp Gull is recorded. Its records concentrate most heavily in New Zealand, Chile, South Africa, Argentina, and Australia. The atlas currently holds about 556,000 open records of this bird from 12 different countries, and the map follows where these records concentrate.
It is the only species with an atlas page recorded in and around Mount Aspiring National Park.
The full atlas page, and everywhere else it is recorded